'Tigar 26A' was the US plan to move the supply base for Major General Claire L. Chennault’s 14th AAF from Kunming to Kweilin to ease the supply situation for the Boeing B-29... Read More

'Tiger' (i) was a German half of the final phase of the military defeat of France, namely the offensive by Generaloberst Erwin von Witzleben’s 1st Army of Generaloberst Wilh... Read More

'Tiger' (ii) was a British fast merchant convoy operation from Gibraltar to Egypt carrying tanks and aircraft (5/12 May 1941)., In the 'Demon' (i) evacuation of British and Al... Read More

'Tiger' (iii) was a German unrealised plan by the Abwehr’s Abteilung II sabotage and special purposes department for the air-landing of Indian insurgent elements, trained an... Read More

'Tiger' (iv) was a British military exercise in the UK (May 1942)., On being appointed to head the South-Eastern Command, Lieutenant General B. L. Montgomery planned and then ... Read More

'Tiger' (ix) was a US eight-day final training exercise for the army and navy forces (the latter comprising Force 'U') allocated to the 'Utah' Beach component of 'Neptune' (ii... Read More

'Tiger' (v) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ON.131 convoy (26/30 September 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-221, U-258, U-260, U-356, U-407, U-410,... Read More

'Tiger' (vi) was a German and Finnish naval minelaying operation in Kronshtadt Bay at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland by Finnish minelayers and motor torpedo boats and ... Read More

'Tiger' (vii) was a six-part undertaking by the Netherlands East Indies Forces Intelligence Service to land and operate parties, almost all of whom were killed, on the island ... Read More

'Tiger' (viii) was a German operation against Greek partisan forces in the Epiros mountain area of German-occupied western Greece (October/November 1943). ... Read More

'Tiger' (x) was a British unrealised plan for a bomber force (originally 'Mould') to operate against Japan (spring/summer 1945)., Also known as the Very Long Range Bomber Forc... Read More

'Tiger Claw' was a British unrealised naval plan for a carrierborne air attack by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Home Fleet on the German battleship Tirpitz lying in the Altafjo... Read More

The 'Tiger-Stellung' (i) was a German fallback position on the Eastern Front along the line connecting Daugava near Vitebsk and Romny via Kasprowicz, Desna near Bryansk and ea... Read More

The 'Tiger-Stellung' (ii) was a German cordon defence line for General Dietrich von Saucken’s (from 29 June 1944 General Hermann Breith’s) III Panzerkorps in the area of B... Read More

'Tigerfish' was the British bombing attack on Freiburg im Breisgau by aircraft of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command (27/28 November 1944)., After Frei... Read More

The 'Tikhvin Defensive Operation', otherwise known as the 'Tikhvin-Volkhov Defensive Operation', was the Soviet undertaking in the Leningrad sector of the Eastern Front to hol... Read More

The 'Tikhvin Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet undertaking immediately following the 'Tikhvin Defensive Operation' and as such was the counter-offensive from the a... Read More

The 'Tikhvin-Kirishi Offensive Operation' was the Soviet second of the two sub-operations together constituting the 'Tikhvin Strategic Offensive Operation', whose other compon... Read More

'Tilden' was the British air force element of the naval 'Style' (ii) undertaking to deliver Supermarine Spitfire single-seat fighters for the strengthening of Malta’s air de... Read More

'Tilleul' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a seven-man team into the Corbèze area of German-occupied France to establish liaison with the local resistance ... Read More

'Timberwolf' was the Allied movement of Lieutenant General E. L. M. Burns’s Canadian I Corps, at the urging of the Canadian government, from the UK to Italy (winter 1943/44)... Read More

'Timeless' was the British naval undertaking to facilitate the passage of the JW.67 convoy to ports in the northern USSR, and the RA.67 convoy returning empty to the UK (12/30... Read More

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

'Tin' was a British special forces operation to parachute a two-man Czechoslovak team into the Trebon area of German-occupied Czechoslovakia to assassinate the local education... Read More

'Tin Hat' was the British codename for the detection and reporting of any movement of the German major warships in Norwegian waters (1941/43). ... Read More

'Tindall' was a British deception plan, originally designated 'Upshot', within 'Cockade' designed to deceive the Germans into the belief that the Allies were planning an invas... Read More

'Tinder' was a British unrealised plan for operations in North-West Europe in association with 'Rankin' (1941). ... Read More

'Tinsel' was a British system for the transmission of highly amplified engine noise to saturate the German night-fighter speech control radio frequencies (1943/May 1945)., The... Read More

This was the German seizure of valuable Swiss export goods, which were replaced by worthless material (March 1942). ... Read More

The 'Tiraspol-Melitopol Defensive Operation' was the Soviet fourth of the six sub-operations constituting the 'Kiev Strategic Defensive Operation' and was fought in the southe... Read More

'Tirpitz' was a U-boat five-part wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the HX.264 convoy (2/8 November 1943)., For the loss of two of its own number, the wolfpack sank no... Read More

'Titania' was a British naval undertaking to rescue evacuees from the south-west coast of France (21/22 September 1942)., The Q-ship Tarana, a 346-ton ex-French trawler, recov... Read More

'Titanic' was a British series of four special forces operations by Lieutenant Colonel R. B. Mayne’s 1st Special Air Service and the Royal Air Force in the area of Carentan ... Read More

'Title' was a British naval attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in German-occupied Norway using 'chariot' manned torpedoes in their first operational employment (26 Octobe... Read More

'Titus I' was a German naval minelaying operation by the light cruiser Nürnberg (13 January 1945)., After an uneventful period in Norwegian waters, on 27 April 1943 Nürnberg... Read More

'Titus II' was a German naval minelaying operation in the North Sea (8/9 March 1945)., Originally scheduled for implementation on 16 February by the minelayers Ostmark, Lothri... Read More

'Tivoli' was a British undertaking to strengthen the ground and air forces in Syria (1944). ... Read More

'TJ' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Trinidad to Natal, Recife or Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in succession to t... Read More

'TJ' (ii) was the designation of Allied assault convoys (together with a numerical suffix) for 'Husky' (i), and comprising 'TJF', 'TJM' and 'TJS' high-, medium- and slow-speed... Read More

'TL' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Takoradi, Gold Coast, to Lagos, Nigeria (May/August 1943)., The first of th... Read More

'TLDM' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Takoradi, Gold Coast, via Lagos, Nigeria, and Douala, Cameroun, to Matadi... Read More

'TM' (i) was the designation of British convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route between the Tyne river and Methil on the north coast of the Firth of Forth,... Read More

'TM' (ii) was the designation of a British military ferry convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route between the UK and Norway (April 1940)., Carrying men, equ... Read More

'TM' (iii) was the designation of an Allied convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Curaçao to Gibraltar as a special tanker convoy bringing fuel acro... Read More

This was the designation of an Allied military convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Taranto to the south coast of France for ‘Dragoon’ (i) (10/16 ... Read More

'TMC' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix), initiated as the 'ETC' series, plying the route from Thames river via St Helen’s Roa... Read More

'TMF' was the designation of Allied fast convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Trinidad to Gibraltar in the aftermath of 'Torch' (December 1942/Janu... Read More

'TMM' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix), inaugurated as the 'ETM' series, carrying vehicles on the route from the Thames river ... Read More

'TN' (i) was a British naval operation to destroy a German destroyer force at Narvik during 'Weserübung' and leading to the 1st Naval Battle of Narvik (10 April 1940)., The N... Read More

'TN' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the coastal route from Townsville, eastern Australia, to Port Moresby and Fall River,... Read More