First Quebec Conference
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The First Quebec Conference, codenamed Quadrant, was a highly secret military conference held during World War II by the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. It took place
Mackenzie King, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Earl of Athlone at La Citadelle in Quebec City
President Roosevelt, seated next to Princess Alice and Prime Minister King of Canada, greeting British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
Women's Royal Naval Service officers sightseeing after the conference
Operation Jupiter (Norway)
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Operation Jupiter was a plan originating in 1941 for an invasion of northern Norway and Finland by Allied forces during the Second World War. The first versions of the plan were code named Operation D
First Quebec Conference
…commence on May 1, 1944, but this was subsequently disregarded, and a later date was finalised. However, Overlord was not the only option; for example, Operation Jupiter remained a strong possibility had the Germans proved too powerful on the French coast. In the Mediterranean (a theatre on which Churchill was very keen…
Churchill with the Chiefs of Staff, who had strongly resisted the Norwegian invasion plans from the outset.