'FH' (ii) was a British three-part naval undertaking to deliver relief personnel and supplies to the Allied garrison of Spitsbergen island off the north coast of German-occupi... Read More

'Fieldfare' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to reconnoitre the railway linking Åndalsnes and Dombås in German-occupied Norway, prepare weapons an... Read More

'Fifth Enemy Offensive' was the Yugoslav designation for the German-led undertaking, also known to the Yugoslavs as the Battle of the Sutjeska and to the Germans as 'Schwarz' ... Read More

This was the Allied overall designation for the unrealised assault on the defences of Generaloberst Hans von Salmuth’s 15th Army by Lieutenant J. T. Crocker’s British I Corp... Read More

'Film Star' was an Allied radio deception operation supplementary to 'Rosebud' within the overall context of 'Fortitude' (July 1944)., A combined signal exercise undertaken at... Read More

'Filz' was a German major patrol undertaking by the SS 7th Gebirgsjägerregiment of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Lothar Debes’s 6th SS Gebirgsdivision... Read More

'Fink' was a U-boat wolfpack operation, in tandem with 'Amsel I', 'Amsel II', 'Specht' and 'Star', in the Atlantic against the SC.128 and ONS.5 convoys (4/6 May 1943)., The wo... Read More

'Finkenfang' was a German operation against partisans in the area of General Heinrich Clössner’s 2nd Panzerarmee within Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgr... Read More

'Finkenschlag' was a German operation, with the Montenegrin contribution of a Četnik unit commanded by Pavle Đurisić, against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in Axis... Read More

The 'Finnmark Liberation Operation' was an undertaking by Soviet and Norwegian forces to liberate Finnmark, the northernmost part of German-occupied Norway (23 October 1943/26... Read More

'Fire Eater' (i) was a British attack by General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s 8th Army on the Axis defensive positions of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel’s Deutsch-Italienis... Read More

'Fire Eater' (ii) was a British series of naval undertakings and special forces operations against the Dodecanese islands group under German-occupation in the south-western pa... Read More

'Fireball' was a British naval minesweeping operation by the reinforced 18th Minesweeping Flotilla in Dutch coastal waters to clear the approaches to the port of Rotterdam on ... Read More

'Firebash' was British programme of low-level incendiary bombing raids on German targets in general, and airfields and communication centres in particular, by de Havilland Mos... Read More

This was the Allied plan for Free French forces under the command of Général d’Armée Henri Giraud to invade and retake Corsica after the occupation of southern Italy and ... Read More

'Firebreak' was a US unrequired contingency plan for the defence of the USA’s western seaboard in the event of an attack by Japanese carrierborne aircraft (1942/45). ... Read More

'Firecrest' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to relieve the 'Pheasant' (i) team in the Hallingdal and Valdres areas of German-occupied Norway, reorg... Read More

'Fireframe' was a British unrealised deception operation in the estuary of the Rangoon river to aid the 'Dracula' (ii) seizure of Rangoon, the capital of Burma (May 1945)., Th... Read More

'Fireplace' was the US landing at Rulah Bay on Adak island in the Aleutian islands group for the construction of an airfield (30 August/September 1942)., Adak is an island in ... Read More

'Firepump' was a British airborne operation by 11 men of the Indian 153rd (Gurkha) Parachute Battalion in Brigadier M. R. J. Hope-Thompson’s Indian 50th Parachute Brigade to... Read More

'First Culverin' was the British overall designation for naval operations against ports, airfields and other installations on the northern end of Sumatra in the Japanese-occup... Read More

'First Enemy Offensive' was Yugoslav designation for the German and Četnik 'Uzice' offensive against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the western part of German-occu... Read More

'Fischadler' was a German special forces operation conceived by the Abwehr (intelligence service) and German foreign ministry as an enlargement of 'Wal', and thus based on the... Read More

'Fischfang' was the German first of four major counterattacks (followed by 'Morgenröte' [ii], 'Sonnenaufgang' and 'Seitensprung' ) against the Allied 'Shingle' coastal lodgem... Read More

