| LC control no. | sh2012003190 |
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| Topical heading | Operation Felix, 1940 |
| Variant(s) | Felix, Operation, 1940 |
| See also | World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Gibraltar |
| Found in | Work cat.: Operation Felix : German plans for Spain and the capture of Gibraltar, 1950 (plan for capturing Gibraltar and closing the Straits of Gibraltar with Spanish co-operation developed June-December 1940; finally abandoned in August 1941) What Next? The German strategy crisis during the summer of 1940, 2004, thesis accessed via Louisiana State University website, June 5, 2012: p. iv (in November 1940 German military units were task-organized and trained for the operation [to seize the British colony of Gibraltar], now code-named "Felix"; by the spring of 1941 Hitler had failed to act and had lost his opportunity to strike Great Britain when it was most vulnerable) Wikipedia, June 5, 2012: Operation Felix page (codename for a proposed German seizure of Gibraltar during WWII; it never got beyond the staff study stage primarily because of the reluctance of Spanish ruler Francisco Franco to commit Spain to enter the war on the Axis side) |
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