'Gustav Siegfried Eins' was a British 'black' propaganda radio station during World War II operated by the Political Warfare Executive, and as such the precursor of 'Soldatens... Read More

The 'Gustav-Linie' was the German strategic defence line in Italy stretching from a western end on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast at the mouth of the Garigliano river between Gaeta ... Read More

'Gustavus' was a British series of naval undertakings to land Special Operations Executive parties on the coast of Japanese-occupied Malaya (June 1943). ... Read More

'Guy' 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 l... Read More

'Guy Fawkes' (i) was a British deception involving the detonation of explosives at a food dump in Wealdstone in north London to enhance the credibility, in German eyes, of a p... Read More

'Guy Fawkes' (ii) was a British undertaking by Major General T. G. Rennie’s 51st Division of Lieutenant General N. M. Ritchie’s XII Corps within Lieutenant General Sir Mil... Read More

'GV', 'GX' and 'GY' constituted a British trio of naval undertakings to lay minefields off Brest on the western tip of Brittany in German-occupied France and over the Little S... Read More

'Gymnast' was the Allied original and much disputed plan for a major amphibious landing in French North-West Africa as a means of getting US forces into action against Germany... Read More

'Gypsy' was a US airborne assault by Colonel Orin D. Haugen’s 511th Parachute Infantry of Major General Joseph M. Swing’s 11th Airborne Division on Camalaniugan airfield, ... Read More

'GZ' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Guantánamo, Cuba, to the Panama Canal, and as such... Read More

'Główki' was a Polish programme by the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) to assassinate Nazi officials who had been sentenced to death by the resistance 'special courts' for crimes ... Read More

'H' (i) was the Japanese seizure of Celebes island and islands to its south-east in the Netherlands East Indies (11/24 January 1942)., Celebes is a large and very irregularly ... Read More

'H' (ii) was an Italian convoy operation from Palermo in Sicily to Bizerte in North Africa (1/4 December 1942)., On 1 December, Force 'Q' departed port to locate and then to a... Read More

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

The 'H-Linie' was a German defence line on the Eastern Front held by General Maximilian Fretter-Pico’s XXX Corps of Generaloberst Karl-Adolf Hollidt’s (from 25 March 1944 ... Read More

'Ha' was a Japanese limited offensive in the Arakan western coastal region of Burma designed to draw into this area British reserves which would thus be unavailable to reinfor... Read More

'HA' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Aruba or Curaçao, Netherlands West Indies, an... Read More

'HA' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes literal suffix) plying the route from Bari or Ancona in southern Italy to Malta, and a... Read More

'HA' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometime a literal suffix) plying the route from Ancona to Bari, Brindisi or Barletta in southe... Read More

'Habbakuk I' was a British unrealised scheme to make vast unsinkable 'aircraft carriers' constructed of 'Pycrete', which was a composite material of ice and wood shavings, to ... Read More

'Habbakuk II' was a British unrealised scheme for a 'Pycrete' (ice and wood chip composite) floating airfield, derived conceptually from that of 'Habbakuk I' but scaled down i... Read More

'Habicht' (i) was a German unrealised plan for a diversionary attack by elements of Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe 'C' from Kaiserstuhl or Idstein towa... Read More

'Habicht' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic directed against the ONS.160 convoy but actually attacking the HX.222 and SC.115 convoys (10/19 January 1943)., ... Read More

'Habicht' (iii) was a German operation against partisans in the central sector of the German-occupied western USSR (April 1943)., The operation was undertaken in the north of ... Read More

'Habicht' (iv) was the German alternative designation for 'Falke' (iii), a supplementary envelopment operation in the Don river bend, planned for implementation by General Wer... Read More

'Habo' was the British overall designation of night air patrols along the English Channel, in the area between Boulogne and Cherbourg in German-occupied northern France, by ai... Read More

'Hackensack' 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

'Hackfleisch' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito operating in the area of German-occupied Yugoslavia bounded by Kladanj, Vlasenica, ... Read More

'Haddock' (i) was a British bomber offensive against Italy using the Vickers Wellington medium bombers of No. 99 Squadron of Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal’s RAF Bomber Comm... Read More

'Haddock' (ii) was a British bombing of Leipzig (3/4 December 1943)., During World War II, Leipzig was attacked on many occasions by British night and US day bombers, and of t... Read More

'Hadrian' was a British unrealised plan for a combined operations attack to retake the German-occupied Channel Islands and at the same time to seize Cherbourg, a major port on... Read More

'Haft' was a British special forces operation by the 1st Special Air Service in the Mayenne area near Le Mans in the north-western part of German-occupied France (8 July/11 Au... Read More

'Hagel' was a German unused codeword for the decommissioning of all economically and militarily important industrial facilities in preparation for their evacuation from Pomera... Read More

'Hagen' (i) was a German series of 91 convoys in the Black Sea to deliver reinforcements, equipment and supplies to Generaloberst Richard Ruoff’s (from 24 June Generaloberst... Read More

'Hagen' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Arctic Ocean against the 'Scottish' passages of the JW.65 and RA.65 outbound and inbound Arctic convoys (13/21 March 1945).... Read More

The 'Hagen-Bewegung' was the German withdrawal of the forces of Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte', in the aftermath of the Soviet 'Kutuzov' offe... Read More

The 'Hagen-Stellung' was the primary German defence line on the Eastern Front in the area to the west of Orel, running from Sevsk to Zhidra via a point just to the east of Bry... Read More

'Haggard' was a British special forces operation by the British troopers of B Squadron, 1st Special Air Service and the French troopers of the 3rd Régiment de Chasseurs Parac... Read More

'Hai' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the OS.33 convoy (3/21 July 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-116, U-136, U-201, U-572, U-582 and U-752, and f... Read More

'Hai' (ii) was a German unsuccessful special forces mission by Oberleutnant Conrad von Leipzig’s half-company of Oberstleutnant Paul Haehling von Lanzenauer’s Lehr-Regimen... Read More

'Hai' (iii) was a Japanese attempt to extricate Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai’s 28th Army of General Heitaro Kimura’s Burma Area Army from the Pegu Yoma (Pegu mountain ... Read More

'Hai I' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the HX.278 and ON.224 convoys (17/22 February 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-91, U-212, U-256, U-264, U-386, ... Read More

'Hai II' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (17/22 February 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-281, U-650 and U-963, and neither lost any of its own number nor sank... Read More

'Haifisch' (i) was a German two-part deception plan within 'Barbarossa', designed to suggest an amphibious assault from occupied Norway on eastern Scotland and north-eastern E... Read More

'Haifisch' (ii) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito to recapture the Trogir area of German-occupied Yugoslavia (7/9 November 1943). ... Read More

'Hailstone' was a US air, surface ship and submarine attack on Japanese shipping in Truk atoll of the Caroline islands group in concert with 'Galvanic' (17/18 February 1944).,... Read More

'Haircut' was a US deception planned and implemented as a supplement to the 'Rosebud' deception intended to validate Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s fictional US 1st A... Read More

'Hais Even' was the Allied communications cable laid between Dungeness on the south coast of the UK and Boulogne on the north coast of France to improve contact between the UK... Read More

'Hais Hamel' was the Allied petrol pipeline laid between Dungeness on the south coast of the UK and Boulogne on the north coast of France (late summer 1944). ... Read More

'Haken' was a German one of a series of four naval minelaying operations (with 'Languste', 'Angel' and 'Widerhaken') in the Ligurian Sea by ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvett... Read More