'FA' was the British naval programme for the protection of the ships directly involved in 'Dynamo' against German air attack (26 May/4 June 1940). ... Read More

'Fabian' was a British special forces operation by the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) near Nykerk in the German-occupied Netherlands to collec... Read More

'Fabius' was an Allied series of six final and major amphibious exercises ('Fabius I' to 'Fabius VI') for Major General Leonard T. Gerow’s US V Corps of Lieutenant General O... Read More

'Febre' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a French team of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into the Vientiane area of Japanese-occupied Laos t... Read More

'Fabric' was a British Middle East cover plan, at the strategic, operational and tactical levels, to aid General Sir Claude Auchinleck’s planned June 1942 offensive by persu... Read More

This was a German limited offensive by Generaloberst Erwin von Witzleben’s 1st Army of Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe ‘C’ in the eastern part of Fran... Read More

'Facsimile' was a British special forces raid by the Small Scale Raiding Force against Morlaix airfield in the northern part of German-occupied France (16/17 October 1942). ... Read More

'Faggot' (i) was the British extension of 'Lustre' to deliver units, weapons and stores by sea to the Thracian region of northern Greece before the launch of the German 'Marit... Read More

'Faggot' (ii) was the Allied overall plan for the military operations which to be implemented in the event of an outbreak of hostilities with the Yugoslav forces in the Venezi... Read More

'Fahrenheit' was a British special forces raid by elements of the Small Scale Raiding Force and No. 12 Commando against the German signals station at the Pointe de Plouézac o... Read More

'Fairfax' was a British unrealised plan initiated by Brigadier G. M. O. Davy’s Land Forces Adriatic to base British ground and air forces in Yugoslavia (November 1944)., The... Read More

'Fairlands' was a British deception plan designed, in combination with a continued Allied threat to the west coast of Italy in the area of Livorno, to prevent the redeployment... Read More

'Faith' was a British troop convoy heavily attacked by Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor maritime patrol bombers (8/12 July 1943)., On 8 July the convoy’s three ships (16,792-ton Bri... Read More

'Fakel' was a Soviet naval undertaking at the beginning of the 'Talvisota' with Finland (29/30 November 1939)., The 3rd Group of the 1st Mine and Torpedo Regiment laid a minef... Read More

'Falaise' was a British sabotage raid by the Special Operations Executive against a German observation station near Tangier in Vichy French North Africa (12 January 1942). ... Read More

'Falcon' (i) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to have a team operate in the Mosjøen area of German-occupied Norway for the reorganisation of local ... Read More

'Falcon' (ii) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive in German-occupied Norway with the same tasks as 'Falcon' (i) (February 1944)., The three-man party o... Read More

'Falcon' (iii) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive in German-occupied Norway with the same tasks as 'Falcon' (i) and 'Falcon' (ii) (March 1944)., The t... Read More

'Falcon Peregrine' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive in German-occupied Norway with the same tasks as 'Falcon' (i), 'Falcon' (ii) and 'Falcon' (iii) ... Read More

'Falke' (i) was the German component of 'Grün' (iii) concerned with a breakthrough of the French defences of the Maginot Line near Zweibrücken to open the way for a limited ... Read More

'Falke' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ONS.158, ONS.159, ONS.160 and HX.222 convoys (28 December 1942/19 January 1943)., The wolfpack compris... Read More

'Falke' (iii) was a German unrealised plan for Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein’s Heeresgruppe 'Süd' to undertake a relatively small enveloping movement on the Sovi... Read More

'Falke' (iv) was a German contingency plan promulgated for the containment and defeat of any Allied amphibious descent on the northern or central parts of Norway’s west coas... Read More

'Falke' (v) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Papuk and Bilo mountain region of the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupi... Read More

The 'Falke-Wissun-Stellung' was a German defensive position associated with the disengagement of Generaloberst Karl-Adolf Hollidt’s 6th Army of Generaloberst Josef Harpe’... Read More

'Falkenauge' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia within German-occupied Yugoslavia by Generalleutnant ... Read More

'Fall River' was the Allied programme to deliver reinforcements to and build airfields in the Milne Bay area of south-eastern Papua (June/July 1942). , Allied interest in the ... Read More

'Fallreep' was the German break-out by General Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt’s II Corps and parts of General Christian Hansen’s X Corps from the Demyansk pocket to ... Read More

The 'False Armistice Project' was a British unrealised deception intended to cause large numbers of disaffected Italian soldiers to surrender at the start of 'Husky' (i) (June... Read More

'Fanfare' (i) was the Allied overall designation for the planning and preparation of 'Husky' (i) (spring/early summer 1943). ... Read More

'Fanfare' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a 18-man party (three British and 15 Italians of the 185o Reggimento paracadutisti 'Nembo') into the rear of... Read More

'Fang' was a British deception undertaking seeking to persuade the Japanese that a major amphibious descent on Sumatra, in the occupied Netherlands East Indies, was imminent (... Read More

'Fantan' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for the Fiji islands group in the Pacific Ocean (1941/45)., Later known as 'Chervil', Fiji is a large island ... Read More

'Fanto' was a British unrealised deception originating with the London Controlling section and designed to aid 'Husky (i) (early/mid-1943)., The undertaking was not agreed for... Read More

'Fanwise' was a British unrealised plan for the seizure of the Canary islands group, a Spanish possession in the Atlantic Ocean, in the event of a German invasion of the Iberi... Read More

'Farnborough' was a British series of operations by the Special Operations Executive in German-occupied southern Norway (December 1944/May 1945). , The operations were designe... Read More

'Farrier' was a British special forces raid on Mljet island off the coast of German-occupied Yugoslavia (22/24 May 1944)., After it had been decided on 5 May that 'Foothound',... Read More

'Fasan' was the German codeword for the start of any 'Helle Nachtjagd' operation in which night fighters waited in a holding area for the receipt of authorisation to tackle Br... Read More

'Fathead' was a British deception designed to persuade the Japanese in Burma that they could open a deception channel to the British (July 1943/June 1944)., The thinking behin... Read More

'Fathom' was a British special forces raid on the Sept Iles group of islets off the north coast of Brittany in German-occupied France (December 1942). ... Read More

'Fatigue' was a British undertaking to deliver military supplies to Turkey in the hope of persuading that neutral country to enter the war or the side of the Allies or, failin... Read More

'Faust' (i) was a British convoy operation between the Seine Bay and Southend to return empty vessels from 'Neptune' (iii) and 'Overlord' (14/15 June 1944)., The operation com... Read More

'Faust' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Arctic Ocean, directed in this instance against the JW.66 convoy’s passage in 'Roundel' (16 April/1 May 1945)., The wolfp... Read More

'FP' (i) was the British naval destruction of the Norwegian radio stations on Spitsbergen and Bjørnøya (31 July/7 August 1941)., The undertaking was a successor to 'EF' (ii)... Read More

'FB' (ii) was the designation of the Allied passage of independently routed eastbound and westbound ships between Iceland and Murmansk on the north-west coast of the USSR (Oct... Read More

'FB' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Bahia, Brazil, and as such reciprocals of ... Read More

'FBC' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Seine Bay to the Bristol Channel, and as such reciprocals of ... Read More

'FBM' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) of ships returning empty from 'Overlord' from the Seine Bay to Falmouth or the Bristol ... Read More

'FBP' was the designation of Allied personnel convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) of ships returning empty from 'Overlord' from the Seine Bay to... Read More

'FC' (i) was a British naval sweep by Captain A. K. Scott-Moncrieff’s 8th Destroyer Flotilla down the coast of German-occupied Norway (11/13 January 1943). , The force compr... Read More