'Kaput' was the US defeat of the German counterattack by Generalleutnant Martin Unrein’s Panzerdivision 'Clausewitz' of General Walter Wenck’s 12th Army in the sector of M... Read More

'Karin' (i) was a German naval minelaying operation off the Porsangerfjord of German-occupied Norway (19/20 March 1942). , The undertaking had to be postponed from 16/17 March... Read More

'Karin' (ii) was the German redeployment of the destroyers of Kapitän Hans Erdmenger’s 8th Zerstörer-Flottille from the North Sea to the north coast and then the Bay of Bi... Read More

The 'Karlovačka Operacija' was a Yugoslav operation by the forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in an effort to liberate the area of Karlovac in German-occupied Yugoslavia and a... Read More

'Karlsbad' was a German operation against partisans in the Orsha and Vitebsk area near the Berezina river in the Belorussian region of the German-occupied western USSR (11/23 ... Read More

'Karkshafen' was the German descent on Kristiansand in southern Norway by the ships of Kapitän Friedrich Rieve’s Gruppe IV within 'Weserübung' (9 April 1940)., The light c... Read More

'Karneval' (i) was a German parachute delivery of intelligence-gathering agents into the Brussels and Waals region of liberated Belgium (winter/spring 1945). ... Read More

'Karneval' (ii) was the German assassination, for 'high treason', of the mayor of Aachen, Franz Oppenhoff, who had been appointed by the US occupying forces on 31 October 1944... Read More

'Karo-Ass' was a German naval minelaying operation to the north-west of the islands of Elba and Capraia in the Ligurian Sea by ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Wi... Read More

'Kartoffel' was the German movement, by rail and road, of Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein’s Panzer-Lehr-Division from the south of France to its new operational area in Hung... Read More

'Kastanie' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia of German-occupied Yugoslavia (11/12 May 1944... Read More

'Kasten' was a German, Italian and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (29 December 1942/... Read More

'Kate' was a Canadian river crossing exercise by Lieutenant General G. G. Simonds’s II Corps in the UK (spring 1944)., This was one of many Allied training exercises underta... Read More

'Katherina' was a German unrealised plan for a naval minelaying operation off the north coast of the USSR (27/29 October 1943)., The operation was to have been undertaken by t... Read More

'Kathleen' was an Irish Republican Army plan, sometimes known as 'Artus', for the invasion of Northern Ireland authorised by Stephen Hayes, the acting chief-of-staff of the IR... Read More

'Kaub' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the area of the Sava river, destroying all the boats and other vessels used by the part... Read More

The 'Kaunas Offensive Operation' was a Soviet part of the third phase of the 'Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation' better known as 'Bagration' (28 July/28 August 1944).,... Read More

'KB' (i) was the designation Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Kola inlet to the White Sea, and as such reciprocals of the 'BK' (i) serie... Read More

'KB' (ii) was the designation of British convoys (together with a numerical and in one case a literal suffix) plying the route from Karachi to Bombay, and as such reciprocals ... Read More

'KC' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba, and as such reciprocals of the 'CK' seri... Read More

'KD' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Kilindini to Durban, and as such reciprocals of the... Read More

'Ke' (i) was the Japanese evacuation of the remnants of Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake’s 17th Army from Guadalcanal after the failure of 'Ka' (ii) (1/9 February 1943... Read More

'Ke' (ii) was the Japanese evacuation of Kiska island in the Aleutian islands group (27/28 July 1943)., Kiska is the most westerly of the Rat islands group of the Aleutian isl... Read More

'Kedgeree' was a British sub-component of 'Ration' (17/25 August 1941). , The Australian heavy cruiser Australia and British heavy cruiser Hawkins were ordered to search for ... Read More

'Keil' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Norwegian Sea against the RA.58 and RA.59 convoys (5/20 April and 28 April/6 May 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-315, U-361, U-7... Read More

'Keller' was a German undertaking by four patrols of the 6th SS Gebirgsaufklärungsabteilung (mot.) of SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Matthias Kleinheisterka... Read More

