Operation Grouse information

Operation Grouse may refer to: Operation Grouse (Normandy), a British advance towards Tinchebray, France, in 1944 Operation Grouse (Norway), a sabotage...

England Walter (1944) — tidy-up operation, using two brigades. Wallop (1944) — advance towards Tinchebray (also called Grouse). Windsor (1944) — capture of...

water. These operations — code-named Grouse, Freshman, and Gunnerside — knocked the plant out of production in early 1943. In Operation Grouse, the British...

intensively training a four-man team over the summer. The party, code-named Operation Grouse, was led by Jens-Anton Poulsson and also included Knut Haugland, Claus...

Operation Totalize meant that the German forces in Normandy were in danger of being surrounded. On 11 August VIII Corps carried out Operation Grouse to...

film Kampen om tungtvannet (also known as La bataille de l'eau lourde or Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water). Quite faithful to real events, it...

Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive in the Battle of Normandy, from 30 July until 7 August 1944, during the Second World War. The geographical...

Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of...

Grouse Mountain is one of the North Shore Mountains of the Pacific Ranges in the District Municipality of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. With...

form a planning commission, which was instrumental in devising Operation Grouse and Operation Swallow, important parts of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage...

Division (Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith). The operation, named after the Scottish male black grouse, is relatively unknown. By the end of 1944, the...

Britain's J Arthur Rank Productions. Besides this sequence, the raids (Operations Grouse, Freshman and Gunnerside) and the final attack are filmed on-site...

first attempt to halt the production from the resistance movement was Operation Grouse in October 1942, which failed when the Germans caught the plotters...

Operation Aquatint was the codename for a failed raid by British Commandos on the coast of occupied France during the Second World War. The raid was undertaken...

The 9K38 Igla (Russian: Игла́, "needle", NATO reporting name SA-18 Grouse) is a Russian/Soviet man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM)...

Operation Frankton was a commando raid on ships in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during the Second World War. The raid...

attempted raid on a Norwegian heavy water plant at Vemork, see Gunnerside Grouse (1942) – Norwegian guide party for Freshman Gunnerside (1943) – 2nd raid...

Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid on a German coastal radar installation at Bruneval in northern...

Operation Roast was a military operation undertaken by British Commandos, at Comacchio lagoon in north-east Italy, during the Spring 1945 offensive in...

parts of Australia it can mean excellent or very good (rhyming slang for "grouse"). Examples of the negative usages include the following: From 1942 to 1945...

Pavoninae, and in many cases are more closely related to smaller phasianids, grouse, and turkey (formerly classified in Perdicinae, Tetraoninae, and Meleagridinae)...

codename was Operation Grouse, and their first mission was to await the British Operation Freshman. Freshman became a disastrous failure, but Grouse was ordered...

During World War II, Operation Chestnut was a failed British raid by 2 Special Air Service, conducted in support of the Allied invasion of Sicily. Two...

Operation Dryad was a raid on the Casquets lighthouse in the Channel Islands by British Commandos during World War II. The Commandos captured the lighthouse...