Found this in the Survivor's Guide to the UK (GDW's)
InGermany, II Corps was designated to be the follow-on force for
the NATO attack into Poland-Operation Ancient Mariner. Instead,
it ended up fighting the Soviet counterattack in July. The corps did
acommendable job, and as the autumnal rains began to fall, it was
withdrawn to its encampment area.
Would this be the name of the original operation or the follow on operation. I am assuming that the operation the paragraph is referring to is the one that involved the attacks along the Baltic and the attacks that doomed the 5th. This is only speculation on my part however and definitely not prime face evidence.
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