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Location of the Faroe Islands. The British occupation of the Faroe Islands during the Second World War, also known as Operation Valentine, was implemented immediately following Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of metropolitan Denmark and Norway. It was a small component of the roles of Nordic countries in the war. [1]
Operation Pilgrim was a planned British operation to invade and occupy the Canary Islands during World War II. [2] The invasion was a contingency plan to be executed in the event of a known plan whereby Germany would support Spain in occupying Gibraltar, the Azores, the Canary Islands as well as the Cape Verde Islands (the German plan was known as Operation Felix).
Commando: Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in World War Two. Reprinted 2002 by Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-479-6; Edwards, G. B. (1981), "The Book of Ebenezer le Page" (New York Review of Books Classics; 2006). Evans, Alice Alice, (2009), Guernsey Under Occupation: The Second World War Diaries of Violet Carey, The History Press, ISBN 978-1 ...
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) or alternatively referred to as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) [1] [2] are the fourteen territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory.
From 1923, defence of British colonies and protectorates in East Asia and Southeast Asia was centred on the "Singapore strategy".This made the assumption that Britain could send a fleet to its naval base in Singapore within two or three days of a Japanese attack, while relying on France to provide assistance in Asia via its colony in Indochina and, in the event of war with Italy, to help ...
Everything changed on 8 May when the Germans released all British, French and American prisoners of war and all German prisoners held in the islands. [2]: 180 Bunting and flags were put up in the streets, [10] radios, which had been banned for years upon pain of imprisonment, were produced in public, connected to loudspeakers.
The Lion and the White Falcon: Britain and Iceland in the World War II Era (Hamden: Archon Books, 1983). Bittner, D. F. "A Final Appraisal of the British Occupation of Iceland, 1940–1942," The RUSI Journal 120 (1975), 45–53. Deans, Philip W. "The uninvited guests: Britain’s military forces in Iceland, 1940–1942." (2012). online
The British claim to sovereignty dates from 1690, when they made the first recorded landing on the islands, [1] and the United Kingdom has exercised de facto sovereignty over the archipelago almost continuously since 1833. Argentina has long disputed this claim, having been in control of the islands for a few years prior to 1833.