Operation Abstention

Quand

25 févr. 1941 – 28 févr. 1941

Type

Opération militaire

Coordonnées

36.15° N, 29.59° E

Description

conflict

1941 British operation in World War II

Operation Abstention was the code name of a British invasion of the Italian island of Kastelorizo (Castellorizo) off the Turkish Aegean coast, during the Second World War. The goal was to establish a motor torpedo-boat base to challenge Italian naval and air supremacy on the Greek Dodecanese islands.

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