'Dallas' was a US tactical deception during the battle for Metz in eastern France to persuade the Germans that the corps artillery of Major General Walton H. Walker’s US XX ... Read More

'Damenwahl' was the German evacuation of the bridgehead on the eastern side of the Dniepr river at Nikopol on the Eastern Front being held by General Ferdinand Schörner’s X... Read More

The 'Damm-Stellung' was the German position held by General Maximilian de Angelis’s XLIV Corps of Generaloberst Richard Ruoff’s 17th Army within Generalfeldmarschall Ewald... Read More

'Dampfhammer' was the German alternative designation for 'Blau III', the third-phase southward extension of the German 1942 summer offensive on the Eastern Front into the Cauc... Read More

'Dan' was a Japanese undertaking by General Masakasu Kawabe’s Burma Area Army for Lieutenant General Masaki Honda’s 33rd Army to keep the Burma Road closed and to regain t... Read More

'Danebrog' was a German attack by SS Obersturmbannführer Knud Børge Martinsen’s SS Freikorps 'Danmark', the Danish regiment of SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffe... Read More

'Daniel' (i) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Bourbriac area of German-occupied France to establish ... Read More

'Daniel II' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a four-man Dutch and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Oosterbeek area of the German-occupied Netherlands (17 Septemb... Read More

'Danny' was a US unrealised plan to use fighter squadrons of the US Marine Corps to attack V-1 flying bomb launch sites in northern France as part of 'Crossbow' (June/July 194... Read More

'Dante' was a British unrealised tactical deception plan by Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford’s British 12th Army (ex-14th Army) in Burma to support operations planned... Read More

'Danzig' was a German planning process, together with 'Augsburg' (i) and originally known as 'Rhein' (i), for strategic offensive operations into north-western Europe (20 Nove... Read More

The 'Danzig Offensive Operation' was the second of the four sub-operations which in total constituted the Soviet 'East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive Operation', and its prima... Read More

'Darg Koch' was a German unrealised operation, schemed within 'Edelweiss' (i), based on the use of a powerful Kampfgruppe of Oberstleutnant Paul Haehling von Lanzenauer’s Le... Read More

'Darlington' was a British combined naval and special forces undertaking to rescue Allied prisoners of war in the area to the south of Ancona on the east coast of central Ital... Read More

The 'Darmstadt-Stellung' was the German final blocking position in front of the 'Panther-Stellung' to the east of Pskov in the Kurland area of the Eastern Front (early 1944).,... Read More

'Dartboard' was a British undertaking, associated with 'Corona' (i), to use the Aspidistra 600-kW radio transmitter, located in England, to disrupt German night-fighter operat... Read More

'Dauntless' was a British diversionary offensive in support of 'Epsom' by Lieutenant General G. C. Bucknall’s XXX Corps of Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2nd Army ... Read More

'David' (i) was the deployment of General the Lord Gort’s British Expeditionary Force from north-eastern France into Belgium at the start of the 'Battle of Belgium' as the G... Read More

'David' (ii) was the British overall designation of the plans for operations in Burma following the defeat of the Japanese 'U' against Kohima and Imphal and paving the way to ... Read More

'David' (iii) was a British special forces operation to make a beach reconnaissance of Elizabeth island off the south-west coast of Burma (October 1944). ... Read More

'Day Ranger' was the designation of British day intruder missions by de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber aircraft over Germany and German-occupied Europe to disrupt German mi... Read More

'Daybreak' was the British alternative designation for 'Anthropoid' (21 December 1941/27 May 1942). ... Read More

'Dayton' was the Australian recapture of the area of North-East New Guinea, including Madang, on the coast of North-East New Guinea by elements of Major General Allan J. Boase... Read More

'Dazzle' was a British unrealised plan to furnish military support to Spanish Morocco in the event of a German invasion of the Iberian peninsula (1941). ... Read More

'DB' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from southern England to north-western France (September 1939/October 1939).... Read More

'DB' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Dikson island to the White Sea, and as such reciprocals of the 'BD' se... Read More

'DB' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys plying the route outward from Durban, South Africa, for dispersal (?)., One known convoy of this series was DB.38 of 12/14 May... Read More

'DB' (iv) was the British purely naval part of 'Ploughshare' to deliver reinforcements and stores to the British and Canadian garrison on Spitsbergen island off the north coas... Read More

'DBF' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Dakar, French West Africa, via Bathurst, Gambia, to Freetown, Sierra Leone... Read More

'DC' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying between Durban and Port Elizabeth or Cape Town, South Africa, ... Read More

'DC' (ii) was the British naval delivery of stores and mail for the ships remaining in the Kola inlet of the northern USSR during the long summer days when the running of arct... Read More

'Deadheat' was the designation of US planning for 'Rankin' (1943/44). ... Read More

'Deadstick' was the British gliderborne landing to take two important bridges over the Orne river and the Canal de Caen within 'Overlord' (6/7 June 1944)., The unit involved, ... Read More

'Deadweight' was a British operation to complete the air transport of one battalion from Palestine to Iraq at the time of the Anglo-Iraqi War (April/May 1941). ... Read More

'Deadwood' was the US geographical rather than operational codename, later changed to 'Fillet', for Jaluit atoll in the Marshall islands group of the central Pacific Ocean (19... Read More

This was a British air training exercise to improve the skills of the crews of No. 16 Group of RAF Coastal Command in executing torpedo attacks on a formation of German warshi... Read More

'Dearborn' was a British plan, based on 'Lancing' and implemented as 'Bristle', to use special forces for the capture of a German radar installation at Plage Ste Cecile in Ger... Read More

'Deathride' was the Allied semi-official designation for the possibility of a final suicidal offensive by the German army in the closing stages of the war (1944/45). ... Read More

The 'Debrecen Offensive Operation' was the Soviet undertaking to advance from western Romania into eastern Hungary (6/28 October 1944)., The undertaking was the responsibility... Read More

'Debunk' was the Allied designation of the Axis radio station broadcasting in English to North Africa (1942/44). ... Read More

'Decanter' was the US naval contingency plan for the seizure of French Guiana (1942)., French Guiana was part of the French West Indies, which also included the Caribbean isla... Read More

'Deceit' was the British naval transport of Allied replacement and reinforcement personnel to the ports of the northern USSR (?). ... Read More

'Decker' was a British unsuccessful attempt, in parallel with 'Razzle', by Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal’s RAF Bomber Command, to start major fires by dropping large number... Read More

'Deep Cut' was a British special forces raid by 25 men of No. 1 Commando’s No. 5 Troop on two beaches near St Vaast on the north coast of German-occupied France to take Germ... Read More

'Deer' was a US special forces operation to parachute a four-man Office of Strategic Services team into the Tan Trao area of Japanese-occupied northern Vietnam for reinforce t... Read More

'Defect' was a British naval undertaking to remove the wounded and non-essential personnel of Major General Leslie J. Morshead’s Australian 9th Division garrisoning the besi... Read More

'Deficient' was the British advance of Brigadier T. W. Rees’s Indian 21st Brigade Group of Major General W. J. Slim’s Indian 10th Division from Haditha up the Euphrates ri... Read More

'Defoe' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service to reconnoitre the Argentan region of Normandy in German-occupied France (19 July/23 August 1944)... Read More

'Defraud' (i) was a British unrequired outline plan for the land, sea and air support of Turkey, and the stocking of the relevant bases, in the event of an Axis invasion of Tu... Read More

'Defraud' (ii) was a British naval decoy undertaking, in association with 'Conrad', on the Japanese-occupied Nicobar islands group in the divide between Bay of Bengal and the ... Read More