'Ungewitter' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Papuk mountain region of the puppet state of Croatia in German-occu... Read More

'Uniform' was a British naval operation within 'Coat' and therefore just before 'Judgement' to reinforce Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet (7/10 November 1... Read More

'Union II' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute an eight-man US, French and British team under Major Peter J. Ortiz (with another five men the only members of t... Read More

'Union III' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a nine-man inter-Allied Mission party into the Maurienne area of Savoie in German-occupied France in an area cl... Read More

'Unique' was a British operation to repatriate from Barcelona in neutral Spain some 560 sick and wounded Allied prisoners who had been released by Germany (1944). ... Read More

'Unison' was the Allied overall designation for incendiary bombing (1942/45). ... Read More

'Unke-Nikolaus' was a German undertaking to create and deploy covert special forces teams in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, during and after its capture by the Soviets (Dec... Read More

'Unternehmen 1828' was a German operation against partisan forces along the coast of German-occupied Albania using elements of Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Deutsch’s 29... Read More

'Unternehmen 25' was the German invasion and conquest of Yugoslavia (6/18 April 1941). , After invading Greece from Albania during October 1940 in 'Emergenza G', the Italian f... Read More

'Unternehmen 505' was a German operation against partisan forces in the area to the south of Tirana in German-occupied Albania (5 November 1943)., Supervised by Generaloberst ... Read More

'Unverzagt' was a U-boat wolfpack operation, in tandem with 'Tümmler' (ii) and 'Wohlgemut', in the Atlantic off the western approaches to the Strait of Gibraltar against the ... Read More

The 'Upper Silesian Offensive Operation' was the Soviet companion to the 'Lower Silesian Offensive Operation', and as such one of the pair of Soviet operations undertaken larg... Read More

'Upshot' was an Allied deception plan, later known as 'Tindall' and part of the 'Cockade' programme of deceptions, designed to persuade the Germans that an amphibious assault ... Read More

'Upsilon' was a British naval undertaking to land an agent on the west coast of German-occupied Norway in the area to the north of the Lofoten islands group (November 1942)., ... Read More

'UR' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Loch Ewe (later Oban and Belfast Lough) to Reykjavik, Iceland, and as such ... Read More

'Uran' was the Soviet offensive, more formally known as part of the 'Stalingrad Strategic Offensive Offensive', to cut off and encircle the Axis forces attempting to take Stal... Read More

'Urbane' was a series of British carrierborne air attacks on shipping targets off the north-west coast of German-occupied Norway by elements of Admiral Sir Henry Moore’s Hom... Read More

'Ursula' (ii) was a German pair of offensives ('Ursula I' and 'Ursula II') against partisan forces in the region of Rogachev in the German-occupied western USSR (12/15 Februar... Read More

'US' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Australia or New Zealand, and later Colomb... Read More

The 'Ust-Tosno Landing Operation' was the part played in the 'Ust-Tosno Offensive Operation' by Vitse Admiral Vladimir F. Tributs’s Baltic Fleet in the form of a tactical la... Read More

The 'Ust-Tosno Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by forces of the Leningrad Front and Volkhov Front within the '3rd Sinyavino Offensive Operation' against elements... Read More

'UT' was the designation of US military convoys (together with a numerical and in one case a literal suffix) plying the route from the USA to the UK and including troopships t... Read More

'Utah' was the US assault beach for Major General Raymond O. Barton’s 4th Division in 'Neptune' (iii) and this 'Overlord' (6 June 1944). , The leading formation of Major Gen... Read More

'Utopia' (i) was the British original version of 'Maurice' (ii), the landing at Åndalsnes in central Norway, as the southern part of the pincer movement designed to recapture... Read More

'Utopia' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for the recapture of the Japanese-occupied Andaman islands group in the Bay of Bengal (1943). ... Read More

'Uzice' was the Axis probable designation of the operation known to the Yugoslav partisan forces as the 'First Enemy Offensive', pitting German, Serb and Četnik forces on the... Read More

