campaign, interwar and Second World War

Operation Animals

Name: Operation Animals
Location: Greece

Operation Animals was a campaign fought in 1943 at Greece. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Greece. It was part of Operation Barclay. The recorded result: Allied victory.

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Fought1943

WhereGreece38.500N, 23.000E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeAllied victory

BelligerentsNazi Germany; Fascist Italy (1922-1943); Hellenic StateagainstUKGBNI; United States; ELAS; PAO; EDES; Organization Zeus

Part ofOperation Barclay

Record

Date	1943 (year precision) to 1943
Place	Greece 38.500N, 23.000E
Kind	Campaign, interwar and Second World War
Casualties and losses	41 killed; 92 executed; 129 wounded; 22 airplanes destroyed; 15 airplanes damaged; 32 killed	165 executed; 16 villages destroyed
Commanders	Alexander Löhr Georgios Poulos	Henry Maitland Wilson Eddie Myers Stefanos Sarafis Napoleon Zervas

Placed at Greece; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Greece 1941, same recorded site
Battle of Orchomenus 86 BC, 2.8 km SW
Battle of Tegyra 375 BC, 5.3 km NW
Battle of Chaeronea 86 BC, 12 km W
Battle of Chaeronea 87 BC, 12 km W

Elsewhere in 1943

Operation Animals is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 529 in present-day Greece.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q29467555, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Animals, revision 1370630670, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.