'Braun' (ii) was an Axis operation to establish and reinforce a major defensive lodgement in northern Tunisia, which was deemed imperative after the success of General Sir Ber... Read More

'Braun' (iii) was a Croat and German operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the region of Psunj and Papuk in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia in succession to 'Gr... Read More

'Brauner Bär' was a German special command created in an attempt to establish operational links between the many small groups of German forces which had been isolated in the ... Read More

The 'Braunsberg Offensive Operation' was the Soviet fourth of the six sub-operations together constituting the 'East Prussian Strategic Offensive Operation' leading to the alm... Read More

'Braunschweig' (i) was the German redesignation of 'Blau', the most northern element of the three-part strategic offensive of the summer of 1942 (28 June/22 July 1942)., The o... Read More

This was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the northern part of the Istrian region of German-occupied Yugoslavia (26 April/6 May 194... Read More

'Bravado' was a British naval minelaying operation off the Heligoland Bight end of the Kiel Canal to deter any German naval operation to attack the Allied shipping off Normand... Read More

'Brawn' was a British abortive carrierborne air attack of the German battleship Tirpitz in the Altafjord of German-occupied northern Norway (12/18 May 1944)., The operation wa... Read More

'Brazier' was a British naval undertaking to lay anti-submarine minefields for the protection of Allied convoys in the focal locations of the English Channel near navigation b... Read More

'Breach' was a British naval undertaking to deny the Italians the effective use of the harbour of Mogadishu, the capital of Italian Somaliland (2 February 1941)., The operatio... Read More

'Breastplate' was an Allied unrealised plan for an amphibious assault to be launched from Malta against Sousse on the north coast of Axis-held Tunisia as a means of speeding t... Read More

'Breath' was an Allied unrealised early plan for the assault on and capture of the Italian island of Sicily against German and Italian opposition, and as such a precursor of '... Read More

'Breezy' was a British unrealised early plan for the seizure of the Canary islands group, a Spanish possession in the Atlantic Ocean, in the face of Spanish opposition (1941/4... Read More

'Brehmer' was a German sweep against resistance forces of the Dordogne, Corrèze and Haute Vienne areas of German-occupied France by forces under the command of Generalmajor ... Read More

'Bremen' (i) was the German element of 'Weserübung' concerned with the capture of Bergen on the west coast of Norway by elements of Generalmajor Hermann Tittel’s 69th Divis... Read More

'Bremen' (ii) was the British advance to and occupation of the port city of Bremen on Germany’s North Sea coast (19/25 April 1945)., On the left of Lieutenant General Willia... Read More

'Brandon' was British special forces raid on the island of Gossa off the west coast of German-occupied Norway in the central section of the country (July 1942). ... Read More

'Breslau' was a U-boat wolfpack operation against the OG.75 and HG.75 convoys on the Atlantic route between the UK and Gibraltar (17/29 October 1941)., The wolfpack comprised ... Read More

'Brest' was a US tactical deception undertaking designed to persuade the German defenders of Brest, on the north-western tip of Brittany, that the US forces facing them were i... Read More

The 'Brest Fortress Defensive Operation' was the Soviet defence of Brest-Litovsk during the first week of 'Barbarossa' (22/30 June 1941)., The area round the fortress of Brest... Read More

'Brevity' was a British limited offensive in the Western Desert against the Axis positions in the Halfaya Pass (15/17 May 1941)., This area had been seized by the German-led A... Read More

'Brewer' was the US seizure of the Admiralty islands group in the Bismarck archipelago some 200 miles (320 km) to the north of New Guinea and to the west of New Ireland (29 Fe... Read More

'Brian' (i) was the British complex of dummy fuel, food and ammunition dumps, as well as fake administrative buildings field kitchens and transport, constructed within the 'Be... Read More

'Brian' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Doubs area of German-occupied France to aid local resi... Read More

'Bribe' was a British convoy, from Southampton to Barry Roads in the UK, of four small merchant vessels (339-ton Empire Snowdrop, 250-ton Jacoba which then steamed independent... Read More

