'BZ' (i) was a British naval undertaking to lay a minefield in the area of the Nore (August/December 1941)., The ship involved was the coastal minelayer Plover. ... Read More

'BZ' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys plying the route from Bombay in western India across the Indian Ocean to Aden at the southern end of the Red Sea and Kilindini ... Read More

'C' (i) was a Spanish unrealised plan for the military seizure of Gibraltar from the British (1939)., The northern element of the 'Pillars of Hercules' controlling the eastwar... Read More

'C' (ii) was the Japanese seizure of the British colony of Hong Kong (8/25 December 1941)., Hong Kong was the centre of British power in China. Victoria Island had been ceded ... Read More

'C' (iii) was a Japanese major naval raid into the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo’s 1st Air Fleet from an advanced base at Staring Bay in Cele... Read More

'C' (iv) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) steaming from Colombo, Ceylon, for dispersal (April 1942/June 1943)., The first of the series... Read More

'C' (v) was the designation of the Italian element of a pair of related trans-Mediterranean convoy operations between Tripoli in Libya and Naples in Italy (22/24 April 1942).,... Read More

'C' (vi) was the designation of an Italian convoy operation from Naples in Italy to Tripoli in Italy’s North African colony of Libya (early December 1942)., The convoy compr... Read More

'C' (vii) was a Japanese pair of convoy operations to deliver reinforcements to the forces in New Guinea (18 December 1942/February 1943)., The 2,670-ton auxiliary gunboat Shi... Read More

'C-Linie' was a German defensive line for the disengagement of Generaloberst Karl-Adolf Hollidt’s (from 25 March General Sigfrid Henrici’s) 6th Army of Generaloberst Josef... Read More

'CA' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) steaming to the south from Cape Town, South Africa, for dispersal (December 1942/June 1943)., The... Read More

'Cabaret' (i) was a British naval attempt to bring out from a Sweden two blockade-running vessels carrying vital war supplies such as ball bearings, rare metals etc (4/14 Febr... Read More

'Cabaret' (ii) was British naval undertaking to land Allied agents on the south coast of German-occupied France (1944). ... Read More

'Cabrlegram' was a British naval sweep into the Aegean Sea by an escort carrier force (24 September/31 October 1944)., The undertaking was part of the effort by Rear Admiral J... Read More

'Cäcilie' was the German rearguard position of General Walther Nehring’s 1st Panzerarmee in the area of Kamenets-Podolsky in the north-eastern part of Ukraine (spring 1944)... Read More

'Cackle' was a US programme to increase air strength in North Africa after 'Torch' (December 1942/March 1943). , On arrival in the UK across the North Atlantic, the US aircraf... Read More

'Cactus' (i) was the US sub-plan within 'Watchtower' concerned specifically with the capture of the area round Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon islands group (7 Augus... Read More

'Cactus' (ii) was a British naval undertaking to relieve Royal Marine units during the assault of Cheduba island, near Ramree island in the Arakan western coastal region of Ja... Read More

'Cadboll' (i) was a British deception operation within the larger 'Fortitude North' (1944)., The undertaking was designed to create a false order of battle for overseas operat... Read More

'Cadboll' (ii) was a British deception operation intended as successor to 'Cadboll' (i) within the larger 'Fortitude North' (1944)., The operation was designed to indicate the... Read More

'Caddie' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for Mille atoll (later codenamed 'Lockman') in the Ratak chain of the the southern part of the Marshall islan... Read More

'Cadillac' was an Allied major air-drop delivery of weapons, ammunition and other supplies to the French resistance forces in the Vercors massif area German-occupied France (1... Read More

'Caesar' (i) was the British original naval codeword for the implementation of naval measures against any German seaborne invasion of the UK (April/September 1940). ... Read More

'Caesar' (ii) was the British final stage of the evacuation of Rangoon, the capital of Burma, before the arrival of the advancing Japanese forces of Lieutenant General Shojiro... Read More

