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Operation Mandibles

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During World War II, Operation Mandibles was a planned 1940/1941 British amphibious assault on Rhodes, Leros and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea. Planned by Roger Keyes of the Special Operation branch, it was never executed."[1] A disastrous invasion of the islands, the Dodecanese campaign, was conducted in 1943.

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  1. ^ Chant, Christopher (1 January 1986). The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II. Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 123–. ISBN 9780710207180.