'Bulgarien' was a German undertaking to redeploy Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List’s 12th Army from Oberkommando des Heeres reserve in Germany into Bulgaria in preparation f... Read More

'Bulldozer' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious assault on the positions of Lieutenant General Tadashi Hanaya’s Japanese 55th Division on Akyab island off the Ar... Read More

'Bullfrog' was a British unrealised plan to retake Akyab island in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma by means of an amphibious landing using two bri... Read More

'Bullion' was a British unrealised contingency plan for the destruction of the oil facilities at Haifa in the event that Palestine came under threat of German or Vichy French ... Read More

'Bullseye' was British special forces operation to parachute a four-man Special Operations Executive team into German-occupied Yugoslavia (20 September 1941)., After the April... Read More

'Bumerang' was a German naval minelaying operation by the ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10th Torpedoboots-Flottille off Portoferraio on ... Read More

'Bumper' was a British and Canadian exercise in the Chiltern Hills of southern England (September/October 1941). , The object of the exercise was to test current British capab... Read More

'Bums' was a U-boat wolfpack operation off the north-west coast of German-occupied Norway (6/14 April 1942). , The wolfpack comprised U-334, U-377, U-403, U-589, U-591 and U-5... Read More

'Bunbury' (i) was a British intelligence deception in which a power station at Bury St Edmunds in the eastern English county of Suffolk was 'sabotaged' to add veracity to the ... Read More

'Bunbury' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for the use of airborne forces to clear the German occupation forces out of Sark (Greater Sark and Little Sark) in the Channel Isl... Read More

'Bunch' was the British overall designation for the maritime movement of Canadian forces to the UK (1940/41). ... Read More

'Bundle' was a British attack by a four-man Norwegian party of the Special Operations Executive, delivered by air, on shipping in Oslo harbour and the northern part of the Osl... Read More

'Bungalow' (i) was a British minor naval undertaking to evacuate men of the British Expeditionary Force from Boulogne on the north-east coast of France (23 May 1940)., The fir... Read More

'Bungalow' (ii) was the US contingency plan for the occupation of the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the French West Indies (1942)., The French West Indies, which for... Read More

'Bunghole' (i) was the Allied gliderborne delivery of a Soviet liaison team into German-occupied Yugoslavia to make contact with Marshal Josip Broz Tito and his partisan force... Read More

'Bunghole' (ii) was a US special forces operation to parachute a team of USAAF specialists and a six-man Office of Strategic Services party into German-occupied Yugoslavia for... Read More

'Bunkhouse' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for the long group of islands extending to the south-west from Kyushu in the Japanese home islands (1941/4... Read More

'Bunkum' was a British programme of reconnaissance operations, generally by six-man army special forces parties landed from British or Free Dutch submarines, to locate and exa... Read More

'Bunny' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Haute Marne area of German-occupied France to aid local res... Read More

'Bunyan' was a British special forces raid by the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) on German rear-area installations near the Forêt de Senonche... Read More

'Bura' was a German and Croat operation by the 370th Grenadierregiment (kroatisches) and 369th Artillerieregiment (kroatische) of Generalleutnant Georg Reinicke’s 369th Divi... Read More

'Burdock' was a German operation against partisans in the area of Kletnya within the German-occupied western part of the USSR (1 January 1943)., The partisan forces in this ar... Read More

The 'Burg-Stellung' was a German defensive position on the Viesate river in Latvia (March 1945). ... Read More

'Burggraf' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (26 February/6 March 1943)., The wolfpack eventually comprised 18 boats 1, worked with the 'Neuland', 'Ostmark', 'We... Read More

'Bürkl' was a Polish operation by the Armia Krajowa resistance army to kill Franz Bürkl, a Sicherheitspolizei officer (7 September 1943)., The undertaking was the second act... Read More

'Burlesque-Camouflage' was the US seizure of the islands of Roi and Namur in the Kwajalein atoll of the Marshall islands group in the central Pacific Ocean (1/2 February 1944)... Read More

