'Sulphur' (i) was a British special forces intelligence mission in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (?). ... Read More

'Sulphur' (ii) was the British movement of Major General D. T. Cowan’s Indian 17th Division from refitting in India, after the Battle of Imphal, to the front in Japanese-occ... Read More

'Summer' was a British naval undertaking to deliver crated aircraft to Takoradi in the British West African colony of the Gold Coast for local assembly and subsequent self-tra... Read More

'Sumpf' was a German unrealised plan to widen the salient to the west of Staraya Russa with an advance to the north by Generalfeldmarschall Ernst Busch’s 16th Army in Genera... Read More

'Sumpfblume' was a German operation against partisans in the region of Dorogobuzh in the German-occupied western USSR (6/18 July 1942)., The Dorogobuzh area was one of the mai... Read More

'Sumpffieber' (i) was a German operation against partisans in the Ossipovichi and Lokyna region of Belorussia in the German-occupied western USSR (9 February/9 March 1942). ... Read More

'Sumpffieber' (ii) was a German operation against Jews and other 'non-desirables' in the Latvian region of the German-occupied western USSR (21 August/21 September 1942)., As ... Read More

'Sumpfhahn' was a German operation against partisans in the Hłusk and Bobruysk area of the Belorussia region in the German-occupied western USSR (?/19 February 1944). ... Read More

The 'Sumy-Priluki Offensive Operation' was one of the three Soviet operational-level undertakings that together constituted the 'Chernigov-Priluki Strategic Offensive Operatio... Read More

'Sun Cob' was an Australian special forces operation to parachute a 'Z' Special Unit team into East Timor on a reconnaissance mission (5 July 1945 onward). ... Read More

'Sunable' was an Australian special forces operation to parachute a four-man 'Z' Special Unit team into the Batoemorah area of Japanese-occupied Borneo on a reconnaissance mis... Read More

'Sunbeam' was a British naval undertaking against a German supply convoy in the harbour of the island of Léros in the Aegean Sea after the German success in 'Leopard' (iii) (... Read More

'Sundance' was the US seizure of Majuro atoll in the Marshall islands group of the central Pacific Ocean (31 January 1944)., Majuro lies in the southern part of the eastern Ra... Read More

'Sunfish' (i) was a British naval photo-reconnaissance and shore bombardment undertaking against Japanese positions on Sabang island just off the north-western tip of Sumatra ... Read More

'Sunfish' (ii) was a Australian special forces operation to parachute a five-man 'Z' Special Unit team into Japanese-occupied Timor on a reconnaissance mission (17 May 1945 on... Read More

'Sunflower' was a British series of four special forces operations by the Special Air Service to sabotage railway installations in German-occupied France and so deny the Germa... Read More

'Sunlag' was an Australian special forces operation to parachute a three-man 'Z' Special Unit team into the Lautam area of Japanese-occupied Timor on a reconnaissance mission ... Read More

'Sunrise' (i) was a British daylight bombing attack by aircraft of Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse’s RAF Bomber Command on the German battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisena... Read More

'Sunrise' (ii) was the Allied and German series of talks in Switzerland about a German surrender in Italy (April/May 1945)., Otherwise known as 'Crossword', the talks were ini... Read More

'Sunshine' was a British quartet of operations by the Special Operations Executive in German-occupied Norway to protect the power stations in Telemark and Buskerud, together w... Read More

'Sunstar' (i) was a British special forces attack by Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Sagaert’s No. 9 Commando against Houlgate, to the south of Le Havre, on the north coast of Germ... Read More

'Sunstar' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan for a landing on the Istrian peninsula at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea coast of north-eastern Italy (1944). ... Read More

'Super Gymnast' was the Allied final development of 'Gymnast', soon superseded by 'Torch', as an alternative to 'Sledgehammer' against a target in northern Europe (1942)., The... Read More

'Super Round-up' was the Allied final development of 'Round-up' (July 1942)., Agreed between the Americans and British, the plan mandated that an Allied landing would be made ... Read More

