'Gideon' (iv) was a French special forces operation to parachute a four-man naval counter-scorch team into the Brue-Auriac area of German-occupied France (11 August 1944 onwar... Read More

'Gilbert' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Finisterre area of German-occupied north-western Fran... Read More

'Gilbey' was the British overall designation of nocturnal anti-shipping attacks off the coast of the German-occupied Netherlands by aircraft of No. 16 Group of RAF Coastal Com... Read More

'Giles' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Finisterre area of German-occupied north-western France... Read More

'Gilman' was a British undertaking to reinforce the air strength of Malta (?). ... Read More

'Gilmerton' was a British unrealised deception plan to feed false information to a German general, who was a prisoner of war and about to be repatriated (1943/44)., The false ... Read More

'Ginny' was a US pair of special forces sabotage operations ('Ginny I' and 'Ginny II') by an operational group of the Office of Strategic Services in Italy (27 February/22 Mar... Read More

'Gisela' (i) was a German plan, initially designated 'Ilona' and mandated by the Führerweisung Nr 42, for the use of five divisions (four of them mechanised or motorised) to ... Read More

'Gisela' (ii) was a German night-fighter intruder operation against British bombers on their way back to England from an attack on Dortmund (3/4 March 1945)., On this night Ai... Read More

'Giulia' was a Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (8/15 October 1941)., Once they were able to decrypt the Italian C38M naval code, the British could from the s... Read More

'Gizo' was a German operation against partisans operating just to the south of the Pripyet marshes in the German-occupied western USSR as these now posed a severe and increasi... Read More

'GJ' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Guantánamo, Cuba, to Kingston, Jamaica, and as such reciprocals of the con... Read More

'GK' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying from Guantánamo, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, and as such reciprocals of the 'KG' series (... Read More

'GL' was a British naval sweep at the western end of the English Channel to locate and destroy German shipping to the north of Ushant in the Brittany area of German-occupied F... Read More

'Glacier' was a US programme of air operations against targets in Japan from bases in the Aleutian islands group of the North Pacific area (1943/45)., More than a month before... Read More

'Gladiole' was a U-boat minelaying operation in the Pechora Sea by Oberleutnant Hans-Helmuth Bugs’s U-629 (19/31 July 1943)., The boat laid 24 TMB mines on 27 July, and it i... Read More

'Gleisdreieck' was a German defensive position at Posselok on the Sinyavino heights to the south of Lake Ladoga and east of Leningrad on the Eastern Front (summer 1943). ... Read More

'Gleitboot' was the German continuation and implementation of the 'Ruderboot' study for the withdrawal of General Karl Allmendinger’s V Corps of Generaloberst Erwin Jaenecke... Read More

'Glenanne' was a British deception plan, possibly not implemented, by the London Controlling Section to support 'Ironside II' by having the British ambassador in Madrid ask th... Read More

'Glencoe' was the British maritime movement of troops from Egypt to Cyprus and thence Palestine (2/8 November 1941)., The fast minelayer Abdiel and several destroyers of Admir... Read More

'Glendon' was a British unrealised deception operation suggesting that Canadian troops were to be sent in special convoys straight to India from Canada to strengthen the Briti... Read More

'Glimmer' was a British part of the 'Fortitude' (and more specifically 'Bodyguard') deception plan for 'Overlord', together with the similar 'Taxable' and, farther to the west... Read More

'Globetrotter' was the US seizure of Sansapor and Mar on the Vogelkop peninsula at the western tip of Japanese-occupied Netherlands New Guinea, marking the end of the campaign... Read More

'Glossop' was a British cancelled deception plan to cover operations from India into Burma in the spring of 1944 (December 1943)., The plan was cancelled as there was indecisi... Read More

'Gloucester' was the Allied overall designation of operations against the Japanese in the Pacific theatre (1944). ... Read More

'Glover' (i) was a British unrealised plan for the delivery of fighters to reinforce the air defences of Malta (1941). ... Read More

'Glover' (ii) was the British overall designation of clandestine naval undertakings along the coast of German-occupied France (1944)., The 'Glover 5', 'Glover 6', 'Glover 7', ... Read More

'Glucinium' was a British special forces operation to parachute four Czechoslovak operatives into the southern Bohemia area of German-occupied Czechoslovakia to establish link... Read More

'Glutton' was the British unrealised second of three airborne operations designed to facilitate the advance of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s 8th Army northward along the ... Read More

'GM' (i) was the designation of British military convoys (with a numerical suffix) plying from Gibraltar to Malta, and as reciprocals of the 'MG' (i) series (21 July 1941/15 J... Read More

'GM' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Galveston, Texas, to the Mississippi river, and as such reciprocals of... Read More

'GN' was the designation of US coastal convoys (with a numerical suffix) plying from Guantánamo, Cuba, to New York, and as reciprocals of the 'NG' series (August 1942/May 194... Read More

'Gneisenau' (i) was a German diversionary attack within 'Grün' (iii) to pinch off small French salients in the area to the south of Zweibrücken on the Franco/German border (... Read More

'Gneisenau' (ii) was a German emergency programme to create additional and much-needed front-line units by the use of troops stationed in the Wehrkreise (military districts) o... Read More

The 'Gneisenau-Linie' was the German alternative designation for the 'Grüne-Linie' positions in the extreme south of the Eastern Front (March/April 1944)., This defensive lin... Read More

'Goalpost' was the US landing of Major General George S. Patton’s Western Task Force at Mehdia on the Atlantic coast of Morocco in 'Torch' (8/11 November 1943)., The Western... Read More

'Gobbo' was a British special forces operation, originally known as 'Portia', by the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) to discover German disposi... Read More

'Goblet' was an Allied unrealised plan for a landing at Crotone (on the 'sole' of the Italian 'foot') in the event that the Allied advance through Calabria by Major General G.... Read More

'Gödecke' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the possible passage of several convoys (19/26 November 1941)., Formed as one of three lines with the 'Benec... Read More

'Godfrey' was a Soviet special forces operation to parachute an eight-man party of the Polish Independent Special Battalion (Assault) into the Tucholskie area of German-occupi... Read More

'Goeben' was the German first effort to despatch six U-boats from French ports into the Mediterranean via the Strait of Gibraltar (16 September/5 October 1941)., The boats wer... Read More

'Goilo' was a Yugoslav operation by the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavia (6 September 1942). , In order to sprea... Read More

'Gold' (ii) was the British overall plan for operations in response to any attack on their forces in Iraq (April 1941)., The plan formed the basis of the British campaign in t... Read More

This was the British assault beach for Lieutenant General J. T. Crocker’s XXX Corps in 'Overlord', running from the junction point with the British I Corps' 'Juno' Beach at ... Read More

'Goldcrest' was a British possible operation by the Special Operations Executive to reinforce the resistance forces and increase the preparedness of the district round Drammen... Read More

'Golden' was a British naval undertaking associated with the passage of the JW.61, JW.61A, JW.62 and RA.62 convoys to and from ports in the northern USSR (20 October/19 Decemb... Read More

'Golden Eagle' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive in German-occupied Norway to make preliminary preparations for what became the 'Elg' base, establish... Read More

'Goldeneye' was a British intelligence undertaking to monitor events in Spain after the end of Spanish Civil War (1939/45)., The object of the operation, devised by Lieutenant... Read More

'Goldfinch' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive as successor to 'Chaffinch' against shipping on the western side of the Oslofjord in German-occupied No... Read More

'Goldflake' was the Allied transfer of major land and air force elements from the Mediterranean theatre to the Western Front via the south of France in accord with agreements ... Read More