'Train' (ii) was a British attempt to run a disguised merchantman, loaded with aviation fuel, ammunition and food, to Malta (1/3 November 1942)., In this undertaking the 3,338... Read More

'Training' was a British naval undertaking by ships of Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Power’s East Indies Fleet to interrupt the flow of reinforcement, resupply and re-equipment by... Read More

The 'Trajan-Linie' was a German and Romanian defence line in northern Romania, designed as the main defence line for Generaloberst Johannes Friessner’s Heeresgruppe 'Südukr... Read More

'Trammel' was a British naval undertaking to lay a defensive deep-water minefield off the Kola inlet of the northern USSR to prevent U-boat attacks on the convoys entering or ... Read More

'Tramp' was a US special forces operation to parachute a six-man party of the Office of Strategic Services' Detachment 101 into the Taro area of Japanese-occupied Burma to est... Read More

'Transatlantic Telephone Plan' was a British unrealised deception plan mooted by the London Controlling section to 'leak' faked information to the Germans in the course of tra... Read More

'Transcend' was a British deception for Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army Group by Colonel David Strangeways' 'R' Force to cover 'Plunder' by persuading the G... Read More

'Transfigure' was an Allied unrealised plan to use Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army in a major operation against the road network in the Frenc... Read More

'Transit' (i) was a British naval undertaking, in parallel with 'Dunlop' and using the same escort forces, to cover the passage of the light anti-aircraft cruiser Dido and oth... Read More

'Transit' (ii) was the US plan for the movement of large numbers of men and considerable quantities of matériel from Europe to the Pacific theatre, by sea via the Panama Cana... Read More

'Transkaspische Bahn' was a German unrealised plan to destroy two bridges on the trans-Caspian railway to the east of the Caspian Sea (summer 1941)., Designed to limit still f... Read More

'Transom' was a British and US carrierborne air attack on Japanese targets at Soerabaja on the island of Java in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies (17/18 May 1944)... Read More

'Transport' was a British naval attack on Japanese shipping and military facilities in the Japanese-occupied Andaman islands group in the Bay of Bengal (14/20 March 1944)., Co... Read More

'Transportation Plan' was the Allied programme of strategic and tactical air attacks to ensure the isolation of the Normandy region of German-occupied northern France by the d... Read More

'Trappenfang' was the German operation to take the Kerch peninsula at the eastern end of the Crimean peninsula (November 1941/January 1942)., The operation was part of the dou... Read More

'Trappenjagd' (i) was the German operation, otherwise known as 'Bussard', to eliminate the Soviet forces from the Kerch peninsula at the eastern end of Crimea, where they had ... Read More

'Trappenjagd' (ii) was a German operation against partisans in the Caucasus region of the German-occupied southern part of the USSR (autumn/winter 1942). ... Read More

'Traufe' was a German operation against the 26th 'Triglav' Division of Josip Broz Tito’s partisan forces in German-occupied Yugoslavia (13 November 1943). , The primary Germ... Read More

'Trave' was a German naval attempt to escort the 2,729-ton blockade runner Alsterufer, inward bound from Japan, into the Gironde estuary on the west coast of German-occupied F... Read More

'Travnik' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (16/23 December 1942)., Th... Read More

'Trawl' was a British unrealised naval undertaking to carry out a night sweep in the Leads, between Sildegabet and Bredsund, along the west coast of German-occupied Norway (la... Read More

'Treacle' was a British naval undertaking to replace Major General Leslie J. Morshead’s Australian 9th Division as the garrison of beleaguered Tobruk, on the coast of North ... Read More

'Treatment' was the British strategic deception plan, in association with the 'Bertram' tactical deception, to support the 'Lightfoot' initial phase of the 2nd Battle of El Al... Read More

'Treffenfeld' was a German and Vichy French operation against French resistance forces of the Maquis de l’Ain and Maquis du Haut-Jura in the south-eastern part of German-occ... Read More

