United Kingdom

United Kingdom

of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Units

43rd Commando

2nd S.S. Brigade

Motor Gun Boats - MGB

No.663, sunk by mine off Maestra Point, 10 October 10 1944

Motor Torpedo Boats - MTB

No.287, grounded on Levron (Zeča/Levrera?) Island, 24 November 1944

No.371, grounded on Levron Island, 24 November 1944

No.372, sunk by surface craft gunfire when patrolling off Cape Loviste, 23/24 July 1944

No.655, sunk by mine, Kvarner Gulf near Arsa (?), 7 killed, 21 March 1945

No.697 (102t, 7/43), sunk by mine off Krk Island, 17 April 1945

No.705, sunk by mine, Maknare Channel, 2 missing, 23 March 1945

No.710, sunk by mine near Zadar, 10 April 1945

Motor Launches - ML

No.558, mined, N Adriatic, 5 May 1945

No.1163, sunk by torpedo, probably surface craft, Molat Island, 5 January 1945

Battles and Campaigns

Major operations

Operation DETAINED - Allied raid on Šolta island

Operation ENDOWMENT -Allied raid on Hvar island

Operation FARRIER - Allied raid on Mljet island

Operation FLOUNCED - Allied raid on Brač island

Operation GRADIENT - Allied raid on Lošinj and Cres islands

Operation EXTERMINATE - Hunt for German corvettes

Operation RATWEEK - Joint air and land attack on German communications to Greece

Operation ANTAGONIZE

ANISEED

GRANDFATHER 1 - Artillery raid on 2nd Battalion of 750 Jager Regiment by F Troop. 476 Battery

DECOMPOSED TWO - Artillery raid on Orebić nad Korčula

GELIGNITE - canceled landing in Istria by British 8th Army for planed joint offensive with Partisans towards Vienna

Covert operations

Disclaim - British aid mission to partisans near Sarajevo.

Typical - Parachuting of military attaches to Titos forces in Yugoslavia during German anti-partisan operation SCHWARZ

Penitant - Special forces operations mounted in the Dalmatian Islands.

Bunghole - operation involving using gliders to carry a Russian military mission to meet up with Tito.

Bearskin - Release of certain information to Tito to co-ordinate a peak of Partisan activities against German LoC running North through Slovenia.

Clowder

Operation SPLENDID - SIS operation on Istrian coast

Operation LAMP - SIS operation on Hvar and Brač islands

Operation RENOWN - SOE operation on Istrian coast

Operation MERMAID - SIS operation on Dugi

Operation CLARET - ISLD operation in Istria

Operation SPAM - SIS operation in northern Yugoslavia

Operation ENGRAVE I - SIS operation on Istrian coast

Operation LEMON - SIS operation on Istrian coast

Operation HARVEST - SIS operation near Umag, Istria

Operation TURF - SIS operation near Umag, Istria

Operation TRIBUTE - SIS operation near Rovinj, Istria

Operation SHOOT I-IX - SBS operations on Mljet, Korčula and Brač islands

Operation VIRGINIAN - AFHQ operation in Kunje bay

Operation FOOTHOUND - SBS operation on Mljet island

Operation HALTER II - LRDG operation in Istria

Operation STRANGE - SIS operation in Istria

Operation ADDICT I-IXX - LRDG operation in Istria

Links

Australian War Memorial online - 200+photos of WW2 in Yugoslavia

S.O.E. in Yugoslavia and the Balkans

Books

Britain and the War for Yugoslavia, 1940-1943 by Mark C. Wheeler

Britain, Mihailovic and the Chetniks, 1941-42 by Simon C. Trew

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