'Kikusui' (ii) was the Japanese ultimate kamikaze mission by the super-battleship Yamato in the Battle of the East China Sea (6/7 April 1945)., By the spring of 1945 Admiral S... Read More

'Kilpapurjehdus' was the Finnish operation to remilitarise the Åland islands group in the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden, and thus dominating the mou... Read More

'Kinetic' was a British naval attack on German convoys off the west coast of Brittany in German-occupied France between Brest and La Rochelle (30 July/3 August 1944)., During ... Read More

'King' was the US overall scheme developed by General Douglas MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Area command for the reconquest of the southern and central islands of the Phili... Read More

'King Grapb' was the Australian offensive to the east from the Aitape area in the direction of Wewak on the north coast of Japanese-occupied North-East New Guinea against Lieu... Read More

'King I' was a US unrealised plan for an amphibious assault on and subsequent reconquest of Mindanao island in the Japanese-occupied Philippine islands group as the first step... Read More

'King II' was the US invasion and seizure of Leyte island in the Japanese-occupied Philippine islands group (20 October/31 December 1944). , Though conceived as the second ste... Read More

'King III' was a US unrealised plan for operations on Mindanao island in the Japanese-occupied Philippine islands group after an amphibious assault in the Misamis provincial a... Read More

'Kingdom' (i) was a British unrealised operation to seize all French warships and merchant vessels in the harbour of Alexandria, on the Egyptian north coast of Africa, in the ... Read More

'Kingfisher' was an Allied unrealised operation to rescue British and Australian prisoners of war being held in a Japanese camp near Sandakan in northern Borneo (16 January/la... Read More

The 'Kingisepp-Gdov Offensive Operation' was a Soviet campaign within the 'Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive Operation' (14 January/1 March 1944) fought between the Sovie... Read More

The 'Kingisepp-Luga Defensive Operation' was the Soviet first of the five sub-operations constituting the 'Leningrad Strategic Defensive Operation' in the area to the south of... Read More

This was the Allied undertaking designed to secure the services of Général d’Armée Henri Honoré Giraud, a very senior French military leader evacuated from Vichy France ... Read More

'Kinkajou' was a British open part of the cover plan, whose secret part was 'Wallaby', designed to protect the proposed 'Anakim' (i) (February 1943)., In December 1942 General... Read More

'Kipling' was a British special forces operation by C Squadron, 1st Special Air Service, near Mazignen in the area near Orléans in German-occupied France to disrupt German co... Read More

'Kipper' (i) was the British long-term programme of air patrols over the North Sea to prevent German surface vessel and/or air attacks on the British fishing fleets operating ... Read More

'Kirkstone' was a British and US special forces raid on the railway network to the north of Kaitsa in the north of German-occupied Greece (June 1944)., An operational group of... Read More

The 'Kirovograd Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by General Ivan S. Konev’s 2nd Ukrainian Front against the German forces of General Otto Wöhler’s 8th Army i... Read More

'Kirschblute' was the German designation for the Japanese 'Yanagi' logistic programme in which Japanese submarines travelled to Europe to collect high-value military cargoes s... Read More

'Kirschkern' was the German programme to develop and manufacture the V-1 flying bomb (June 1941/May 1945)., More properly known as the FZG 76 and Fieseler Fi 103, the V-1 flyi... Read More

'Kita' (i) was an unrealised plan by the Imperial Japanese navy for the evacuation of the garrison of Attu island in the Aleutian islands group (May 1943/29 May 1943)., The is... Read More

'Kita' (ii) was the Japanese naval undertaking to bring the two hybrid battleship/aircraft carrier conversions of the 'Ise' class, together with four escort ships, back from S... Read More

'Kitbag I' was a British uncompleted special forces raid to destroy shipping, cold storage facilities, a fish-canning factory, a herring oil factory, oil tanks and other insta... Read More

'Kitbag II' was a British naval undertaking against a German convoy in the area of Florø, to the north of Bergen on the west coast of German-occupied Norway (7 January 1942).... Read More

