'Switchback' was the Canadian reduction of the Breskens pocket, the south-western element of what was known to the Germans as the Festung 'Scheldt' designed to deny the Allies... Read More

'Swithin' was the Chinese and US advance to the south from Ledo in the northern part of Japanese-occupied Burma (1944)., Under the overall command of Lieutenant General Joseph... Read More

'SWo' was a German naval minelaying operation to the north of Terschelling in the German-occupied Netherlands off the eastern end of the Strait of Dover by the minelayers Kais... Read More

'Sword' was the British assault beach for Major General G. R. Rennie’s 3rd Division in 'Neptune' (iii) (6 June 1944)., The beach was the easternmost of the five Allied assau... Read More

'Swordhilt' was an Allied unrealised plan to seize and hold a beach-head to the south of Brest on the western tip of the Brittany peninsula of German-occupied France as a mean... Read More

'Sybil' was a British movement of army elements and supplies to Iraq (January 1941). ... Read More

'Sylt' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against several 'ON', 'HX' and 'SC' convoys (18/23 December 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-364, U-471, U-741, U-744, U... Read More

'Symbol' was the Allied conference at Casablanca (14/23 January 1943)., The conference was deemed necessary, following the successful launch of 'Torch' in November 1942, in or... Read More

'Symmetry' was a British unrealised plan for the capture of the Dodecanese islands group in the Aegean Sea (1944). ... Read More

'Sympton' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious landing at Sollum, on the extreme north-west coast of Egypt, in an effort to prevent the retreat of the Axis forces t... Read More

'Syncopation' was a British unrealised plan for a special forces raid by the Small Scale Raiding Force on the island of Bréhat just off the north coast of Brittany in German-... Read More

'T' (i) was the Japanese seizure of the northern part of the island of Sumatra, including Sabang on the island of Weh just off Sumatra’s north-western, in the Netherlands Ea... Read More

'T' (ii) was a Japanese undertaking in belated succession to 'T' (i) to take the islands of the Banda Sea, and especially the Tanimbar (otherwise Aru) islands group (24/31 Jul... Read More

'T' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea, to Manila, Philippine islands group... Read More

'T' (iv) was a British naval operation to create a deep anti-submarine minefield off Malin Head on the north coast of Ireland (1945). ... Read More

'T.18' was an Italian convoy undertaking from southern Italy to Tripoli in North Africa (22/25 January 1942)., On 22 January four cargo ships, in the form of the 5,322-ton M... Read More

'TA' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route between Tobruk and Alexandria, North Africa, and as such reciprocals of the ... Read More

'TA' (ii) was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the UK to the USA using mostly large liners, sometimes withou... Read More

'Ta' (iii) was the Japanese attempt to destroy the US lodgement around Cape Torokina on Bougainville island in the Solomon islands group (8/25 March 1944)., This extensive lod... Read More

'Ta' (iv) was the Japanese plan to reinforce their forces in the Philippine islands group as the US forces began their descents on the islands (October 1944)., Undertaken in t... Read More

'Taaget' was the German alternative designation for 'Laubfrosch II' (November 1944/April 1945). ... Read More

'Tabarin' was a British expedition to Antarctica to determine the feasibility of establishing permanent bases (29 January 1944/1946)., Led by Lieutenant James Marr, the team l... Read More

'Table Tennis' was the US airborne landing of Colonel George M. Jones’s 503rd Parachute Infantry over Kamiri airfield on Noemfoor island off the north-west coast of New Guin... Read More

'Table Top' was a US airborne operation to parachute a small force onto Manawarat on Leyte island in the Japanese-occupied Philippine islands group (20 November/5 December 194... Read More

'TAC' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Thames river to Ostend in Belgium (October 1944/May 1945)., T... Read More

'TACA' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Thames river to Antwerp, Belgium, until replaced by the 'TAM... Read More

'TAG' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Trinidad via Aruba or in one case Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, to Gu... Read More

'Taifun' (i) was the German strategic offensive against Moscow, the capital of the USSR, undertaken as the proposed culmination of 'Barbarossa' (2 October/5 December 1941)., O... Read More

'Taifun' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic off Newfoundland and Labrador (15/20 February 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-186, U-223, U-358 and U-707 detach... Read More

'Taifun' (iii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Norwegian Sea (2/4 April 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-255, U-586, U-629 and U-646, and neither lost any of its own nu... Read More

'Taifun' (iv) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Norwegian Sea (5/10 March 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-278, U-737 and U-973, and for the loss of Oberleutnant Klaus Pa... Read More

'Tail Lamp' was a British naval undertaking to land a party of Special Operations Executive agents near Genoa on the north-west coast of Italy (January 1944). ... Read More

'Take 1' was a Japanese reinforcement convoy to the Doberai peninsula of the Vogelkop at the western end of Japanese-occupied Netherlands New Guinea (17 April/9 May 1944)., In... Read More

'Talisman' (i) was an Allied early version of 'Eclipse' (i) for the treatment of Germany after the end of hostilities (spring 1945). ... Read More

'Talisman' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan for airborne landings by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army for operations in the areas of Kiel an... Read More

The 'Tallinn Defensive Operation' was the unsuccessful Soviet undertaking to hold Tallinn, the largest city of Estonia and the Baltic Fleet’s main operational base on the so... Read More

The 'Tallinn Evacuation Operation' was the Soviet maritime evacuation of Tallinn with the object of removing the 190 ships of Vitse Admiral Vladimir F. Tributs’s Baltic Flee... Read More

The 'Tallinn Offensive Operation' was the second of the four Soviet sub-operations together constituting the 'Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation' and culminating in the capt... Read More

'Talon' was the British third and final offensive in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma in succession to 'Romulus' (4 January/9 February 1945)., Poss... Read More

'Talsohle' was a German naval minelaying operation in the English Channel (29/30 September 1943)., The operation was undertaken by the torpedo boats Greif, Kondor, T 19, T 26 ... Read More

'Talvisota' was the Finnish semi-official designation of the 'Winter War' between Finland and the USSR (30 November 1939/13 March 1940)., During the 'Talvisota', the Soviets w... Read More

'TAM' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Thames river to Antwerp, Belgium, until replaced by the 'TACA... Read More

'Tamara' was a German unsuccessful undertaking to foment unrest in and possibly revolt by the population of Georgia in the USSR and thereby disrupt Soviet concentration at the... Read More

'Tamper' was a British landing at Morondava in the centre of Vichy French Madagascar’s west coast (10 September 1942)., Undertaken in the course of the land campaign which f... Read More

'Tan 1' was a Japanese unrealised plan for an air attack on the US Navy’s fleet anchorage in the lagoon of Majuro atoll in the Marshall islands group (June 1944). , In Febru... Read More

'Tan 2' was a Japanese kamikaze air raid on the US naval base and anchorage in Ulithi atoll (11 March 1945)., In September 1944, after the US capture of the Mariana islands gr... Read More

'Tandem' was an Allied series of unrealised contingency plans for implementation in the event that Germany’s war-making potential was compromised by civil disorder in German... Read More

'Tanker' was a British slow convoy operation in the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Malta taking advantage of the temporary lull resulting from Axis preoccupation with an imme... Read More

'Tanne Ost' was a German unsuccessful attempt to seize the island of Suursaari (Hochland in German) from their erstwhile co-belligerents, the Finns (14/15 September 1944)., Th... Read More

'Tanne West' was a German unrealised plan for the capture from the Finns of the Åland islands group, off the south-western corner of Finland in the mouth of the Gulf of Bothn... Read More