battle, interwar and Second World War
Operation Oyster
Operation Oyster was a battle fought in 1942 at Eindhoven, in what is now Netherlands. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Eindhoven. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Allied victory.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1942 (year precision) | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | Eindhoven, Netherlands 51.434N, 5.484E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 93 light bombers; 47 Venturas; 36 Bostons; 10 Mosquitos | |
| Casualties and losses | about 150 civilians killed; 62 aircrew; 15 aircraft lost; 57 damaged | 1 Fw 190 (against a diversion); 7 killed; Philips works severely damaged |
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Nearest engagements
- Siege of Eindhoven 1583, same recorded site
- Operation Market Garden 1944, 0.3 km NW
- Bombing of Eindhoven Gas Holder in World War II 1941, 0.5 km NE
- Battle of Boxtel 1794, 20 km NW
- Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch 1629, 32 km N
In the same war
- Before: Operation Portcullis 1942
- After: Battle of El Agheila 11 December 1942
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1942
- Battle of Midway United States
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- Second Battle of El Alamein Egypt
- Guadalcanal campaign Solomon Islands
- First Battle of El Alamein Egypt
Operation Oyster is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 277 in present-day Netherlands.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q42886508, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Oyster, revision 1370694169, 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.