'Burma Road' was the Allied designation for a strategically important main line of communications linking Burma with the south-west part of China (1937/45)., The terminals for... Read More

The 'Burma-Strässe' was German position for Generaloberst Georg Lindemann’s 18th Army of Generalfeldmarschall Georg von Küchler’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' along the long, nar... Read More

'Burnous' was a British unrealised plan by the Special Operations Executive for an attack on the Orkla pyrites mine at Løkken near Trondheim (June/August 1941)., This was the... Read More

'Burnsall' was a British special forces operation in Italy by the Special Operations Executive under the aegis of the headquarters of the Allied Armies in Italy command (1944)... Read More

'Burza' was a Polish series of uprisings by the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) resistance and military organisation under the command of Generał dywizji Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski in... Read More

'Bussard' was the German recapture, otherwise known as 'Trappenjagd' (i), of the Kerch peninsula as part of the preparation for 'Blau III' against the Caucasus (8/15 May 1942)... Read More

'Buster' (i) was a British exercise to test and improve inter-service co-ordination for implementation in the event that the Germans launched their planned invasion of the UK ... Read More

'Buster' (ii) was a British unrealised plan by General Sir Claude Auchinleck’s 8th Army to make a stand at El Alamein on the north-western border of Egypt with Italian-held ... Read More

'Busybody' was the British first of an eventual five unrealised plans for a special forces operation to kill or, preferably, to capture for subsequent interrogation, small num... Read More

'Butt' was a German naval minelaying operation by Kapitänleutnant Hans-Dieter Mohs’s U-956 in the Pechora Sea area of the Arctic Ocean (29 August/5 September 1944)., The bo... Read More

'Buttercup' (i) was a British tactic devised by Commander F. J. Walker of the 36th Escort Group as the standardised and primary means of defeating a surfaced U-boat’s noctur... Read More

'Buttercup' (ii) was a British naval and air offensive against U-boats operating in the western end of the English Channel (January 1942). ... Read More

'Buttercup' (iii) was a British special forces operation by Lieutenant Colonel W. Stirling’s 2nd Special Air Service on the Italian island of Lampedusa to acquire intelligen... Read More

'Buttermilk' was a British naval undertaking to lay a deep anti-submarine minefield in the English Channel off Portsmouth (20 March/6 April 1945)., The largest ship involved w... Read More

'Button' was a British operation mandated by Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese’s (later Lieutenant General Sir William Slim’s) Allied Land Forces South-East Asia command... Read More

'Buttress' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious invasion of southern Italy in the area of the Gulf of Goia (27 July/4 September 1943)., As such, 'Buttress' was just... Read More

'Buxom' was the US cover plan to protect the 'Cottage' (i) (originally 'Boodle') seizure of Attu island in the Aleutian islands group from the occupying Japanese forces (1943)... Read More

'Buzzard' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to assist the central leadership of the Milorg military resistance organisation in German-occupied Norway... Read More

'Buzzer' was a US unrealised plan for the recapture of Wake island, an atoll annexed by the USA in 1899 and lying in the Central Pacific to the north-west of the Marshall isla... Read More

'BV' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Brisbane and nearby ports to Townsville on the east coast of Australia, and... Read More

'BW' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route between Sydney, Nova Scotia, and St John’s, Newfoundland (September 1942/May 1... Read More

'BX' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from St John, New Brunswick, and later Boston, Massachusetts, to Halifax, Nova S... Read More

'Byng' was a British unrealised plan, in concert with 'Rawlinson', for an operation to enlarge the lodgement of Lieutenant General J. T. Crocker’s I Corps of Lieutenant Gene... Read More

'Byng Boys' was a British intelligence-gathering undertaking in preparation for 'Cordite' (March/April 1941)., Allocated by General Sir Archibald Wavell, the commander-in-chie... Read More