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

'Cowboy' was the unofficial designation of an undertaking by the Germans, with US support, to evacuate a significant part of the Vienna Riding School’s herd of Lipizzaner ho... Read More

'Cowper' was a British pair of deception operations designed to persuade the Germans and Italians holding the 'Braun' (ii) lodgement in northern Tunisia that the final Allied ... Read More

'CP' (i) was a British naval undertaking to lay a minefield in the Firth of Forth (November/December 1939)., The ship involved was the coastal minelayer Plover. ... Read More

'CP' (ii) was a British naval undertaking to sink blockships in the entrance to the harbour of Dieppe on the north-east coast of France and thereby deny the Germans the opport... Read More

'CP' (iii) was the designation of Allied tanker convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, to the Panama Canal (1942).... Read More

'Crack' was a British carrierborne air attack by elements of Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Gibraltar-based Force 'H' on targets in and around Elmas and Cagliari on the... Read More

'Crackers' was a British special forces raid against Tungodden in the Sognefjord area of German-occupied Norway by 16 men of Nos 10, 12 and 30 Commandos (24 February/1 March 1... Read More

'Crackle' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to use a two-man party (F. Brandt and A. Torhildsen) to provide instruction to the resistance forces in G... Read More

'Crackler' was a British naval undertaking in parallel with 'Marmalade' and 'Rapier' to transport, land and provide gunfire support for the troops of Brigadier R. E. Le Flemin... Read More

'Crackshot' was an Allied training exercise for medical personnel in preparation for 'Overlord' (19 February 1944). ... Read More

'Craftsmad' was a British part of 'Burnsall' (1944). ... Read More

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'Cramlington' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish reception party for 'Waxwing' as a base on neutral Swedish soil against targets in Germa... Read More

'Crasher' was the US overall designation of the operations planned or considered by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s Pacific Ocean Areas command for implementation against Luzon ... Read More

'Craster' was a British component of 'Burnsall' (1944). ... Read More

'Crawdad' was an Allied contingency plan, created as an alternative to 'Buffalo', 'Grasshopper' and 'Turtle', for Major General Lucian K. Truscott’s US VI Corps to break out... Read More

'Crayfish' was a Free Dutch special forces operation to parachute a special forces team into the Bilorri area of Japanese-occupied Dutch New Guinea for a sustained land undert... Read More

'Crayford' was a British operation to move troops, weapons, equipment and supplies now surplus to local requirement from Lieutenant General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson’s (late... Read More

'CRD' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Casablanca, Morocco, to Dakar, French West Africa, and as such reciprocals... Read More

'Credential' was a British naval sweep for German transport vessels and invasion craft delivering forces to attack British positions or to reinforce their own garrisons on the... Read More

'Creeper' was a British naval tactic devised by Captain F. J. Walker, commander of the 2nd Escort Group, for the sinking of U-boats (1942/45)., The tactic was based on the use... Read More

'Creosote' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for Wotje atoll in the central portion of the eastern Radak group of the Marshall islands group in the cent... Read More

'Cricket' (i) was a British and Free French unsuccessful naval undertaking to extricate from Vichy France their Enigma codebreaking personnel (especially Polish) who were now ... Read More

This was the Allied Combined Chiefs-of-Staff conference held in Malta to prepare military decisions before the 'Magneto' conference at Yalta between the 'big three; leaders (3... Read More

The 'Crimean Defensive Operation' was the Soviet defence of Crimea (18 October 1941/4 July 1942)., In its entirety, the Crimea campaign lasted eight months as Soviet forces at... Read More

The 'Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by General Fyedor I. Tolbukhin’s 4th Ukrainian Front to liberate Crimea from the German occupation of Ge... Read More

'Crimson' (i) was a British naval raid by aircraft and surface units on Sabang island off the northern tip of Japanese-occupied Sumatra (22/27 July 1944)., Early in July, by w... Read More

'Crimson II' was an Allied exercise in the UK for artillery and anti-aircraft elements in preparation for 'Overlord' (19 March 1944). ... Read More

'Cringle' was the Allied basic plan by General Douglas MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Area command for the recapture of Mindanao island and the Visayan group in the Japanese... Read More

'Crocker' was a US air attack on a German weather station in Greenland (25 May 1943)., The four US bombers operated from Iceland and attacked the 'Holzauge' weather station, w... Read More

'Crocodile' was a British landing by a small unit on Sagu island of Ramree island off the Arakan western coastal region of Burma (30 January/4 February 1945)., Four landing cr... Read More

'Crofter' was the British delivery of a token force of Free Norwegian troops to fight alongside the Soviet forces in the northern part of the USSR (6 November 1944/8 May 1945)... Read More

'Crofton' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to protect power, repeater and telecommunications stations around Mo i Rana in Norway at the time of Germ... Read More

'Cromer' was a British unsuccessful naval attempt to land an agent of the Special Operations Executive near Marseille on the south coast of German-occupied France (March 1944)... Read More

'Croquet' was a British naval sweep against shipping off the west coast of German-occupied Norway in the area just to the north of Bud (3/7 May 1944)., The task was performed ... Read More

'Crossbow' was the British and US operation against the German long-range reprisal weapons (V-weapons) programme (15 November 1943/13 April 1945)., The main V-weapons were the... Read More

'Crosskeys' (i) was an Allied unrealised naval plan for amphibious landings in German-occupied Denmark (1944). ... Read More

'Crosskeys' (ii) was a British undertaking to establish the capability for naval mineclearing and for coastal forces to operate off the coast of German-occupied Denmark and No... Read More

'Crossword' was the Allied designation of the secret negotiations between the Germans and the Americans and British, conducted in Switzerland through Italian intermediaries, t... Read More

'Crow' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish radio contact and organise resistance groups on the eastern side of the Oslofjord in German-occ... Read More

'Crowfield' was British operation by the Special Operations Executive to protect the Moholt transformer station and the Trondheim repeater station in German-occupied Norway, a... Read More

'Crozier II' was a British naval undertaking by Lieutenant P. Williams’s MGB-502 to collect escaped Special Air Service personnel at the Anse Cochat in the bay of St Brieuc ... Read More

'Crozier III' was a British naval undertaking by a motor gun boat to land men and supplies of the Special Operations Executive on Bonaparte beach near Plouha in the St Brieuc ... Read More

'Crucible' was a British unrealised operation to land airborne forces on the Ile d’Ouessant off the western tip of the Brittany peninsula in German-occupied France (Septembe... Read More

This was a British and Canadian operation to secure an initial foothold in the German-occupied Netherlands (1944). ... Read More

'Crumpet' was a British attack by elements of Lieutenant General K. A. N. Anderson’s Allied 1st army on the Djebel Mansour and Djebel Alliliga, above the Wadi el Kebir and o... Read More

'Crumpet I' was a US unrealised air offensive planned by Lieutenant General Nathan F. Twining’s US 15th AAF for attacks on German troop concentrations in the area of Rimini ... Read More

'Crumpet II' was a US air offensive, developed from the unrealised 'Crumpet I', by Lieutenant General Nathan F. Twining’s 15th AAF against German troop concentrations in the... Read More

'Crupper' (i) was a British naval undertaking to send two unescorted supply ships from Gibraltar to Malta (November 1942)., The operation was an attempt to capitalise on confu... Read More