'Wikinger' (ii) was a German offensive against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito holding the outer island chain of German-occupied Yugoslavia’s Dalmatian coast ... Read More

This was the German evacuation of naval forces from Sibenik to Fiume (Rijeka) on the Dalmatian coast of German-occupied Yugoslavia (2 November 1944). , In the course of this u... Read More

'Wikingerangriff' was a German unrealised plan for an airborne invasion of Northern Ireland using both paratroopers and air-landed troops (1941). ... Read More

'Wild Oats' was a British unrealised plan, within 'Perch' (i), by Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2nd Army for an airborne landing of Major General R. E. Urquhart’s... Read More

'Wilddieb' was a German security and intelligence operation by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office) to monitor the radio traffic of German units isolated... Read More

'Wilde Sau' (i) was the German use of unguided attacks by night fighters against British night bombers over North-Western Europe, and especially Germany (June 1942/January 194... Read More

'Wilde Sau' (ii) was a German operation by Generaloberst Rudolf Schmidt’s 2nd Panzerarmee against partisans in the German-occupied western USSR (1943). ... Read More

'Wildente' (i) was the German capture of Trondheim, together with its airport and air base at Værnes, on the central part of Norway’s west coast within 'Weserübung Nord' (... Read More

'Wildente' (ii) was a German operation in conjunction with 'Schnepfe' against partisans in the Vitebsk area of the German-occupied western USSR (1 November 1943). ... Read More

'Wilderer' was a German special forces operation to parachute 15 men and two doctors into a pocket of units of Generaloberst Georg-Hans Reinhardt’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' trap... Read More

'Wilderness' was a Canadian and US pair of deception operations in Italy to support 'Nunton' (1/7 April 1944)., 'Wilderness I' of 1/2 April was a radio deception simulating an... Read More

'Wildfang' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic, in tandem with 'Ostmark' and 'Westmark', against the SC.121 convoy (26 February/7 March 1943). , The wolfpack c... Read More

'Wildfang' (ii) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Moslavina area of the puppet state of Croatia within German-occupied Yugos... Read More

'Wildfire' was an Allied unrealised plan for an airborne operation by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army to aid the progress of General Omar N. ... Read More

'Wildhorn III' was British designation for the operation, known to the Polish underground movement as 'Most III', for the air transfer of captured and salvaged V-2 ballistic m... Read More

'Wildsau' (i) was a German operation against partisans in the German-occupied western USSR (8 January 1943). ... Read More

'Wildsau' (ii) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the in Tuzla area of German-occupied Yugoslavia (7 November 1943). ... Read More

'Wildsau' (iii) was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the area to the west of the railway linking Ðurmanec and Krapinske ... Read More

'Wildsohn' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the eastern Bosnia region of German-occupied Yugoslavia (7 October 1943). , The undertaking... Read More

'Wilfred' was a British minelaying operation in the Norwegian Leads (8/9 April 1940)., The operation had been mooted as early as September 1939 as a means of preventing German... Read More

'Wilhelm' was a German offensive by Generaloberst Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army toward Volchansk on the Eastern Front (10/15 June 1942)., Launched in conjunction with the slig... Read More

'Wilhelm Max' was a German unrealised plan for naval units to screen and provide gunfire bombardment support for the advance of the right-wing of the land forces of Generalobe... Read More

The 'Wilhelm-Stellung' was a German defence position at Orlovka on the north-eastern side of the Stalingrad perimeter on the Eastern Front, just to the west of Rynok on the we... Read More

'Willi' (i) was a German unsuccessful attempt to kidnap the Duke of Windsor (ex-King Edward VIII) and persuade him to collaborate with Adolf Hitler either in effecting a peace... Read More

'Willi' (ii) was a German naval raid on British shipping off the Isle of Wight (10/11 October 1940). , The attack was made by the torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Kondor, Seeadler ... Read More

