title: Operation Lizard
text: # Operation Lizard
  
  Operation Lizard was the name given to a series of operations undertaken in Portuguese Timor by Australian troops in World War II using Hoehn military folboats to get from the vessel to the island and return.
  
  * Lizard I, a party of four, were inserted on to the island on 17 July 1942 and evacuated by February 1943.
  * Lizard II, a party of four, landed on September 1942
  * Lizard III, a party enforced the original Lizard parties in November 1942
  * Portolizard - people who served with Lizard who stayed behind
  