'Veganin' was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man 'Jedburgh' team of the Special Air Service into the Isère area of German-occupied France (9 June 194... Read More

'Vegetarian' was a British unrealised military plan to disseminate linseed cakes infected with anthrax spores into the agricultural areas of Germany (1942)., The intention was... Read More

'Vehniäinen' was a Finnish pair of special forces operations to parachute a seven-man reconnaissance team and six-man reinforcement party into the area of Konos near Arkhangy... Read More

'Veilchen' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the SC.107 slow convoy (24 October/7 November 1942)., Created in an area off the east coast of Newfoundl... Read More

'Veilchen' (ii) was a German naval minelaying operation in the Pechora Sea by Kapitänleutnant Helmut Vogler’s U-212 (26 July/4 August 1943)., On 5 August the 80-ton Soviet ... Read More

'Veilchen' (iii) was a German operation to secure the disengagement of Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein’s (from 15 January Generalmajor Horst Niemack’s) Panzer-Lehr-Divisio... Read More

'Velika Kapela' was an Italian operation by Generale di Corpo d’Armata Ricardo Balocco’s V Corpo d’Armata against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in Italian-occup... Read More

The 'Velikiye Luki Offensive Operation' was was a Soviet offensive by the forces of the Kalinin Front against the 3rd Panzerarmee in the course of the winter campaign of 1942/... Read More

'Vellum' was a US military mission to Venezuela (1942). ... Read More

'Velvet' (i) was a British unrealised plan to send troops from the Middle East via Iran to support the Soviet forces in the southern USSR (autumn 1941). ... Read More

'Velvet' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan for the air support of the USSR’s southern flank with aircraft (up to 20 British and US squadrons) and personnel moved into the t... Read More

'Vendetta' was a British deception plan within 'Zeppelin' (ii) suggesting that an amphibious attack was to be made in the area of Marseille on the south coast of German-occupi... Read More

'Vénérable' was the French and US recapture of the German-held lower reaches of the Gironde estuary in south-western France (14/19 April 1945)., The continued German occupat... Read More

'Venezia' was the Axis forces' southern outflanking movement in the course of their offensive against the British forces in the first stage of the Battle of Gazala (26/27 May ... Read More

'Vengeance' was the US air operation to shoot down the aeroplane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet (18 April 1943)., To boost Japanese morale ... Read More

'Venom' was a British unrealised plan for the capture of Rangoon and its subsequent development as a major base for further operations against the Japanese in South-East Asia ... Read More

‘Venona’ was a US counter-intelligence project started in World War II by the US Army’s Signal Intelligence Service (1 February 1943/1 October 1980)., ‘Venona’ was creat... Read More

'Ventilate' (i) was British naval undertaking to employ submarines for the rescue of local Greek leaders from the island of Crete after the German 'Merkur' victory on the isla... Read More

'Ventilate' (ii) was a British unrealised plan to exploit the successful outcome of 'Grenade' and 'Veritable' by launching Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s British 2nd... Read More

'Venus' was a British and Free Norwegian naval operation to land two agents and their supplies on the island of Senja off the north coast of German-occupied Norway (1 and 11 S... Read More

'Veracity I' was a British air raid by Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse’s RAF Bomber Command against German naval units in the harbour of Brest in German-occupied north-wester... Read More

'Veracity II' was a British air raid by Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse’s RAF Bomber Command against German naval units in the harbour of Brest in German-occupied north-weste... Read More

'Verbrannte Erde' (i) was a German policy for the Eastern Front enunciated by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, in his capacity as the vice-chancellor of Germany (7 September 1... Read More

'Verbrannte Erde' (ii) was a German policy enunciated by Adolf Hitler in his Führerweisung Nr 71 to order that the German forces, when retreating, must evacuate or destroy an... Read More

'Vercors' was a German operation, otherwise known as 'Bettina', to retake the Vercors massif in south-eastern France from the Maquis du Vercors (21 July/5 August 1944)., Locat... Read More

