Operation Talon may designate:
landing and airlift operations
* the British amphibious landing at Akyab in western Burma on 3 January 1945, during the
Burma campaign
The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of British rule in Burma, Burma as part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. It primarily involved forces of the Allies of World War II, Allies (mainly from ...
* ''Operation Talon'', a unexecuted
UN Command
United Nations Command (UNC or UN Command) is the multinational military force established to support the South Korea, Republic of Korea (South Korea) during and after the Korean War. It was the first attempt at collective security by the U ...
's
landing
Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called "landing", "touchdown" or " spl ...
and
airdrop
An airdrop is a type of airlift in which items including weapons, equipment, humanitarian aid or leaflets are delivered by military or civilian aircraft without their landing. Developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible tr ...
of
Wonsan
Wonsan (), previously known as Wonsanjin (), is a port city and naval base located in Kangwon Province (North Korea), Kangwon Province, North Korea, along the eastern side of the Korean Peninsula, on the Sea of Japan and the provincial capital. ...
in 1951 during
Korean War
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was s ...
.
* ''Operation Talon'', a
military operation of the Vietnam War, in September 1965
*
Operation Talon (Iraq), north of Fallujah, in 2006
* ''Operation Talon'', a deployment of Canadian troops to Afghanistan, in 2006 (see
Abdul Qayyum Jamal, the ringleader of the Toronto terrorist plot of June 2006)
* ''Operation Talon'', an Australian police operation against the Middle Eastern crime gang
Brothers for Life
Brothers for Life (often stylised as B4L), also referred to as the Hamzy Family, is a Middle Eastern criminal organisation based in the South-Western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Brothers for Life first came to public prominence in the early ...
, in Sydney, Australia, in 2017.
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