'DV' was a British naval operation off the coast of neutral Norway to seize German fishing vessels and cover British ships laying mines off Norway early in April (31 March/8 A... Read More

'DW' was a British naval undertaking to destroy the German naval forces which had reached and taken Narvik in the 'Naumburg' sub-operation of 'Weserübung' (10/13 April 1940).... Read More

'DX' was a British carrierborne air undertaking by Admiral Sir Charles Forbes’s Home Fleet to provide air cover for the Allied forces in northern Norway after the 'Weserübu... Read More

'Dynamite' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious operation to take and hold Stavanger in German-occupied Norway (1941/42)., 'Dynamite', 'Jupiter' (i) against targets... Read More

'Dynamo' was the British and to a limited extent French evacuation of British, French and some Belgian troops from the pocket on the Franco-Belgian north coast between Dunkirk... Read More

'DZ' (i) was a British unrealised naval undertaking to lay a minefield in the waters off German-occupied western Norway (6 May 1940)., The operation was to have involved the m... Read More

'DZ' (ii) was a British naval undertaking by Admiral Sir John Tovey’s Home Fleet to lay a minefield off the coast of German-occupied Norway in the area of Egersund (3 Januar... Read More

'E' (i) was the German logistic operation to locate and gather in the appropriate ports the many types of transport vessels and craft which its forces would require in appropr... Read More

'E' (ii) was the Japanese seizure of Thailand and north-eastern Malaya (8 December 1941/15 February 1942)., The origins of the Japanese invasion of Thailand can be found in th... Read More

'E' (iii) was the designation of Allied tanker convoys plying to the south from Trinidad for dispersal during the heyday of 'Paukenschlag' (July/August 1942)., The first of th... Read More

The 'E-Linie' was a German fallback line for Generaloberst Karl-Adolf Hollidt’s (from 25 March 1944 General Sigfrid Henrici'''s and from 8 April 1944 General Maximilian de A... Read More

The 'E-Plan' was the French initial strategic plan for implementation in the event of a German invasion but soon succeeded by the 'D-Plan' (1939/40)., In 1920 France and Belgi... Read More

'EA' was a British unrealised naval undertaking by Admiral Sir John Tovey’s Home Fleet to lay a minefield off Fro Havet in German-occupied Norway (1/2 February 1941)., The m... Read More

'Eagle' (i) was an Allied training exercise to validate paradrop and glider-towing techniques, as well as related tactics and techniques, in preparation for the 'Albany' and '... Read More

'Eagle' (ii) was a US special forces operation to parachute a three-man Office of Strategic Services team into German-occupied northern Italy to help co-ordinate local resista... Read More

'Early Window' was the designation of British 'Window' (chaff) raids by de Havilland Mosquito light bombers of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command with ... Read More

'Earthquake' (i) was a British training exercise associated with the requirements for the defeat of any German invasion of the UK (1940). ... Read More

'Earthquake' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for a special forces raid to take and destroy the coastal artillery batteries at Equilan on the north coast of German-occupied ... Read More

'Earthquake' (iii) was the Allied designation of air attacks on tactical targets in Japanese-occupied Burma by Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers ('Earthquake Major') a... Read More

'Easement' was a British series of small-scale naval undertakings by Lieutenant P. Williams’s MGB-502 of the 15th Motor Gun Boat Flotilla to land and/or extract agents at th... Read More

The 'East Carpathian Strategic Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking designed to aid the Slovak National Rising and allow the arrival of major Soviet forces into Trans... Read More

The 'East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet strategic offensive 1 into Pomerania and West Prussia (24 February/4 April 1945)., Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza... Read More

The 'East Prussian Strategic Offensive Operation' was a Soviet strategic offensive in the northern sector of the Eastern Front, with some German units not surrendering until ... Read More

'EB' was a British naval operation to seize the German weather vessel München and its important code equipment and documentation (5/7 May 1941)., After Enigma-coded signals f... Read More

