Operation Blunderbuss

Operation Blunderbuss
Part of the Asianna and the Pacific Campaign of the Second Europan War
Date 5 June 1944 - 25 August 1944 Location Kyachindwinese-Bethausian Border Result Allied Victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom Gallia-Bruhl Rubrum Erebonian Empire Free Bethausia Zanarkand New Akiba Nihhon-koku Basel-Ebel Esthar and Balamb Dalmasca and Nabradia Holy Galbadian Empire	Empire of Quenmin Archadia-Archedes
Commanders and leaders
Archibald Sugiyama Tsukuyo Kushineda Alan MacDonald Friedrich O'Connelly Brian Regnitz Frederick Vander Elliot Testarossa Peter Ardur Rashia Zaw Sein Arkar Leslie Oliver Morshead Kurt Frediericks Ferdinand Franco	Thạch Hung Sõn Chiến Kiều Dũng Quang Vương Thị Lệ Victor Sazabio Giovanni Filiberto Guiseppe Gavallero
Units involved
11th Army Group 2nd ERUIF FBAE Franco's Army Group	North Asianna Expeditionary Front 5th Army
Strength
250,000 troops 750 tanks 4,250 vehicles 600 guns 500 aircraft	325,000 troops 950 tanks 2,750 vehicles 950 guns 650 aircraft
Casualties and losses
9,855 killed or wounded 150 tanks 550 vehicles 50 guns 97 aircraft	37,958 killed or wounded 20,785 dead from disease 350 tanks 1,549 vehicles 121 guns 177 aircraft

Operation Blunderbuss or the Allied Invasion of Bethausia (5 June 1944 - 25 August 1944) was the codename for the Allied invasion of Bethausia. The operation was the second largest invasion in the Asianna and the Pacific Campaign and the first time that the Paratooper Regiments and Commandos were used in the Asianna theatre.

The Operation began with an Allied Glider and Paratrooper drops in Mission Noting and Mission Thunder.