'Gatter' was a German naval minelaying operation to the north-west of the island of Elba off the west coast of Italy by two ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Wiric... Read More

'Gatwick' was the planning designation of the British and Canadian operation later implemented as 'Veritable' (late 1944/early 1945). ... Read More

'Gaudo' was an Italian fleet sortie in the Mediterranean against British ships operating in the area of Crete as part of the operation to reinforce the Greeks (26/29 March 194... Read More

'Gauntlet' was an Allied operation by Canadian infantry, British commandos and Norwegian servicemen on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen (19 August/10 September 1941)., Unde... Read More

'Gavin' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Ille et Vilaine area of German-occupied France to establish... Read More

'GB' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route in the South-West Pacific Area to Milne Bay, and as such reciprocals of the 'BG'... Read More

'GC' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Gibraltar to Casablanca, Morocco, and inaugurated in November 1942 after th... Read More

'GD' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Merauke, on the south-east coast of Netherlands New Guinea, to Thursday Isl... Read More

'Gearbox' was a British series of naval operations to reinforce, resupply and generally support the Allied forces occupying Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard islands group to... Read More

'Geier' (i) was a German unrealised plan for an offensive against the French defences of the Maginot Line in Alsace on the French/German border, to the west of the line linkin... Read More

'Geier' (ii) was a U-boat three-part wolfpack operation in the Atlantic off the Iberian peninsula using boats which had previously been part of the of the 'Trutz' wolfpack (30... Read More

'Geier' (iii) was a German unrealised plan for General Ehrenfried-Oskar Boege’s 18th Army of Generaloberst Ferdinand Schörner’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' to break out of the ar... Read More

The 'Geilenberg Programm' was a German undertaking, specifically ordered by Adolf Hitler, to restore damaged mineral oil production facilities and transfer the equipment for a... Read More

'Geiserich' was a German operation by General Rudolf Lüters’s XV Gebirgskorps (a mixed German and Croat formation) of General Dr Lothar Rendulic’s 2nd Panzerarmee to take... Read More

'Gelb' was the German unrealised strategic plan for the invasion of the the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France (19 October 1939/16 February 1940)., After the end of t... Read More

'Gelding' was a British small-scale naval operation against an Italian convoy reported to be off Crete on passage to North Africa (30 August/1 September 1942)., The motor torp... Read More

'Gelignite' was a British unrealised plan for Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery’s 8th Army to undertake operations in the northern part of Yugoslavia (February 1945).,... Read More

'Gemsbock' was a German operation, initially schemed as 'Einhorn', against partisan forces in the border region between German-occupied Albania and north-western Greece (6/25 ... Read More

'Gemse' (i) was a German series of naval minelaying operations in the Ligurian Sea by two ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10th Torpedoboot... Read More

'Gemse' (ii) was a German counter-offensive after the Soviet success of the 'Lower Silesian Offensive Operation' by Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Ivan S. Konev’s 1st Ukrainian F... Read More

The 'Generalplan Ost' was the German plan to accomplish Adolf Hitler’s 'new order of ethnographical relations' in the eastern European territories seized by the German army ... Read More

'Genova' was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (27/29 April 1942)., This was one of several small convoys which the Italians ran between Naples and Tripoli,... Read More

'Georg' was a German plan devised by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' for the reduction of Leningrad (25 September/25 December 1941)., The ... Read More

'George' (i) was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man 'Jedburgh' team of the Special Air Service into the Brittany area of German-occupied France (10 Ju... Read More

'George' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Bordeaux area of German-occupied France to aid local resis... Read More

'Gerald' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Morbihan area of German-occupied France to establish liaison wi... Read More

The 'Gerjen Landing Operation' was a Soviet amphibious assault by the Danube Military Flotilla on the Hungarian village of Gerjen in support of the 'Apatin-Kaposvár Offensive... Read More

'Gertraud' was a German unrealised plan for a bombing offensive against Soviet hydro-electric power generation facilities in the area to the east of Moscow using Junkers Ju 29... Read More

'Gertrud' (i) was the German and Bulgarian contingency planning for a joint invasion of Turkey should that country come into the war on the side of the Allies (12 November 194... Read More

'Gertrud' (ii) was a German unrealised plan for attacks on the Soviet industrial infrastructure deep in the USSR (1944). ... Read More

'Gertrude' was a British unrealised plan by the Special Operations Executive to prevent the shipment of sulphur to Germany from Narvik in German-occupied Norway (March 1941).,... Read More

'Gesellenprüfung' (i) was a German naval operation in the North Sea off the coast of East Anglia (28/29 March 1943)., On this night a force of seven S-boote tried to attack t... Read More

'Gesellenprüfung' (ii) was a German naval minelaying operation in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk in the East Anglian region of the UK (7/8 October 1943)., Under the c... Read More

'GF' (i) was a British naval minelaying operation in the area of the Galloper Sands off the east coast of the UK (1 December 1939)., In this undertaking, the minelayer Princes... Read More

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

'GH' was a British naval sweep against German shipping in the south-western part of the North Sea (8/9 September 1939). , The Humber Force’s light cruisers Glasgow and South... Read More

'Gherkin' was the British overall plan for the defence of Iran (1942/44). ... Read More

'GI' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from New Guinea to the Philippine islands group, and as ... Read More

'Gi' (i) was the Japanese occupation of the Gilbert islands group, a British protectorate in the Pacific (29 November/8 December 1941)., The Gilbert islands group comprises a ... Read More

'Gi' (ii) was a Japanese air-landing demolition raid by the 'Kaoru' Airborne Raiding Detachment on Leyte island of the Philippine islands group (26/27 November 1944)., The 'Ka... Read More

'Gi' (iii) was a Japanese kamikaze air-landing operation designed to destroy the air bases on the west coast of Okinawa which the US air forces were using with great success t... Read More

'Giant I' was an Allied unrealised plan for an airborne crossing of the Volturno river on the western side of south central Italy by Major General Matthew B. Ridgway’s US 82... Read More

'Giant II' was an Allied unrealised plan to drop part of Major General Matthew B. Ridgway’s US 82nd Airborne Division near Rome just before the announcement of Italy’s arm... Read More

'Giant III' and 'Giant IV' were an Allied pair of unrealised plans to expand the 'Avalanche' beach-head of Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark’s US 5th Army at Salerno with a m... Read More

'Gibbon' was the Allied transfer of the Italian fleet to British control as one of the terms of the Allied armistice with Italy (9/10 September 1943)., When, during the aftern... Read More

The 'Gibraltar Cover Plan' was an Allied part of the cover plan for the 'Torch' landing in French North-West Africa (October/November 1942)., It was appreciated that the assem... Read More

'Gibspec' was a British convoy operation between the Clyde river and Gibraltar (16/26 September 1942)., The six ships involved in this one-off undertaking were the 5,199-ton D... Read More

'Gideon' (i) was the British unofficial name by which the force commanded by Colonel O. C. Wingate under the auspices of the Special Operations Executive fought a guerrilla ca... Read More

'Gideon' (ii) was a British naval bombardment of German shipping and installations in Dieppe on the north coast of German-occupied France (25/26 July 1941)., The escort destro... Read More

'Gideon' (iii) was a British naval shore bombardment of Dieppe on the north coast of German-occupied France (25/26 July 1941)., The undertaking involved the escort destroyers ... Read More