What the records say
- When
- 25 Aug 1941 – 3 Sep 1941
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 78.25° N, 15.68° E
- Description
- 1941 conflict
Operation Gauntlet
1941 Allied World War II Operation in the Arctic Campaign
Operation Gauntlet was an Allied Combined Operation from 25 August until 3 September 1941, during the Second World War. Canadian, British and Norwegian armed forces in exile landed on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, 650 mi (1,050 km) south of the North Pole.
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- Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “raid des troupes canadiennes sur le Spitzberg”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “эвакуация Шпицбергена: операция Британского флота по эвакуации мирного населения с архипелага Шпицберген и уничтожению там экономических мощностей”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page