'Trousers' (ii) was a British tactical deception by Colonel David Strangeways' 'R' Force organisation of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s British 21st Army Group to cover th... Read More

'Troutfly' was a US tactical unrealised radio deception designed to support Major General Matthew B. Ridgway’s US 82nd Airborne Division round Ste Mère Eglise in Normandy o... Read More

The 'Trsćanska Operacija' was the Yugoslav operation by the forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito to liberate Trst (Trieste) and the region round it from occupation by the Axis f... Read More

'Truck' was a British unrealised plan for a landing on the Cape Verde islands group, a Portuguese possession off the north-west coast of Africa, and then the subsequent occupa... Read More

'Trueform' was a British special forces operation by the 1st and 2nd Special Air Service and the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) against German... Read More

'Trumpf' was an Axis operation against the newly formed 21st, 22nd, 24th and 25th 'Serb' Divisions, totalling some 8,000 men, of Marshal Josip Broz Tito’s partisan forces in... Read More

'Truncheon' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious landing at Livorno in north-western Italy (1941/42). ... Read More

'Trundle' was the British operation to bring the harbour of Tripoli, on the north coast of Libya, back into service as quickly as possible in order to facilitate the supply of... Read More

'Trutz' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against convoys plying between the USA and Gibraltar (1 June/15 July 1943)., Formed from U-boats withdrawing from t... Read More

'Trutz' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Arctic largely against the JW.59 convoy (17 August/6 September 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-344, U-354, U-363, U-395, U... Read More

'TS' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Takoradi, Gold Coast, to Freetown, Sierra Leone, as successor to the sh... Read More

'TS' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Townsville to Brisbane and Sydney, eastern Australia, and as such reci... Read More

'TS' (iii) was the designation of Allied assault convoys (together with a numerical suffix) for 'Avalanche', and comprising 'TSF' fast, 'TSM' medium-speed and 'TSS' slow eleme... Read More

'TSD' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Takoradi, Gold Coast, via Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Dakar, French West Af... Read More

'TT' was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (26/27 October 1942)., The 'TT' convoy comprised two transport ships and one tanker, escorted by the torpedo boat... Read More

'TU' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from the UK to the USA, and as such reciprocals... Read More

'Tual' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a French team of the Special Operation Executive’s Force 136 into the Vientiane area of Laos in Japanese-occupied ... Read More

The 'Tuapse Defensive Operation' was the Soviet sixth of the seven sub-operations together constituting the 'North Caucasian Strategic Defensive Operation' (25 September/20 De... Read More

'Tube' was a British naval undertaking to deliver supplies to Malta by submarine (31 July/6 August 1940)., Pandora reached Malta with supplies of spare parts and ground equipm... Read More

'Tubular' was the Allied overall designation for the provision of air cover over convoys (1942/45). ... Read More

'TUC' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Liverpool in the UK to the Caribbean (later New York) (February 1943/June ... Read More

The 'Tula Defensive Operation' was the Soviet fifth of the seven sub-operations together constituting the 'Moscow Strategic Defensive Operation', and as such was the undertaki... Read More

The 'Tula Offensive Operation' was the Soviet fourth of the six sub-operations which together constituted the 'Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation (6/16 December 1941)., In t... Read More

'Tulip' was a British unrealised scheme for the deployment of RAF squadrons to bases in China (1945). ... Read More

The 'Tuloksin Landing Operation' was a Soviet amphibious undertaking by the Ladoga Military Flotilla against Finnish forces within the 'Svir-Petrozavodsk Offensive Operation' ... Read More

'Tulpe' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Pechora Sea by Kapitänleutnant Dietrich von der Esch’s U-586 (21/31 July 1943). ... Read More

The 'Tulpe-Stellung' was a German defensive position designed to be held by the forces of Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' in the area to the west of... Read More

The 'Tulpen-Stellung' was a German prepared defensive position in the area to the north of Riga on the Kurland front for General Anton Grasser’s Armeeabteilung 'Grasser' (ex... Read More

'Tulsa' was the US unrealised plan by General Douglas MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Area command for the capture of the Japanese main base area centred on Rabaul on the isl... Read More

'Tümmler' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Bay of Biscay, eastern part of the central Atlantic and western part of the Mediterranean as it transited from bases in G... Read More

'Tümmler' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation, in concert with 'Unverzagt' and 'Wohlgemut', in the eastern Atlantic off North-West Africa and the western approaches to the S... Read More

'Tumult' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive in preparation for 'Thruster' (i) (spring 1941). ... Read More

'Tungsten' was a raid by the Royal Navy on the German battleship Tirpitz, and designed to damage or sink the ship at her base in the Kaafjord spur of the Altafjord in the far ... Read More

'Tunis' was the German alternative designation for the 'Braun' (ii) build-up of a sizeable Axis lodgement in the area of Tunis after the arrival of Allied forces in French Nor... Read More

'Tunnel' (i) was the British immediate sequel to 'Brick' for the evacuation of the last elements of Brigadier H. de R. Morgan’s 148th Brigade from Åndalsnes on the west coa... Read More

'Tunnel' (ii) was a British naval interception operation to destroy or capture a German blockade runner in the Channel Islands area of the English Channel (2/3 October 1943).,... Read More

'Turbinate' was a British element of a multi-part deception operation, including 'Elephant' and 'Pounce', to reinforce in German minds the impression that the imminent 'Verita... Read More

'Turbine' was a British naval undertaking designed to promulgate a wasteful state of alarm along the coast of German-occupied Europe and to use carrierborne air power destroy ... Read More

'Turbinlite' was an Allied scheme to provide US night-fighter units with RAF training and equipment (1942). ... Read More

'Tureen' was a British operation to move additional military personnel to Malta (June 1942). ... Read More

'Turkey' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to have A. Pevik and U. Axelsen join the other SOE groups operating in the Oslo area and work with them un... Read More

'Turkey Buzzard' was a British airborne undertaking to deliver manpower and matériel reinforcements for 'Ladbroke' by means of Airspeed Horsa gliders (3 June/7 July 1943)., T... Read More

'Turnover' was the US occupation of Baker island in the Phoenix islands group (11 August 1943)., Part of the Ellice islands group, Baker and Howland islands lie some 400 miles... Read More

'Turnpike' was a British unrealised operation to block the Corinth Canal through the isthmus connecting the Peloponnese with the rest of mainland Greece, thus forcing Axis shi... Read More

'Turnscrew' (i) was a British part of 'Lancing' (summer 1942)., The plan was for an attack by commando elements on the German positions at Ambleteuse in German-occupied France... Read More

'Turnscrew' (ii) was the British crossing of the Rhine river in the area of Rees within 'Plunder' (23/27 March 1945)., It was during the night of 23/24 March Field Marshal Sir... Read More

'Turpitude' was a British deception element of 'Zeppelin' (i) comprising the fiction of a build-up of strength in northern Syria as an encouragement to Turkey to take a strong... Read More

'Turret' was the British landing of Brigadier J. F. R. Forman’s Indian 4th Brigade of Major General C. E. N. Lomax’s Indian 26th Division at Letpan in the Arakan western c... Read More

'Turtle' was an Allied contingency plan, schemed as an alternative to 'Crawdad', for Major General Lucian K. Truscott’s US VI Corps to break out of its 'Shingle' beach-head ... Read More

'Tuxedo' was an Allied unrealised plan for Brigadier J. W. A. Hackett’s British 4th Parachute Brigade of Major General R. E. Urquhart’s British 1st Airborne Division to be... Read More