'Brick' was the British two-part evacuation ('Brick No. 1' and 'Brick No. 2' on successive days) from Molde, to the north-west of Åndalsnes on the southern part of Norway’s... Read More

'Bricklayer' was a British special forces operation to capture the commander of the 22nd Luftlande-Division in Crete (26 April/14 May 1944)., In January 1944 the Cairo East se... Read More

'Bridford' was a British series of six naval operations to collect important war supplies (ball bearings, rare metals etc) from Sweden by the use of specially adapted motor gu... Read More

'Brightling' was a Allied amphibious exercise in preparation for 'Husky' (i) (June 1943). ... Read More

'Brillig' was a British special forces operation to parachute a two-man Thai team of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into the Nong Pla Dook area of Japanese-occ... Read More

'Brimstone' (i) was an Allied unrealised plan for an amphibious landing by US forces at Taranto on the 'instep' of southern Italy (July 1943)., After some consideration, the p... Read More

'Brimstone' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan for British forces to take the Italian island of Sardinia, by the time behind the Allied left flank in Italy in September or Oct... Read More

The 'Brisbane Line' was the Australian defence proposal purported to have been drafted during World War II to withdraw Allied forces from the northern portion of the continent... Read More

'Brisk' was a British unrealised plan, developed from 'Alloy' and to be implemented in the event of any German seizure of the Iberian peninsula, to take the Azores islands gro... Read More

'Bristle' was a British special forces raid on the radar site near Plage Ste Cecile on the coast of German-occupied northern France between Boulogne and Le Touquet by a party ... Read More

'Brittany' was a US deception undertaking to simulate the movement of regimental combat teams of Major General Paul W. Baade’s 35th Division, Major General Horace L. McBride... Read More

'BRM' was a British naval minelaying operation off the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth (September 1939)., The ship involved was the coastal minelayer Plover, and the primary o... Read More

'BRN' was the designation of Allied 'Bahia to Recife Northward' convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Bahia to Recife, Brazil, and inaugurated late ... Read More

'Broadarrow' was an Allied naval deception undertaking designed to deter Axis submarine operations in the Mediterranean Sea by exaggerating the strength of the Allied anti-sub... Read More

'Broadaxe' was the Allied deception plan to persuade the Japanese in mid-1945 that the next major Allied offensive would not fall on the Japanese home islands (June/August 194... Read More

'Broadstone' was a Allied deception operation designed to facilitate the first but unsuccessful attack of Lieutenant General J. L. I. Hawkesworth’s British X Corps on the 'G... Read More

'Broadsword' (i) was a British unrealised deception operation within 'Cockade' (September 1943)., The undertaking was planned as 'Domesday', then revised as 'Broadsword' (i) a... Read More

'Broadsword' (ii) was a British unrealised plan by Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s South-East Asia Command for the recapture of Malaya and the reopening of the Malacca ... Read More

'Broccoli' was a US subsidiary landing and subsequent operations in the Munda area of New Georgia island of the Solomon islands group as a follow-on to 'Toenails' (5/11 July 1... Read More

'Brock' was a British intelligence deception in which unneeded installations in the southern English county of Hampshire were blown up to add veracity to the 'saboteur' creden... Read More

'Bromfield' was a British naval undertaking in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea by the submarine Tactician (5 September 1943)., On the completion of its patrol, the b... Read More

'Bronze' was a British commando liaison mission by the Special Operations Executive to the resistance movement in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (14/15 March 1943). ... Read More

'Broom' was a British naval minesweeping operation off Rangoon toward the south of Burma (1 May 1945)., The operation was part of the final naval preparations for 'Dracula' (i... Read More

'Broomstick' was an Allied air and naval contingency plan created to counter any attempted German last-ditch naval break-out, either down the English Channel or through the No... Read More

'Brosche' was a German series of naval minelaying operations by Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10th Torpedoboots-Flottille (eight ex-Italian torpedo boats) in the Li... Read More