'Copybook' was an Allied amphibious landing exercise in North-West Africa in preparation for 'Husky' (i) (June 1943). ... Read More

'Copycat' was an Allied special forces operation against German targets in the area of the Forges de l’Adour near Bayonne in the south-western part of German-occupied France... Read More

'Copyright' was a British naval undertaking to allow a beach reconnaissance of Phuket island off the west coast of Japanese-occupied Thailand with the object of assessing the ... Read More

'Corby' was a British special forces raid on a target in the Etretat area of the north coast of German-occupied France (July 1942). ... Read More

'Cordial' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for Maloelap atoll in the central portion of the eastern Radak group of the Marshall islands group in the ce... Read More

'Cordite' was a British beach reconnaissance of an area of the Italian-held island of Rhodes in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea by a Special Boat Service party as a p... Read More

'Cordite Cover Plan' was a British unrealised deception plan created to facilitate the proposed 'Cordite' amphibious assault on and seizure of the island of Rhodes in the Ital... Read More

'Cork' was a British programme of air patrols by Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas’s RAF Coastal Command to detect and destroy U-boats in the South-Western Approa... Read More

'Corkscrew' (i) was the Allied amphibious operation, otherwise known as 'Hobgoblin', to take the Italian island of Pantelleria (11 June 1943)., Lying to the west of Malta in t... Read More

'Corkscrew' (ii) was a British naval raid on Japanese coastal shipping in the Gwa area, to the south-east of Cheduba island, in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-o... Read More

'Cormorant' was a British offensive on the German positions to the south of Rauray in the Allied lodgement in Normandy after 'Overlord' (14 July 1944)., The operation was unde... Read More

'Cormorant I' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to reinforce the leadership and increase the preparedness of the Milorg military resistance organisat... Read More

'Corncob' (i) was a British series of three convoy operations ('Corncob I', 'Corncob II' and 'Corncob III') between Poole on the south coast of England and the Seine Bay on th... Read More

'Corncob' (ii) was an Allied bombing campaign by Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker’s Mediterranean Allied Air Forces to destroy the bridges over the Po, Adige and Brenta river... Read More

'Corncrake' was a British naval rescue operation on Spitsbergen island to the north of German-occupied Norway (26 June/11 July 1943)., The garrison at Barentsburg had sent a 1... Read More

'Cornelius' was the designation of Allied preliminary naval operations before the launch of 'Neptune' (iii) (May/June 1944). ... Read More

'Cornet' was a British unrealised plan to attack and breach the Möhne dam in the Ruhr industrial region of Germany by landing flying boat on the lake behind the dam to delive... Read More

'Cornflakes' was a US psychological warfare undertaking by the Office of Strategic Services to trick the German postal service into delivering Allied propaganda to German addr... Read More

'Corona' (i) was an Allied 'spoofing' operation using the transmissions of German-speaking controllers to relay false vectoring information to German night-fighter crews, so d... Read More

'Corona' (ii) was a British beach reconnaissance of part of the coast of Sumatra island in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies by a Special Boat Section party (Febru... Read More

'Coronel' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the North Atlantic against the ONS.24, HX.268 and ON.214 convoys (4/8 December 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-92, U-107, U-269, ... Read More

'Coronel I' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the North Atlantic (8/17 December 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-92, U-284, U-311, U-364, U-392, U-421, U-471, U-544, U-625, U... Read More

'Coronel II' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the North Atlantic (8/17 December 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-92, U-107, U-302, U-311, U-390, U-415, U-421, U-541, U-543, ... Read More

'Coronel III' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the North Atlantic (14/17 December 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-107, U-415, U-541, U-543, U-618, U-645, U-667, U-801 and U... Read More

'Coronet' (i) was the US initial designation for the planning stage of the operation undertaken as 'Chronicle' (spring 1943). ... Read More

'Coronet' (ii) was a US unrealised amphibious operation to capitalise on the Japanese operational confusion occasioned by 'Olympic' by landing near Tokyo, the Japanese capital... Read More

'Corridor' (i) was a British naval sweep off the Cape Verde islands group, off the north-west coast of Africa, to locate and destroy any U-boats in the area (23/26 October 194... Read More

'Corridor' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for an attack on Petsamo, the important port on the north coast of Finland used by the Germans to supply their forces in northern... Read More

'Corsham' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to protect Follafoss power station and Folden dam to the north of Trondheim in German-occupied Norway (29... Read More

'Corton I' was a British naval reconnaissance of the Japanese-occupied Andaman islands group in the Bay of Bengal by a submarine-landed Special Operation Executive party (Febr... Read More

'Corton II' was a British naval delivery of supplies to the reconnaissance party landed on the Andaman islands group in 'Corton I' (April 1944). ... Read More

'Cosmic' was the British contingency disposition of the naval forces required to combat any movement to the south by the German battleship Tirpitz from the Altafjord in the no... Read More

'Coton' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish a base on neutral Swedish territory from which the railway to the south of Mosjøen could be a... Read More

'Cottage' (i) was the US and Canadian reoccupation of Kiska island in the Aleutian islands group (15/16 August 1943)., The move had been presaged by the US military occupation... Read More

'Cottage' (ii) was a US special forces operation to parachute one man of the Office of Strategic Services into the Prague area of German-occupied Czechoslovakia (late February... Read More

'Cottbus' (i) was a German operation against so-called partisans in the region of Polotsk, Borisov and Lepel in the German-occupied western USSR (20 May/24 June 1943)., The re... Read More

'Cottbus' (ii) was a German operation against so-called partisans operating against the lines of communication essential to Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresg... Read More

'Cottbus' (iii) was a German operation by SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Curt von Gottberg’s Kampfgruppe 'von Gottberg', comprising SS police units, agains... Read More

'Cottbus' (iv) was a German operation against 'partisans' and other 'undesirable elements' operating against the lines of communication essential to Generalfeldmarschall Günt... Read More

The 'Cottbus-Potsdam Offensive Operation' was one of the last Soviet undertakings on the Eastern Front, and also the third of the five sub-operations together constituting the... Read More

'Coughdrop' was a British unrealised airborne operation to take and destroy the U-boat pens at Lorient in the north-western part of German-occupied France (June 1943). , To ha... Read More

'Coullie' was a British programme carrierborne air attacks on the Japanese-occupied Nicobar islands group and provision of air cover for the British minesweeping forces near P... Read More

'Councillor' was a British carrierborne air attack by Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Eastern Fleet on targets on the island of Sumatra in the Netherlands East Indies and Sab... Read More

'Countenance' was the Allied invasion and occupation of Iran to secure the Iranian oilfields and to assure the lines of communications by which Allied matériel could be deliv... Read More

'Counterblast' was a British naval attack by elements of Admiral Sir Henry Moore’s Home Fleet on German shipping off the south-west coast of German-occupied Norway (12/13 No... Read More

'Counterpane' was a British major exercise to validate concepts for a counterattack on any German invasion of the eastern UK in the East Anglian region (April 1940). ... Read More

'Counterstroke' was a British unrealised plan to deploy small parties of airborne troops to garner information about the sites which the Germans were starting to prepare in no... Read More

'Courage' was the British definitive version of the plan initially schemed as 'Contempt' (i) (1941). ... Read More

'Cover' was the Allied overall designation of the air campaign to bomb German transport facilities and airfields in order to isolate the Normandy area and also to destroy the ... Read More

'Covered' was a British combined air and sea undertaking to find and destroy the 9,925-ton oiler/supply vessel Brake known to be refuelling, resupplying and rearming U-boats o... Read More