'Royal Flush' (ii) was an Allied deception associated with 'Bodyguard', and thus related to 'Graffham', to despatch political missions to neutral European countries after 'Ov... Read More

'Royal Marine' was the British mining offensive against German riverine and canal traffic (10/31 May 1940)., The plan was to destroy German bridges, barges and other water tra... Read More

'RP' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Çanakkale (Rabbit islands) group just off the entrance to the Dardanel... Read More

'RS' was the designation of Allied West African convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Gibraltar to Freetown, Sierra Leone, a... Read More

'RT' (i) was the designation of an Allied convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Cape Town, South Africa, to Freetown, Sierra Leone (4/13 August 1941)... Read More

'RT' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Recife, Brazil, to Trinidad, and as such reciprocals of the 'TR' serie... Read More

'RU' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Loch Ewe or, in the case of the last four, Belfast L... Read More

'Rubber' was a US unrealised joint army and navy plan to land from the sea in the north-western part of neutral Brazil to secure an area for the construction of major air base... Read More

'Rubble' was the Allied break-out by five Norwegian merchant vessels (four freighters and one empty tanker manned by British, Norwegian and Swedish sailors) from neutral Swede... Read More

'Rübenschnitzel' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Zlatibor area of western Serbia within German-occupied Yugoslavia (28 Au... Read More

'Rübezahl I' was a German, Bulgarian and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the southern part of German-occupied Yugoslavia (3/26 Augus... Read More

'Rübezahl II' was a German offensive against the Yugoslav forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito operating in the Primorska region of Slovenia within German-occupied Yugoslavia (7... Read More

'Rübezahl III' was a German and Croat offensive against the Yugoslav forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in German-occupied Yugoslavia with the purpose of driving the 3rd and 1... Read More

'Ruby' was a British convoy operation to ship Major General J. M. L. Grover’s 2nd Division from the UK to India for service in Burma (15 April/7 June 1942). ... Read More

'Rucksack' was a British operation to deliver additional troops to strengthen the garrison of Iraq (1941/42). ... Read More

'Ruction' was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man resistance assistance team into an area near Warsaw in German-occupied Poland (17 November 1941 onwar... Read More

'Rudder' was the Allied first mission delivered into Italy for the establishment of links with the anti-German and anti-Fascist partisan forces operating on the Italian mainla... Read More

'Ruderboot' was a German operational study, in succession to 'Gleitboot', for the withdrawal of Axis forces from the main area of the Crimean peninsula into the western fortre... Read More

'Rudge' was an Allied unrealised planning exercise for an invasion of German-occupied Europe (1943). ... Read More

'Rudolf' was a German major police raid in northern Westphalia (Bocholt, Bielefeld, Herford, Münster, Recklinghausen etc.) to seize fleeing civilians, deserters, foreign work... Read More

'Ruff' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish a radio station on the coast of German-occupied Norway in the area of Sognefjord and thereby im... Read More

'Rugby' was the Allied southern part of the airborne operation by Major General Robert T. Frederick’s 1st Airborne Task Force (sometimes called the 1st Provisional Airborne ... Read More

'Rügen' (ii) was a German naval minelaying operation off the west coast of German-occupied Norway by Fregattenkapitän Hans von Schönermark’s Minenschiffsgruppe 'Nord' (mi... Read More

'Rügen' (iii) was a U-boat wolfpack seven-part operation ('Rügen I' to 'Rügen VII') in the Atlantic (23 December 1943/7 January 1944). , At various times the 'Rügen I' wol... Read More

'Rügen' (iv) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the TU.5 and ON.215 convoys (7/29 January 1944)., Following seven individually numbered and smaller 'Rüg... Read More

'Ruhepause' was a German operation again the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Makarska area of the puppet state of Croatia within German-occupied Yugoslavia (... Read More

'Ruhr Pocket' was a US deception to persuade the Germans to hold troops along the line of the Rhine river in the Ruhr pocket by suggesting that Lieutenant General Leonard T. G... Read More

'Rumford' was a British special forces attack on the Ile de Yeu off the western coast of German-occupied France (24/25 August 1944)., The raid was carried out by 10 men of the... Read More

'Rumpelkammer' was the German campaign against the UK with V-1 'flying bomb' missiles air-launched by Heinkel He 111 bombers (5 September 1944/14 January 1945)., In the course... Read More

The 'Run for Tunis' was an undertaking between the Allied and Axis forces within the Tunisian campaign following the 'Torch' landing in French North-West Africa (10 November/2... Read More

'Rupees' was a British special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive to parachute a team into German-occupied Yugoslavia (19 May 1943 onward). ... Read More

'Rupert' (i) was a British and French attempt to take the port of Narvik in northern Norway from the German forces commanded by Generalleutnant Eduard Dietl (15 April/8 June 1... Read More

'Rupert' (ii) was the British air component of the 'Style' (ii) fighter reinforcement operation from Gibraltar to Malta (2/4 June 1942). ... Read More

'Rupert' (iii) was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service to cut rail lines in the region of Bailly le France in German-occupied France (4 August/10... Read More

'Rurka' was a Polish unrealised naval operation to lay a minefield across the mouth of the Bay of Danzig and thereby prevent a German maritime assault on Danzig at the time of... Read More

'Rustic' was an Allied deception involving a number of aspects designed to induce the Germans to maintain the maximum possible strength in Italy and the Balkans, and thus not ... Read More

'Rusty' was the British overall designation of aerial photo-reconnaissance operations in Africa (1940/43). ... Read More

'Ruth' was a US special forces operation to parachute a 15-man Office of Strategic Services operational group into the Braves and Castellane areas of German-occupied France to... Read More

'Ruthless' was a British unrealised deception operation to gain access to a German Enigma encryption machine (summer/autumn 194o)., The undertaking was planned by the Admiralt... Read More

This was a British unrealised initial plan conceived by Vice Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Combined Operations Headquarters for an Anglo-Canadian force to undertake a... Read More

'RV-1' was a Soviet combined air and sea operation against the German convoy routes round the extreme north of German-occupied Norway (15 January/3 February 1944)., Under the ... Read More

'RV-2' was a Soviet naval attack by Vitse Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov’s Northern Fleet against the German convoy routes round the extreme north of German-occupied Norway (20 ... Read More

'RV-3' was a Soviet combined air and sea operation against the German convoy routes round the extreme north of German-occupied Norway (10/26 April 1944)., The operation began ... Read More

'RV-4' was a Soviet combined air and sea operation against the German convoy routes round the extreme north of German-occupied Norway (11/29 May 1944)., On 11 May a German con... Read More

'RV-5' was a Soviet combined air and sea operation against the German convoy routes round the extreme north of German-occupied Norway (10/28 June 1944)., The operation started... Read More

'RV-6' was a Soviet combined air and sea operation against the German convoy routes round the extreme north of German-occupied Norway (9/28 July 1944)., From 13 July S-14, S-5... Read More

'Ry' was the Japanese seizure of Nauru and Ocean islands in the western part of the central Pacific (29/30 August 1942)., The undertaking was to have been implemented immediat... Read More

'Rype' was a US operation by an Office of Strategic Services operational group under the command of Major William Colby to help local resistance groups in delaying German with... Read More

'Rys' was a Soviet special forces operation to parachute a 14-man party of the Polish Parachute Reconnaissance, Intelligence and Sabotage Group into the Mecklenburg area of Ge... Read More

The 'Rzhev-Vyaz’ma Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet operation designed to pinch out the German forces in the large pocket including Rzhev and Vyaz’ma to the w... Read More