What the records say
- When
- 12 Jun 1942 – 15 Jun 1942
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 36.20° N, 11.63° E
- Description
- 1942 british operation during the second world war
- Naval
- yes
- War
- World War II
Operation Harpoon (1942)
British operation during the Second World War
Operation Harpoon (Battle of Pantelleria was part of Operation Julius, two simultaneous Allied convoys sent to supply Malta in the Axis-dominated central Mediterranean Sea in mid-June 1942, during the Second World War.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Operation Harpoon – An Allied convoy under Admiral Alban Curteis leaves from Gibraltar with 6 merchant ships escorted by the British battleship HMS…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operationen Vigorous und Harpoon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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