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EAGLE CLAW; UNITED STATES; 24 APR 1980
  Code name for the attempted rescue of Iranianheld American
embassy personnel in Tehran, Iran during the Iranian revolution
of 197880.

EAGLE PULL; UNITED STATES; C 1975
  Code name for the evacuation of US embassy personnel and
other foreign nationals and Cambodian nationals from Cambodia
after the Vietnam War.

EICHE; GERMANY; 12 SEP 1943
  Literally "oak", German.  Code name for the rescue of former
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini from internment in the
Gran Sasso region of N Italy after the collapse of his government
in WWII.  This rescue was executed by COL Otto Skorzeny.

EINHORNE; GERMANY; C 1944
  See GEMSBOCK.

EISENHAMMER; GERMANY; C SPRING 1944
  Literally "iron hammer", German.  Code name for attacks on
Allied shipping using MISTEL composite aircraft during WWII.

EL PASO II; UNITED STATES/S VIETNAM; 2 JUN 3 JUL 1966
  Code name for a US 1st Inf Div and ARVN 5th Inf Div  ground   '         0*((@@  operation in Binh Long Province, III Corps tactical area, S
Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

ELDEST SON; UNITED STATES 
  Code name for the sabotaging of PAVN and NVA ammunition
during the Vietnam War.

ELKTON; WESTERN ALLIED; C SPRING 1943
  Code name for the landbased portion of CARTWHEEL, the plans
for New Britain, New Guinea and New Ireland during WWII.

ENCORE; UNITED STATES/BRAZIL; 1723 FEB 1945
  Code name for a ground offensive on German positions in the
Riva RidgeMt Belvedere area southwest of Bologna, Italy during
WWII.

EPSOM; UNITED KINGDOM; 25 JUN18 JUL 1944
  Code name for the British ground offensive southwest and
west of Caen, France in WWII, aimed at taking that city. 
Followed by CHARNWOOD and GOODWOOD.

EXCESS; UNITED KINGDOM; 610 JAN 1941
  Code name for an Allied convoy from Gibraltar to the island
of Malta during WWII.

EXPORTER; FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM; C JUN 1941   '         0*((@@  Ԍ  Code name for the occupation of Syria by French and
Commonwealth troops during WWII.
             0*((@@  8) éFă
FAIRFAX; UNITED STATES; C 196667
  Code name for the first largescale attempt to train ARVN
units by pairing them with US units during the Vietnam War.  The
program was in too much of a hurry, and the troops that it
produced were not of sufficient quality to have warranted it.

FASCINATION; UNITED STATES; C 1965  70
  Code name for the fishing boat interdiction off Vietnam
coast during the Vietnam War.

FELIX; GERMANY; C 194042
  Code name for the plans to capture Gibraltar, Spanish Canary
Is. and Cape Verde Is during WWII.  Frustrated because Spanish
Generalissimo Franco would not allow German troops to pass
through Spain or occupy Spanish territory without his joining the
war with the Allies.

FEVERWEHR; GERMANY; C 1944
  Code name for an antipartisan/guerrilla operation in N.
Greece during WWII. 

FIREBRAND; UNITED STATES; 15 JUN4 OCT 1943
  Code name for the amphibious invasion of Corsica in the
northwest Mediterranean during WWII.
   '         0*((@@  ԌFLAMING DART; UNITED STATES; 1 FEBMAR 1965
  Code name for a series of aircraft carrier airstrikes
against targets in N Vietnam from the Tonkin Gulf during the
Vietnam War.  Superseded by the ROLLING THUNDER offensive.

FLASH; GERMANY; C 1943
  Code name for a failed attempt to assassinate German
Chancellor Hitler during WWII.

FLAX; WESTERN ALLIED; 5 APR13 MAY 1943
  Code name for the air interdiction of German and Italian sea
traffic in the Straits of Sicily before the HUSKY landings during
WWII.

FLINTLOCK; UNITED STATES; 31 JAN  7 FEB 1944
  Code name for the amphibious invasion of RoiNamur and
Kwajalein Is, in the Kwajalein atoll, Marshals Is in the central
Pacific during WWII, preceding the CATCHPOLE landings on
Eniwetok.  

FORAGER; UNITED STATES; 15 JUN  10 AUG 1944
  Code name for the Allied operations in the Marianas Is in
the central Pacific during WWII.

FORTITUDE; WESTERN ALLIED; C 194344
  Code name for the deception operations in support of the   '         0*((@@  OVERLORD landings during WWII.  They helped to convince the
Germans that the landings at Normandy were a feint, and that the
real invasion was going to be at the Pas de Calais or in
Scandinavia.

FRANKTON; UK; 712 DEC 1942
  Code name for an Allied commando raid on the port of
Bordeaux, France during WWII.

FRANTIC; WESTERN ALLIED; C 194445
  Code name for the shuttlebombing program, using bases in
Soviet held territory for extremely longrange bombing mission
support in WWII.

FREEDOM; WESTERN ALLIED; FALL 1944
  Code name for the rescue of 300 US PWs from Bulgaria,
through Turkey and Egypt into Italy during WWII.

FREIDERICUS; GERMANY/ITALY; 17 MAY 1942
  Code name for a ground offensive towards the Dnieper River,
USSR during WWII, intending to relieve German units at Izyum. 
Became a counteroffensive against Soviet thrust toward Kharkov.

FREISCHUTZ; GERMANY; 2130 MAY 1943
  Literally "fire at will", German.  Code name for a
counterpartisan operation in the Bryansk area, USSR during WWII.   '        0*((@@  ԌFREQUENT WIND; US; APR 1975
  Code name for the evacuation of US personnel from Saigon, S
Vietnam after the collapse of ARVN resistance at the end of the
Vietnam War.

FRESHMAN; UK; 19 NOV 1942
  Code name for a gliderborne attack on the heavy water works
at Vermork, Norway during WWII.

FRITZ; GERMANY; C 194041
  Code name for the early plans for the Axis invasion of the
Soviet Union during WWII.  Replaced by BARBAROSSA.

FRULIGSFEST; GERMANY; C MIDAPRIL 1943
  Literally "spring festival", German.  Code name for an anti
partisan operation in Ushachi area, USSR during WWII.

FRY; UNITED KINGDOM; 45 APR 1945
  Code name for the occupation of islands in Lake Commancino,
Italy in WWII.

FULL HOUSE; WESTERN ALLIED; 6 JUN 1944
  Code name for the air interdiction behind the beaches in
support of the OVERLORD landings during WWII.

FUSTIAN; UNITED KINGDOM; 9 JUL 1943   '         0*((@@  Ԍ  Code name for the airborne attack on the Pointe Grande,
Sicily during WWII.
