'Amathea' was the Allied offshore pipe system for the PLUTO system in the area off the coast of Normandy in northern France (June 1944). ... Read More

'Ambassador' was a British special forces raid by H Troop of No. 3 Commando and No. 11 Independent Company on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands group (14/15 July 1... Read More

'Amble' was the British original designation of the operation launched as 'Abercrombie' (21/22 April 1942). ... Read More

This was a British special forces raid on Morlaix on the north coast of Brittany in the north-western part of German-occupied France (?). ... Read More

'Amherst' was a British special forces operation by the French 2ème and 3ème Régiments de Chasseurs Parachutistes (3rd and 4th Special Air Service), supported in the ground... Read More

'Amina' was a German unsuccessful attempt by elements of Oberstleutnant Paul Haehling von Lanzenauer’s Lehr-Regiment 'Brandenburg' zbV 800 to sabotage the British oil refine... Read More

'Ammonia' (i) was an Allied air attack on the Romanian oil industry (?). ... Read More

'Ammonia' (ii) was a British special forces operation by the Special Air Service to parachute a three-man 'Jedburgh' team into the St Nathalène area of the Lot region in Germ... Read More

'Ampersand' was the US geographical rather than operational codename, changed to 'Button' in February 1943 and later still to 'Ebon', for Espíritu Santo island in the New Heb... Read More

'Amrita' was British naval undertaking to lay a defensive minefield in association with 'Overlord' to prevent the incursion of German surface warships and U-boats into the are... Read More

'Amrun' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against various ON, HX and SC convoys (18/23 December 1943). , The wolfpack comprised U-302, U-311, U-392, U-629, U-960... Read More

'Amsel' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the SC.127 and HX.235 convoys (22 April/3 May 1943). , Until it was divided into the 'Amsel I' and 'Amsel II' p... Read More

'Amsel I' was a U-boat wolfpack operation, in tandem with 'Amsel II', 'Specht' and 'Star', in the Atlantic (4/6 May 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-267, U-402, U-504, U-575, ... Read More

'Amsel II' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (4/6 May 1943). , The wolfpack comprised U-107, U-223, U-266, U-377, U-383 and U-634, and for the loss of none of it... Read More

'Amsel III' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (3/6 May 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-448, U-468, U-525, U-569, U-709 and U-752, and neither lost any of its ow... Read More

'Amsel IV' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (3/6 May 1943). , The wolfpack comprised U-103, U-186, U-359, U-403, U-454 and U-466, and neither lost any of its ow... Read More

'Amsterdam' (i) was a British naval undertaking in which the destroyer Walpole was sent to land a party in the Dutch coastal city of Amsterdam in order to collect a major quan... Read More

'Amsterdam' (ii) was a US air operation, using Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft of the USAAF, to deliver weapons, other equipment and agents of the Office of Strategic Ser... Read More

'AN' (i) was the designation of Allied 'Aegean Northbound' convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Alexandria or Port Said, Egypt, to Piraeus or Souda... Read More

'AN' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and literal suffix) plying the route from the Admiralty islands group to New Guinea in the aftermath... Read More

'AN.14' was a British convoy operation whose designation is usually used for the action against a small Italian force in which it was involved on passage through the Aegean Se... Read More

'Anagram' was a British deception operation to cover the movement of Australian formations from the Middle East to the Far East and Australia by promoting the 'story' that the... Read More

'Anakim' (i) was an Allied unrealised strategic plan, initially agreed at the inter-Allied 'Symbol' conference at Casablanca in January 1943, for a concerted British and Chine... Read More

'Anakim' (ii) was a British naval undertaking within 'Stab' to create a diversion in the Bay of Bengal as a means of preventing the Japanese from releasing naval forces in Mal... Read More

'Analyst' was a British naval undertaking to run vital supplies from the UK to Malta in the fast cruiser minelayer Welshman (1/18 November 1942)., This warship had embarked th... Read More

