'Canned' (i) was a British naval bombardment of Italian coastal positions and dumps at Banda Alula in Italian Somaliland (28 November 1940)., The undertaking fell within the B... Read More

'Canned' (ii) was a British combined air and sea undertaking in the Indian Ocean to locate and destroy the 7,747-ton German oiler and supply vessel Charlotte Schliemann (8/13 ... Read More

'Cannibal' was the British first offensive in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma undertaken by Major General W. L. Lloyd’s Indian 14th (Light) Divi... Read More

'Cannonshot' was the Canadian attack by Major General H. W. Foster’s 1st Division of Lieutenant General C. Foulkes’s I Corps in General H. D. G. Crerar’s 1st Army across... Read More

'Canny' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious assault by a Indian brigade on Akyab island in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (1943)., De... Read More

'Canonbury' was a British pair of long-range bombing attacks on the Skoda armaments factory at Pilsen in German-occupied Czechoslovakia (April/May 1942)., In the 'Canonbury I'... Read More

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

'Canter' (i) was a British unrealised special forces plan for a raid on Grand Hameau des Dames on the north coast of German-occupied France (March 1942). ... Read More

'Canter' (ii) was a British operation by elements of Major General J. S. Nichols’s 50th Division and Major General D. N. Wimberley’s 51st Division of Lieutenant General Si... Read More

'Canuck' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service to disrupt German and Italian Fascist communications between the Italian riviera and northern It... Read More

'Canute' was a British deception plan, associated with 'Gargoyle', by the London Controlling Section for the proposed 'Brimstone' (ii) assault on Sardinia after the completion... Read More

'Canvas' was the British conquest of Italian Somaliland and advance into southern Abyssinia within the context of a larger campaign to take all of Italy’s East African empir... Read More

'Canwell' was a British radio deception operation, in tandem with 'Bertram', to help conceal the movement of Lieutenant General H. Lumsden’s X Corps into its staging area be... Read More

'Capable' was the British movement of Major General D. M. Murray-Lyon’s Indian 11th Division from India to Malaya to become part of Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Heath’s In... Read More

The 'Cape Pikshuyev Landing Operation' was a Soviet reconnaissance and sabotage undertaking planned and executed by the Soviet Northern Fleet to destroy a German stronghold on... Read More

'Capillary' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for Ocean island in the Pacific Ocean (26 August 1942/2 October 1945)., The island lies 240 miles (385 km)... Read More

'Capital' (i) was a British original plan, initially schemed as 'Plan Y', by Lieutenant General W. J. Slim’s 14th Army for a broad-front Allied advance in the northern Burma... Read More

'Capital' (ii) was British convoy operation to move two British merchant vessels (7,131-ton Fort Carlton and 7,149-ton Fort Lennox) and four US merchant vessels (7,176-ton Emm... Read More

'Capri' was the Axis counter-offensive designed to retake Medenine in south-eastern Tunisia and so halt the westward advance of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s British 8th ... Read More

'Capricorn' was a US operation by the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services for the transmission of accurately targeted radio propaganda (March 1945)., ... Read More

'Caption' was a British deception operation in Burma designed as a successor to 'Conclave' and suggesting guerrilla operations against the last surviving Japanese lines of com... Read More

'Caravan' was a British attack by the Long Range Desert Group on the Axis airfield at Barce in the northern Cyrenaica region of Libya as part of 'Rosemary' (13 September 1942)... Read More

'Caraway' was a US unrealised preliminary plan for Allied operations on the Istrian peninsula of north-eastern Italy (1944). ... Read More

'Carbolic' was a series of Allied staff discussions with the Turkish general staff about a possible Turkish entry into the war on the Allied side, and the military support tha... Read More

'Carbonado' was the US and Chinese revised version of 'Beta' and then 'Rashness', and as such the offensive by Chinese forces to clear the Japanese forces from the region of C... Read More

