Operation Accolade

The Dodecanese Islands

During World War II, Operation Accolade was a planned British amphibious assault on Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea.^[1] Advocated by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, as a follow-up to the capture of Sicily in 1943 from Operation Husky, it was cancelled on 25 December 1943 to focus on the assault on Anzio.^[1] The allies did not, then, gain all of the Dodecanese. Most notably, the Germans still had possession of Rhodes. The operation in the Dodecanese, though, kept many German troops occupied in the area.^[2]

See also

• 37th (Tyne Electrical Engineers) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
• Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside
• Operation Hercules
• Operation Mandibles

References

1. FCO Historians (March 2005). "The Cicero Papers". Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
2. Richard C. Hall (9 October 2014). "Dodecanese Campaign, 1944". War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 403–404. ISBN 978-1-61069-031-7.

Further reading

• Michael Arnold (19 February 2015). Hollow Heroes: An Unvarnished Look at the Wartime Careers of Churchill, Montgomery and Mountbatten. Casemate. pp. 207–208. ISBN 978-1-61200-274-3.
• Max Hastings (27 April 2010). Winston's War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 324, 325. ISBN 978-0-307-59312-2.
• Nigel Knight (1 April 2012). Churchill the Greatest Briton Unmasked. David & Charles. p. 201. ISBN 0-7153-3407-7.
• John Sadler (19 November 2015). Ghost Patrol: A History of the Long Range Desert Group, 1940Ð1945. Casemate. pp. 161–163. ISBN 978-1-61200-337-5.
• War in the Aegean: The Campaign for the Eastern Mediterranean in World War II. Stackpole Books. 2008. pp. 36–47. ISBN 978-0-8117-4637-3.