'Fridericus II' was the German companion offensive to 'Wilhelm' and a logical successor to 'Fridericus I', undertaken by Generaloberst Ewald von Kleist’s 1st Panzerarmee and... Read More

'Fridericus Süd' was the German original designation for the operation undertaken as 'Fridericus I' (May 1942). ... Read More

'Frieda' was a German operation against partisan forces operating against the lines of communication serving Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' o... Read More

'Friesland' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a four-man Belgian SAS team into the Friesland area of the German-occupied Netherlands to aid local resistance ... Read More

'Frinton' was a British operation in Madagascar as part of 'Streamline Jane' (summer 1942). ... Read More

'Frippery' was a British series of small canoe-borne landings to reconnoitre possible assault beaches along the north coast of the island of Sumatra in the Japanese-occupied N... Read More

'Frisches Haff' was the German plan for the defence of the fortified area of Danzig and Gotenhafen (Gdynia) against the Soviet 'Danzig Offensive Operation' within the 'East Po... Read More

'Fritham' was a British operation to secure the coal mines on Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago and deny their use to the Germans (30 April 1942/2 July 1943)., Under the... Read More

'Fritz' (i) was a German planning exercise leading toward the development of 'Barbarossa' (5/17 December 1940)., Adolf Hitler intervened in the process on 17 December, largely... Read More

'Fritz' (ii) was a German operation in the Belorussia region of the German-occupied western USSR by a combined force of Sicherheitsdienst personnel, police and SS troops of th... Read More

'Frodesley' was a British unrealised naval undertaking by Admiral Sir Max Horton, commanding the submarine forces in British waters, to use a fishing boat to carry a midget su... Read More

'Frog' was a British unrealised special forces raid against a coastal artillery target on the northern coast of German-occupied France as part of 'Neptune' (iii) (June 1944). ... Read More

'Fronttheater' was the German unsuccessful first attempt by the battle-cruiser Scharnhorst, heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and a destroyer force to break out of the Baltic Sea and ... Read More

'Froschlaich' was a German sub-component of 'Eisstoss' concerned with air attacks on Vitse Admiral Vladimir F. Tributs’s Baltic Fleet in Kronshtadt, including mining of the ... Read More

'Frugal' was a British programme of special air mail flights operated by de Havilland Mosquito aircraft from the UK to the USSR, Italy and Egypt to carry diplomatic and milita... Read More

'Frühling' was a German operation against the French resistance forces of the Maquis de l’Ain et du Haut-Jura based in the Gex and Oyonnax areas of the Vercors massif in th... Read More

'Frühlingsanfang' was a German-led Axis operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Primorska and Gorenjska regions of Slovenia within German-occu... Read More

'Frühlingserwachen' (i) was a German operation against partisan units in the Montenegrin region of occupied Yugoslavia (10/23 April 1944). ... Read More

'Frühlingserwachen (ii) was the German offensive intended to restore the position on the south-eastern approaches to Vienna with a counter-offensive against Marshal Sovetskog... Read More

'Frühlingsfest' was a German anti-partisan operation, in concert with 'Regenschauer', in the area of Lepel and Polotsk in the Belorussian part of the German-occupied western ... Read More

'Frühlingsreigen' was a German operation against partisans operating in the rear areas of Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' and thereby adverse... Read More

'Frühlingssturm' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito along the Danube river in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occup... Read More

'Frühlingswetter' was a German and possibly Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavi... Read More

'Frühlingswind' was a German one of a series of operations devised by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, commanding the Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee, to extricate the Ger... Read More

'Frundsberg' was the German codeword for the start of the evacuation of ethnic German civilians from the Reichsgau Wartheland in the western part of German-occupied Poland, af... Read More

'Fruska Gora' was a German, Croat and Hungarian operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (20/30 Augu... Read More

'Fry' was a British special forces raid to capture and hold four islands in Lake Comacchio in the north-eastern part of Italy, in the process supplementing the slightly earlie... Read More

'FS' (i) was the designation of British coastal convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Methil on the Firth of Forth or the estuary of the Tyne river ... Read More

'Fs' (ii) was a Japanese unrealised strategic plan to take New Caledonia island as well as the New Hebrides, Fiji and Samoa island groups on the maritime lines of communicatio... Read More

'Fs' (iii) was the British naval undertaking to ensure the safe passage of RA.54A convoy from Arkhangyel’sk to the UK (1/7 November 1943)., On 1 November the RA.54A convoy o... Read More

'FSD' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Dakar, French West Africa, and as such reciproc... Read More

'FT' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route between Fall River, Papua, and Townsville, Queenslan... Read More

'FT' (ii) was the designation of Allied Central Atlantic convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Trinidad (July 1943 onward... Read More

'FT' (iii) was a British naval operation to ensure the safe passage of the JW.54A, JW.54B and RA.54B convoys to and from ports in the northern USSR, and to return the JW.54B c... Read More

'FTC' was the designation of Allied military supply convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from the Seine Bay, France, to Southend... Read More

'FTM' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes literal suffix) returning empty from the Seine Bay, France, to Southend after del... Read More

'Fu' (i) was the Japanese seizure of Vichy French Indo-China (22/26 September 1940)., By February 1939, when Japan took the substantial Hainan island off the south coast of Ch... Read More

'Fu' (ii) was a Japanese operation to fly balloons over the Pacific Ocean on the prevailing winds to the west coast of the USA, where time fuses would release explosive and/or... Read More

'Fuchs' was a German uncompleted undertaking to provide for the disengagement of General Friedrich Hossbach’s 4th Army of Generaloberst Georg-Hans Reinhardt’s Heeresgruppe... Read More

'Fuchsjagd I' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Ivanzčica mountain region of the puppet state of Croatia in Germa... Read More

'Fuchsjagd II' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Kalnik mountain region of the puppet state of Croatia in German-o... Read More

'Fuddle' was a US prefix, followed by the name of the target, indicating a hit-and-run air attack on the designated target in any theatre (1943 onward). ... Read More

The 'Führer-Senger-Linie' was a German defence line in Italy just to the north of the 'Gustav-Linie' position centred on Cassino and extending along the Rapido and Garigliano... Read More

'Full House' was the designation of US tactical early-morning air missions by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s 9th AAF in support of 'Neptune' (iii) and 'Overlord' (6 ... Read More

'Fuller' was a British contingency plan for naval and air forces to sink any major German warships trying to break to the north-east through the English Channel from Brest to ... Read More

'Fullsize' was a British programme of diversionary land activity by Lieutenant General N. M. Ritchie’s 8th Army in North Africa designed to attract and hold the attentions o... Read More

'Fungus' (i) was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man Special Operations Executive team of Croat-born Canadians into the Dreznica area of German-occupie... Read More

'Fungus' (ii) was a British air support operation over Yugoslavia (4/5 November 1944)., Undertaken at night from a base in Italy, the operation was designed to deliver weapons... Read More

'Funke' was a German overall designation of plans by anti-Nazi elements to assassinate Adolf Hitler (early 1940s)., The name was decided by Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow, ... Read More

'Funnel I' was a British special forces operation to parachute a four-man party of the 'Z' Force’s Group B into the Bider area of Japanese-occupied Malaya on a reconnaissanc... Read More