'Caiman' was an Allied support operation for 'Overlord' in the form of the air delivery of weapons, ammunition and supplies to the French resistance forces operating in the re... Read More

'Caique' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a four-man French naval counter-scorch team into German-occupied France (17 July 1944). ... Read More

'Cairngorm' was a US special forces operation to parachute a four-man Office of Strategic Services team into the highlands of Japanese-occupied Malaya (late November 1944)., U... Read More

'Cairo Three' was the Allied cover designation of the inter-Allied 'Eureka' conference held in Tehran, the capital of Iran, between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Mini... Read More

'Calcium' was a British commando intelligence mission to the Czechoslovak resistance movement (3/4 April 1944)., Undertaken at the same time as 'Barium', the 'Calcium' mission... Read More

'Caldy' was a British series of three operations ('Caldy I', 'Caldy II' and 'Caldy III') by the Special Operations Executive to protect various power stations and repeater sta... Read More

'Calendar' (i) was a British and US naval delivery of 47 Supermarine Spitfire fighters to Malta (14/26 April 1942)., By April 1942 the situation of Malta had become desperate ... Read More

'Calendar' (ii) was a British naval undertaking to sweep the West Scheldt branch of the Scheldt river estuary and so remove German mines during operations to open and then kee... Read More

'Caliban' was a British special forces operation by the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) to cut the rail lines near Peer in German-occupied Belg... Read More

'Caliph' was an Allied unrealised plan to take the port of Bordeaux on the Gironde estuary of German-occupied south-western France using amphibious forces diverted from the Me... Read More

'Callboy' (i) was a British naval delivery of aircraft to Malta (16/19 October 1941)., Following the two 'Status' undertakings, 'Callboy' (i) was designed to replenish and str... Read More

'Callboy' (ii) was a British unrealised deception plan to try to convince the Germans, most especially Generaloberst Johannes Blaskowitz’s Heeresgruppe 'H', that the crossin... Read More

'Cambridge' was a British unrealised plan by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Home Fleet to simulate a major armed reconnaissance of Narvik on the north-west coast of German-occup... Read More

'Camel' was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man 'Jedburgh' team into the Arakan western coastal area of Japanese-occupied Burma to establish links with... Read More

'Camera' was a British naval undertaking by elements of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Home Fleet off the west coast of German-occupied Norway (6/10 July 1943)., The undertaking... Read More

'Cameron' was a British undertaking by the Special Operations Executive to provide a team which could provide support for the Albanian partisan movement (1943). ... Read More

'Camilla' was a British cover plan for the 'Appearance' reconquest of British Somaliland from the occupying Italian forces (January/February 1941)., The plan was the brainchil... Read More

The 'Campaign in French Somaliland' between Vichy French and Free French forces was characterised mainly by skirmishing (June 1940/December 1942)., After the surrender of Fra... Read More

'Campobasso' was an Italian convoy from the island base of Pantelleria to Tunis involved in a naval action off Cap Bon (3/4 May 1943)., The action involved a British naval for... Read More

'Cancover' was an Allied exercise in the assembly and control of task forces (1943/44). ... Read More

'Candlestick' was the British overall designation for a series of aborted raids on coastal targets in the northern part of German-occupied France (December 1943/February 1944)... Read More

'Candytuft' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service to cut the rail line between Ancona and Pescara on the east coast of Italy (27 October/2 Nove... Read More

'Cannae' (i) was a German contingency plan for the relocation of General Heinz Guderian’s Panzergruppe 'Guderian' within Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt’s Heeresgruppe 'A... Read More

'Cannae' (ii) was the German seizure of Zagreb, Sisak, and Bjelovar from the Italians in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia at the time of the Italian armistice with the Allies (Septemb... Read More

'Cannae' (iii) was a German and Croat unrealised operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavia ... Read More

'Cannae' (iv) was the German element of the occupation of Hungary launched from the regions of Syrmia, Slavonia and Podravina in German-occupied Yugoslavia (19 March 1944)., T... Read More