'Colonial' was a British operation to move equipment, ammunition and fuel to the south from the delta of the Nile river in northern Egypt up the Nile river into Sudan for the ... Read More

'Colorado' was the US deployment of Colonel Robert T. Frederick’s 1st Special Service Force from North America to Europe (autumn 1943)., The 1st Special Service Force was an... Read More

'Colossus' was a British airborne operation to destroy the aqueduct at Tragino in southern Italy (10/11 February 1941)., Largely experimental, this undertaking was the first a... Read More

'Columbia' was a British special forces raid on a German target in the Pas de Calais region of German-occupied northern France (November 1942). ... Read More

'Comatose' was a British unrealised plan, similar in concept to 'Airthief', for the seizure of a modern German warplane from an air base in German-occupied northern France for... Read More

'Comet' was a British unrealised plan for the use of Major General R. E. Urquhart’s 1st Airborne Division to land and seize crossing points over the Nederrijn river near Arn... Read More

This was a British special forces operation to occupy the island of Patmos in the Dodecanese islands group of the Aegean Sea in German-occupied Greece (September 1943)., The G... Read More

'Company' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive against the transformers at Arendal Smelteverk at Eydehavn near Arendal in the southern part of German-oc... Read More

'Compass' (i) was a British offensive by Lieutenant General R. N. O’Connor’s Western Desert Force against the Italian forces in western Egypt and eastern Libya (6 December... Read More

'Compass' (ii) was a British radio deception operation in Italy designed to suggest to the Germans that the British XIV Corps, a fictional formation, was being withdrawn into ... Read More

'Complex' was the British overall designation of the series of Middle Eastern troop movement operations which included 'Ophelia', 'Sabine', 'Satire' and 'Sybil' (spring 1941).... Read More

'Composition' was a British series of carrierborne air attacks on the harbour of Massawa in Italian-held Eritrea (13/21 February 1941)., Aircraft of the fleet carrier Formidab... Read More

'Conceal' was the US bombing attack, otherwise known as 'Special Aviation Project No. 1', on Tokyo and other targets in the Japanese home islands (18 April 1942)., This so-cal... Read More

'Concept' (i) was a British special forces operation against German installations on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee on the coast of the Netherlands (January 1943). ... Read More

'Concept' (ii) was a British naval demonstration by the ships of Force 'A' off the east coast of Greece in preparation for and during 'Manna' (October 1944)., As part of the B... Read More

'Concert' (i) was a Soviet partisan undertaking against German railway communications with the object of disrupting the German movement of supplies and reinforcements toward t... Read More

'Concert' (ii) was a British naval undertaking to allow a Special Boat Section party to undertake a beach reconnaissance of part of the coast of Japanese-occupied Burma (Novem... Read More

'Concertina' (i) was a British unrealised plan by Vice Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Combined Operations Headquarters within the context of the 'Constellation' (i) pl... Read More

'Concertina' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for the destruction of the main electricity-generating facility supplying power to Athens in German-occupied Greece (?). ... Read More

'Conclave' was a British deception scheme to shield the left flank of Lieutenant General Sir William Slim’s 14th Army as it advanced to the south along the Irrawaddy and Sit... Read More

'Concubine' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious assault on German-occupied Crete using forces provided by General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson’s Middle East Command... Read More

'Condor' (i) was the German culmination of the operation begun as 'Salam' to place two Abwehr agents, Johannes Eppler and Peter Stanstede, in Cairo to monitor and report anyth... Read More

'Condor' (ii) was a British unrealised plan developed by Vice Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Combined Operations Headquarters within the context of the 'Constellation'... Read More

'Condor' (iii) was a British unrealised plan for an attack on Akyab island off the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (December 1944). ... Read More

'Conebo' was a British air undertaking by Bristol Beaufighter heavy fighters of Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas’s RAF Coastal Command to blockade the eastern en... Read More

