'Sankey' was a British landing by a Royal Marine party ('Wellington' Force) at Cheduba on Cheduba island, off the south-west coast of Ramree island in the Arakan western coast... Read More

'Sanko' was the Japanese 'scorched earth' offensive in the five north-eastern provinces of China in the aftermath of the 'Hundred Regiments' communist offensive (1942/44)., Th... Read More

'Sanssouci' was the German occupation of strategically important points in Denmark (including the station at Tinglev) and severance of primary communications by men of Hauptma... Read More

'Santee' was a US special forces operation to parachute a party of the Office of Strategic Services' Company A, 261st Reconnaissance Battalion, into German-occupied Italy to a... Read More

'Sapphic' was a British unrealised plan to aid Spain should German forces begin an invasion of that country from France (1941/42). ... Read More

'Sarajevo' was a German and Croat operation against the forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the area to the west of Sesvete and Varazdin in the puppet state of Croatia in Ger... Read More

The 'Sarajevska Operacija' was a Yugoslav operation by the forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito to surround, isolate and liberate a large area round Sarajevo in Axis-occupied Yug... Read More

'Sardine' (i) was the German overall plan for the defence of the coastal area of the southern part of Italy’s Adriatic Sea littoral in the event of an Allied amphibious land... Read More

'Sardine' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan for an amphibious assault in the northern reaches of the Adriatic Sea (1944/45). ... Read More

'Satchel' was a British unrealised plan to move one armoured and three infantry divisions to İzmir in western Turkey should that country enter the war on the Allied side (194... Read More

'Satin' was a US unrealised plan for Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall’s II Corps of Lieutenant General K. A. N. Anderson’s Allied 1st Army to drive on Sfax and Gabès on ... Read More

'Satinwood' was a US plan by General Douglas MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Area command to occupy all remaining Japanese-occupied regions in its area of responsibility in t... Read More

'Satire' was the British designation of the Indian 10th Division in 'Sybil' (January 1941). ... Read More

'Satrap' was an Anglo/Turkish conference in Adana on the south-east coast of Turkey between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President İsmet İnönü (30 January 1943)., ... Read More

'Saturn' (i) was a Soviet unrealised plan to recapture Rostov-na-Donu on the lower reaches of the Donets river at the same time as the elimination of the German pocket in Stal... Read More

'Saturn' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan to base air forces in Turkey for the provision of air support in 'Hercules' (spring 1944)., Derived from and successor to 'Hardihoo... Read More

'Saturn' (iii) was a British unrealised plan for the recapture of Rangoon in Japanese-occupied Burma (?). ... Read More

'Saucy' was the Allied scaled-down version of 'Anakim' (i) adopted at the May 1943 'Trident' (3rd Washington) conference for implementation in the autumn of 1943 (summer 1943)... Read More

'Sauerkraut' was a US operation by the Office of Strategic Services to undermine the morale of the German forces in and around the Italian city of Siena (21 July 1944/April 19... Read More

'Sauhatz' was a German undertaking in which General Siegfried Rasp’s 19th Army of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler’s Oberkommando 'Oberrhein' withdrew Generalleutnant Han... Read More

'Sava' was a German operation, launched immediately after the end of 'Wegweiser', to clear the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito from the Semberija region of German-o... Read More

'Savannah' was the British first special forces operation to insert Free French paratroops, trained by the Special Operations Executive, into German-occupied France for the as... Read More

'Savvy' was an Allied exercise to evaluate the capability of standard army self-propelled field artillery, carried in landing craft, for the delivery of support fire in the co... Read More

'Saxifrage' was a British operation undertaken in conjunction with 'Candytuft' by the Special Air Service to cut the railway line between Ancona and Pescara on the east coast ... Read More

'SB' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Corner Brook, Newfoundl... Read More

'SB' (ii) was the designation of Allied assault convoys for 'Husky' (i) (July 1943)., These were divided into 'SBF' fast, 'SBM' medium-speed and 'SBS' slow elements. The SBF.1... Read More

'SC' (i) was a British naval minelaying operation as part of the creation of the Dover Mine Barrage (December 1939). ... Read More

'SC' (ii) was the designation of Allied slow convoys (together with a numerical suffix) initially plying the route from Sydney, Nova Scotia (generally called Cape Breton to av... Read More

'Scale' was an Allied operation by the Special Operations Executive and Office of Strategic Services to to advise and assist the home front organisation in German-occupied Nor... Read More

This was the Allied movement of some 75,000 non-communist Polish troops, following an agreement between the Free Polish government-in-exile and the Soviet authorities, from th... Read More

'Scalford' was a British programme to exchange parts of the forces in Cyprus and Egypt (April 1942). ... Read More

'Scantling' was a British pair of air force elements ('Scantling I' and 'Scantling II') as parts of the the naval undertakings to deliver fighter reinforcements to Malta in 'P... Read More

'Scapula' was a British unrealised operation by the Special Operations Executive to send a whaleboat with two instructors, a radio operator, arms and equipment to the island o... Read More

'Scaramouch' was a British unrealised naval operation for Lieutenant Ronald F. Seddon’s MGB-718 of the 15th Motor Gun Boat Flotilla to rescue 10 escaped Allied prisoners of ... Read More

'Scare' was a British naval gunfire bombardment of Japanese positions on Ramree island off the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (31 December 1943). ... Read More

'Scarf' was a British special operations undertaking in which Lieutenant Commander Peter Williams’s MGB-502 and Lieutenant Ronald F. Seddon’s MGB-718 of the 15th Motor Gun... Read More

'Scarlet' was a British air undertaking to strengthen the fighter defences of Malta (1941). ... Read More

'Scatterbrain' was the Allied overall designation of operations in and round the Arafura Sea between northern Australia and southern New Guinea (1943). ... Read More

'Scavenger' (i) was a US carrierborne air attack by Rear Admiral Joseph J. Clark’s Task Group 58.1 and Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery’s TG58.3 against Japanese position... Read More

'Scavenger' (ii) was the US overall designation of bombing attacks by General Henry H. Arnold’s 20th AAF from bases on the islands of the Mariana islands group against Japan... Read More

'Sceptical' (i) was the British deception plan, by Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s South-East Asia Command, associated with the planned 'Zipper' assault on western Mala... Read More

'Sceptical' (ii) was a British programme of air attacks on elements of the communications systems in Thailand used by the Japanese (1944/45). ... Read More

'Sceptre' (i) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Var département of German-occupied south-eastern France (... Read More

'Sceptre' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for an advance from Moulmein in southern Burma through the Kra isthmus to Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, in the period after 'Z... Read More

'Schach' was a German and Croat operation against the IV Corps (8th and 34th Divisions) and 7th Division of Marshal Josip Broz Tito’s partisan forces in the area of Novi and... Read More

'Schamil' was a German unrealised plan for a special forces airborne operation by Oberstleutnant Paul Haehling von Lanzenauer’s Lehr-Regiment 'Brandenburg' zbV 800 to seize ... Read More

'Scharnhorst' was a German unrealised small diversionary attack on the French defensive positions in the Saarbrücken area as part of 'Grün' (iii) in an effort to persuade th... Read More

'Schatzgräber' was a German armed forces' undertaking to establish and operate a meteorological station at Nagutskoye toward the north-western end of the Franz Josef Land arc... Read More

'Scherhorn' was a German unrealised plan, otherwise known as 'Freischütz' (iv), under the leadership of SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, for the recovery of a supposed ... Read More

The 'Schildkröten-Stellung' was a German defence line of Generaloberst Karl-Adolf Hollidt’s 6th Army in the southern USSR between the Donets and Mius rivers to the west of ... Read More