Operation Archery: Dec. 27 1941

On December 27 1941 British forces launched Operation Archery, a Commando raid supported by the Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Kenya along with several Destroyers as well as aircraft from the Royal Air Force and aimed at Vaagso, Norway. Archery's objective where to disrupt German war production and to divert German forces from the Eastern Front and North Africa. The British were successful in there objectives, losing 22 men well inflicting much higher casualties on the defeanding Germans, meeting their immidiate objectives ( eleminating Vaagso's garrison, destroying several factories, and damaging German shipping in the North Sea) as well as their long term objectives (fearing an invasion of Norway, the Germans diverted 30,000 troops as well as a large portion of the German surface fleet, ships and men that could have been used to tip the balance in Germany's favor elsewhere).

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