'Confidence' (i) was a British unrealised plan for operations by Lieutenant General Sir William Holmes’s Palestine-based 9th Army and Lieutenant General Sir Edward Quinan’... Read More

'Confidence' (ii) was a British naval undertaking for a beach reconnaissance of the west coast of Japanese-occupied Malaya in the area of Port Dickson, which was one of the ar... Read More

'Congo' was an Allied operation by the US Office of Strategic Services and British Special Operations Executive, from the 'Jungle' (ii) base in southern Italy, across the Adri... Read More

'Conjuror' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive for the air delivery of six agents to the Angers region of France to establish links with the local resi... Read More

'Conrad' was an Allied series of naval and amphibious undertakings against Phuket island off the west coast of Thailand (1945)., These were aided by the 'Defraud' (ii) decepti... Read More

'Conscious' was an Allied deception plan, in support of the US/Chinese 'Iceman' and British 'Sceptical' (i), suggesting that forces commanded by General Douglas MacArthur were... Read More

'Consensus' 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

The 'Constanţa Naval Raid' was a Soviet attack by Vitse Admiral Filipp S. Oktyabrsky’s Black Sea Fleet on the Romanian port of Constanţa (26 June 1941)., Undertaken shortl... Read More

'Constellation' (i) was a British unrealised plan developed by Vice Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s Combined Operations Headquarters for the recapture of the German-occ... Read More

'Constellation' (ii) was the British capture of Venray in the German-occupied Netherlands by Lieutenant General Sir Richard O’Connor’s VIII Corps of Lieutenant General Sir... Read More

'Constitution' was the British unrequired overall plan for the defence of Syria, Palestine, Trans-Jordan and western Iraq against attacks from Turkey (1941/44). ... Read More

'Consular' was a British undertaking to transfer swim-barges (towed Thames lighters) from the estuary of the Thames river to other British locations (April 1942). ... Read More

'Contempt' (i) was a British unrealised plan, later redesignated as 'Courage', for combined operations against the German and Italian forces in the Cyrenaica region of Axis-he... Read More

'Contempt' (ii) was a British and Greek unsuccessful special forces operation against Mílos island of the Cyclades islands group in the Aegean Sea of German-occupied Greece, ... Read More

'Context' was a British operation against Bandar Qasim on the north coast of Italian Somaliland within the context of 'Canvas' (February 1941). ... Read More

'Contour' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious assault on a port area of the Brittany peninsula in the north-western part of German-occupied France (spring/summer 1... Read More

'Contrite' was an Allied air operation against the oilfields and associated refineries at Ploieşti in Romania (?). ... Read More

'Convent' was a British naval undertaking, in parallel with 'Camera', to provide a diversion off the coast of German-occupied Norway before and during the 'Husky' (i) landing ... Read More

'Cook' was a British naval undertaking in which Lieutenant E. Honer’s MGB-318 landed a party to bury half a ton of stores on the Ile Guénioc off the north coast of Brittany... Read More

'Cooker' was a US special forces raid on the south coast of the German-occupied island of Crete (19 April 1944). ... Read More

'Cooney' was a French special forces operation by the 4th Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (4th Special Air Service) to disrupt German communications in the area between S... Read More

'Copper' (i) was the British overall plan to neutralise the rebellious Iraqi forces around Basra in southern Iraq and take control of the civil administration of the area (Apr... Read More

'Copper' (ii) was an Australian special forces operation by an eight-man part of the 'Z' Special Unit to investigate the Japanese defences on Mushu island, capture a Japanese ... Read More

'Copperhead' was a British deception planned as 'Telescope' (ii) and run in support of 'Overlord' in Normandy (25 May/June 1944)., In this undertaking an Australian actor, M. ... Read More

'Coppers' was a British unrealised psychological warfare scheme, devised by part of Lieutenant Colonel Dudley W. Clarke’s Egypt-based 'A' Force, to doctor captured Axis expl... Read More