Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index During World War II, Operation Gauntlet was a raid by British, Canadian and Norwegian commandos on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen, north of the Arctic Circle to destroy German port facilities and naval stores. An additional objective was the rescue of over two thousand Soviet citizens and some Allied prisoners. Executed on 27 August, 1941. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.