The 'Białystok Offensive Operation' was a Soviet component of the third and last stage of the 'Bagration' summer offensive of 1944 (5/27 July 1944)., As such, the undertaking... Read More

'Biber' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Kvarner gulf of German-occupied Yugoslavia to block Allied access to the Bay of Fiume (18 March 1944)., The Germans had ... Read More

The 'Biber-Stelling' (i) was a German cordon defence line associated with the redeployment of Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' into a position ... Read More

The 'Biber-Stellung' (ii) was a German fallback position for Generaloberst Karl-Adolf Hollidt’s 6th Army of Generaloberst Josef Harpe’s Heeresgruppe 'A' on the southern se... Read More

'Biene' was the German occupation of Alsten island and its main population centre, Sandnessjøen, off the north central part of Norway’s west coast as part of the mopping-up... Read More

'Bienenhaus' was a German and Croat pair of operations ('Bienenhaus I' and 'Bienenhaus II') against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Moslavačka mountain ... Read More

'Bienenstock' I) was a German programme to employ ramming attacks by fighters against Allied bomber streams over Germany (1945)., The thinking behind the plan reflected the de... Read More

'Bienenstock' (ii) was a German unrealised plan for concentrated air attacks on the Italian airfields on which Allied aircraft were based (April 1945). ... Read More

'Big' was a US undertaking within 'Alsos' involving nuclear intelligence-gathering teams to move quickly from Freudenstadt through Horb to Haigerloch in south-western Germany ... Read More

'Big Ben' was a British operation to consider the possibilities of countermeasures against the V-2 ballistic missile, and also to establish the feasibility of a system to prov... Read More

'Big Drum' was a British one of several Allied naval deceptions for the 'Neptune' (iii) phase of 'Overlord' (5/6 June 1944)., 'Big Drum' was similar to 'Glimmer' and 'Taxable'... Read More

'Big Game' was a US and Italian naval undertaking to use an Italian MAS light attack boat to land a party of Office of Strategic Services personnel and their stores on Gorgona... Read More

'Big Week' was the US unofficial designation of the concentrated Allied (especially US) air attacks against German aircraft production centres within 'Argument' (20/26 Februar... Read More

'Bigamy' (i) was a British attack by 'X' Force (L Detachment of the 1st Special Air Service, the S1 and S2 patrols of the Long Range Desert Group, and a detachment of Royal Ma... Read More

'Bigamy' (ii) was the British naval element of a combined special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services on German-controlle... Read More

'Bigot' (i) was the Allied overall plan for Major General Carl A. Spaatz’s North-West African Air Forces and other Allied air formations based in North Africa to provide tac... Read More

'Bigot' (ii) was a British amphibious reconnaissance mission of the French coast along the southern shore of the English Channel (19 January 1944). ... Read More

'Bigot' (iii) was the Allied security portion of the overall 'Neptune' procedure available only to personnel with absolutely top secret clearance (May/June 1944). ... Read More

'Bijou' (i) was a British naval deception undertaking by the London Controlling Section to persuade the Axis powers that the new fleet carrier Indefatigable, in fact not compl... Read More

'Bijou' (ii) was a British deception plan to facilitate the passage of the fleet carrier Indomitable to the Mediterranean theatre (June/July 1943)., On 17 June the carrier joi... Read More

'Bilge' was a British unrealised plan for the destruction of a pumping station on an oil pipeline in Vichy French Syria (1941). ... Read More

'Billet' was the Allied programme for the transfer of Burmese irregular forces to India for training in the procedures and tactics of covert operations before they were sent b... Read More

'Billow' was a British unsuccessful naval undertaking to land a party of Special Operations Executive agents on the coast of Thailand (April 1944). ... Read More

'Bilo Gora' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Bilo mountain region of the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugosla... Read More

'Bilo Gora Ost' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavia (25/27 August 1943... Read More

