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Operation Accolade

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The Dodecanese Islands

During World War II, Operation Accolade was a planned British amphibious assault on Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea.[1] Advocated by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, as a follow-up to the capture of Sicily in 1943 from Operation Husky, it was cancelled on 25 December 1943 to focus on the assault on Anzio.[1] The allies did not, then, gain all of the Dodecanese. Most notably, the Germans still had possession of Rhodes. The operation in the Dodecanese, though, kept many German troops occupied in the area.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b FCO Historians (March 2005). "The Cicero Papers". Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Richard C. Hall (9 October 2014). "Dodecanese Campaign, 1944". War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 403–404. ISBN 978-1-61069-031-7.

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