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Operation Accolade

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During World War II, Operation Accolade was a planned British amphibious assault on Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea. Advocated by Winston Churchill as a follow-up to the capture of Sicily in 1943. Never executed. See Operation Hercules and Operation Mandibles.