'EBC' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Barry and the Bristol Channel to St Helen’s Roads, Isle of Wigh... Read More

'EBM' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical or in one case a literal suffix) from the Clyde river or Milford Haven to ports of southern Eng... Read More

'EC' (i) was the designation of British coastal convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying from Southend to the Clyde river, Oban and Loch Ewe as a replacement for the ... Read More

'EC' (ii) was a British naval undertaking undertaken as successor to 'EB' for the capture of the German weather ship Lauenburg specifically for the seizure of her Enigma encry... Read More

'Echo' was the German launch word for ethnic German groups and other pro-German elements in Poland to ready themselves for active as well as passive support of the German forc... Read More

'Eclipse' (i) was an Allied contingency plan, initially known as 'Rankin' and then as 'Talisman' (i), designed for implementation in the event of a German military collapse in... Read More

'Eclipse' (ii) was an Allied unrealised plan with 'Eclipse' (i) by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army for an airborne descent by two corps on Be... Read More

'Eclipse' (iii) was the British overall plan for the capture of major German ports such as (from west to east) Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Kiel, Lübeck and Wi... Read More

'Eclipse' (iv) was the Allied overall designation of the plans drawn up or considered for the treatment of Germany after the end of the war (spring 1945)., As the end of the w... Read More

'ECM' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a letter suffix) carrying motor transport from Falmouth to the Seine Bay area of ... Read More

'ECP' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) carrying personnel from Portland and the Solent to the Seine Bay within the context of ... Read More

'Edelweiss' (i) was the German plan to seize the agriculturally fertile areas of the Caucasus region and also to take the oilfields situated at and to the south-west of Maykop... Read More

'Edelweiss' (ii) was a German pair of operations ('Edelweiss I' and 'Edelweiss II') to land weather reporting teams and their equipment on the east coast of Greenland (August/... Read More

'Edelweiss' (iii) was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in occupied Yugoslavia to reopen road the road linking Gračac and Go... Read More

'The 'Edelweiss-Stellung' was a German and Finnish position on the Karelian front in the Kiestinki sector of the Louhi region (1942/44). ... Read More

'EF' (i) was a British unsuccessful naval undertaking to block the port of Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium as the German forces approached it (25 May 1940)., The demolition ... Read More

'EF' (ii) was a British carrierborne air attack on the German positions at Kirkenes and Petsamo on the Arctic Ocean coast of Finland and German-occupied northern Norway (24 Ju... Read More

'Effective' was an Allied unrealised plan for the employment of airborne forces for the seizure of objectives in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) region of Germany, most notably... Read More

'EGV' was a British two-part naval undertaking ('EGV1' and 'EGV2') in which ships of Admiral Sir John Tovey’s Home Fleet departed Scapa Flow to operate in the northern water... Read More

'EH' (i) was a British naval minelaying operation off Stadlandet on the west coast of German-occupied Norway (7/8 September 1941)., The ships involved were the cruiser minelay... Read More

'EH' (ii) was a British naval undertaking for the relief and support of the Anglo-Canadian garrison on the island of Spitsbergen off the north coast of German-occupied Norway ... Read More

'Eiche' (i) was a German intelligence undertaking by the Abwehr’s Abteilung III counter-intelligence and counter-espionage department to intercept and read encrypted radio m... Read More

'Eiche' (ii) was a German special forces operation to rescue the deposed Italian leader Benito Mussolini (12 September 1943). , With several of his colleagues close to revolt ... Read More

'Eiderdown' was an Allied unrealised tactical plan for the capture of 'Crossbow' targets (autumn/winter 1944/45). ... Read More

'Eifel' was a German pair of intelligence undertakings ('Eifel I' and 'Eifel II') by the Abwehr’s Abteilung III counter-intelligence and counter-espionage department to inte... Read More

'Eight Bells' was a British unrealised plan for the seizure of the Cape Verde islands group, a Portuguese possession off the coast of north-west Africa, against German opposit... Read More