Operation Solidarity was the name for the United States peacekeeping mission to Wales in the summer and fall of 1952, during the English Anarchy. The operation was approved by President Prescott Bush in June and set into action in July, involving the amphibious landing of 20,000 Marines (2nd Division) in southern Wales on July 28, 1952, and the amphibious landing of 20,000 US Army soldiers (XI Corps) on the central Welsh coast. Shrouded in secrecy, the idea was to surprise any guerrillas and to stabilize Wales as a place of refuge for fleeing civilians; Bush enlisted the support of the Red Cross to use Wales as a staging ground to bring much-needed supplies into the war-torn country.