'Heckle' was a British midget submarine attack on the floating U-boat dock in the harbour of the Laksevåg area of Bergen toward the eastern end of the Puddefjord on the west ... Read More

'Hedderich' was a German airborne operation to facilitate the advance of Generalmajor Friedrich Kirchner’s 1st Panzerdivision from Luxembourg into north-eastern France on th... Read More

'Hedgehog' (i) was the British programme to deliver across the Atlantic by sea comparatively large numbers of prisoners of war and civilian internees to be held in Canadian ca... Read More

'Hedgehog' (ii) was an Allied exercise to test and evaluate special engineer vehicles in preparation for 'Overlord' (14 August 1943). ... Read More

'Heide' was the German original designation of the programme later known as 'Storch' (ii) for the deliberate flooding of parts of the occupied Netherlands to impede the progre... Read More

'Heiderose' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Sekovica area of German-occupied Yugoslavia (17/25 July 1944)., Even as the 'F... Read More

'Heinrich' (i) was a German operation in the Belorussia region of the German-occupied western USSR by a combined force of Sicherheitsdienst personnel, police and SS troops of ... Read More

'Heinrich' (ii) was a German deception undertaking in 'Wacht am Rhein' by the 307th Frontaufklärungskommando (November/early December 1944)., The plan was based on the feedin... Read More

'Hela' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the South-Western Approaches to the UK (28 December 1943/1 January 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-421, U-505, U-618 and U-666, ... Read More

'Hela' (ii) was the German plan for a maritime evacuation of the forces in the Kurland fall-back lodgement in Latvia (autumn 1944/spring 1945)., The plan was expressly vetoed ... Read More

'Helen' was a US special forces operation to parachute a 15-man Office of Strategic Services operational group into the Ardèche area of German-occupied France to aid local re... Read More

'Helhus' was a German air force meteorological station to the south of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean in the area to the north of German-occupied Norway (October 1944/ August... Read More

'Hellhound' was a British unrealised plan for the total destruction of Adolf Hitler’s southern retreat at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps by the concentrated bomber attac... Read More

'Helmet' was the British codeword to indicate the detection of major German warships moving out of Norwegian waters (1941/45). ... Read More

'Hemisphere' was a British attack by the Special Operations Executive on a herring oil plant at Øksfjord in the northern part of German-occupied Norway (8/15 April 1941)., Un... Read More

'Hemlock' was a US operation by the Office of Strategic Services to lower German morale by the dissemination of false news items (1944)., Undertaken by the Morale Operations B... Read More

'Hengeist' was a British tactical deception in North-West Africa, and was designed to persuade the Germans that Major General C. F. Keightley’s 6th Armoured Division, which ... Read More

'Henry' (i) was a British operation, in response to Weserübung', to land some 350 Royal Marines and seamen of the light cruisers Glasgow and Sheffield at Namsos, on the west ... Read More

'Henry' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, Dutch and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Coeveden area of the German-occupied Netherlands to... Read More

'Heraklion' was a British exercise to evaluate the local preparations for the defence of Cyprus against airborne and/or amphibious invasion (October 1942). ... Read More

'Herbst I' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugoslavia (25/29 September 1943).... Read More

'Herbst II' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the area of Zupanja, Samac and Vrpolje within German-occupied Yugoslavia (19/21 ... Read More

'Herbsternte' was a German operation against partisan forces in the area of Valona on the coast of Albania (10 October 1943). , This generally successful undertaking was the w... Read More

'Herbstgewitter' (i) was a German two-part operation ('Herbstgewitter I' and 'Herbstgewitter II') against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Dalmatian islan... Read More

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'Herbstgewitter' (iii) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito operating in the Bosnian region of German-occupied Yugoslavia and threaten... Read More

'Herbstgewitter' (iv) was the German major plan for a general withdrawal from the Dalmatian islands and Adriatic coast of occupied Yugoslavia between Senj and Valona to an ave... Read More

