'Ironside' (i) was a Allied pair of deception operations, first within 'Bodyguard' and then within 'Ferdinand' (iii), designed to suggest to the Germans that the Allies were p... Read More

'Ironside' (ii) was a US deception plan designed to draw German attention and forces away from the 'Overlord' campaign in Normandy by suggesting that US forces from the contin... Read More

'Irregular' was a British naval undertaking in the Great Passage of the Indian Ocean by Force 65 (destroyers Eskimo, Nubian, Paladin, Penn and Tartar) of Admiral Sir Arthur Po... Read More

'Irrgarten' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Neretva river estuary area of the puppet state of Croatia within German-occupi... Read More

'Irrigate' was a British unrealised plan to land a substantial raiding force somewhere on the north coast of German-occupied France to harass the local German garrisons (summe... Read More

'IS1' was a British naval gunfire bombardment of Tobruk on the coast of Italian Libya (17/21 January 1940)., Tobruk was bombarded on the nights of 18/19 and 19/20 January by t... Read More

'Isaac' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man 'Jedburgh' team of the Special Air Service into the Nièvre area of German-occupied France to aid the l... Read More

'Isabella' (i) was the German early version of 'Ilona', and as such a plan to be put into effect after the collapse of the USSR or after any British landing in the region, to ... Read More

'Isabella' (ii) was a German undertaking by Generalleutnant Anton Grasser’s 25th Division (mot.) against partisan forces operating in the area of Orel in the German-occupied... Read More

'Isar' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the North Atlantic, in tandem with the 'Inn' wolfpack, against the ONS.7 convoy (10/15 May 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-304, U-41... Read More

'Isegrim' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Arctic against the JW.56A and JW.56B convoys (20/27 January 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-278, U-312, U-314, U-360, U-425, ... Read More

'Iskra' was a Soviet offensive, otherwise known as the '4th Sinyavino Offensive Operation', to reopen a land corridor into Leningrad (12/30 January 1943)., The city had been c... Read More

'Isolator' was the US overall designation of attacks by US Navy surface vessels and USAAF warplanes on Japanese positions and shipping along the south-western coast of Japanes... Read More

'Isotrope' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a six-man resistance liaison party in the Massif Central region of German-occupied France (8 June 1944 onward). ... Read More

'Istrien' (i) was a German operation by forces of Generalfeldmarschall Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Weichs’s Heeresgruppe 'B' against partisans in the army group’s rear a... Read More

'Istrien' (ii) was a German operation against Italian and Yugoslav partisan forces in north-eastern Italy and north-western Yugoslavia (25 September/20 October 1943)., The ope... Read More

'Italia' was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (27/30 April 1942)., This convoy was in effect the reciprocal of 'Genova', and departed Tripoli for Naples on... Read More

'Italo Balbo' was a US 'black propaganda' undertaking in the Mediterranean theatre (August/October 1944). , Initial success in the Mediterranean theatre with radio propaganda ... Read More

'Ivan' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Moslavačka mountain region in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugos... Read More

'Ivor' (i) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the St Amand area of German-occupied France to establish... Read More

'Ivor' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Cher area of German-occupied France to establish li... Read More

'IXF' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Naples and Taranto in Italy to Alexandria and Port Said in Egypt, and as s... Read More

The 'Izyum Bridgehead Offensive Operation' was the Soviet short campaign which paved the way for the 2nd Battle of Kharkov, otherwise 'Fridericus I' as the Axis counter-offens... Read More

The 'Izyum-Barvenkovo Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by the South-West Front, in concert with the 'Mius River Offensive Operation' by the South Front, with the ... Read More

'J' (i) was a British naval undertaking to rescue and bring to England a party comprising Queen Wilhelmina, other members of the Dutch royal family, and senior members of the ... Read More

'J' (ii) was the Japanese invasion and seizure of the island of Java in the Netherlands East Indies (28 February/12 March 1942)., Undertaken by Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imam... Read More

'J' (iii) was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (28 October 1942). , Bound from Taranto in southern Italy to Tobruk in North Africa, the convoy comprised on... Read More

'J' (iv) was British naval undertaking to lay a deep-water minefield, directed against the local transits of U-boats, off Malin Head, the most northerly point of Ireland (May ... Read More

'JA' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Colombo, Ceylon, to Aden, and as such reciprocals of the 'AJ' series (Febru... Read More

The 'Jabłonków Incident' was an event on the border between Poland and Slovakia in which a group of Abwehr military intelligence agents attacked a railway station in Mosty (... Read More

'Jack Knife' was a British attempt to land a raiding party behind the German lines in Norway (May 1940)., The plan called for the delivery of a party of the 5/Scots Guards (a ... Read More

'Jackpot' (i) was the British occupation of Spitsbergen island off the north coast of German-occupied Norway (June 1942)., In the spring of 1942 the problems of the Alliesï¿... Read More

'Jackpot' (ii) was the Allied overall designation of air sweeps over German-occupied northern France by tactical air units (15 April/September 1944)., The object of these swee... Read More

'Jakob' (i) was German operation against partisans operating in the area of Uzda near Minsk in the Belorussian region of the German-occupied western USSR (8 October 1942). ... Read More

'Jacob' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Vosges area of German-occupied France to aid the local... Read More

'Jade' was a German naval undertaking by the minelayer Preussen to lay a minefield designed specifically against Allied submarines trying to penetrate through the Great Belt i... Read More

'Jael' was an Allied deception concept created to convince the Germans that the focus of forthcoming Allied amphibious landing operations would continue to be in the Mediterra... Read More

'Jaguar' (i) was the British overall designation of the programme of air reinforcements for Malta, centred on 'Splice', 'Rocket' and 'Tracer' (ii) (May/June 1941). ... Read More

'Jaguar' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for the defence of Turkish naval bases should Turkey enter the war on the side of the Allies (1941/42). ... Read More

'Jaguar' (iii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the HX.221 convoy (10/31 January 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-96, U-123, U-266, U-413, U-594, U-598,... Read More

'Jahn' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (30 October/2 November 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-226, U-373, U-426, U-437, U-552, U-575, U-586, U-592, U-608, U-6... Read More

'Jajce' (i) was the German-led pair of components in the Axis multi-phase 'Dinara' plan in occupied Yugoslavia to regain the parts of central Bosnia which had been liberated b... Read More

'Jajce' (ii) was a German and possibly Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the valley of the Vrbas river of the puppet state of Croatia i... Read More

'Jakob' was a German operation against partisans in the area to the north of Uzda in the German-occupied western USSR (8/12 September 1943). ... Read More

'Jalopy' was an Allied exercise to test the loading and unloading of troops in preparation for 'Neptune' (iii) (March 1944). ... Read More

'Jamboree' was a series of US attacks on targets in the Japanese home islands by carrierborne aircraft of the US Navy’s Task Force 58 in the run-up to the 'Detachment' and '... Read More

'James' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Corrèze area of German-occupied France (11 August 1944 onward).... Read More

'Jane' was a British landing by Brigadier F. W. Festing’s 29th Independent Brigade Group at Tamatave on the east coast of the Vichy French island of Madagascar as other forc... Read More

'Jantzen' was an Allied one of several exercises undertaken in the UK to develop and practise the administrative and logistical support for the planned amphibious assault on N... Read More

The 'Jatkosota' was the Finnish war against the USSR as the 'Continuation War' of the 'Talvisota' (Winter War) (25 June 1941/19 September 1944). , As such, this was therefore ... Read More