'Tentacle' was an Allied unrealised plan for the design, construction, deployment and use of floating airfields made either of concrete or of assemblies of 'Liberty' ships or ... Read More

'Tentative' was a British naval undertaking in which Lieutenant E. Honer’s MGB-318 laid two special navigational sonar buoys off the Ile de Batz and Nevez in support of 'Car... Read More

'Tentpeg' was a US build-up of the US Army Air Forces' airlift operation between India and China over the 'Hump' of the eastern Himalayan mountains (1944). ... Read More

'Terero' was the German initial naval plan later implemented as 'Cerberus' (January/February 1942). ... Read More

'Terminal' (i) was a British naval undertaking intended to prevent the Vichy French navy from scuttling its warships and destroying waterfront installations in Algiers harbour... Read More

'Terminal' (ii) was the Inter-Allied heads of government conference at Potsdam (17 July/2 August 1945)., The third and last of the 'big three' conferences in World War II, thi... Read More

'Teslić I' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (5/7 January 1943)., The... Read More

'TF' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Trinidad to Freetown, Sierra Leone (November 1942/1944). ... Read More

'TF' (ii) was the designation of an Allied miscellany of seven convoys in the eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean (November 1942/August 1944)., There were three TF.1 co... Read More

'TG' (i) was the designation of a British pair of convoys plying the route from the Tyne river to Grimsby (March/April 1940)., The first of these was TG.1 of 30/31 March with ... Read More

'TG' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Trinidad to Guantánamo, Cuba (1942/43). ... Read More

'TG' (iii) was the designation of an Allied single troop-carrying convoy from Naples to Anzio for 'Shingle' (21/22 January 1944)., The ships were the 14,013-ton British Ascani... Read More

'TGE' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Takoradi, Gold Coast, and Lagos, Nigeria, to the east for dispersal (Septe... Read More

'TH' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Trinidad to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and as such reciprocals of the 'HT' serie... Read More

'Theodor' was the designation of German military convoys plying the short crossing between Kerch in Crimea and Temryuk on the Taman peninsula on the southern shore of the Sea ... Read More

'Theodora' was a German undertaking by the Abwehr intelligence service to find cartographic information about North Africa as the Germans were starting to think that they migh... Read More

'Therapy' was a British long-term deception to confuse the Germans about the nature of the special radar and other equipment carried by British night-fighters (February 1942 o... Read More

'Theseus' (i) was an Axis offensive to the east in North Africa by General (from 24 January Generaloberst) Erwin Rommel’s Panzergruppe 'Afrika' (from 30 January Panzerarmee ... Read More

'Theseus' (ii) was a German unrealised plan for the seizure of French North Africa and French West Africa, as well as the Portuguese Cape Verde islands group (summer 1942)., T... Read More

'Thesis' was a British air operation against German targets in Crete (23 July 1943)., The undertaking was part of the Allied effort to pin German and Italian forces in the eas... Read More

'Third Enemy Offensive' was the Yugoslav designation for the pair of German-led operations against partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in eastern Bosnia, Montenegro, Sandzak an... Read More

'Thistledown' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service to cut the rail lines in the area to the north of Rome near Terni and Orvieto in support of... Read More

'Thor' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Norwegian Sea against the JW.58 convoy (10 March/5 April 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-278, U-307, U-312, U-313, U-361 and U-9... Read More

'Threat' was a British unrealised plan for an operation against Vichy French Morocco in the event that the 'Menace' operation to take Dakar and Vichy French West Africa proved... Read More

'Thresher' was a British unrealised plan for a programme of small-scale raids on targets along the west coast of German-occupied Norway (October 1941). ... Read More

'Throat' (i) was a British unrealised plan for the movement of stores to Turkey (?). ... Read More

'Throat' (ii) was the British-led seizure of Mayotte island, in the Comoro islands group to the west of the northern tip of Madagascar, from the Vichy French (2 July 1942)., T... Read More

'Throstle' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to deploy a team to work as weapons instructors for the Milorg military resistance organisation in Germa... Read More

'Thrower' was a British unrealised contingency plan for the mining of ports in the UK should a German invasion take place (1940/41). ... Read More

'Thrush' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish a radio base in the Bykle district of German-occupied southern Norway and also to arrange for... Read More

'Thrush Red' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive for B. Fjelstad and N. Gabrielsen to enter German-occupied Norway overland from Stockholm in neutral S... Read More

'Thruster' (i) was a British unrealised plan for the opposed seizure of the Azores islands group, a Portuguese possession in the Atlantic Ocean, in the event that Germany move... Read More

'Thruster' (ii) was Canadian offensive by Lieutenant General G. G. Simonds’s I Corps of General H. D. G. Crerar’s 1st Army to take Roosendaal in the German-occupied Nether... Read More

'Thrustful' was the designation of the British carrierborne air attack on the German battleship Tirpitz during its planning stage and implemented as 'Tungsten' (spring 1943) ... Read More

The 'Thule-Stellung' was a German defensive position between Staraya Russa and Boizoye Uzin in the operational area of General Thomas-Emil von Wickede’s X Corps of General C... Read More

'Thunder' was an Allied training exercise for 'Neptune' (iii) in which amphibious landings were provided with support by naval gunfire and fighter-bombers (spring 1944) ... Read More

'Thunderbolt' was a US offensive by Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army round Metz in eastern France (8 November/13 December 1944)., Lieutenant General Omar N. Br... Read More

'Thunderclap' (i) was the Allied release of plans for 'Overlord' by General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces, to relevant senior comm... Read More

'Thunderclap' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan to end the war against Germany by the use of bombing to bring about the destruction of Berlin (August 1944/April 1945)., In it... Read More

'Thursday' was the British second 'Chindit' long-range penetration raid deep into Japanese-occupied Burma (5 March/12 August 1944)., Although many British officers in India ha... Read More

'Thwart' (i) was a British naval undertaking for the submarine Seawolf to land reconnaissance parties on the coast of Norway near Lindesnes (3 July 1940). ... Read More

'Thwart' (ii) was the British overall designation, otherwise 'Covered' and successor to 'Player', for naval operations in the Indian Ocean to locate and destroy the U-boat sup... Read More

'Tibet' was a German concept rather than real strategic plan to seize Tibet as a springboard for an assault on the British in northern India (September 1939/spring 1943)., As ... Read More

'Tichwin' was a German offensive toward Tikhvin, some 125 miles (200 km) to the east of Leningrad (16 October/8 November 1941)., As Generaloberst Ernst Busch’s 16th Army of ... Read More

'TICOM' was the US project by the Target Intelligence Committee (TICOM) to locate and seize German intelligence assets, particularly those related to cryptography and signals ... Read More

This was the US bombing of the Ploieşti oilfields in Romania (1 August 1943)., These oilfields and their eight associated refineries produced about 10 million tons of fuel an... Read More

'Tideway Green' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man team of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into the Johore area of Japanese-occupie... Read More

'Tiegel' was the German bombing campaign against the British city of Sheffield (12/16 December 1940)., At this time Sheffield had a population of more than 550,000 persons, an... Read More

'Tifone' was an Italian convoy across the Mediterranean Sea from the Sicilian port of Trapani to Tunis in North Africa (4 May 1943)., Undertaken in the aftermath of the 'Cigno... Read More

'Tigar 1C' was the Allied construction of a road between Ledo in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam and Kunming in the Chinese south-western province of Yunnan so that su... Read More