'Barracuda' was an Allied unrealised plan for a combined airborne and amphibious assault on the Italian port city of Naples by Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark’s US 5th Army... Read More

'Barrage' (i) was a British unsuccessful combined air and sea operation to intercept and destroy a Japanese submarine carrying important equipment and passengers from Germany ... Read More

'Barrage' (ii) was a British special forces raid in the Dodecanese islands group in the southern part of the Aegean Sea (January 1944). ... Read More

'Barricade' was a British special forces operation by an 11-man party of the Small Scale Raiding Force (No. 62 Commando) against Pointe de Saire near St Vaast on the north coa... Read More

'Barrier' was an unsuccessful Allied sea patrol in the South Atlantic between South Africa and South America to intercept German blockade-running freighters (1/12 December 194... Read More

'Barrister' was a British and Free French unrealised plan for an operation against the major naval base at Dakar in French West Africa (23/25 September 1940)., The object of t... Read More

'Barthold' was the German construction undertaking to build defence lines in the area of Breslau (Namslau and Gross Wartenberg) on the Eastern Front (August 1944 onward). ... Read More

The 'Barvenkovo-Lozovaya Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking in which the Germans were pushed back some 53 to 62 miles (90 to 100 km) in the north-western part of th... Read More

'Basalt' was a British special forces raid on the island of Sark in the German-occupied Channel Islands (3/4 October 1942)., The original plan was for the raid to take place o... Read More

'Baseball' (i) was a British unrealised plan to take the Cape Verde islands group, a possession of neutral Portugal off the west coast of Africa, and one of the many schemes t... Read More

'Baseball' (ii) was the US designation of the air shuttle bombing programme between between the UK, Italy and the USSR later implemented as 'Frantic' (June/September 1944). ... Read More

'Bash' was a British air attack on the German battleship Tirpitz and other warships in the Trondheimfjord of German-occupied Norway (27/28 April 1942)., The raid was undertake... Read More

'Basil' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Doubs area of German-occupied France to aid local resis... Read More

'Basis Nord' was the German maritime undertaking in which the blockade-running ships Bremen (a 51,656-ton liner) and New York departed US eastern seaboard ports on 6 and 8 Sep... Read More

'Basket' was a British unrealised plan for the destruction of the oilfields and associated installations at Kirkuk in northern Iraq in the event they were threatened by rebell... Read More

'Bassgeiger' was a German undertaking to land and operate a meteorological team on the east coast of Greenland (2 October 1943 /3 June 1944)., Since September 1943 a German me... Read More

'Bassington' was a British unimplemented deception intended to improve the lot of Allied prisoners of war held by the Japanese by 'leaking' a supposed report concerning war cr... Read More

'Bastion' was a British deception plan created under the supervision of Lieutenant Colonel Dudley W. Clarke’s 'A' Force Middle Eastern group to persuade Generaloberst Erwin ... Read More

Known to the Soviets as the 'Apatin-Kaposvár Offensive Operation' within the 'Budapest Strategic Offensive Operation', the 'Batinska Operacija' was a Soviet and Yugoslav oper... Read More

'Batman' was a British uncompleted special forces operation by 10 men of the Small Scale Raiding Force (No. 62 Commando) and No. 12 Commando against Omonville on the Cotentin ... Read More

'Battering Ram' was a British air operation to deliver groups of French resistance personnel into German-occupied France (September 1943). ... Read More

'Battle' was the US overall designation of fighter protection for Allied warships and convoys in the Atlantic Ocean (1943/May 1945). ... Read More

The 'Battle for the Recapture of Bataan' was fought between US and Japanese forces, each supported by different Filipino factions, for the Bataan peninsula within the series o... Read More

The 'Battle for the Recapture of Corregidor' was fought between US and Japanese forces for the island fortress of Corregidor in the mouth of the Bay of Manila in the Philippin... Read More

The 'Battle of Aachen' was fought between US and German forces in and around Aachen, a city of western Germany (2/21 October 1944)., The Germans had incorporated the city into... Read More

The 'Battle of Abbeville' was fought near Abbeville in north-eastern France between German and Allied forces during the 'Battle of France' (27 May/4 June 1940)., On 20 May, wi... Read More