Herbstlaub' was a German unrealised plan for an offensive by Generaloberst Hermann Hoth’s 4th Panzerarmee against the Soviet forces around Krasnoarmeysk and Betekovka near t... Read More

'Herbstnebel' (i) was a German unrealised plan by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht for Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring’s Heeresgruppe 'C' in Italy to make a strategic w... Read More

'Herbstnebel' (ii) was a German unrealised plan by Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model’s Heeresgruppe 'B' for an offensive, not intended to advance farther to the west than th... Read More

'Herbstnebel' (iii) was the German withdrawal from the line of the Po river in northern Italy by General Traugott Herr’s 10th Army and General Joachim Lemelsen’s 14th Army... Read More

'Herbstreise' (i) was a German unrealised plan for a diversionary operation by naval units during the implementation of 'Seelöwe' (September/October 1940)., Two days before t... Read More

'Herbstreise' (ii) was a German unrealised plan, agreed by Adolf Hitler and the Oberkommando des Heeres at Vinnitsa and transmitted to Generaloberst Maximilian Reichsfreiherr ... Read More

'Herbstreise' (iii) was a German operation against partisan forces in the region of Tepelenë in the south of Albania by Generalleutnant Willibald Utz’s 100th Jägerdivision... Read More

'Herbststurm' (i) was a German programme of small-unit operations in North-West Europe (autumn 1944)., Involving a comparatively large number of small but high-grade units, th... Read More

'Herbststurm' (ii) was the German evacuation of their last forces along the coast of Dalmatia as they lost control of occupied Yugoslavia and attempted to retire into north-ea... Read More

'Herbstzeitlose' was a German cancelled plan for Generaloberst Friedrich Paulus’s 6th Army to extend its left flank to the north in the direction of Saratov between the Don ... Read More

'Hercules' was a British unrealised plan for the combined British and Turkish capture of German-occupied island of Rhodes in the eastern end of the Aegean Sea, an undertaking ... Read More

'Hering' was a U-boat minelaying operation by Kapitänleutnant Walter Köhntopp’s U-995 in the Yugor Strait (29 August/11 September 1944)., As part of this patrol, the U-boa... Read More

'Herkules' was the German unrealised component of the Italian 'Esigenza C3' operation for the capture of the islands of Malta and Gozo using Axis airborne forces launched from... Read More

'Hermann' (i) was a German operation in the Belorussian region of the German-occupied western USSR by a combined force of Sicherheitsdienst personnel, police and SS troops of ... Read More

'Hermann' (ii) was the German alternative designation for the 'Bodenplatte' air operation to support 'Wacht am Rhein' (1 January 1945). ... Read More

'Hermelin' (i) was the German transfer of the heavy cruiser (ex-pocket battleship) Lützow from Norwegian waters to the Baltic Sea (23 September/1 October 1943)., Escorted by ... Read More

'Hermelin' (ii) was a German naval minelaying operation by the auxiliary minelayer/cruiser Kiebitz and the minesweeper R 185 in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea from the ... Read More

This was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to follow ‘Archer’ as the second of three undertakings (with ‘Heron II’) to organise and train resistance ... Read More

'Heron II' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to follow 'Archer' and 'Heron I' as the third and last of the three related 'Archer' and 'Heron' underta... Read More

'Heron Red' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to deliver a party (O. Baarnes, A.E. Telnes and A. Gundersen) by sea, re-establish radio contact with t... Read More

'Herring' was the Allied drop of a specially trained Italian partisan unit, numbering some 250 men, behind the German lines in the valley of the Po river in northern Italy (19... Read More

The 'Hesse-Stellung' was a German covering position on the Eastern Front along the Dniepr river between Orsha and Mogilev (summer 1944). ... Read More

'Hessen' was a German unrealised naval undertaking to position the weather ship WBS 8 Hessen in the Arctic Ocean between the Svalbard archipelago, to the north of German-occup... Read More