Operation Sledgehammer, 1942

found: NUCMC data from George C. Marshall Research Foundation Lib. for Truscott, L. Papers, 1938-1964(Sledgehammer)

found: Simon and Schuster Enc. of WW II, 1978(Sledgehammer; code name for a proposed British-American landing on the coast of France in late 1942; a product of the American staff, the plan was viewed as an emergency one, to be undertaken if the Soviet armies appeared to be reaching the point of collapse; the idea was to gain and hold a beachhead as a sort of suicide second front, thus relieving some of the German pressure on the Russians; the operation remained only a suggested plan)

found: His. Enc. of WW II, 1984(Sledgehammer; code name for a limited Anglo-American landing in France in 1942; it was replaced by Operation Torch, the landing in North Africa, Nov. 7, 1942)