The U.S. code name for the extended aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Hitler's ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union saw the Wehrmacht's retreat, causing 775,000 German casualties, 800,000 Soviet deaths, and six million Soviet soldiers wounded or captured.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein captured by US forces on December 13, 2003, near Tikrit in an eight-month operation named after the film 'Red Dawn' (1984).
In the closing days of the Vietnam War, over 7,000 people, including American civilians and at-risk Vietnamese, were evacuated by helicopter from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind.
The Cold War Berlin Blockade, where the Soviet Union cut Western Allies' access to Berlin, led to the Berlin Airlift, code-named Vittles.
Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of top Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in Prague on May 27, 1942, resulted in Heydrich's death on June 4 during World War II.
In 1968, Operation Danube saw a massive invasion of Czechoslovakia by 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops, quashing the Prague Spring reforms and consolidating Communist Party control.
Code-named Operation Urgent Fury, the U.S. invasion of Grenada began on October 25, 1983, swiftly leading to American military occupation.
The evacuation of around 1.5 million civilians, including many children, in Britain during the Second World War began on September 1, 1939, relocating them to safer rural areas.
A 1944 Special Air Service (SAS) mission to capture or kill German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in occupied France, was aborted as Rommel had been evacuated due to prior injuries.