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BIG STICK

Operation plan to destroy the Communist supply complex based on Sibyon-ni, to advance Eighth Army left flank to the Yesong River, and regain Kaesong.

BUCKSHOT 16

Operation by 11th Division, ROK I Corps, to take North Korean prisoners.

CHOPSTICK 6

Plan for envelopment of the high ground south of P'yonggang by a reinforced ROK division.

CHOPSTICK 16

Plan for a 2-division attack to drive the enemy from the area east and south of the Nam River.

CLAM-UP

Operation to delude the Communists which imposed silence along the front lines from 9 to 15 February 1952.

COMMANDO

Operation plan for offensive to establish the JAMESTOWN line.

COUNTER

Plan for 45th Division, I Corps, to capture strategic outpost sites.

CUDGEL

Plan for advance from WYOMING line in the U.S. Army I and IX Corps sectors.

DULUTH

Line of defense to be established by operation SUNDIAL.

EVERREADY

Plan covering eventualities of ROK domestic disturbances and disengaging UNC forces.

HIGHBOY

U.S. I Corps artillery operation to bring direct fire onto enemy positions and bunkers not accessible to other artillery and mortar fire.

HOME COMING

Limited operation plan offered as substitute for BIG STICK.

JAMESTOWN

Defensive line to be established by Operation COMMANDO.

KANSAS-WYOMING

Defense lines in the vicinity of 38th Parallel.

LITTLE SWITCH

Operation for repatriation of sick and wounded prisoners of war.

OVERWHELMING

Plan for offensive by Eighth Army to the P'yonggang Wonsan line.

POLECHARGE

Operational plan for capture of hill objections on JAMESTOWN line during Operation COMMANDO.

SATURATE

Plan for interdiction bombing of North Korean railroads.

SCATTER

Screening plan for repatriation of prisoners of war.

SHOWDOWN

Operation plan designed to improve IX Corps defense line positions north of Kumhwa.

SMACK

Operation plan for combined air-tank-infantry-artillery test strike.

STRANGLE

Air operations to disrupt North Korean logistics by interdiction bombing.

SUNDIAL

Operation plan to establish DULUTH defensive line.

TALONS

Outline plan for ground offensive to bolster Eighth Army's eastern front.

TOUCHDOWN

Operation to gain control of Heartbreak Ridge.

WRANGLER

Plan to follow up CUDGEL with an amphibious operation on the east coast.


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