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19th-century map of the Caucasus; the oilfields (marked here as "naphtha regions") were the main target of Case Blue. Case Blue (German: Fall Blau) was the Wehrmacht 's plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942, during World War II.
Lieutenant Ram Prakash Roperia, AC (10 June 1959 – 9 June 1984) was an Indian Army officer who was awarded India's highest peace time military decoration Ashoka Chakra for his gallant act in Operation Blue Star. [1]
O.S.S. is a wartime television drama series that was co-produced by Buckeye Productions and ATV.It ran for 26 half-hour monochrome episodes during the 1957–1958 season and was distributed by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by ABC.
Throughout this operation, Major R. S. Dyal displayed outstanding leadership and courage of a very high order in the best traditions of the Indian Army. In 1984, Ranjit Singh Dyal was appointed the security adviser to the Governor of Punjab for the Operation Blue Star, and effectively had the overall charge of leading the assault. [6]
Operation Blue Heron. Commandos were deployed as peacekeepers to East Timor from May 2001 to November 2002 while having small arms. [7] Operation Blue Orchid. Commandos deployed to Iraq from 2002 to 2008 to protect Singaporean Air Force aircraft and crew providing humanitarian relief and transporting essential supplies. [7] Operation Flying Eagle
Operation Blue Star was launched to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers who had sought cover in the Amritsar Harmandir Sahib Complex. On 3 June, a 36-hour curfew was imposed on the state of Punjab with all methods of communication and public travel suspended.
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The operation was named Operation Blue and Brown (Hebrew: מבצע כחול וחום, romanized: Mivtza Kachol ve-Chum) and consisted of a night-time coastal landing and a difficult 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) march across very rough terrain to the heavily fortified Palestinian base, located near the coastal Lebanese town of Naameh (Arabic ...