'Anchor' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish radio contact, train small resistance groups, and prepare to receive arms drops in the area a... Read More

'Anchorage' was a US unrealised plan for the amphibious landing of formations of Lieutenant General Walter C. Krueger’s 6th Army at Hansa Bay in North-East New Guinea during... Read More

'Andalusien' was a German rendezvous position in the South Atlantic, between Trinidad and Tristan da Cunha, at which raiders and U-boats could meet their supply vessels (1940/... Read More

'Andreas' was a German unrealised plan by SS-Sturmbannführer Alfred Naujocks, an officer specialising in the development and implementation of unusual concepts, to produce co... Read More

'Andrew' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man Belgian and British 'Jedburgh' team into the Ardennes area of German-occupied Belgium (16 August 1944 ... Read More

'Andy' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Haute Vienne area of German-occupied France to establish lia... Read More

'Angel' was the German second of a series of four naval undertakings by the ex-Italian torpedo boats TA 24, TA 29 and TA 30 of Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10th To... Read More

'Angel Move' was a British and Canadian unrealised plan for the movement of Brigadier Armand A. Smith’s Canadian 1st Brigade of Major General A. G. L. McNaughton’s Canadia... Read More

'Angelhaken' was the designation of the two German naval forays into the North Atlantic by the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper (30 November 1940/15 February 1941). , Admiral Hipp... Read More

'Anger' (i) was a British special forces amphibious landing on Guernsey in the Channel Islands group to undertake a reconnaissance for 'Ambassador' (9 July 1940)., The small p... Read More

'Anger' (ii) was a Canadian plan for General H. D. G. Crerar’s 1st Army to break out of the Nijmegen bridgehead across the Nederrijn river to assist in opening the Emmerich ... Read More

'Anglo' was a British special forces attack on some of the airfields on the Italian-held island of Rhodes (4/17 September 1942)., The German and Italian air forces made signif... Read More

'Angus' was a Canadian offensive by Lieutenant General G. G. Simonds’s II Corps of Lieutenant General H. D. G. Crerar’s 1st Army in the area to the west of Antwerp in Belg... Read More

'Animals' was an Allied programme of support for an increased level of operations by the local resistance forces against the occupying German forces in Greece (June/July 1943)... Read More

'Aniseed' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious raid by the Special Boat Squadron of Brigadier G. M. O. Davy’s Land Forces Adriatic command on the port town of Lus... Read More

'Anklet' was a British special forces raid by some 300 men of Lieutenant Colonel S. S. Harrison’s No. 12 Commando, as well as a number of Free Norwegian troops, against Germ... Read More

'Anlauf' was a German operation to take Krasnodar in the Kuban region of the southern USSR against the Soviet 'Krasnodar Defensive Operation' (7/14 August 1942). ... Read More

'Annemasse' was a German undertaking, by the special operations branch of the Abwehr, to blow up the Annemasse railway viaduct in unoccupied France just over the border from t... Read More

'Annie' was a US propaganda offensive, under the auspices of the Office of Strategic Services, to beam radio transmissions at German listeners in the Rhineland (December 1944/... Read More

'Annoyance' was an Allied part of a programme of naval gunfire bombardments directed on Axis positions on Italy’s west coast in the period immediately before and during the ... Read More

'Annuity' was the US overall plan for the sequence of combined operations to follow 'Hotplate' to the north-east along the north coast of in New Guinea (1944). ... Read More

'Anstey' was a British naval undertaking to land Allied agents near Genoa on the north-western coast of Italy (March 1944). ... Read More

'Ant' was a British special forces operation by the Special Boat Section on the Sarawak coast of the island of Borneo in the Japanese-occupied East Indies (March 1945). ... Read More

'Antagonise' (i) was a British special forces raid on the island of Lussin (Losinj) off the Adriatic Sea coast of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavia (2/3 December 1944). , ... Read More

This was a US special forces operation to parachute one operative of the Office of Strategic Services into the Vienne area of German-occupied France to help establish a hospit... Read More