J-Hawk Operations: Academics

Operation Torch

Operation Torch

8 November 1942; Invasion of North Africa

Operation Husky

9 July 1943; first major attempt to take the home territory of an Axis nation.

Operation Avalanche

9 September; Italian campaign and landing at Salerno

Operation Overlord

6 June, 1944; Invasion of Normandy

Operation Anvil (Renamed Dragoon)

15 August; to gain another port of supplies flowing into France and serve as a diversion drawing German forces away from beaches

Operation Downfall

Planned invasion of homeland Japan

Operation Chromite

September 1950; Invasion of Inchon

Operation Just Cause

Largest Military operation in 1980’s

Operation Desert Storm

January 15 1991; several strikes against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia turned operation desert shield into desert storm

Operation Desert Fox

4 day bombing campaign to remove Haddam Hussein from power

Operation Deliberate Force

August ad September 1995 Navy and Marine aircraft conducted air strikes against Serb military positions south ad east of Sarajevo

Operation Restore Hope

December 1992, 28,000 troops including 1,800 Marines to provide food and restore hope to Somalia

Operation Noble Eagle

Homeland defense effort 50,000 reservists of all services mobilised to augment the Air national guard, help guard U.S airports, and provide support.

Operation Enduring Freedom

8 October 2001; airstrikes by Navy and Air Force planes on strategic targets throughout Afghanistan and humanitarian airdrops of food to the Afghan population

Operation Iraqi Freedom

19 March 2003; extensive air aid missile attacks against Baghdad and other key military targets and caused when Saddam Hussein wouldn’t leave Iraqi

Operation Unified Assistance

A relief effort deploying eight U.S Navy ships for the December 2004 tsunami affecting South Asia

Operation Freedom’s Sentinel

They kept deployed troops in Afghanistan for stability of the nation

Operation Neptune Spear

Killed Osama Bin Laden

Operation Odyssey Dawn

March 17, 2011; UN Security council authorised a no fly zone over Libya and 2 days later they started bombing pro Qaddafi forces

Operation Inherent Resolve

The operation to eradicate ISIS

Operation Desert Shield

August 1990; UN and US protected Saudi Arabia