'Treibjagd' was a German, Bulgarian and Serb operation against the currently anti-Axis Četnik partisan detachments commanded by Major Nicola Kalabić in the Ladmonvač and Ru... Read More

'Trelliswork' was a British special forces raid on Les Sept Isles, off the north coast of Brittany in German-occupied France (January 1943). ... Read More

'Treubruch' was a German blocking operation at Skopje in the southern part of German-occupied Yugoslavia (September 1944)., On 8 September Bulgaria switched sides and declared... Read More

'Trial' was a British naval undertaking to facilitate the passage of the JW.61 convoy via the Arctic route to ports in the northern part of the USSR and also to cover the ship... Read More

'Triangle' was Allied unrealised contingency plan for implementation in the event of a major armed uprising against the Nazi government in Germany and/or Austria (1944). ... Read More

'Trickle' was the Allied experimental despatch of single British or US merchant ships, rather than convoys, from Iceland via the Arctic route to ports in the northern part of ... Read More

'Trident' was the Allied second Washington conference between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, together with their staffs, to confirm earl... Read More

'Trigger' was an Allied plan for the creation in the USA, for training purposes, of a model air-defence sector based on the radar-controlled RAF pattern which had proved so su... Read More

'TRIN' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) steaming to the south-east from Trinidad for dispersal (August/November 1942). , The first of t... Read More

'Trinity' was the US operational test of the world’s first atomic device at Alamogordo, New Mexico (16 July 1945)., The test was undertaken by the US Army in the Jornada del... Read More

'Trio' (i) was the first large-scale joint German, Italian and Croat counter-insurgency operation of World War II and was undertaken conducted in the puppet state of Croatia, ... Read More

'Trio' (ii) was the British bombing of the Skoda armaments factories at Pilsen in German-occupied Czechoslovakia by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command ... Read More

'Tripe' was a British naval air attack on shipping in the harbour of Tripoli in Italian Libya (26 November 1940)., The attacking Force 'C' of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s... Read More

'Triplex' was the Allied overall designation for the group of operations, comprising 'Abbess', 'Faggot' (i), 'Harridan', 'Igloo', 'Lustre', 'Relict' and 'Satchel', intended to... Read More

'Tripod' was an Allied unrealised airborne operation by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army for landings to outflank the 'Westwall' in the area t... Read More

The 'Tripoli Plan' was a British deception, developed from elements of the 'Plan A-R', suggesting a threat to Tripoli, the capital of the Italian colony of Libya, as part of '... Read More

'Triumphant' was a British improved but still unrealised development of 'Anakim' (i) for the reconquest of Japanese-occupied Burma (1944). ... Read More

'Trojan' was a Polish artillery-supported raid across the Maas river near Heusden in the Netherlands to establish the German artillery and mortar strength in the area and so a... Read More

'Trojan Horse' was the British initial designation of the deception implemented as 'Mincemeat' (ii) (1943). ... Read More

'Trojanisches Pferd' (i) was the German undertaking to take and hold the bridges over the Waal river near Nijmegen in the Netherlands as part of 'Gelb' (10 May 1940)., The obj... Read More

'Trojanisches Pferd' (ii) was a German unrealised cover operation for 'Margarethe I', planned in the form of a special forces operation by units of Generalleutnant Friedrich K... Read More

'Trolist' was a Croat operation against the Yugoslav 32nd 'Zagorje' Division and units of the Western Group of Partisan Detachments of Marshal Josip Broz Tito’s partisan for... Read More

'Trolleycar' was an Allied deception plan, subsequently named 'Trolleycar II', which could have been turned into a reality has the situation warranted it, for an amphibious la... Read More

'Trombone' was a British special forces raid on the island of Kastelorizo in the German-occupied Dodecanese islands group in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea (October ... Read More

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'Trousers' (i) was an Anglo-Canadian training exercise before 'Neptune' (iii) near Slapton near Slapton Sands in south-west England (May 1944). ... Read More