'V.5' was Italian alternative designation for the 'Scorpio' trans-Mediterranean convoy (7/9 March 1942). ... Read More

'Vacuum' was the British overall designation of operations to move troops from the UK to overseas destinations (1940/45). ... Read More

'Vado' was a French naval gunfire bombardment of the Italian port of Genoa (13/14 June 1940)., Launched from the French naval base of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, the op... Read More

'Valediction' was the Allied initial but unrealised plan, subsequently redefined as 'Veritable', for an advance to the Rhine river (late 1944)., This operation was schemed wit... Read More

'Valentine' (i) was the British occupation of the Færoe islands group, at the time a county of Denmark, which had been invaded and overrun three days earlier by the Germans i... Read More

'Valentine' (ii) was a British unsuccessful naval undertaking to land a party of Special Operations Executive agents at Portofino on the north-west coast of Italy (May 1944). ... Read More

'Valentine' (iii) was the Chinese advance of General Wei Li-huang’s 'Y' Force (Chinese Yunnan Expeditionary Forces) from Yunnan in southern China into the northern part of J... Read More

'Valentine' (iv) was a US strategic but limited deception within, and indeed ending, 'Wedlock' and supporting 'Bluebird' to persuade the Japanese that the Kurile islands group... Read More

The 'Valga-Linie' was a German defensive line in northern Latvia and southern Estonia for the protection of the approaches to Estonia and its capital, Tallinn (August/Septembe... Read More

The 'Vallo Alpino' was the Italian system of fortifications along the 1,150-mile (1850-km) length of Italy’s northern frontier (June 1940/May 1945). , Built in the years lea... Read More

'Valut' was a US unrealised plan for the delivery of occupation forces into the Azores islands group in the Atlantic Ocean with the agreement of the Portuguese government (194... Read More

'Vampire' was the Canadian crossing of the Rhine river in the area of Emmerich by Major General A. B. Matthews’s 2nd Division and Major General R. H. Keefler’s 3rd Divisio... Read More

'Van Dyke' was a US tactical signal deception to supplement 'Quicksilver I' by suggesting that the air support parties of Major General Otto P. Weyland’s XIX Tactical Air Co... Read More

'Vancouver' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a mixed force of British, French and US soldiers into the Yunnan area of Japanese-occupied China to aid Allied ... Read More

'Vandal' was the British attack on Bibbiena in the Arezzo area of Tuscany by Major General A. W. W. Holworthy’s Indian 4th Division and Major General D. W. Reid’s Indian 1... Read More

'Vanguard' was a British unrealised initial version of 'Dracula' (ii) for the capture of Rangoon in Japanese-occupied Burma by amphibious and airborne assault, paving the way ... Read More

'Vanity' was a British pair of deceptions ('Vanity I' and 'Vanity II') within 'Rosebud' and paving the way to 'Viola I' to help fix the reality of Lieutenant General George S.... Read More

'Varazdin' was a German and Croat operation, together with 'Paula' (ii), against the 12th 'Slavonia' Division and 'Kalnik' Partisan Detachment of Josip Broz Tito’s partisan ... Read More

'Varg' was a British three-element operation by the Special Operations Executive in German-occupied Norway to make preparations for the safe reception, billeting, maintenance,... Read More

'Varsity' was the Allied airborne crossing of the Rhine river in conjunction with 'Plunder', the assault crossing of this river between Rees and Emmerich by Lieutenant General... Read More

'Vault' (i) was the US redesignation of 'Gray' (ii) (1941/42). ... Read More

'Vault' (ii) were the British discussions, including 'Diplomatic', with the Portuguese government before the agreed Allied occupation of the Azores islands of the Atlantic Oce... Read More

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

'VC' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Valetta, Malta, to Tobruk, Cyrenaica, and as such reciprocals of the 'CV' (... Read More