'Supercharge' (i) was a British naval undertaking to transfer 6,300 fresh British troops and 2,100 tons of supplies to Tobruk on the coast of Libya and on the return passages ... Read More

'Supercharge' (ii) was the British 'dogfight' stage of the 2nd Battle of El Alamein (2/4 November 1942)., The plan evolved from the development of the 'Lightfoot' offensive be... Read More

'Supercharge' (iii) was a British unrealised plan to base six RAF squadrons in the area of İzmir on the west coast of Turkey to aid the British defence of the recently occupi... Read More

'Supercharge II' was the British breakthough of the Tebaga gap in south-eastern Tunisia by Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Freyberg’s New Zealand Corps to complete the 'Pugil... Read More

'Supply' was an Allied naval anti-submarine patrol undertaking off Madagascar (1941)., In the period before their 'Ironclad' invasion of the Vichy French island of Madagascar,... Read More

'Surfat' was the British overall designation of attacks on Axis surface warships (1939/45). ... Read More

'Survey' was a British naval undertaking to ensure the passage of the MW.19 convoy from Alexandria to Malta (7/11 January 1943)., The merchant vessels involved were the 5,853-... Read More

'Susan' was a British unrealised plan to capture Casablanca on the Atlantic coast of French Morocco and then create a major base (July 1940). ... Read More

'Sussex' was a French reconnaissance operation by resistance forces to monitor and report German troop dispositions and movements in the Normandy area of France, sponsored by ... Read More

'Suvorov' was the Soviet strategic offensive, more formally known as the 'Smolensk Strategic Offensive Operation', within the summer and autumn campaign of 1943 on the Eastern... Read More

'Suzu 1' was the Japanese scheme for the defence of the island of Mindanao in the Philippine islands group in the event of a US landing in the area of Davao (10 September 1944... Read More

'SV' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the Australian route from Sydney, New South Wales, to Townsville, Queensland, and as such ... Read More

'Svartisen' was a German air force weather station to the south-east of Spitsbergen in the area to the north of German-occupied Norway (October 1943/July 1944)., Placed on the... Read More

The 'Svir-Petrozavodsk Offensive Operation' was a Soviet strategic offensive 1, known to the Finns as the 'Karelian Offensive', undertaken by the Leningrad Front and Karelian ... Read More

'SW' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes at literal suffix) plying the route from the Suez Canal via Kilindini, Kenya, to D... Read More

'SWa Wagner' was a German naval minelaying operation in the western part of the North Sea by ships operating from Rotterdam (21/22 December 1940)., The operation involved the ... Read More

'Swallow' (i) was a British parachute delivery of a four-man team of the Norwegian resistance movement’s Kompani Linge near Rjukan in Norway to prepare for the arrival of th... Read More

'Swallow' (ii) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to prevent the movement of the remaining heavy water from Vemork to Germany by sinking the ferry car... Read More

'Swamp' was the Allied overall designation of all-out search and destroy operations against Axis submarines in the Mediterranean Sea (autumn/winter 1943/44)., In any such oper... Read More

'Swan' (i) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish radio contact and provide arms instruction to resistance groups east of Kristiansand in Ger... Read More

'Swan' (ii) was a British special forces operation by the Special Air Service (1944). ... Read More

'SWb Wagner' was a German naval minelaying operation between the eastern coast of England at Orfordness and the Dutch coast at Scheveningen (23/24 January 1941)., The ships in... Read More

'Sweater' was a US deception plan, originally designated as 'Stab' (ii), to cover the 'Torch' assault on French North-West Africa (October/November 1942)., As part of this dec... Read More

'Sweep' (i) was a British convoy operation from Gibraltar to Malta (1942). ... Read More

'Sweep' (ii) was an Australian special forces operation to parachute an Australian and Dutch 'Z' Special Unit team into the Sigli area of Japanese-occupied Sumatra on a reconn... Read More

'Swine' was a German naval minelaying operation by Korvettenkapitän Hans von Schönermark’s Minenschiffsgruppe 'Nord' (minelayers Brummer, Cobra and Königin Luise), suppor... Read More