'Axehead' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan to seize bridges over the Seine river in German-occupied northern France and so facilitate the north-eastward advance of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Allied 21^st Army Group (summer 1944).

Conceptually related quite closely to 'Axehead' (i), 'Axehead' (ii) would have involved Major General R. E. Urquhart’s British 1^st Airborne Division, Major General E. Hakewill-Smith’s British 52^nd Division, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor’s US 101^st Airborne Division, and Major General Stanisław Sosabowski’s Polish 1^st Parachute Brigade of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1^st Airborne Army.