The 'Battle of Åndalsnes' was fought between British and German forces within the context of the German 'Weserübung' invasion of Norway (19 April/early May 1940)., After the... Read More

The 'Battle of Angaur' was fought between US and Japanese forces for possession of the island of Angaur in the Palau islands group (17 September/22 October 1944)., This battle... Read More

The 'Battle of Aparri' was one of the initial stages of the Japanese 'M' (ii) seizure of Luzon island in the Philippine islands group (10 December 1941)., The purpose of the u... Read More

The 'Battle of Arawe' was the core of the 'Director' (ii) operation, and was fought between Allied and Japanese forces on the south-western coast of New Britain island (15 Dec... Read More

The 'Battle of Arracourt' was fought between US and German armoured forces near Arracourt in the Lorraine region of eastern France (18/29 September 1944)., During the Lorraine... Read More

The 'Battle of Arras' was fought between Allied (largely British) and German forces near the near the north-eastern French town of Arras (21 May 1940)., After the German 'Gelb... Read More

The 'Battle of Arundel Island' was fought between US and Japanese forces for control of Arundel island, part of the New Georgia group of the Solomon island group, within 'Toen... Read More

The 'Battle of Auvere' was fought between Soviet and German forces in Estonia within the context of the Soviet 'Narva Offensive Operation' (20/25 July 1944)., General Leytenan... Read More

The 'Battle of Bataan' was fought on Luzon island of the Philippine islands group between Japanese and US-led forces as part of the Japanese 'M' (ii) conquest of Luzon (7 Janu... Read More

The 'Battle of Batan Island' was the first step in the Japanese 'M' (ii) invasion of the Philippines (8 December 1941)., The purpose was to obtain control of local air strips... Read More

The 'Battle of Bautzen' was fought between German and Soviet-supported Polish troops as one of the final battles of the Eastern Front during World War II (21/30 April 1945)., ... Read More

The 'Battle of Beaufort' was fought between Allied (primarily Australian) and Japanese forces as part of the 'Battle of North Borneo' within the context of the former’s reca... Read More

The 'Battle of Beirut' was fought between Allied and Vichy French forces for the Lebanese port city of Beirut, and marked the end of the Allied 'Exporter' operation to take Le... Read More

The 'Battle of Biak' was fought between US and Japanese forces for the island of Biak, and was thus part of the western portion of the New Guinea campaign (27 May/17 August 19... Read More

The 'Battle of Bir Hakeim' was fought between Axis and Free French forces at Bir Hakeim, an oasis in the Western Desert area of Libya to the south and west of Tobruk, during t... Read More

The 'Battle of Blackett Strait' was a naval battle of the Pacific War fought between small US and Japanese forces in the Blackett Strait between Kolombangara and Arundel islan... Read More

The 'Battle of Bloody Gulch' was fought between German and US forces in the area of the Manoir de Donville (otherwise Hill 30) about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-west of Caren... Read More

The 'Battle of Borowa Góra' was in fact a series of engagements fought between German and Polish forces near the Góry Borowskie hills, to the south-west of Piotrków Trybuna... Read More

The 'Battle of Brest' was fought between US and German forces for the important port city of Best in north-western Brittany (7 August/20 September 1944)., Fought within the co... Read More

The 'Battle of Brody', which is also known as the 'Battle of Dubna', the 'Battle of Dubno', the 'Battle of Rovne' and the 'Battle of Rovne-Brody', was a major armoured battle ... Read More

The 'Battle of Broekhuizen', named for the Dutch village near the Maas river where it took place, was a small but bloody battle fought as part of the Allied campaign to libera... Read More

The 'Battle of Brześć Litewski' (Brest-Litovsk) was a battle between German and Polish forces near the town of Brześć Litewski within the context of 'Weiss' (i) (14/17 Sep... Read More

The 'Battle of Bukit Timah' was fought between Japanese and British-led forces within the final stage of Japan’s seizure of Singapore island (10/12 February 1942)., On 8 and... Read More

The 'Battle for Caen' was fought by British and Canadian forces against German forces for the northern French city of Caen in the immediate aftermath of the 'Neptune' (iii) am... Read More