Operation Archery: The Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1941

by Ken Ford, Howard Gerrard, Alan Gilliland

Operation Archery, the raid on Vaagso and Maaloy in Norway on December 27, 1942, was the first true combined operation carried out by British forces involving the Army, Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. The Islands of Vaagso and Maaloy on the Norwegian coast between Bergen and Trondheim were selected because they offered a perfect opportunity to damage German installations and morale. Mountbatten, the new head of Combined Operations, hoped to eliminate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184908372X
• ISBN13: 9781849083720
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.2" x 9.6"