'Cardaci' was a German and possibly Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the area of Cardaci in the puppet state of Croatia in occupied Yugoslavia... Read More

'Cargo' (i) was a British convoy operation to steam six merchant vessels (7,248-ton Empire Egret, 7,775-ton Empire Fulmar, 6,551-ton Empire Oriole, 7,842-ton Empire Peregrine,... Read More

'Cargo' (ii) was an Allied series of three amphibious exercises to validate and then practise loading and unloading operations in preparation for 'Overlord' (February 1944). ... Read More

'Carhampton' was a British and Norwegian special forces undertaking by the Special Operations Executive to intercept and capture shipping off the west coast of German-occupied... Read More

'Carmarthen' was a British and Norwegian special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive in German-occupied Norway to use forces not required in 'Foscott' to secu... Read More

'Carmen' was the German 24-hour prolongation of the air bombardment of the railway network around Kursk in the centre of the Soviet salient, which was scheduled for attack in ... Read More

'Carnegie' was an Allied radio and display deception in Taranto and in the 'Avalanche' beach-head at Salerno in Italy (early September 1943)., Using false radio traffic and th... Read More

'Carnival' was a British troopship convoy from the Clyde river to Gibraltar (29 January/4 February 1942)., The convoy comprised the 14,287-ton Polish Batory, 16,792-ton Britis... Read More

'Carolus' was the German clandestine use of special force elements of Hauptmann Dr Theodor von Hippel’s Bau-Lehr-Bataillon 'Brandenburg' zbV 800, the men wearing civilian cl... Read More

The 'Carpathian-Dukla Pass Offensive Operation', also known as the Battle of the Dukla Pass and the 'Dukla/Carpatho-Dukla/Rzeszów-Dukla/Dukla-Presov Offensive Operation' was ... Read More

The 'Carpathian-Uzhgorod Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by General Polkovnik (from 26 October General) Ivan Ye. Petrov’s 4th Ukrainian Front within the contex... Read More

'Carpenter' was a British programme of three naval undertakings to make landings on and off the north coast of Brittany in German-occupied north-western France to land and bur... Read More

'Carpenter' (ii) was a British naval undertaking to allow a Special Boat Section party to undertake a beach reconnaissance of part of the west coast of Malaya in anticipation ... Read More

'Carpetbagger' was a US programme of air supply operations to deliver matériel and messages to agents in German-occupied Europe, most especially France, the Low Countries and... Read More

'Carrot' was a British pair of radio deception operations within 'Fortitude North' (12/15 April 1944)., Simulating an amphibious exercise involved the warships, transport vess... Read More

'Carson' was a British unrealised plan for carrierborne air and warship attacks on Japanese shipping and airfields in the areas of Penang in Malaya and Medan on the island of ... Read More

'Carter Paterson' was a British deception operation, which was only partially successful, to pass to the Germans a fictitious minefield chart and in the process boost the bona... Read More

'Carthage' was the British bombing of the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen within German-occupied Denmark (21 March 1945)., A similar raid had been undertaken on 25 Septembe... Read More

'Carton' (i) was a British convoy operation of seven Allied merchant ships in the Mediterranean (British 4,653-ton African Prince, 4,108-ton Fairwater, 1,236-ton Iceland, 5,25... Read More

'Carton' (ii) was a British unrealised special forces raid on the marine engineering factory at Sagvåg on the south-west coast of German-occupied Norway at the same time as '... Read More

'Cartoon' (i) was a British unrealised plan, to partner 'Acid Drop', for the landing of a raiding force on the north coast of German-occupied France (August 1941). ... Read More

'Cartoon' (ii) was a British special forces raid on the pyrites mine in the area of Leirvik in German-occupied Norway (23/24 January 1943). , The object of the operation was t... Read More

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'Casanova' (i) was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavia (July/Augus... Read More

'Casanova' (ii) was a US diversionary operation by Major General Harry L. Twaddle’s 95th Division during the offensive of Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army of... Read More