Western Front Includes land and sea operations relating to north-west Europe, but excludes: purely naval operations in the adjoining waters (see: List of World War II military operations - Atlantic Ocean) operations in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), Iceland and Greenland (see: Military operations in Scandinavia and Iceland during World War II) operations in the Mediterranean and Italy (see: World War II operations in the Mediterranean region). 1935–1938 Fall Rot ("Case Red") (1935) — overview of defense planning in tandem with Fall Blau. Rot covered defense in the west in the event of military action in the east (Fall Blau). Fall Blau ("Case Blue") (1935) — overview of defense planning in tandem with Fall Rot. Fall Otto ("Case Otto") (1937) — plan to occupy Austria. Fall Richard ("Case Richard") (1937) — Contingency planning for Soviet/communist takeover in Spain. Fall Grün ("Case Green") (1938) — plan for invasion of Czechoslovakia. 1939 Fall Weiss ("Case White") (1939) — invasion of Poland 1940 Aerial (1940) — Allied retreat from France using ports between Cherbourg and the Spanish frontier. Ambassador (1940) — commando raid on Guernsey Attila (1940) — German seizure and occupation of Vichy France, without Italian support. See also Fall Anton ("Case Anton") and Lila. Cycle (1940) — British and Allied evacuation from Le Havre Dynamo (1940) — British & Allied evacuation from Dunkirk. Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") (1939–40) — offensive against the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Fall Rot ("Case Red") (1939–40) — invasion of France and rout of British Expeditionary Force Grünpfeil (Green Arrow) (1940) — invasion of British held Channel Islands (1940) Granit (Granite) (1940) — Fallschirmjäger capture of Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium Mondscheinsonate ("Moonlight Sonata") (1940) — Luftwaffe raid on Coventry Royal Marine (1940) — Dropping of naval mines into the Rhine (originally Operation Marine) Seelöwe ("Sealion") (1940) — planned invasion of Britain Adlerangriff ("Eagle Attack") — Axis effort to destroy the RAF prior to invasion. Preceded by attacks on shipping known as "Kanalkampf" (Channel Battle). Aerial battles during the period were later dubbed the Battle of Britain. Fall Grün ("Case Green") (1940) — planned invasion of Ireland as part of Seelöwe Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") — planned/diversionary invasion of Scotland as part of Seelöwe. Tannenbaum ("Christmas Tree") (1940) — planned invasion of Switzerland. XD (1940) — a series of demolition operations to prevent capture of oil installations and stocks by the Germans 1941 Chess (1941) — commando raid