'WS' (ii) was the designation of Allied troopship convoys (together with numerical and literal suffixes) plying the route from the UK via the Suez Canal to Bombay, India, or f... Read More

'WS' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Wabana, Newfoundland, and Labrador to Sydney, Nova Scotia (?). ... Read More

'WSC' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Wabana, Newfoundland, to join 'SC' convoys (?). ... Read More

'WTS' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Walvis Bay, South-West Africa, via Takoradi, Gold Coast, to Freetown, Sier... Read More

'Wunderland' (i) was a German naval raid into the Kara Sea by a squadron centred on the heavy cruiser (ex-pocket battleship) Admiral Scheer (16/30 August 1942)., The raid’s ... Read More

'Wunderland II' was a German partially realised successor to 'Wunderland' (i) for the heavy cruiser (ex-pocket battleship) Admiral Scheer, supported by a number of U-boat grou... Read More

'Wüste' was the German programme, implemented under SS control, for the secret production of petrol from oil shale at a concentration camp in the Swabian Alps within the cont... Read More

'Wütende Neisse' was the German advance to Breiteberg and Bremberg on the upper reaches of the Neisse river in Silesia by Generalmajor Otto Schury’s 100th Jägerdivision of... Read More

'WVC' was the designation of Allied convoys plying the route between St Helen’s Roads, Isle of Wight, or the Solent to Le Havre in northern France with supplies for the supp... Read More

'WVL' was the designation of Allied vehicle-delivery landing craft and supply convoys plying the route between St Helen’s Roads, Isle of Wight, and Le Havre in northern Fran... Read More

'WVP' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from St Helen’s Roads, Isle of Wight, or the Solent to Le Havre in n... Read More

'WX' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Western Desert ports to Alexandria, Egypt (?). ... Read More

'Wyandotte' was a British unrealised naval deception intended to persuade the Japanese that Q-ships were being operated in the sea lanes between Australia and South Africa, an... Read More

'Wyvern' was a British unrealised plan by General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Allied 21st Army Group for an attack by Lieutenant General B. G. Horrocks’s XXX Corps of Lieuten... Read More

'X' was the Japanese seizure of Christmas Island some 220 miles (355 km) to the south of western Java (31 March/3 April 1942)., A British possession measuring 11 miles (17.75 ... Read More

'X-Fall' was the German plan undertaken for mobilisation of the army without any public announcement, and implemented by order of Adolf Hitler as part of the final preparation... Read More

'X-Ray' was the British initial designation of 'Loyalist' (1942). ... Read More

'XB' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Boston or the Cape Cod Canal, Massachusetts, and a... Read More

'XC' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route across the Indian Ocean from the Chagos and Maldive island groups to Colombo, Ce... Read More

'Solta' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavia (10/11 May 1944)., The under... Read More