Operation Mandibles

During World War II, Operation Mandibles was a planned 1940/1941 British amphibious assault on Rhodes, Leros and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea. Planned by Roger Keyes of the Special Operation branch, it was never executed."{{cite book|last=Chant|first=Christopher|title=The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MNcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123|date=1 January 1986|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|isbn=9780710207180|pages=123–}} A disastrous invasion of the islands, the Dodecanese campaign, was conducted in 1943.