# Operation Anvil

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**Operation Anvil** may refer to:

- the original name for the Allied landing in southern France in August 1944, [Operation Dragoon](/source/Operation_Dragoon)
- [Operation Anvil (Mau Mau Uprising)](/source/Operation_Anvil_(Mau_Mau_Uprising)), the military control of Nairobi, Kenya, by British security forces from 24 April 1954, in an attempt to sever rebel supply lines during the [Mau Mau Uprising](/source/Mau_Mau_Uprising#Targeting_the_Suppliers)
- [Operation Anvil (Nuclear test)](/source/Operation_Anvil_(Nuclear_test)), a series of 21 underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site in 1981 and 1982
- [Garda Síochána](/source/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na) operation targeting organised crime and criminal gangs and associates
- [Operation Anvil (Honduras)](/source/Operation_Anvil_(Honduras))
- Operation Anvil, the [US Navy](/source/US_Navy) counterpart of [Operation Aphrodite](/source/Operation_Aphrodite), the [US Army Air Forces](/source/US_Army_Air_Forces) use of war-weary heavy bombers converted to remote-controlled drones against fortified German targets in World War II.

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