'Cäsar' (i) was a German spoiling attack in the aftermath of the only partially successful 'Doppelkopf' in the Baltic states to disrupt that part of the Soviet 'Bagration' st... Read More

'Cäsar' (ii) was a German unrealised naval plan for attacks on Allied shipping in the Kola inlet of the northern USSR (January 1945)., The operation was to have been launched... Read More

'Cäsar' (iii) was a German unsuccessful attempt to transfer technical plans and strategic materials (turbojet engine parts, V-2 guidance packages and 65 tonnes of mercury) to... Read More

The 'Cäsar-Linie' was German defensive line in Italy, running from a point about mid-way between Anzio and Lido di Ostia on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea across the Alban H... Read More

'Cascade' was a British deception plan based on the creation of a false order of battle, designed to keep the Axis forces guessing as to the strength of the Allies in the Medi... Read More

'Case 3' was an Allied early version of the plan which began to mature as 'Talisman' (i) (1944). ... Read More

'Cassowary' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious operation against Japanese positions on Ramree island off the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Bu... Read More

'Castigo' was the German 'terror bombing' of Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital, within the context of 'Unternehmen 25' and otherwise known as 'Bestrafung' and 'Strafgericht' (6/8... Read More

'Castle' was a British unrealised special forces raid on a power station, which provided electricity to a nearby ilmenite mine, in the Jøssingfjord area of the south-west coa... Read More

'Castor' was a US further developed version of 'Aphrodite' (ii) (1944/45). ... Read More

'Catapult' was a British attempt to destroy major elements of the French navy at Mers el Kébir, just outside Oran in the French North African territory of Algeria, to remove ... Read More

'Cataract' was the US overall designation of the series of amphibious and carrierborne air operations to take the Marshall islands group in the central Pacific (February 1944)... Read More

'Catchpole' was the US seizure of Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall islands group (17/23 February 1944)., Codenamed 'Downside' during the 'Catchpole' landing, the Eniwetok atoll ... Read More

'Catchpole Junior' was the US seizure of many of the lesser atolls of the Marshall islands group after 'Catchpole' (7 March/5 April 1944)., The task was entrusted to Colonel J... Read More

'Catechism' was the British sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz by bombing attack (12 November 1944)., The attack brought to an end a long series of air and naval operati... Read More

'Catgut' was a British special forces raid on the island of Walcheren on the coast of the German-occupied Netherlands (1 November 1942)., The commandos landed in the village o... Read More

'Catherine' was was a British unrealised plan for naval operations in the Baltic Sea to halt Germany’s import of Swedish iron ore in the ice-free summer months between May ... Read More

'Cator' (i) was a British unrealised plan for a special forces raid, in support of 'Compass' (i), to destroy part of the Italian main fuel pipeline in North Africa (December 1... Read More

'Cator' (ii) was the Allied overall designation for the planning and execution of airlift operations associated with 'Overlord' (1 January/31 August 1944)., The name was deriv... Read More

'Catspaw' was a British unrealised intelligence deception by the London Controlling Section, which hoped to plant false documents on the Swedish air attaché in London as he t... Read More

'Catswhiskers' (i) was a British unrealised plan for a special forces raid on the island of Brechou, just to the west of Sark in the German-occupied Channel Islands (March/Apr... Read More

'Catswhiskers' (ii) was a British raid on Japanese positions on Ramree island in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (January 1944). ... Read More

'Cattle' (i) was a British carrierborne air attack within 'Sunfish' (i) on targets on the island of Sumatra in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies by elements of Vic... Read More

'Cattle' (ii) was a British naval deception operation involving an obvious amphibious beach reconnaissance of the Birauen area of north-eastern Sumatra in an effort to persuad... Read More

'Cauldron' was a British special forces undertaking within 'Jubilee', which included two such undertakings (19 August 1942)., 'Cauldron' was the attack of Lieutenant Colonel t... Read More

'Causeway' (i) was a British naval undertaking to intercept and seize a Vichy French convoy in the Indian Ocean (September 1940). ... Read More

'Causeway' (ii) was an US unrealised plan for the seizure of the Japanese-held islands of Formosa and Amoy (August 1944)., Created by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s Pacific Oce... Read More

'Causeway' (iii) was US logistic operation to stockpile supplies, for proposed operations against the Japanese home islands, on Guadalcanal island in the Solomon islands group... Read More

'Cavalcade' was the Canadian advance to and capture of Ravenna in north-eastern Italy as part of the northward movement of Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery’s 8th Army... Read More

'Cavalry' was a British and French pair of convoy operations between Haifa in Palestine and Marseille in the south of France (11/29 January 1940). , The first was 'Cavalry', w... Read More

'Cave' was the British and Free Greek seizure of Tílos island in the German-occupied Dodecanese islands group of the Aegean Sea (28 February/1 March 1945)., A similar underta... Read More

'Cavendish' was a British unrealised plan for a combined operations exercise schemed as a diversion to help conceal the departure from the UK of assault convoys for 'Torch' (O... Read More

The 'Čazma Operajica' was a Yugoslav attack by the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito on Čazma in the puppet state of Croatia within German-occupied Yugoslavia (28 N... Read More

'CB' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Durban, South Africa, to Beira, Portuguese East Africa and beyond, and as s... Read More

'CD' was the designation of British convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying from Cape Town to Durban, South Africa, and as such reciprocals of the 'DC' series (Novem... Read More

'CE' was the designation of British coastal convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from St Helen’s Road, Isle of Wight, to Southend, and as such recipro... Read More

'Cecil' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Aube area of German-occupied France to aid local resistance forc... Read More

This was the US delivery of short-range aircraft from the USA to the USSR via Abadan, Iran (March 1942 onward)., The programme was begun before the USA’s December 1941 entry ... Read More

'Cedric' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Doubs of German-occupied France to aid local resistance forces ... Read More

'Ceiling' was a British unrealised plan for the operational use of Fleet Air Arm training aircraft in the event of a German invasion of the UK (1940). ... Read More

'Cellar' was a British special forces raid across the English Channel against a target on the north coast of German-occupied France in the Boulogne area (24/25 June 1940). ... Read More

'Cellophane' was an Allied amphibious exercise in loading and unloading in preparation for 'Overlord' (27 February 1944). ... Read More

'Cent' was a British and Canadian radio deception undertaking simulating an amphibious operation, originally known as 'Dryshod', within 'Quicksilver II' (16 April 1944)., Unde... Read More

'Centaur' was a British unrealised special forces raid, posited on the use of a force of between 500 and 700 commandos, on the hydro-electric plant which supplied power to an ... Read More

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'Centrifugal Offensive' is the wholly unofficial but much used and descriptive designation accorded by US historians to the first Japanese offensive of the Pacific War, which ... Read More

'Cerberus' was the German naval dash to the north-east along the English Channel by the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen ... Read More

'Ceres' was a British undertaking to speed the unloading and dispersal of the cargoes delivered to Malta in 'Pedestal' (15 August 1942)., The ships emptied in 'Ceres', at a sp... Read More

'Ceylon Secret Operation 51' was a British naval attack by Chariot Mk II manned torpedoes on Japanese shipping in the harbour of Phuket island in Japanese-occupied Thailand (2... Read More

'CF' (i) was the designation of British convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying from Cape Town, South Africa, to Freetown, Sierra Leone and ultimately the UK (April ... Read More