'Group II' was a US special forces operation to land a 25-man Office of Strategic Services party, all of Greek ethnic origins, on the west coast of German-occupied Greece to a... Read More

'Group III' was a US special forces operation to land a 10-man Office of Strategic Services party, all of Greek ethnic origins, in the north-eastern central part of German-occ... Read More

'Group IV' was a US special forces operation to parachute a 20-man Office of Strategic Services party into the Thessaloníki area of German-occupied Greece to aid local resist... Read More

'Group V' was a US special forces operation to land a 24-man Office of Strategic Services party, all of Greek ethnic origins, for operations in the northern part of German-occ... Read More

'Group VI' was a US special forces operation to land a 24-man Office of Strategic Services party, all of Greek ethnic origins, for operations in the northern part of German-oc... Read More

'Group VII' was a US special forces operation to land a 29-man Office of Strategic Services party, all of Greek ethnic origins, for operations in the Peloponnese region of Ger... Read More

'Group VIII' was a US special forces operation to land a 30-man Office of Strategic Services party, all of Greek ethnic origins, for operations in the western region of German... Read More

'Grouse' (i) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to deliver E. Skinnerland to the Telemark region of German-occupied Norway to prepare the way for 'Gro... Read More

'Grouse' (ii) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to deliver a four-man Norwegian commando team into Norway in preparation for 'Freshman' (18 October/2... Read More

'Grouse' (iii) was the British alternative designation for 'Wallop' (12/15 August 1944). ... Read More

'Grube' was the U-boat wolfpack operation in the Arctic Ocean against the passage of the JW.62 convoy supported by 'Golden' (November/December 1944)., Stationed off the Kola i... Read More

'Grubworm' was the US air movement of Major General Long Tian-wu’s Chinese New 14th Division and Major General Shan Yu-feng’s New 22nd Division of Lieutenant General Sun L... Read More

'Grün' (ii) was the German overall designation of the limited campaign to support 'Braun' (i) with limited attacks on the French defences along the 'Ligne Maginot', in the re... Read More

'Grün' (iii) was a German unrealised full-scale operational plan for an invasion of Ireland in support of 'Seelöwe' (summer/autumn 1940). , Despite the detailed nature of it... Read More

'Grün' (iv) was a German and Croat pair of operations ('Grün I' and 'Grün II') against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (27 February/3 Mar... Read More

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'Grün 100535' was one of the German code phrases for the launch of operations within 'Sichelschnitt', in this instance by Generalleutnant Gerhard Kauffmann’s 256th Division... Read More

'Grüne-Bewegung' was the German plan for a 9,000-man amphibious landing at and round Brighton on the Sussex coast of southern England, as part of 'Seelöwe', by part of the f... Read More

The 'Grüne-Hauptkampflinie' was the German intermediate defensive position against the advancing Soviet forces between the outer defensive perimeter and the S-Bahn peripheral... Read More

The 'Grüne-Linie' was the German defence line, 170 miles (275 km) long, in the Apennine mountains of central Italy to cover the valley of the Po river, and also known as the ... Read More

'Grünpfeil' was the German seizure and occupation of the Channel Islands group, off the west coast of the Cotentin peninsula of northern France, in the aftermath of the fall ... Read More

'Grünspecht' was a German offensive, in succession to 'Vogelsang', by Generaloberst Rudolf Schmidt’s 2nd Panzerarmee against partisans in the area to the south of Bryansk i... Read More

'Grunwald' was a Soviet special forces operation to parachute an 11-man party of the Polish Independent Special Battalion (Assault) into German-occupied Poland to aid in the e... Read More

'GS' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Grimsby on the Humber estuary to Southend on the Thames estuary, and as... Read More

'GS' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Greenland to Sydney, Nova Scotia, or St Johns, Newfoundland, and as su... Read More

'GT' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Gladstone to Townsville, north-eastern Australia (December 1942/June 1943).... Read More

'GT1' was a British naval anti-shipping sweep into the North Sea (21/22 November 1939)., The destroyers Boadicea, Gipsy, Griffin, Keith and Free Polish Grom departed Harwich, ... Read More

'GTX' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Gibraltar via Tripoli, Libya, to Alexandria or Port Said, Egypt (May/Augus... Read More

'GU' was the designation of Allied military ocean convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from North-West Africa to the USA (Novemb... Read More

'Guano' was the British operation to repatriate Italian civilians interned during and after the East African campaign in Abyssinia, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland (April 1942)... Read More

'Gudgeon' was a British bombing raid on the northern Italian city of Milan undertaken in daylight to maximise bombing accuracy (?)., Milan was Italy’s second largest city an... Read More

'Gudgeon I' was a British bomber sweep over the north coast of German-occupied France (10 July 1941)., A force of 24 Bristol Blenheim light bombers swept the coast between Le ... Read More

'Guidance' (i) was a British unsuccessful operation by a party of Special Operations Executive agents against the German Laksevåg floating dock in the harbour of Bergen on th... Read More

'Guidance' (ii) was a British midget submarine attack on the harbour of Bergen in German-occupied Norway (14/15 April 1944)., The operation was originally to have been carried... Read More

'Guillemot' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to reinforce the 'Grebe' party and help undertake railway sabotage in German-occupied Norway (24 Februa... Read More

'Guillotine' (i) was the British maritime and naval transfer of army and air force stores and personnel from Haifa in Palestine and Port Said in Egypt to Famagusta in Cyprus a... Read More

'Guillotine' (ii) was the British advance of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s 8th Army from western Egypt to eastern Tunisia across the Libyan provinces of Cyrenaica and Tri... Read More

'Guitar' was the British operation within 'Corkscrew' (i) to take the Italian islands of Lampedusa, Linosa and Lampione in the Pelagie islands group between Sicily and Tunisia... Read More

'Gulag' was a German military operation in which German and Russian anti-communist troops were to create an anti-Soviet resistance movement by liberating and conscripting pris... Read More

'Gull' was an Allied amphibious exercise in the loading and unloading of troops in preparation for 'Neptune' (iii) (15 March 1944). ... Read More

The 'Gumbinnen Offensive Operation' was the Soviet undertaking, also known as the 'Goldap-Gumbinnen Offensive Operation', by General Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky’s 3rd Belorussian... Read More

'Gun' was a British naval undertaking against convoys of German Fährprahme (heavily armed seagoing barges used as escorts and transports) off the west coast of Italy in the T... Read More

'Gunhouse' was an Allied unrealised plan for a special forces mission to sabotage the German airfield at Lakselv near Banak in German-occupied Norway (February 1943)., The fir... Read More

'Gunner' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious landing near Brest in the Brittany region of German-occupied France (November 1942)., The scheme was seen by the Briti... Read More

'Gunnerside' was the British parachute delivery of a six-man Norwegian party of the Special Operations Executive to a point near Lake Skryken in German-occupied Norway to link... Read More

'Günther' (i) was a German operation in Belorussia by a combined force of Sicherheitsdienst personnel, police and SS troops of the Kampfgruppe 'von Gottberg', under the comma... Read More

'Günther' (ii) was a German operation against partisans in the area of Manily in the Smolensk region of Belorussia in the German-occupied western USSR (2/14 July 1943)., At t... Read More

'Gustav' (i) was the German order by Adolf Hitler for the recapture or killing of Général d’Armée Henri Honoré Giraud, a senior French prisoner of war who had escaped fr... Read More

'Gustav' (ii) was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (15/17 March 1943)., T... Read More

'Gustav' (iii) was the German codeword to trigger the implementation of defensive and reinforcement measures in the event of any Allied landing in the area of Genoa in north-w... Read More