'Tuzla II' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (17/20 December 1942)., T... Read More

'TV' (i) was the designation of an Allied convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Tripoli, Libya, to Valetta, Malta, and as such a reciprocal of 'VT' (... Read More

'TV' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) steaming to the east from Trinidad for dispersal (?). ... Read More

'TVL' was an Italian supply convoy from the port of Naples to Tripoli, the capital of Italian Libya in North Africa (27/28 July 1940)., The convoy comprised seven transport ve... Read More

'Tweezer' was an Allied deception designed to maintain the notional existence of Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s US 1st Army Group by the addition of the fictional Bri... Read More

'Twilight' was the US version of 'Setting Sun' proposed by Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, chief-of-staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Nationalist lead... Read More

'Twist' was a British naval undertaking to demolish a jetty at Myebon on the estuary of the Kaladan river in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (26 F... Read More

'TX' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Tripoli, Libya, to Alexandria, Egypt, and as such reciprocals of the 'XT' s... Read More

'Typical' was the Allied parachute delivery of liaison officers to the headquarters of the Yugoslav partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito at the time the Germans launched their '... Read More

'U' (i) was the Japanese maritime undertaking to deliver Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi’s 18th Division and Lieutenant General Masao Watanabe’s 56th Division, together... Read More

'U' (ii) was the Japanese offensive against Imphal and Kohima in the Manipur state of Assam in north-eastern India by Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi’s 15th Army (7 March... Read More

The 'Uuksu-linja' was a Finnish position on the Karelian front, during the 'Jatkosota', for Kenraaliluutnantti Karl Lennart Oesch’s (from 14 June Kenraaliluutnantti Paavo Tq... Read More

The 'U-Verlagerung' was the German major programme to relocate key war industries from surface to underground locations as a means of avoiding the destruction which would othe... Read More

'UA' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the UK to the Azores islands group in association with 'Alacrity' (Septembe... Read More

'UC' was the designation of Allied fast convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Liverpool in the UK to the Caribbean (first fi... Read More

'UCT' was the designation of Allied troop convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the UK to New York (?). ... Read More

'UG' was the designation of US military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from the USA to North Africa for the delivery of tr... Read More

'UGF' was the designation of Allied fast convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Chesapeake Bay on the eastern coast of the US... Read More

'UGL' was the designation of Allied landing craft convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the east coast of the USA to Gibraltar and then ports in the... Read More

'UGS' was the designation of Allied slow convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Chesapeake Bay on the eastern coast of the US... Read More

The 'Ukrainian Border Defensive Operation' was the Russian series of battles within the 'L’vov-Chernovitsy Strategic Defensive Operation' fought unsuccessfully by Soviet for... Read More

'Ukridge' was a British deception designed by Colonel David Strangeways' 'D' Division to persuade the Japanese not to reinforce their forces in Burma (January/March 1944)., R... Read More

'UL' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Elbe river to the Humber river, and as such reciprocals of the... Read More

'Ulan' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Norwegian Sea against the PQ.7, PQ.7B and PQ.8 convoys (25 December 1941/19 January 1942)., The first such grouping assembled... Read More

'Ulan' (ii) was a German naval minelaying operation off the west coast of Italy by S-boote of Korvettenkapitän Hans Trummer’s 7th Schnellboots-Flottille (4/5 May 1943). ... Read More

'Uljan' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito on Ugljan and Dugi islands off the coast of the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupie... Read More

'Ulla' was the German overall scheme for the use of naval forces, and especially U-boats carrying torpedoes or mines, off the coasts of the Netherlands, Belgium and northern F... Read More

'Ulm' was a German unrealised plan to attack and destroy Soviet electricity-generating plants in the Ural mountains region of the USSR using bombers and/or sabotage teams, and... Read More

'Ulrich' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Kozara mountain region of the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslav... Read More

'Ulster' was an Allied double-bluff deception plan created as an outgrowth of 'Ottrington' to deceive the Germans about the real Allied intentions for the assault on the 'Goti... Read More

'Ultimatum' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for Pagan island in the Mariana islands group of the central Pacific (1941/45)., Pagan lies about 180 mile... Read More

'Ultra' was the British-coined Allied designation for intelligence resulting from decryption largely of German communications (June 1941/August 1945)., The name, which became ... Read More

'ULU' was the designation of an Allied convoy plying the route from Singapore to Bombay (6/17 February 1942)., ULU.1 was an evacuation convoy just before the Japanese capture ... Read More

'Ulysses' (i) was a New Zealand operation to take Orsogna, following the failure of 'Torso', in east central Italy within the context of the Moro river campaign (24 December 1... Read More

'Ulysses' (ii) was a US black propaganda undertaking in Greece (13 June/October 1944)., Unlike other US agencies, such as the US Army and the Office of War Information, the Mo... Read More

The 'Uman Defensive Operation' was a Soviet defeat within the 'Kiev Strategic Defensive Operation' after the encirclement of General Leytenant Ivan N. Muzychenko’s 6th Army ... Read More

The 'Uman-Botoșani Offensive Operation' was the Soviet seventh of the 10 parts together constituting the 'Dniepr-Carpathian Strategic Offensive Operation' in the western part... Read More

'Umbau' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Norwegian Sea (4/16 February 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-134, U-435, U-436 and U-456, and neither lost any of its own n... Read More

'Umbau' (ii) was a German unrealised plan for Generaloberst Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army, trapped in Stalingrad by 'Koltso', to break out to the south-west through the encirc... Read More

'Umhang' was a U-boat wolfpack operation off the north coast of German-occupied Norway (10/16 March 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-436, U-454 and U-456, and neither lost any... Read More

'Umpteen' was the US occupation of Howland island of the Phoenix islands group in the central Pacific (11 August 1943)., With an area of 1.7 sq miles (4.5 km²), Howland is a ... Read More

'Una Sava' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (3/5 January 1943)., The ... Read More

'Uncle Sam' was a German and Italian special forces operation on the Cassino front in Italy to interrupt Allied supply movements (20/21 May 1944)., Since May 1944 a German sab... Read More

'Undercut' was a British deception designed to conceal the objective of 'Manna' (i) from the Greeks (September 1944)., This was a nugatory undertaking whose creation and imple... Read More

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'Undergo' was the Canadian reduction of the German pocket centred on Calais by Major General D. C. Spry’s 3rd Division (25 September/1 October 1944)., The clearance of the n... Read More

'Undertone' was the US and French offensive by Lieutenant General Alexander McC. Patch’s 7th Army and Général de l’Armée Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny... Read More

'Underworld' was the US semi-official government designation for a series of mafia operations intended to counter German saboteurs along the US eastern seaboard (February 1942... Read More

'Undine' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Baltic Sea (4/20 September 1939)., The minelayers Hansestadt Danzig and Tannenberg and the training ship Brummer, accom... Read More

'Ungestüm' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the HX.218, ONS.152 and, in tandem with 'Spitz', ONS.154 convoys (9/26 December 1942)., The wolfpack compri... Read More