The 'Vyborg-Keksholm Defensive Operation' was the Soviet response to the Finnish invasion of the Karelian isthmus in the first stage of the 'Jatkosota' continuation war (29 Ju... Read More

The 'Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive Operation' was the Soviet overall designation of the strategic group of operations designed to force Finland out of the war (10 June/9 Augus... Read More

'WA' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Curaçao to Aruba, Netherlands West Indies (October 1942/July 1944)., T... Read More

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'Wacht am Rhein' was the German final major offensive of World War II against the Western Allies, and colloquially known as the 'Battle of the Bulge' (16 December 1944/15 Janu... Read More

'Wadham' was an Allied deception plan, originally known as 'Blast' (ii), for a landing near Brest and Cap de la Hogue on the Brittany peninsula of German-occupied north-wester... Read More

'Wagtail' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive with the original objective of sending a four-man party ('Johnny' Pevik, K. Brodtkorp Danielsen, Ole Halv... Read More

'Währung' was a German special forces operation undertaken within the overall compass of 'Wacht am Rhein' (15/17 December 1945). , A few German agents were infiltrated though... Read More

'Waidmannsheil' was a German operation by a number of Abwehr offices in France and Belgium to detect, identify and either arrest or 'turn' Allied couriers and seize any materi... Read More

'Wal' (i) was a German abortive plan devised by the Abwehr military intelligence department to establish contacts with Welsh and Scottish nationalist groups in the UK in prepa... Read More

'Wal' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Mediterranean against 'Torch' convoys (10/15 November 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-73, U-81, U-259, U-380, U-407, U-565, ... Read More

'Waldfest' was a German scorched-earth operation and countermeasures undertaking against French resistance activity in the Vosges mountains of German-occupied France (1 Septem... Read More

'Waldlauf' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito by Generalleutnant Johann Mickl’s 392nd Division (kroatische) in the Lika ... Read More

'Waldrausch' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in German-occupied Yugoslavia in conjunction with 'Knapfküchen' (3 Januar... Read More

'Waldteufel' was a German operation against the forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (6/8 March 1945)., The operation was planned and controlled by Ge... Read More

'Waldwinter' was a German operation against partisans operating in the Trudy and Obol areas to the north-west of Vitebsk in the Belorussian region of the German-occupied weste... Read More

'Walfisch' was a German unrealised plan to land a seaplane on a lake in Éire (Irish Free State), possibly with planning aid from the German-based Irish Republican Army agent ... Read More

'Walk' was a British diversionary undertaking at the south-western end of the Axis forces' Mareth Line defences in south-eastern Tunisia by Brigadier J. A. Gascoigne’s 201st... Read More

The 'Walk-Stellung' was a German defensive position for the forces of Generaloberst Ferdinand Schörner’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' against the Soviet forces of General Andrei I. ... Read More

'Walka' was a Soviet special forces operation to parachute a five-man party of the Polish Independent Special Battalion (Assault) into the Miechów area of German-occupied Pol... Read More

'Walküre' (i) was a German undertaking for the creation of four new divisions (January 1942)., Undertaken in association with 'Rheingold' to create 500,000 replacement troops... Read More

'Walküre' (ii) was a German contingency plan for implementation in the event of an internal rising by slave labourers working in Germany and used to cover military preparatio... Read More

'Walküre' (iii) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the area to the north-east of Zadar of the puppet state of Croatia within Ger... Read More

'Wallaby' was the British covert component of the cover plan for 'Anakim' (i), whose overt element was 'Kinkajou' (February 1943)., The plan was based on the use of 'special m... Read More

'Wallace' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service to bolster existing SAS bases in the northern part of German-occupied France as a means of hara... Read More

'Wallah' was a British unrealised operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish a base in the northern part of German-occupied Norway from which raids could be la... Read More

'Wallenstein' was the German naval codeword to advise of the start of an Allied invasion of France (1943/44)., The signal was intended not to trigger a naval response to this ... Read More

'Wallop' was the Allied advance, otherwise known as 'Grouse' (iii), toward Tinchebray in northern France (12/15 August 1944). , The undertaking involved Major General Leonard ... Read More

'Wallstreet' was an Allied unrealised initial plan for a direct assault by forces of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group across the Nederri... Read More

'Walnut' was a Free Dutch operation to land and operate a team of the Netherlands East Indies Forces Intelligence Service in the Aroe islands group, to the south of Dutch New ... Read More

'Walpurgisnacht' was the German retreat of the remnants of Generaloberst Walter Weiss’s disbanded Heeresgruppe 'Nord' as well as a large number of German civilians from Gdyn... Read More

'Walrus' (i) was a British unrealised plan for a special forces raid on the Capo d’Ali on the Italian island of Sicily (August 1943). ... Read More

'Walrus' (ii) was a British special forces operation to parachute a party of eight Gurkhas of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into Japanese-occupied Burma as a ... Read More

'Walter' (i) was a German naval minelaying operation in the Strait of Dover by the torpedo boats T 5, T 6, T 7 and T 8 of Korvettenkapitän Walter Riede’s 2nd Torpedoboots-F... Read More

'Walter' (ii) was a British two-brigade attack, by Major General L. G. Whistler’s 3rd Division of Lieutenant General Sir Richard O’Connor’s VIII Corps within Lieutenant ... Read More

'Waltraut' was a German counterattack by General Hermann Breith’s III Panzerkorps of General Otto Wöhler’s 8th Army in Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein’s Heeresg... Read More

'Walzertraum' (i) was a German naval undertaking to move the heavy cruiser (ex-pocket battleship) Lützow from Swinemünde on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast to Kristiansand on t... Read More

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'Walzertraum' (iii) was the German seizure of the island of Hvar in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of German-occupied Yugoslavia within the overall context of 'Herbstgewitter ... Read More

'Wanderers' was a British naval undertaking in support of 'Overlord' by through the simulation of an Allied invasion of the northern part of German-occupied Norway, so persuad... Read More

'Waldschrank' was a German pair of naval minelaying operations designed to close the entrance to the Skagerrak between neutral Sweden and German-occupied Norway (4/7 December ... Read More

'Wantage' was an Allied deception plan associated with 'Overlord' and other later operations suggesting that the Allies had sufficient strength in the eastern and western part... Read More

'WAP' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the UK to France for 'Neptune' (iii), 'Overlord' and subsequent o... Read More

'War of Nerves' was a British deception, planned by Lieutenant Colonel Dudley W. Clarke’s Middle Eastern deception apparatus, undertaken largely through the dissemination of... Read More

'Warehouse' was an Allied deception plan associated with 'Torch' and subsequent operations in North-West Africa, and designed to suggest that an Allied amphibious landings wer... Read More

'Warheads' was the British sustained air offensive by Westland Whirlwind fighter-bombers of the RAF’s Nos 137 and 263 Squadrons to attack lines of communication and airfield... Read More

'Warhorse' was a British radio deception planned by Colonel David Strangeways' 'R' Force of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Allied 21st Army Group to attract the attention ... Read More

The 'Warsaw-Poznan Offensive Operation' was the first of the two Soviet offensives fought by Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Georgi K. Zhukov’s 1st Belorussian Front within the 'V... Read More

'Warsawa' was a Soviet special forces operation to parachute a four-man party of the Polish Parachute Reconnaissance, Information and Sabotage Group into the Kirchhain area of... Read More

'Warschau' was a German programme to create very large assault gliders needed to transport the heavy equipment that would be required for the success of the revived and revise... Read More