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Combined Operations Headquarters
Department of the British War Office during WWII which organized military raids on Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1970s-era Rhodesian headquarters of the same name, see Combined Operations (Rhodesia).
Combined Operations Headquarters[1] was a department of the British War Office set up during Second World War to harass the Germans on the European continent by means of raids carried out by use of combined naval and army forces.
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Formed | 1940; 84 years ago (1940) |
Dissolved | 1947; 77 years ago (1947) |
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Jurisdiction | Government of the United Kingdom |
Headquarters | War Office building Whitehall London |
Parent agency | War Office |
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