'FC' (ii) was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Fall River, New Guinea, to Cairns, north-eastern Australia (F... Read More

'FCM' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Seine Bay in northern France to the south-western UK, and as ... Read More

'FCP' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) carrying personnel from France to the south-west of England, and as such reciprocals of... Read More

'FD' (i) was a British major naval programme of minelaying using submarines (1940/44)., The first of the sequence was FD.1 of 4 April 1940 when Narwhal laid 50 Mk XVI mines in... Read More

'FD' (ii) was the designation of Allied military ferry convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Færoe islands group to the Clyde river, and as suc... Read More

'FD' (iii) was the British initial designation of the operation eventually implemented as 'Regulation' (February 1943). ... Read More

'FE' (i) was a British naval undertaking to lay a deep minefield in order to enhance the capability of the Dover Barrage and thus further hamper the passage of U-boats through... Read More

'FE' (ii) was a British naval undertaking to ensure the passage of the JW.53 convoy via the Arctic route to ports in the northern part of the USSR (15/27 February 1943)., Some... Read More

'Feather I' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to halt production at the Orkla pyrites mines by destroying the machinery in the lift shaft or, should ... Read More

'Feather II' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to complete the work of 'Feather I' by destroying the last electric locomotive operating on the rail l... Read More

'Felice' was a British special forces raid, otherwise known as 'Felicity', to destroy a bridge to the west of Hammamet on the east coast of Axis-occupied Tunisia (28/29 Januar... Read More

'Felicitate' was a British naval undertaking by Lieutenant C. Mason’s MGB-318 of the 15th Motor Gun Boat Flotilla to recover the personnel left ashore in 'Envious IIB' and g... Read More

'Felicity' was the British alternative designation for 'Felice I' (January 1943). ... Read More

'Felix' (i) was a German unrealised plan to take Gibraltar and close the Strait of Gibraltar to British shipping and, in the event that Spain co-operated, seize the Canary, Ca... Read More

'Felix' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Côtes du Nord area of German-occupied France to estab... Read More

'Felix-Heinrich' was the German definitive version of 'Felix' (i) for the capture of Gibraltar (10 March 1941 onward)., At the express insistence of Adolf Hitler, the Oberkomm... Read More

'Fell' was an operation undertaken by the US Army Air Forces to recover and transport to Italy a small number of Allied prisoners of war liberated from the Germans by the Yugo... Read More

'Felspar' was the US geographical rather than operational designation for Shemya island in the Aleutian islands group of the northern Pacific (June 1942/August 1945)., Shemya ... Read More

'Female' was the British definitive designation of operations initially planned as 'Gherkin' to improve security in the northern parts of Iran (1941/44). ... Read More

'Fence' was a British programme anti-submarine operations in the Strait of Otranto between southern Italy and German-occupied Albania (1943/8 May 1945)., The object was to tra... Read More

'Fender' was a British naval undertaking to transfer aircraft between the fleet carriers Ark Royal and Furious at sea in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Gibraltar (5 April 1... Read More

'Ferdinand' (i) was Allied (primarily Australian) network of coastwatchers established in the period following World War I and completed in March 1943 to operate on Japanese-h... Read More

'Ferdinand' (ii) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Fruska mountain region of Syrmia in the puppet state of Croatia within occupied Y... Read More

'Ferdinand' (iii) was an Allied deception plan in support of the 'Dragoon' (i) invasion of German-occupied southern France by leading the Germans to believe that the objective... Read More

'Ferkel' (i) was a German operation by Generaloberst Hans-Georg Reinhardt’s 3rd Panzerarmee against partisans in the Bryansk region of Belorussia in the German-occupied west... Read More

'Ferkel' (ii) was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Majevica mountain region to the north-east of Tuzla in the puppet state of... Read More

'Fernbank' was a British naval undertaking to create and disseminate false information about Allied anti-submarine weapons and their capabilities (September 1943/1944)., The o... Read More

'Ferret' (i) was a British undertaking by the Special Operations Executive to attempt the evacuation of seven agents from German-occupied Belgium (1942). ... Read More

'Ferret' (ii) was a British naval undertaking to land three Force 'A' operatives of the Special Operations Executive, effect a meeting with an existing 'Ferret' team, and reco... Read More

'Ferry' (i) was the British amphibious landing at Porto San Venere in southern Italy to support 'Baytown' (i) (7/8 September 1943)., It was only on 6 September that Lieutenant... Read More

'Festival' was an Allied unrealised plan for US amphibious landings on the coast of West Africa (1942). ... Read More

'Festung' was the German codeword for Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' to start the creation of a major defensive position on the Eastern F... Read More

'Festung Holland' was the German airborne and air-landing attack on Den Haag, Rotterdam, Dordrecht, and Moerdijk in the Netherlands as part of 'Gelb' (10/11 May 1940). , The U... Read More

'Fetlock' was the US occupation of Funafuti atoll in the Ellice islands group of the central Pacific (2 October 1942)., Comprising three reef islands and six true atolls, the ... Read More

'Fettle' was the Allied overall designation for the development of India as the primary personnel and logistic base for operations in South-East Asia (1943/44). ... Read More

'Feuer' was a U-boat wolfpack operation off the south-west coast of occupied Norway (17/19 September 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-293, U-310, U-387 and U-737, and neither ... Read More

'Feuerland' was a German undertaking instigated by Martin Bormann, head of the Parteikanzlei (party chancellery) and private secretary to Adolf Hitler, for the export of gold,... Read More

'Feuersee' was the German plan for large-scale air attacks on British bomber streams returning from Germany (1943/45)., The plan was devised as a means of countering British e... Read More

'Feuerstein' was a German operation to reinforce and thus secure the Alpine passes (especially the Brenner pass) between Italy and Austria after the Italian armistice with the... Read More

'Feuerwehr' (i) was a German operation to prevent partisan forces from infiltrating into German-occupied northern Macedonia (1943). ... Read More

'Feuerwehr' (ii) was a German operation to prevent the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito from infiltrating into the upper part of the Morava river valley (27 July/Aug... Read More

'Feuerzange' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Dalmatian islands of the Adriatic Sea between Losinj and Sibenik off the coas... Read More

'Feuerzauber' (ii) was a German programme to create new first-line formations from the various training staffs of Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm’s Ersatzheer and so offset so... Read More

'Feurerzauber' (iii) was a German early version of 'Nordlicht' (ii), developed from 'Georg', for the capture and destruction of Leningrad (23 July 1942 onward). ... Read More

'Feuerzauber' (iv) was the German destruction of the bridges, with the exception of the Ponte Vecchio, over the Arno river and other waterways in and near Florence in north ce... Read More

'FF' was the designation of Allied troop and evacuation convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route between the UK and north-western France (June 1940). , The ... Read More

'FFT' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Trinidad, and as such reciprocals of the 'TF' s... Read More

'FG' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Fremantle to Adelaide, Australia, and as such reciprocals of the 'GF' s... Read More

'FG' (ii) was the designation of an Allied convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route between Milne Bay, Papua, and Goodenough island of the neighbouring D’E... Read More

'FH' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from St John, New Brunswick, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and as such reciprocal... Read More