'CF' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Colombo, Ceylon, to Fremantle, Australia using... Read More

'CG' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Casablanca, Morocco, to Gibraltar, and as such reciprocals of the 'GC' seri... Read More

'CH' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Chittagong to Calcutta, India, and as such reciprocals of the 'HC' series (... Read More

'Chacewater' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to organise the protection of 'Foscott' high-priority targets in the Milorg military resistance organi... Read More

'Chaffinch' (i) was a British attack by a three-man Norwegian party (T. Stenersen, O. Sandersen and M. Olsen) of the Special Operations Executive on shipping in the harbours o... Read More

'Chaffinch' (ii) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to provide training for Norwegian resistance groups in the Milorg military resistance organisation... Read More

'Chair' was a British naval undertaking to land a party of Special Operations Executive operatives on the coast of German-occupied Crete (June 1943). ... Read More

'Challenge' was a British unrealised plan to occupy the strategically important Spanish and Portuguese islands (the Azores, Canary, Cape Verde and Madeira groups) in the Atlan... Read More

'Challenger' was a British unrealised plan within 'Backbone' for the seizure of Ceuta in Spanish Morocco in the event of a German invasion of the Iberian peninsula (1942)., Su... Read More

'Champion' (i) was the British original version of 'Capital' (i) (December 1942)., As such, the operation was foreseen as a British advance, with Chinese and US support from t... Read More

'Champion' (ii) was the designation for the Allied decisions reached at the 'Trident' conference, which was the third held in Washington (12/27 May 1943)., These decisions wer... Read More

'Channel Stop' was a British programme of daylight air patrols to prevent the movement of German light shipping and coastal convoys in the English Channel during the hours of ... Read More

'Chapter' was the British capture of the Cape Guardafui area on the extreme north-eastern tip of Italian Somalia (13 April/24 May 1941)., The task of supporting the British ov... Read More

'Character' was a British generic type of undertaking by Force 136 of the Special Operations Executive in Burma, analogous to 'Jedburgh' in North-West Europe, to raise Karen h... Read More

'Chariot' was a British combined naval and special forces assault planned by Vice Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Combined Operations Headquarters against the docks and... Read More

'Cheriton' was a British special forces operation to parachute a No. 1 Special Force team into the Piedmont area of German-occupied north-western Italy to aid partisan operati... Read More

'Charlton' was a British unrealised naval aerial minelaying operation in the Lepsøyrev, Harmsfjord, Skatestrommen and Årumsund areas of German-occupied Norway (22/25 January... Read More

'Charnwood' was a British and Canadian undertaking to capture Caen in Normandy using Lieutenant General J. T. Crocker’s British I Corps of Lieutenant General Sir Miles Demps... Read More

'Chastise' was the British air attack by Avro Lancaster heavy bombers of No. 617 Squadron of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command, under the command of W... Read More

'Chastity' was an Allied unrealised plan to place an artificial harbour of the 'Mulberry' type in Quiberon Bay on the north-western tip of France to support land operations to... Read More

'Chattanooga Choo-Choo' was an Allied air offensive by fighter-bombers of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory’s Allied Expeditionary Air Forces (Air Marshal Sir Art... Read More

'Chatter' was a British proposal, not adopted for implementation, for a deception undertaking to support 'Bodyguard' by persuading the Germans that the Allies had delayed thei... Read More

'Chaucer' was a British special forces operation by the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) against German rear-area installations near Condreceau ... Read More

'Chechevitsa' was a Soviet programme of expulsion and deportation of the native populations of Chechnya and Ingushetia in the northern part of the Caucasus (23 February 1944/1... Read More

'Checkmate' was a British special forces raid by seven men of No. 14 (Arctic) Commando against shipping in the port of Haugesund on the coast of German-occupied Norway (29 Apr... Read More

'Cheekstrap' was the US geographical rather than operational designation for New Caledonia island in the French-colonised New Hebrides islands group of the south-western Pacif... Read More

'Cheerful' was a French offensive by Général d’Armée Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny’s 1ère Armée against General Siegfried Rasp’s 19th Army of Reic... Read More

'Cheese I' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to contact resistance groups, collect intelligence and reconnoitre sabotage targets in the south of Germ... Read More

'Cheese II' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to organise and train resistance groups in the area between Flekkefjord and Kristiansand in German-occu... Read More

'Cheetah' was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man team of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into the Kachin hills area of Japanese-occupie... Read More

The 'Chernigov-Poltava Strategic Offensive Operation' was a Soviet major undertaking by the forces of three fronts as part of the strategic summer offensive (26 August/30 Sept... Read More

The 'Chernigov-Pripyet Offensive Operation' was one of the three Soviet operational-level sub-operations which together constituted the 'Chernigov-Poltava Strategic Offensive ... Read More

'Cherokee' was a British special forces operation to parachute a four-man team of the 101st Special Force into the Biella area of German-occupied northern Italy (16/17 Novembe... Read More

'Cherry Blossoms at Night' was a Japanese unrealised plan of 1945 to launch a biological warfare campaign against the USA’s civilian population of southern California during... Read More

'Cherryblossom' was the US seizure of a substantial beach-head at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville island at the northern end of the Solomon islands group as the final US o... Read More

'Chess' was a British special forces raid on the village of Ambleteuse on the north coast of German-occupied France (27/28 July 1941)., The undertaking was a reconnaissance mi... Read More

'Chesterfield' (i) was an Allied deception operation designed to aid the offensive of Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark’s 5th Army to the south of the 'Gustav-Linie' defences... Read More

'Chesterfield' (ii) was a Canadian offensive by Lieutenant General E. L. M. Burns’s I Corps (Major General C. Vokes’s 1st Division and Major General B. M. Hoffmeister’s ... Read More

'Chestnut' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service in support of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s 8th Army in Sicily after the 'Husky' (i) land... Read More

'Chettyford' was the Allied tactical deception undertaking, within 'Oakfield', in support of the Allied 'Shingle' landing at Anzio (December 1943/January 1944)., The 'story' p... Read More

'Chevrolet' was an Allied amphibious exercise for logistics and lines of communication elements in preparation for 'Overlord' (25 February 1944). ... Read More

'Chibetto' was a Japanese concept for the seizure of Tibet as a logical successor to the end of their 'conquest' of China (1942/45)., The two protagonists of 'Chibetto' were G... Read More

'Chicago' was the US gliderborne landing of elements of Colonel George S. Wear’s 327th Glider Infantry of Major General Maxwell D. Taylor’s 101st Airborne Division on the ... Read More

'Chicken' was an Allied plan for the establishment of an escape route for downed Allied airmen, who had either not been captured or had managed to escape, through Hungary and ... Read More

'Chickweed' was a British naval gunfire bombardment by the destroyers Quail and Quilliam, supported by a number of motor torpedo boats, of German positions in the area of Vast... Read More

'Chieftain' was a British naval undertaking in support of 'Crusader' (i) and based on the movement of the GM.3 convoy as a diversion in the western Mediterranean (16/17 Novemb... Read More

'Chiffchaff' was a British special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive to undertake the training of local resistance groups in the Milorg military resistance ... Read More

'Chilblain' was a US special forces reconnaissance operation by the Office of Strategic Services in German-occupied Yugoslavia (August/22 September 1944)., The objectives of t... Read More

'Childhood' was a British coastal forces operation, undertaken by motor torpedo boats operating from Malta, to attack the mole in the harbour of Tripoli in Italian North Afric... Read More

'Chilli' was Allied programme of nocturnal air operations from British and French air bases to prevent U-boats breaking out into the Atlantic from German bases (January 1945).... Read More