'Williams' (i) was a US radio cover operation for Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley’s US 1st Army in the approach to 'Overlord' (9 May/6 June 1944)., 'Williams' (i) simulat... Read More

'Williams' (ii) was a US special forces operation to parachute an Office of Strategic Services party into the Ardèche area of German-occupied France to establish liaison with... Read More

'Wilsa' was a Soviet special forces operation to parachute a seven-man party of the Polish Parachute Reconnaissance, Information and Sabotage Group into the Mecklenburg area o... Read More

'Wiltz' was a US radio deception by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops to simulate Major General Lunsford E. Oliver’s US 5th Armored Division as the real formation moved t... Read More

'Wimpole' was a British unrealised plan for a attack on the Japanese lines of communication in the northern part of Japanese-occupied Burma (May 1943). ... Read More

'Winch' was a British naval delivery of fighter reinforcements to Malta (2/4 April 1941)., The British had initially thought, after Italy had entered the war in June 1940, tha... Read More

'Winded' was a British naval undertaking by elements of Admiral Sir Henry Moore’s Home Fleet to make night attacks on German shipping in the Leads, between Silde Gabet and B... Read More

The 'Windhund-Stellung' was a German defensive position between Bryansk and Orel on the Eastern Front, and designed to check any Soviet advance by the forces of General Polkov... Read More

'Windscreen' was a British sequence of three plans, modified as the situation changed, to edge Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel’s Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee out of it... Read More

'Windsor' was a British offensive by Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2nd Army of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Allied 12th Army Group round the western side of t... Read More

'Windstoss' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (6/8 February 1943)., Th... Read More

'Windwirbel' was a German operation against partisans in the Khidra area of the Belorussian region of the German-occupied western USSR (June 1944). ... Read More

'Winkelried' was a German undertaking, planned and implemented as a substitute for 'Schlingpflanze', to secure a southward extension of the corridor linking the main positions... Read More

'Winner' was a British naval mineclearing operation within 'Shred' off the coast of German-occupied Norway (22/23 February 1945)., The operation was undertaken by the vessels ... Read More

'Winter Line' was the Allied semi-official designation of the series of German defence lines in Italy, in the area to the south of Rome, constructed primarily by the Organisat... Read More

This was a German strategic defence line on the Eastern Front schemed by Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock’s Heeresgruppe ‘Mitte’ in December 1941 when it became apparent... Read More

'Winterende' was the German operation undertaken as the later-ending counterpart of 'Frühlingsanfang' against the Yugoslav forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Slovenia r... Read More

'Wintergewitter' (i) was a German attempt to relieve the forces trapped at Stalingrad on the Eastern Front (12/23 December 1942)., Undertaken by the main strength of Generalob... Read More

'Wintergewitter' (ii) was an Axis offensive, otherwise known as the Battle of Garfagnana, at the western end of the 'Gotisch-Linie' defences in north-western Italy (26/28 Dece... Read More

'Wintergewitter' (iii) was a German counter-offensive against the communist forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Syrmia region within German-occupied Yugoslavia (17/21 Jan... Read More

'Wintermärchen' (i) was an Axis unrealised plan by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List’s Heeresgruppe 'A' for Generale d’Armata Italo Gariboldi’s Italian 8a Armata to lau... Read More

'Wintermärchen' (ii) was a German propaganda undertaking by a unit of SS-Standartenführer Günter d’Alquen’s SS Standarte 'Kurt Eggers' against the Soviet forces holding... Read More

'Wintermärchen' (iii) was a German limited offensive along the valley of the Serchio river in north-western Italy against Major General Walter D. Crittenberger’s US IV Corp... Read More

'Wintersport' (i) was a German unrealised plan for the capture of Maykop and its oilfields in the area to the north of the north-western end of the Caucasus mountains in the s... Read More

'Wintersport' (ii) was a German unrealised operation by Generalleutnant Conrad-Oskar Heinrichs’s 290th Division of General Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt’s II Corps ... Read More