'Kelso' was a British pair of related operations, associated with 'Manna' (i), for the establishment of an advanced base on the island of Skiáthos, immediately off the east c... Read More

'Ken' was a Japanese unrealised plan to use transport aircraft to land a number of kamikaze teams of Giretsu Kuteitai airborne special forces unit on the Mariana islands group... Read More

'Kennecott' was a British deception plan before the launch of 'Torch' designed to persuade the Axis forces, once they had discovered the 'Torch' convoys, that the Allied objec... Read More

'Keokuk' was the US gliderborne delivery of reinforcements to Major General Maxwell D. Taylor’s 101st Airborne Division after its 'Albany' assault and 'Chicago' reinforcemen... Read More

The 'Kerch-Eltingen Offensive Operation' was the Soviet amphibious landing on the eastern end of the Crimean peninsula paving the way for the 'Crimean Offensive Operation' (1 ... Read More

The 'Kerch-Feodosiya Landing Operation' was the Soviet offensive in Crimea, designed to lift the German siege of Sevastopol, launched with an amphibious landing on the Kerch p... Read More

This was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Krbava area of the puppet state of Croatia within German-occupied Yugoslavia by Gener... Read More

The 'Kestenga Defensive Operation' was a Soviet component of the 'Arctic-Karelia Strategic Defensive Operation', and as such the Soviet response to an element of the Finnish a... Read More

The 'Kestenga Offensive Operation' was a small-scale Soviet undertaking against Finnish and German forces in the Karelia region of the north-western USSR (24 April/11 May 1942... Read More

'Kestrel' was a British attack by a three-man Norwegian party of the Special Operations Executive on the Fosdalen iron ore mines in northern Trøndelag in German-occupied Norw... Read More

'Ketsu' was the Japanese strategic plan for the defence of the home islands against any Allied invasion, in fact being planned by the Americans as 'Downfall' (15 April/15 Augu... Read More

'Keulenschlag' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Dreznica region of German-occupied Yugoslavia in the aftermath of... Read More

'Keystone' was a British special forces operation by a Jeep-mounted squadron of the 2nd Special Air Service under the command of Major Henry Druce with the objectives of inter... Read More

'KG' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Key West, Florida, to Guantánamo, Cuba, and as reciprocals of the 'GK' ser... Read More

'KH' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Key West, Florida, to Galveston and Houston, Texas, and as such reciprocals... Read More

The 'Kharkov Offensive Operation' was a Soviet offensive for the recapture of Kharkov, leading to the 3rd Battle of Kharkov, and otherwise known as 'Zvezda' (2 February/26 Mar... Read More

'Kiwbitz' was a German unsuccessful operation to recover four prisoners of war, all experienced U-boat commanders or officers, from the lower reaches of the St Lawrence river ... Read More

'Kiefer' was a German rendezvous area in the Bay of Biscay between the Japanese blockade-running submarine I-29 and U-518, within the 'Yanagi' undertaking, for onward escort t... Read More

The 'Kiev Defensive Operation' came after the end of the 'Kiev Strategic Offensive Operation' and was a Soviet undertaking fought by General Nikolai F. Vatutin’s 1st Ukraini... Read More

The 'Kiev Offensive Operation' was a Soviet part of the complex of undertaking fought round and for the city of Kiev, capital of Ukraine (3/13 November 1943)., Late in Septemb... Read More

The 'Kiev Defensive Operation' was the Soviet defence of Kiev and northern Ukraine against the advance of the German and allied forces of Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundste... Read More

The 'Kiev Strategic Offensive Operation' was the first of the Soviet undertakings in the complex series of military battles together constituting the 2nd Battle of Kiev within... Read More

'Kiewitz' was a German unrealised plan to use Major Werner Kiewitz to deliver a message from Adolf Hitler to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands urging her to order the Dutch ... Read More

'Kikusai (i) was the Japanese navy kamikaze aircraft campaign against the US naval forces off Okinawa during the 'Iceberg' invasion and conquest of that island (6 April/22 Jun... Read More