'Harlington II' was a British special forces operation to parachute one man of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into the Shwegyin area of Japanese-occupied Burma... Read More

'Harold' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Forêt d’Absie area of German-occupied France to attack ... Read More

'Harpoon' (i) was a British operation to send 200 troops from Dover to the Hook of Holland in the destroyers Venomous and Verity to protect the demolition parties previously d... Read More

'Harpoon' (ii) was a British supply convoy to Malta, a costly undertaking in terms of the merchant vessels and warships lost but important in the survival of the island as a B... Read More

'Harpune' (i) was a series of German simulated preparations for an invasion of the east coast of England by forces based in France, the Low Countries, Denmark and Norway, and ... Read More

'Harpune' (ii) was a German series of contingency plans for implementation in the event that the Allies launched an invasion of Norway which Adolf Hitler believed throughout t... Read More

'Harridan' was a British unrealised plan to send two divisions (one infantry and one armoured) to support Turkey should that country declare war on Germany (1941). ... Read More

'Harrier' was an Allied unrealised plan for an attack on the 138th Gebirgsjägerregiment of Generalleutnant Eduard Dietl’s 3rd Gebirgsdivision, which had been landed by the ... Read More

'Harrod' was a British special forces operation by the French 3rd Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (3rd Special Air Service) to harass German forces as they retreated near... Read More

'Harry' (i) was a British naval undertaking by Admiral Sir Charles Forbes’s Home Fleet off the west coast of Norway (14/17 April 1940)., After the 'Henry' (i) delivery to Na... Read More

'Harry' (ii) was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team of the Special operations Executive into the Auyun area of the ... Read More

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'Harte Lösung' was the German continued deployment of forces, intended for the 'Weiss' (i) invasion of Poland, toward the German/Polish border in the face of political threat... Read More

'Hartherz' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic to locate and attack 'KMS' and 'MKS' convoys (4/7 February 1943)., The wolfpack was created in the area to the west ... Read More

'Hartmut' (i) was a U-boat patrol operation along the west coast of Norway to screen the German navy’s surface forces involved in 'Weserübung' from attack by Allied surface... Read More

'Hartmut' (ii) was the U-boat wolfpack operation in the in the Norwegian Sea against the 'FX'-supported passage of the JW.57 convoy (23/28 February 1944)., The wolfpack compri... Read More

The 'Harvard Project' was a US operation by the Office of Strategic Services to undermine German morale with pamphlets, posters and other disinformation and propaganda materia... Read More

'Hasenjagd' (i) was a German operation against partisans in the area of Dobruzh near Gomel in the German-occupied western USSR (6/15 February 1943)., This was yet another area... Read More

'Hasenjagd' (ii) was a German operation by at least one battalion of Generalleutnant Otto Lüdecke’s 264th Division against the 20th 'Dalmatia' Division of the partisan forc... Read More

'Haste' was a British undertaking to collect intelligence on German military strengths and dispositions in occupied northern France (8 July 1944). ... Read More

'Hasty' (i) was a US unrealised plan for a paratroop drop by elements of Major General Major General Matthew B. Ridgway’s 82nd Airborne Division at Trasacco, to the east of ... Read More

'Hasty' (ii) was a British airborne raid by part of the 6/Parachute of Brigadier C. H. V. Pritchard’s 2nd Parachute Brigade near Toricelle in eastern Italy (1/7 June 1944). ... Read More

'Hat Trick' was a British naval training operation to land an agent of the Special Operations Executive on the coast of Malabar in southern India in preparation for similar un... Read More

'Hatch' was a British naval undertaking to land agents of the Special Operations Executive in the Japanese-occupied Andaman islands group in the Bay of Bengal (December 1944).... Read More

'Hats' was a British naval undertaking by Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Force 'H' to deliver supplies from Gibraltar to Malta and to reinforce Admiral Sir Andrew Cunni... Read More

'Haudegen' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the HX.223, SG.19, HX.225, SC.119 and ON.165 convoys (19 January/15 February 1943)., On 2 February five ... Read More

'Haudegen' (ii) was a German meteorological intelligence operation, a joint undertaking by the navy and air force, on the north coast of Nordauslandet island, to the north-eas... Read More

'Hauer' was the German undertaking to use prisoners of war and defectors, mostly Soviet, as forced labour in the mining industry (5 July 1943/8 May 1945). ... Read More

'Haulabout' was the British movement of barges from Tilbury on the coast of Essex to harbours along the south coast of the UK (April 1943). ... Read More

'Haven' (i) was a British operation to deliver a secret mission to Hungary (?). ... Read More

'Haven' (ii) was a British naval undertaking by a motor gun boat to land men and supplies of the Special Operations Executive at St Michel en Grève near Lannion in German-occ... Read More

'Hawk' was a pair of Allied training exercises ('Hawk I' and 'Hawk II') for artillery elements in preparation for 'Overlord' (14 and 19 May 1944). ... Read More

'Hawk/Kingfisher' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to organise a small resistance group in the Lofoten islands group off the coast of German-occupie... Read More

'Hawthorn' was a British series of special forces raids on the Italian island of Sardinia by L Detachment of the Special Boat Squadron under the command of Captain John Verney... Read More

'Haycock' was a British programme of high-priority air mail flights undertaken by adapted de Havilland Mosquito photo-reconnaissance aircraft of No. 544 Squadron from the UK t... Read More

'Hayfield' was an Allied sub-plan within 'Torch' (8/9 November 1942). ... Read More

'Haymaker' was a Canadian operation by Lieutenant General G. G. Simonds’s II Corps of General H. D. G. Crerar’s 1st Army toward and through Emmerich in northern Germany to... Read More

'HB' was the designation of Allied troopship convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Australia to India and the Red Sea (January 1945)., The single kn... Read More

'HC' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Calcutta to Chittagong, India, and as such reciprocals of the 'CH' series (... Read More

'Headache' was the British overall designation of the electronic measures to establish the nature of and then degrade the capabilities of the German 'Knickebein' radio navigat... Read More

'Headache for Der Fuehrer' was a British deception designed to create disaffection and reduce the morale of the 8th Panzerregiment in the Western Desert (April 1942)., The und... Read More

'Headlong' was the British element by the Royal Air Force for the Royal Navy’s 'Baritone' (i) undertaking to deliver Supermarine Spitfire fighters to strengthen Malta’s ai... Read More

'Headstrong' was a British naval undertaking to land an agent of the Special Operations Executive on the coast of the German-occupied part of the island of Crete (May 1942). ... Read More

'Healing II' was a British special forces attack by commandos against Spilje on the coast of German-occupied Albania (28/29 July 1944)., Under the command of Colonel F. W. Fyn... Read More

'Heartbreak' was a British amphibious landing exercise on the coast of Syria and Lebanon (September 1942). ... Read More

'Heather' was a British undertaking by Lieutenant General B. G. Horrocks’s XXX Corps of Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2nd Army to clear and protect the road linki... Read More

'Hebrew' was a British convoy operation to move 10 merchant ships, escorted by nine warships and auxiliaries, from Scapa Flow to the Clyde river (12/14 June 1940)., The Britis... Read More

'Hecht' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the UK/Iceland gap (27 January/4 February 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-352, U-435 and U-455, and neither lost any of its own... Read More

'Hecht' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against five convoys of the 'ON' series (8 May/18 June 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-94, U-96, U-116, U-124, U-... Read More

'Hecht' (iii) was a German convoy operation along the north coast of German-occupied France and Belgium (19/21 March 1944)., The convoy was centred on the 5,540-ton tanker Rek... Read More