'Funnel II' was a British special forces operation to parachute a 30-man British and Gurkha party of the 'Z' Force’s Gurkha Support Group into the Tapah area of Japanese-occ... Read More

'Furtive' was a British naval undertaking to deliver money and to collect two agents and mail from Cavalaire near St Tropez on the south-east coast of France (28/29 January 19... Read More

'Fusilade' was the Canadian seizure of Dieppe by Major General C. Foulkes’s 2nd Division of Lieutenant General G. G. Simonds’s II Corps in General H. D. G. Crerar’s 1st ... Read More

This was the US naval blockade of French Guiana, which had declared its allegiance to the Vichy French régime (1942)., The undertaking was therefore related to 'Bungalow' (ii... Read More

'Fustian' was a British partially realised two-part airborne operation in Sicily as part of 'Husky' (i) (13/14 July 1943)., The undertaking involved two brigades of Major Gene... Read More

'FV' was a British naval operation by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Home Fleet to cover the RA.55A and JW.55B convoys plying from and to ports in the northern part of the USSR,... Read More

'FW' was a British naval operation by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Home Fleet to secure the safe passage of the JW.56A and JW.56B convoys to ports in the northern USSR, and th... Read More

'FWC' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the unescorted route from France to the Isle of Wight with coasting vessels whic... Read More

'FWL' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from France to the Isle of Wight for the delivery back to the UK of landing cra... Read More

'FWM' was the designation of Allied unescorted military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) of vessels returning from France to the Isle of Wigh... Read More

'FWP' was the designation of Allied unescorted military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) of personnel transport vessels returning empty from the Seine Bay to the Isl... Read More

'FX' was a British naval undertaking associated with the passage of the JW.57 outbound and RA.57 homebound convoys to and from ports in the northern USSR (20 February/11 March... Read More

'FXP' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from France to the UK with vessels which had delivered troops and equi... Read More

'FY' was a British naval undertaking associated with the passage of the JW.58 outbound convoy to ports in the northern USSR (27 March/4 April 1944)., The JW.58 convoy comprise... Read More

'FZ' was a British naval undertaking associated with the passage of the JW.59 outbound convoy to ports in the northern USSR (15/25 August 1944)., JW.59 was the first Arctic co... Read More

'G' (i) was a German unrealised plan for an airborne landing in the Belgian Réduit National (national redoubt) in the area bounded by Ghent, Termonde and Antwerp in the first... Read More

'G' (ii) was the Japanese seizure of Guam island, the sole US possession in the Mariana islands group (8/11 December 1941)., The largest and most southerly of the Mariana isla... Read More

'G' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Guantánamo, Cuba, to San Juan, Puerto Rico (September 1942/April 1944... Read More

'G' (iv) was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (24/28 November 1942)., 'G' (iv) was one of a pair of semi-reciprocal convoys, the other being 'LL' between T... Read More

'G' (v) was an Italian convoy operation from Palermo in Sicily to Tunis in North Africa (November/December 1942)., Centred on the 4,887-ton tanker Giorgio delivering acutely n... Read More

'G' (vi) was a British naval undertaking to lay a deep minefield against U-boats in the Irish Sea (March 1945). ... Read More

'Gabble' was an Allied early designation of the inter-Allied Tehran Conference definitively known as 'Eureka' (1943). ... Read More

'Gable' was a British naval undertaking in which warships patrolled the Gulf of Martaban and the estuaries of the Irrawaddy and Sittang rivers with a view to severing the Japa... Read More

'Gabriel' was an Allied unrealised plan, developed no further than the conceptual stage, for an amphibious landing on the Cotentin peninsula of German-occupied northern France... Read More

'Gaff' was a British raid by the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) and elements of the 1st and 2nd Special Air Service against German petrol dump... Read More

'Gain' was a British special forces operation by D Squadron, 1st Special Air Service, to cut rail communications in the Orléans region to the south-west of Paris in German-oc... Read More

'Gainsborough' was a British early designation of 'Atlas' to reinforce the garrison of Cyprus (1942). ... Read More

'Galahad' was a US long-range penetration force operating in northern Burma with the Chinese forces of Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell. The force was more formally known... Read More

'Galia' was a British operation by No. 3 Squadron, 2nd Special Air Service, to aid Italian partisans near Rossano in north-western Italy in support of the forthcoming offensiv... Read More

'Galloper' was a British naval undertaking to remove British forces from Iceland as the protection of the island was transferred to forces of the neutral USA following an agre... Read More

'Galvanic' was the US seizure of the Gilbert islands group as the first step in the drive across the central Pacific by the forces of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s Pacific Oce... Read More

'Galveston' was the US gliderborne delivery of reinforcements for Major General Matthew B. Ridgway’s 82nd Airborne Division following its 'Boston' (ii) assault and 'Detroit'... Read More

'Gambit' was a British undertaking to station midget submarines as navigation beacons to guide landing craft involved in 'Neptune' (iii) and 'Overlord' (6 June 1944)., These X... Read More

'Game Birds' was a British counterattack in the Battle of Alam el Halfa (31 August 1942)., The complete battle lasted from 30 August to 5 September 1942 in the Western Desert ... Read More

'Gamma' (i) was an Italian and Croat unrealised attack on the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Glamoc area of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (1942). ... Read More

'Gamma' (ii) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (17 August 1943). ... Read More

'Gander' was a British special forces operation in which a small commando party was landed on Kastelorizo island in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey to take advantage of... Read More

'Gangway' was an Allied unrealised plan, in association with 'Mustang', for an unopposed landing directly in Naples during the autumn of 1943 with the support of the governmen... Read More

'Gannet' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to provide arms instruction and guerrilla training as well as prepare three 'Saccharine' squads (assassina... Read More

'Ganymede' was a British convoy from Gibraltar to Malta (1942). ... Read More

'Garden' was the British advance of Lieutenant General B. G. Horrocks’s XXX Corps, of Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2nd Army, within the context of the combined '... Read More

'Gardening' was the British overall designation for aerial minelaying to hinder the movement of German naval and mercantile shipping in European waters (spring 1944/May 1945).... Read More

'Garfield' was an Allied radio deception operation to support the attempt of Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark’s US 5th Army to cross the lower reaches of the Volturno river ... Read More

'Gargoyle' was a British unrealised part of the cover plan by the London Controlling section for the proposed 'Brimstone' (ii) assault on Sardinia (February 1943)., The plan w... Read More

'Garment' was an Allied unrealised plan for the defence of Iran and the Caucasus region of the southern USSR at a time when there appeared the possibility rather than the prob... Read More

'Garotter' was a British unrealised plan for the amphibious seizure of Cagliari on the south coast of the Italian island of Sardinia (1941). ... Read More

'Garston' was a British special forces operation against a target in German-occupied Norway (March 1943). ... Read More

'Garway' was the British movement of troops to and from Cyprus (23 July 1944 onward). ... Read More

'Gastwirt' was a German unrealised plan for the Abwehr’s Abteilung II department to send two agents of Irish origin to London on a sabotage mission (6 October 1941 onward).,... Read More

'GAT' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying between Guantánamo, Cuba, via Aruba, Netherlands West Indies, to Trinidad, and as such r... Read More