'Crupper' (ii) was a British lengthy series of special forces operations by the Special Operations Executive along the coastal regions of German-occupied northern France, Belg... Read More

'Crusader' (i) was a British offensive intended to lift the Axis siege of Tobruk (18 November 1941/6 January 1942)., Tobruk had been invested since 10 April 1941 by the later ... Read More

'Crusader' (ii) was a British special forces operation by L Detachment, Special Air Service, within 'Crusader' (i) (16/17 November 1941)., This operation constituted the first... Read More

'Crush' was a British carrierborne air attack on Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia (31 July/2 August 1940)., Undertaken by Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Gibra... Read More

'Crystal' was a British deception undertaking in the Western Desert to secure the maximum tactical benefit from the arrival of US M3 General Grant medium tanks in British serv... Read More

'CSO' was the British overall designation of operations in and around the Indian Ocean by the Ceylon-based submarines of Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Eastern Fleet (April ... Read More

'CT' (i) was the designation of British military troopshop convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying from the UK to Canada, and as such reciprocals of the 'TC' (i) ser... Read More

'CT' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Corsica via Sardinia to Bizerte, and as such reciprocals of the 'TC' (... Read More

'CT' (iii) was the designation of an Allied convoy plying the route from Cristobal, Panama, to Trinidad (July 1942)., The sole such convoy was CT.1 of 2/13 July with the 2,518... Read More

'CU' was the designation of Allied troopship and fast transport convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from New York to the Netherlands West Indies, excep... Read More

'Cucumber' (i) was a British bombing attack by Malta-based aircraft on Tripoli, the capital and most important port of Italian-held Libya (July 1941). ... Read More

'Cucumber' (ii) was the British overall designation of operations to interdict German coastal convoys just off the German-occupied Netherlands (August 1943/April 1944). ... Read More

'Cudgel' was the British second offensive in the Arakan western coastal region of Burma by elements of Lieutenant General W. J. Slim’s 14th Army, planned for the spring of 1... Read More

'Cuffley' was the Allied undertaking to ship supplies to ports in Morocco for onward transmission to the forces fighting in North-West Africa (early 1943). ... Read More

'Cultivate' was a British naval undertaking to run a convoy from Alexandria in northern Egypt to the besieged garrison of Tobruk farther to the west along the North African co... Read More

'Culverin' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious assault against the northern end of Sumatra in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies, presupposing the captu... Read More

'Cupola' was a British naval operation against German shipping off the west coast of German-occupied Norway (19/21 March 1945)., Part of Admiral Sir Henry Moore’s Home Fleet... Read More

'Curlew' (i) was a British special forces raid against St Laurent sur Mer on the Normandy coast of German-occupied northern France (11/12 January 1942). , The undertaking was ... Read More

'Curlew' (ii) was a British special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive to provide a radio operator for the Milorg military resistance organisation in German-... Read More

'Curtain' was a British naval bombardment of Japanese positions between Indin and Mayu Point in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (March 1944)., Thi... Read More

'Curveball' was a pair of Allied exercises ('Curveball I' and 'Curveball II') for airborne elements in preparation for 'Overlord' (27 April and 6 May 1944). ... Read More

'Cut' was a British naval undertaking to free mercantile shipping being held by the Vichy French at Mayotte island of the Comoros islands group at the northern end of the Mada... Read More

'Cut-out' was the British small-scale involvement by the naval 'A' and 'O' Commandos in 'Brassard' (17/19 June 1944). ... Read More

'Cutlass' (i) was a British unrealised operation by the Special Operations Executive to to intercept a German prison ship in the coastal waters of German-occupied Norway and r... Read More

'Cutlass' (ii) was the Allied overall designation of British and US tactical air operations covering the land advances from Yunnan in southern China, Ledo in northern Burma an... Read More

'Cutthroat' (i) was an Australian offensive in New Guinea, otherwise known as the Battle of Shaggy Ridge, and involving the actions known as the Battles of Faria Ridge, Prothe... Read More

'Cutthroat' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a small team into the Alsace area of German-occupied France to aid the local resistance forces (15 Septemb... Read More

'Cutting' was a British naval undertaking to lift and cut some 60 miles (100 km) of the Vichy French communications cable between Dakar in West Africa and Pernambuco in Brazil... Read More

'CV' (i) was an Italian pair of supply convoys from Italy to Libya (5/6 October 1940)., Two merchant ships departed Taranto during the evening of 5 October escorted by the 12a... Read More

'CV' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Cyrenaican port of Tobruk on the north coast of Africa to Valletta... Read More

'CW' (i) was the designation of British coastal convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying from Southend to St Helen’s Roads and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and thence F... Read More

'CW' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Panama Canal to Key West, Florida (July 1942)., There were only tw... Read More

'CX' (i) was the designation of British convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying between Colombo, Ceylon, and Addu atoll, Maldive islands group, and the Chagos island... Read More

'CX' (ii) was a British naval undertaking against U-boats operating in the North-Western Approaches to the UK (8 August 1944). ... Read More

'Cycle' was the British evacuation of troops from Le Havre on the French coast of the English Channel during the middle stages of the collapse of France (10/13 June 1940)., Th... Read More

'Cyclone' was the US seizure of Noemfoor island, off the north-western end of New Guinea, by forces of General Douglas MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Area command (2 July/31... Read More

'Cygnet' was a British uncompleted operation by the Special Operations Executive to undertake a two-week reconnaissance of the coastal region round Bergen in German-occupied N... Read More

'Cygnus' was a British naval rescue mission by Lieutenant R. F. Seddon’s MGB-718 of the 15th Motor Gun Boat Flotilla to recover two Special Intelligence Service personnel, t... Read More

The 'Cypris Defence Plan' was the British deception plan, after the German seizure of Crete in 'Merkur' (i), to suggest that Cyprus, which could have been Germany’s next tar... Read More

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'CZ' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, to Cristóbal at the eastern end of the ... Read More

'D' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Dakar, French West Africa, to Casablanca, Morocco (1939/40). ... Read More

'D' (ii) was the Japanese seizure of the Andaman and Nicobar island groups in the Bay of Bengal to shield the left flank of the Japanese forces in the process of completing th... Read More

The 'D-Linie' was a German defence line associated with the disengagement of Generaloberst Karl-Adolf Hollidt’s (from 25 March General Sigfrid Henrici’s) 6th Army of Gener... Read More

The 'D-Plan' was the French strategic plan, otherwise known as the 'Dyle Plan', designed to check the German advance expected in 'Gelb' (spring 1940)., The scheme was devised ... Read More

'Da Vinci' was an Italian wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (20 February/24 March 1942)., Operating in an area to the east of the Antilles islands group, the five boats were ... Read More

'Dacapo' was a German naval raid, within the context of 'Herbstgewitter' (iv), on the vessels used by the Yugoslav partisan forces to reinforce and supply their units on the i... Read More

'Dachs' was a U-boat minelaying operation by U-425, U-636, U-956, U-968, U-992 and U-995 in the Kara and Pechora Seas (31 August/5 September 1944)., The boats laid a number of... Read More

'Dachstein' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Slovenian region of Crni Vrh above Idrija, Vodice, Visnje, Col, Zagolic and Kr... Read More

'Dagger' was a British naval minesweeping undertaking associated with measures to fight off the possibility of a German seaborne invasion (1940). ... Read More