'Bingham' was an Allied operation to reinforce the air strength of Air Vice Marshal G. H. Mills’s Balkan Air Force at Zadar in Yugoslavia with No. 281 Wing of the RAF with f... Read More

'Bingo' was a US short programme of bomber attacks on transformer stations with the object of preventing the transmission of power to the railway system over the Brenner Pass ... Read More

'Bioscope' was a British special forces undertaking to parachute a three-man liaison and sabotage mission to the resistance forces in the Krivoklat area of German-occupied Cze... Read More

'Birch' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for Christmas island within the Line islands group of the Pacific Ocean (1939/45)., Not to be confused with th... Read More

'Birdseed' was a British naval raid on Japanese coastal shipping in the area of Ramree in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (2/3 March 1944)., On 22... Read More

'Birke' was the German evacuation of its military forces from Finland after the collapse of Finnish resistance to the USSR at the end of the 'Jatkosota' continuation war (3 Se... Read More

'Birken-Bewegung' was the German retirement within 'Birke' of Generaloberst Dr Lothar Rendulic’s 20th Gebirgsarmee first to the 'Sohjana-Stellung' on the Sohjana river in no... Read More

'Birkhahn' (i) was a German contingency plan for General Erwin von Witzleben’s 1st Army to repulse any French attack on Zweibrücken during the period in which 'Grün' (iii)... Read More

'Birkhahn' (ii) was a German largely unrealised plan for the retirement of General Franz Böhme’s 20th Gebirgsarmee from the northern to the southern part of Norway by 1 May... Read More

The 'Biserta-Programm' was an unrealised German plan for the negotiation with or imposition on the Vichy government of unoccupied France for the improvement of the protection ... Read More

'Bishop' (i) was a British naval and military mopping-up operation on the southern half of Abadan island in Iran during 'Countenance' (25 August 1941)., The operation was plan... Read More

'Bishop' (ii) was a British naval decoy plan and cover for 'Dracula' (ii) to prevent any Japanese naval interference (27 April/6 May 1945). , For this undertaking Vice Admiral... Read More

'Bison' was a British special forces operation to parachute a 14-man party of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into the Maymyo area of Japanese-occupied Burma on... Read More

'Bisto' was a British unrealised plan for an operation by Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford’s 12th Army (successor to Lieutenant General Sir William Slim’s 14th Army... Read More

'Biting' was British special forces raid to seize components of a Würzburg radar equipment located at Bruneval near Le Havre in German-occupied northern France (27/28 Februar... Read More

'Bittern' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to train Norwegian resistance groups in assassination operations, assist in the carrying out of assassina... Read More

'Bivouac' was a British special forces mission to parachute a three-man commando liaison and sabotage mission to the resistance forces in the Krivoklat area of Czechoslovakia ... Read More

'Bjørn East' was British operation by the Special Operations Executive to improve on 'Bjørn West' in German-occupied Norway (December 1944)., As the area to be covered by th... Read More

'Bjørn West' was British operation by the Special Operations Executive to undertake a reconnaissance of the area between Bergen and Sognefjord in German-occupied Norway with ... Read More

'BK' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from the White Sea to the Kola inlet, and as such re... Read More

'BK' (ii) was the designation of an Allied convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Bombay to Karachi, India, and as such reciprocals of the 'KB' (ii) s... Read More

'Black' (i) was a US contingency plan within the 'Color-coded War Plan' scheme for implementation in the event of war with Germany (1920s/30s)., The best-known version of 'Bla... Read More

'Black' (iii) was the British original concept that was then refined for execution as 'Barrister' (1940). ... Read More

'Blackberry' was a Chinese special forces undertaking by the Provisional Parachute Battalion to take Tanchuk airfield (18 July/3 October 1945)., 'Blackberry' was the codename ... Read More

'Blackcock' (i) was a British amphibious undertaking to take Scaletta on the north-east coast of Sicily (19 August 1943)., Planned by Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s ... Read More