How well do you really know military operations?
From OVERLORD and BAGRATION to JAYWICK, KINGPIN, CASTOR and GOTHIC SERPENT, military history is filled with memorable, and sometimes mysterious, operation codenames.
Test your knowledge with 20 questions randomly selected from a 50-question bank, spanning the Second World War, Korea, Indochina, Vietnam and conflicts around the world. Every attempt is different.
A quiz with a bit of history of its own. Back in the day when I was a young infantry soldier, I would routinely create quizzes for the other guys when we had some downtime in the jungle. One of my go-to quizzes was military operation codenames. Decades later, many of those same questions have found their way into this BattlefieldTravels quiz!
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Results
Mission accomplished — you know your military operations!
From OVERLORD and BAGRATION to JAYWICK, CASTOR and GOTHIC SERPENT, you’ve demonstrated a strong knowledge of military operations and their codenames.
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Military codenames span decades of conflicts, countries and campaigns, so this is a tougher challenge than it looks.
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#1. Operation DRAGON ROUGE in 1964 involved Belgian paratroopers conducting a rescue operation in which African city?
#2. Which operation was the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944?
#3. Which operation was the Australian-led intervention in East Timor in 2006 following a major security crisis?
#4. Operation AVALANCHE was the Allied landing in September 1943 at which location?
#5. Operation JAYWICK was a 1943 Allied commando raid against Japanese shipping in which harbour?
#6. Operation JUST CAUSE was conducted in which country?
#7. Operation IRAQI FREEDOM began with the invasion of Iraq in which year?
#8. What was the codename for the British operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982?
#9. Operation CHROMITE is associated with which Korean War action?
#10. What was the US operational codename associated with the 1993 mission in Mogadishu that culminated in the battle commonly known as “Black Hawk Down”?
#11. Japanese Operation MO was intended principally to capture which strategic location?
#12. Operation LÉA, launched by French forces in October 1947, was intended principally to strike at what?
#13. Operation GOODWOOD in July 1944 was a major British armoured offensive launched from the Normandy bridgehead near which city?
#14. Operation CARTWHEEL was an Allied campaign designed principally to isolate which major Japanese base?
#15. Operation DOWNFALL was the overall Allied plan for what operation that never took place?
#16. Operation KINGPIN was the codename for which famous 1970 military operation?
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#17. What was the name of the Australian-led multinational operation deployed to East Timor following the 1999 independence referendum?
#18. What was Operation OVERLORD?
#19. Operation KUTUZOV was the Soviet offensive launched in July 1943 against the German-held salient around which city?
#20. What was the codename for the Soviet offensive launched in June 1944 that devastated German Army Group Centre?
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