Operation Jupiter (Norway)

Operation Jupiter
The German airfields at Petsamo (Finland) and Porsanger (Norway), the objectives of the May 1942 plan for Operation Jupiter. Note that the post-1947 national borders are shown.
Type	Amphibious assault
Location	69°40′N 19°00′E / 69.667°N 19.000°E / 69.667; 19.000
Planned by	British Armed Forces
Objective	To protect Arctic convoys and liberate Norway from German occupation
Outcome	Plan abandoned in 1944

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 Dynamite, Operation Ajax and Operation Marrow. Devised and vigorously promoted by Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the plan was opposed by all the senior British and Allied commanders, who considered it impractical because of insufficient air support and of limited value.^[1] The scheme was eventually abandoned in favour of the Normandy landings.