'Veritable' was the British and Canadian northern part of the Allied pincer movement, whose southern part was the US 'Grenade', to clear the German forces from the area betwee... Read More

'Veritas' was a British carrierborne air attack, otherwise known as 'Ridge', after 'Planet' and the abandonment of 'Brawn', by elements of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Home Fl... Read More

'Verona' was a British and US programme to share intelligence about the USSR (1940/45). ... Read More

'Verrat' (i) was a German operation against the supposedly allied Četnik guerrilla forces of General Dragoljub 'Draza' Mihailović in German-occupied Yugoslavia (February 194... Read More

'Verrat' (ii) was a German attempt to capture the republican/royalist resistance leader Antisuntagmatárches Napoleon Zervas, commander of the Greek Democratic National Army (... Read More

'Vert' was a British and French plan designed in the UK and implemented by the resistance faction within the French national railway organisation, with the support of the US O... Read More

'Verteidigung West' was the German strategic plan, initially schemed as 'Grenzsicherung West', for the defence of western Germany against any major Allied offensive from Franc... Read More

'Vervaine' was an Allied special forces operation to drop a six-man party in the Morvan area of German-occupied France to establish ways in which the local resistance forces c... Read More

'Vestige' was a British and Norwegian series of operations by the Special Operations Executive to attack German shipping along the west coast of German-occupied Norway with li... Read More

'Vésuve' was the Free French seizure of the island of Corsica (11 September/4 October 1943)., On 8 November 1942 Allied forces landed in French North-West Africa in 'Torch', ... Read More

'Vicarage' was an Allied project for the parachute delivery of contact and reconnaissance teams into Germany to establish links with Allied prisoners of war under 'Eclipse' (i... Read More

'Viceroy' was a British unrealised plan for operations against the forces of Generaloberst Dr Lothar Rendulic’s 20th Gebirgsarmee in the area of Kirkenes and Petsamo, in the... Read More

'Victor' (i) was a British exercise undertaken to improve the capacity of the Home Forces to combat a German invasion (1941). ... Read More

'Victor' (ii) was the German codeword to trigger an extemporised defence designed to check any Allied advance into Italy, following the September 1943 defection of Italy from ... Read More

'Victor' (iii) was the Allied overall designation of the strategic plan created by General Douglas MacArthur’s South-East Asia command for the US recapture, within 'Princeto... Read More

'Victor I' was the US and Filipino reconquest of Panay island and the Negros Occidental region of Negros in the Visaya islands group of the Philippine archipelago by Major Gen... Read More

'Victor II' was the US and Filipino reconquest of Cebu island, Bohol island and the Negros Oriental south-eastern part of Negros island in the Visayan islands group of the Phi... Read More

'Victor III' was the US and Filipino reconquest of Palawan, Busuanga and Balabac islands in the south-eastern part of the Philippine islands group by units of Major General Je... Read More

'Victor IV' was the US and Filipino seizure of the Zamboanga peninsula on the western tip of Mindanao island in the Philippine islands group by units of Major General Jens A. ... Read More

'Victor V' was the US and Filipino reconquest of the eastern part of Mindanao island in the southern part of the Philippine islands group by Lieutenant General Robert L. Eiche... Read More

'Victual' was a British naval undertaking to facilitate the passage of the JW.59 convoy to ports in the northern USSR, and of the RA.59A convoy back to the UK (15 August/5 Sep... Read More

The 'Vienna Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet operation by Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Fyedor I. Tolbukhin’s 3rd Ukrainian Front to take Vienna, the capital of Ger... Read More

'Vierecke' was a German operation against partisan forces operating against the rear areas of Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' in the region of... Read More

'Viersen' was a US deception by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops in support of the 'Exploit' cover plan for the Rhine river crossing of Lieutenant General William H. Simps... Read More

'Vigorous' (i) was a British naval search for German supply ships supporting German merchant raiders and U-boats in the area of the Canary islands group (27 June/5 July 1941).... Read More