'Bamboo' was a British unrealised scheme to take the Kra isthmus in southern Thailand by means of an amphibious landing at Hastings Harbour near Victoria Point in southern Bur... Read More

'Ban' was the Japanese scheme devised by General Heitaro Kimura’s Burma Area Army for the defence of the area around Mandalay and Meiktila in central Burma on the Irrawaddy ... Read More

'Banana' was a British tactical manoeuvre designed for employment against U-boats attacking a convoy (?). ... Read More

'Banc' was a British special forces operation by the Special Air Service to sabotage German lines of communication facilities in the Aurillac region in the south-western part ... Read More

'Bandolier' was the British alternative designation for 'Astrologer' (12/15 November 1941). ... Read More

'Bandoola' was a British small-scale naval operation by motor launches of Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Eastern Fleet (January 1944)., At the end of 1943 the 121st Flotilla... Read More

'Bangor' was a British multi-phase naval operation in which motor torpedo boats undertook nocturnal patrols off the coast of the German-occupied Netherlands as part of a progr... Read More

'Banjalučka' (i) was a Yugoslav operation by the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito to reduce the German pressure being imposed on their forces in the eastern Bosnia ... Read More

'Banjalučka' (ii) was a Yugoslav operation by the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito to link liberated Bosanska and central Bosnia regions in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia... Read More

'Banknote' (i) was a British unrealised naval operation to locate any German and Italian vessels operating in the coastal waters of neutral Spain, and then to attack and sink ... Read More

'Banknote' (ii) was the US crossing of the Rhine river in western Germany by Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army (22/24 March 1945)., On 19 March General Dwight D... Read More

'Bankrate' was the US overall scheme by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s Pacific Ocean Areas command for the capture of the key elements of the Marshall islands group (January/Fe... Read More

'Banquet' (i) was a British contingency plan for the operational use of all available training aircraft in the event of a German invasion of the UK (summer 1940/October 1943).... Read More

'Banquet' (ii) was a British carrierborne air attack on Emmahaven, the port of Padang in the south-western part of Sumatra island in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Ind... Read More

'Bansin' was the German naval convoy programme for the delivery of reinforcements and supplies from Feodosiya in eastern Crimea across the Strait of Kerch to Anapa in the lodg... Read More

'Bansö' was a German air force weather station on the west coast of Spitsbergen, to the north of German-occupied Norway (1941/42)., The base was located at Adventdalen, and t... Read More

'Bantam' was a British unrealised airborne special forces operation by the joint services' No. 30 Commando (Special Engineering Unit) in Sicily to support 'Husky' (i) (July 19... Read More

'Bantos B' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Arctic off Kildin island in the Barents Sea (5/6 February 1943)., The task was undertaken without Soviet detection by... Read More

'Baobab' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service in support of the Allied 'Shingle' landing at Anzio in western Italy (29/31 January 1944)., A sm... Read More

'Baptism' was a British photo-reconnaissance operation flown from a Soviet air base in the northern USSR for the acquisition of up-to-date information about the exact location... Read More

'Bär' (i) was an Axis unrealised plan for the co-operation of significant Italian army forces with Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe 'C' to crush any det... Read More

'Bär' (ii) was a German offensive by Generaloberst Erwin von Witzleben’s 1st Army and Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann’s 7th Army of Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb... Read More

'Barbara' was a British clandestine operation by the Special Operations Executive with the object of halting the flow of Swedish ferro-chrome to German-occupied Norway for shi... Read More

'Barbara I' was a British naval operation to sink shipping in the coastal waters of German-occupied Norway using 'Welman' one-man submersible craft each weighing some 2,000 lb... Read More

'Barbara II' unrealised naval operation to sink shipping in the harbour of Askvoll in German-occupied Norway using 'Welman' one-man electrically powered submersible craft each... Read More

'Barbara III' was a British unrealised naval operation to sink shipping in the Gulenfjord of German-occupied Norway using 'Welman' one-man electrically powered submersible cra... Read More