'Kitchen' was a British unrealised naval undertaking by elements of Admiral Sir Henry Moore’s Home Fleet against coastal shipping along the west coast of German-occupied Nor... Read More

'Kitten' was the Anglo-Canadian advance of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Allied 21st Army Group from Normandy to the Seine river (20/25 August 1944)., The move was undert... Read More

The 'Kitzinger-Linie' was a German unrealised defence line in north-eastern France and about 280 miles (450 km) long and named for General Karl Kitzinger, the Luftwaffe office... Read More

'KJ' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix and in some cases the literal suffix B or F) plying the route from Kingston, Jamaica, to the U... Read More

'KJ' (ii) was the designation of British special forces beach reconnaissance undertakings on the northern coast of German-occupied France (March/December 1943)., The first of ... Read More

'Klabautermann' was an Axis and Finnish operation on Lake Ladoga by German and Italian light naval forces, based at Lahdenpohja on the lake’s north-west shore and supplement... Read More

'Klarea' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (20/22 June 1943)., Designed to effect the relief of eleme... Read More

'Klasnice' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (2/4 January 1943)., The ... Read More

'Klaxon I' was the British naval evacuation of the Allied troops from Namsos on the west coast of central Norway (2/3 May 1940)., Vice Admiral J. H. D. Cunningham, commanding ... Read More

'Klaxon II' was the British alternative designation for 'Alphabet' (i), namely the evacuation of Allied troops from Narvik on the west coast of northern Norway (3/8 June 1940)... Read More

'Kleine Atlas' was a German unsuccessful operation to deliver agents into the Agadir area of Morocco in French North Africa (1944). ... Read More

'Kleiner Bär' (i) was a German scaled-down version of 'Bär' (ii), in which Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe 'C', reinforced with Italian troops, was to... Read More

'Kleiner Bär' (ii) was a German series of 99 convoys to deliver reinforcements, equipment and supplies from Feodosiya on the south-east coast of Crimea to Anapa on the south ... Read More

'Kleptomania' was a British unrealised plan for a special forces attack on the Ile d’Ouessant off the western tip of the Brittany peninsula of German-occupied France (April ... Read More

'Klette' was a German two-part offensive against Soviet partisans by General Heinrich Clössner’s 2nd Panzerarmee in the area of Kletnya ('Klette I' in January and February ... Read More

The 'Klinsk-Solnechnogorsk Defensive Operation' was the Soviet sixth of the seven sub-operations together constituting the 'Moscow Strategic Defensive Operation, and was thus ... Read More

The 'Klin-Solnechnogorsk Offensive Operation' was the Soviet second of six sub-operations together constituting the 'Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation' that followed the 'M... Read More

'Klondike' was the British cover undertaking for the 'Jubilee' raid on Dieppe, and was designed to suggest that what was being developed was an amphibious warfare training exe... Read More

'KM' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Kilindini, Kenya, to Diégo Suarez, Madagascar,... Read More

'KM' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Karachi to Bombay (1942/45). ... Read More

'KM' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from the UK to the Mediterranean and occasionally ... Read More

'KN' (i) was the designation of US coastal convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Key West, Florida, to New York, and as such reciprocals of the 'KS'... Read More

'KN' (ii) was a British naval programme of 25 minelaying undertakings off the northern coast of France, and particularly off Cherbourg at the head of the Cotentin peninsula, b... Read More

'Knappen' was a U-boat wolfpack operation, in tandem with 'Ritter', in the Atlantic against the ON.166 convoy (19/25 February 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-91, U-92, U-600 ... Read More

'Knapsack' was the British air element of the naval 'Insect' undertaking to deliver aircraft for the strengthening of the air defences of Malta (20/22 July 1942). ... Read More

'Knife' (i) was a British unsuccessful submarine operation to land officers and stores at Ålesund on the west coast of Norway (26/27 April 1940)., As a replacement for the da... Read More