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'Fischzug' was the German undertaking to transport SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Karl Herrmann’s SS Kampfgruppe 'Nord' from the Varanger peninsula in the ... Read More

'Fish' was a British pair of undertakings ('Fish I' and 'Fish II') to transfer bullion reserves from the UK to Canada in the battleships Resolution and Revenge (7/16 October 1... Read More

'Fishnet' was the Allied overall designation of operations by General Douglas MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Area command in the area bounded by northern New Guinea, the Bis... Read More

'Fitting' was the British overall plan by Lieutenant General Sir Philip Christison’s Indian XV Corps of Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese’s Allied Land Forces South-East... Read More

'Fivesome' was the Allied cover designation of the multi-national agreement for the co-ordination of all Allied operations in the South-West Pacific Area under the command of ... Read More

'Fixture' was a British naval undertaking to evacuate 90 survivors of the Royal West Kent Regiment from Léros in the Dodecanese islands group of the Aegean Sea as it fell to ... Read More

'FJ' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Florianópolis to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and as such reciprocals of the 'J... Read More

'FK' was the British deployment of the battleship Malaya, escorted by the destroyers Impulsive, Saumarez and Scorpion from Scapa Flow in the Orkney islands group to Lock Cairn... Read More

'Flabbergast' was a British deception operation designed by the 'D' Division to support the 'Extended Capital' and 'Dracula' (ii) recapture of central Burma and Rangoon by Lie... Read More

'Flack' was a British naval undertaking to land Allied agents on the north-west coast of Italy in the area of Genoa (March 1944). ... Read More

'Flagpole' was the British naval delivery of a No. 2 Special Boat Section party and senior Allied personnel onto the coast of Algeria (21 October/5 November 1942)., The submar... Read More

'Flamingo' was a German operation planned by Oberstleutnant Richard Gehlen, head of the German army’s intelligence department concerned with the Soviet army, to plant and ru... Read More

'Flannel Foot' was a British pair of naval undertakings by Lieutenant C. Mason’s MGB-318 of the 15th Motor Gun Boat Flotilla (29/30 January and April 1944)., In 'Flannel Fo... Read More

'Flaschenhals' was the German land corridor to Petrokrepost (Schlüsselburg in German) on the southern shore of Lake Ladoga, to the east of Leningrad, held by Generaloberst Ge... Read More

'Flashlamp' was the British series of air attacks by the bombers of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command against German artillery batteries on the Norman... Read More

'Flashlight' was an Allied unrealised plan for the occupation of the Canary, Azores and Madeira island groups in the Atlantic, but only at the simultaneous invitation of Spain... Read More

'Flashpoint' was a US operation by Lieutenant General William H. Simpson’s US 9th Army within the 'Plunder' offensive of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Allied 21st... Read More

'Flaton' was an Allied small and short-lived deception in Italy designed to protect a number of sources, who had proved useful during the 'Husky' (i) campaign in Sicily, by si... Read More

'Flatow' was the British undertaking to ensure the safe passage of the QP.15 convoy from the northern USSR to Scotland (17/30 November 1942)., The last of the 18 convoys of th... Read More

'Flax' was the Allied air offensive to disrupt the Axis air bridge between Tunisia and Sicily, very large numbers of German and Italian transport aircraft being shot down as t... Read More

'Flaxman' was an Allied early version of the undertaking later implemented as 'Gauntlet' to occupy part of Spitsbergen (early 1941/July 1941). ... Read More

'Flaxweiler' was a US acoustic deception by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops in support of a crossing demonstration of the Moselle river in the Flaxweiler area of Luxembou... Read More

'Fliedermaus' was a German small-scale air operation to bomb the British airfields used by Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse’s RAF Bomber Command (12 May 1941)., The undertakin... Read More

'Fleshpot' was the British naval operation to deliver Free Greek troops to Greece within the overall context of 'Manna' (i) (October 1944). ... Read More

'Flieder' was a German naval undertaking to secure the safe departure of the Japanese submarine I-8 from Brest in the north-western part of German-occupied France at the start... Read More