Operation Lightning
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Operation Lightning may refer to one of the following military operations:
- A full scale amphibious landing by the 74th Indian Brigade of the British Indian ArmyBritish Indian ArmyThe British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947...
and the 3rd Commando Brigade of the British ArmyBritish ArmyThe British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
in Burma during the Second World War. - Operation BarakOperation BarakOperation Barak was a Haganah offensive launched just before the end of the British Mandate in Palestine. It was part of Plan Dalet. Its objective was to capture villages North of Gaza in anticipation of the arrival of the Egyptian army...
(lit. lightning), a Jewish operation in the 1947–1948 Palestine War - A coalition counter-insurgency operation in Baghdad in the Iraq War (see List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War)