'Barbara IV' was a British unrealised naval operation to sink shipping in the Syvdefjord of German-occupied Norway using 'Welman' one-man electrically powered submersible craf... Read More

The 'Barbara-Gerda-Lottellung' was a German defensive position on the south-eastern sector of the Eastern Front between Bobruysk and Rogachev (summer 1944). ... Read More

The 'Barbara-Linie' was the German second most southerly defence line in Italy, and in essence a tactical delaying line located mid-way between the Volturno and Garigliano riv... Read More

The 'Barbara-Stellung' was a German fallback position for Generaloberst Hans-Valentin Hube’s (from 21 April 1944 General Kurt von der Chevallerie’s and from 18 May 1944 Ge... Read More

'Barbaric' was a British unrealised intelligence-gathering operation involving the landing of special forces parties of No. 12 Commando, totalling some 220 men, along the nort... Read More

'Barbarism' was a British special forces operation by the Special Operations Group against Kalayaung in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (15/16 Dec... Read More

'Barbarity' was a British operation to reinforce the Greek air force in the fighting against the Italian 'Emergenza G' invasion with RAF fighter and bomber squadrons of Air Ch... Read More

'Barbarossa' was the German grand strategic invasion of the USSR (22 June/2 October 1941). , More than four million Axis troops, with 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses... Read More

The 'Barbarossa-Stellung' was a German fallback line in Belorussia for Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici’s (from 1 June 1943 Generaloberst Hans von Salmuth’s and from 31 Jul... Read More

'Barbro III' was a British naval undertaking by a motor gun boat of the 15th Motor Gun Boat Flotilla in support of the Norwegian resistance elements in the area of Ytre Sula i... Read More

'Barclay' was the Allied deception plan designed to induce a German reinforcement of France and the Balkans at the expense of Italy in preparation for 'Husky' (i) (spring 1943... Read More

'Bardstown' was an Allied deception undertaking, expanding 'Erasmus' and implemented through the use of double agents, to suggest to Germany and Italy that the Allies were so ... Read More

'Barefoot' was a British and Free Norwegian naval raid on the west coast of German-occupied Norway (1/3 October 1941)., The operation got under way on 1 October as the pre-Wor... Read More

The 'Bären-Stellung' was a German fallback position for Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein’s Heeresgruppe 'Nordukraine' in a location to the west of the Dniepr river o... Read More

'Bärenfang' was the German resumption of planning for the capture and destruction of Leningrad (15 March 1943)., The planning was later developed farther toward implementatio... Read More

'Bari' is a convenient rather than official designation of a German air attack on the port city of Bari in south-eastern Italy (2 December 1943)., In the attack, 105 Junkers J... Read More

'Baritone' (i) was the British naval delivery of Supermarine Spitfire fighters to Malta (16/18 August 1942)., The elderly fleet carrier Furious had returned to Gibraltar on 12... Read More

'Baritone' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for a raid by elements of Major General H. D. G. Crerar’s Canadian 2nd Division, then under the temporary command of Major Gene... Read More

'Barker' was a British special forces operation by the French 2ème Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (3rd Special Air Service) to harass elements of Generalfeldmarschall G... Read More

'Barley' was British naval undertaking to land Allied agents on the north-west coast of Italy at a point to the south of Livorno (March 1944). ... Read More

'Barming' was a British unrealised operation by the Special Operations Executive to send G. Klem, P. Ihlen and J. Andreassen to protect sites in Kristiansand in German-occupie... Read More

'Barnacle' was a British bombing raid on the U-boat construction, repair and maintenance facilities at Danzig in German-occupied Poland (?)., Danzig was the most easterly of t... Read More

'Barney' was a US offensive anti-shipping patrol operation in the Strait of Tsushima between Korea and Japan by a wolfpack of nine submarines, of which only Bonefish failed to... Read More

'Baroness' was a British deception undertaking based on a supposed telegram from Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, to the British ambassador in Chungking, the capit... Read More