'Araminta' was a British deception plan, created as a part of 'Stultify' and thus related to 'Fang', 'Claw', 'Caption' and 'Wolf, to suggest to the Japanese that the British w... Read More

'Arashi' was a Japanese unrealised plan for an air attack on major elements of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s US Pacific Fleet anchored in Ulithi atoll in the Caroline islands ... Read More

'Arcadia' was the Inter-Allied Washington Conference between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt (22 December 1941/14 January 1942)., The poli... Read More

'Archer' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to organise a local intelligence service, reconnoitre possible sabotage targets, recruit and train local g... Read More

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'Archibald' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Nancy area of German-occupied France to aid local r... Read More

'Archway' was a British special forces operation by the 1st and 2nd Special Air Service to cross the Rhine river in advance of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Allied ... Read More

'Arctic' (i) was a British unrealised plan by the Special Operations Executive to sink a ship alongside the quay at Narvik in German-occupied Norway and effect a halt, if only... Read More

'Arctic' (ii) was an Allied naval landing of Free French agents on the south-west coast of the island of Elba (April 1944). ... Read More

The 'Arctic and Karelia Strategic Defensive Operation' was the complex of Soviet defensive undertakings in the first stages of the German 'Barbarossa' and Finnish 'Jatkosota' ... Read More

'Ardennes was a US deception operation designed to persuade the Germans to delay any reinforcement of the southern shoulder of the salient they had driven into the Allied line... Read More

'Arena' was an Allied unrealised plan by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army for an air assault by three corps (including Lieutenant General F. A... Read More

'ARG' was the designation of US naval convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Boston, Massachusetts, either south to New York ... Read More

'Argent' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute men of the French element of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 to aid the Laotian resistance against ... Read More

'Argonaut' was an inter-Allied linked pair of meetings at Malta in the Mediterranean as 'Cricket' (30 January/2 February 1945) and at Yalta in the southern USSR as 'Magneto' (... Read More

'Argument' was the Allied six-day air offensive by Lieutenant General Carl A. Spaatz’s US Strategic Air Forces in Europe (Major General James H. Doolittle’s 8th AAF in the... Read More

'Arisen' was a British naval operation by warships of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet to deliver supplies to Mersa Matruh on the north-west coast of Egyp... Read More

'ARM' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying local routes in the Mediterranean, most generally between the sou... Read More

'Armada' was a series of British sabotage operations against the canal transportation system of German-occupied France by agents of the Special Operations Executive in an effo... Read More

The 'Armavir-Maykop Defensive Operation' was the Soviet second of the five sub-operations together constituting the 'North Caucasian Strategic Defensive Operation' (6/17 Augus... Read More

'Armstrong' was a British unrealised plan for a combined operations attack by amphibious and airborne forces on a German coastal artillery battery at Cayeux on the north coast... Read More

'Arnauld' was a German operation to run U-boats individually from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar (5/18 November 1941). , The boats involve... Read More

'Arnim' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Fruska mountain area of the Syrmia region, in the German-controlled puppet state o... Read More

'Arno' was a German naval operation to escort blockade runners, inbound from Japan, to a French port in an undertaking that also involved 'Sacco' for the escort of outbound bl... Read More

The 'Arno-Linie' was a German defence line in Italy, centred on Florence, which lay just behind the line, and extending westward to the Tyrrhenian Sea near Pisa and eastward t... Read More

'Arnold' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Marne area of German-occupied France to aid the local resi... Read More

The 'Arnswalde-Kolbe' Offensive Operation' was one of the four Soviet sub-operations together constituting the 'East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive Operation' to take the Arns... Read More

The 'Arpad-Linie' was a German and Hungarian defence line for Altábornagy Béla Miklós von Dalnoki’s Hungarian 1st Army in the northern foothills of the eastern Carpathian... Read More

'Arquebus' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to organise resistance groups in the Haugesund area of German-occupied Norway, establish radio contact, ... Read More

'Arras' was an Axis operation to clear the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito from the triangular area bounded by Lipik, Novska and Okučani in the puppet state of Cro... Read More

'Arsenal' was a British naval gunfire bombardment of Catania on the east coast of the Italian island of Sicily to draw Axis attention away from the area in which 'Husky' (i) w... Read More

'Arthur' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Côte d’Or area of German-occupied France to aid local resist... Read More

'Artichoke' was an Allied anti-submarine tactic (1942/45)., In the event that a merchant vessel was torpedoed in the middle of a convoy, on the issue of the executive order by... Read More

'Artisan' was a British naval undertaking to lay a substantial anti-submarine minefield in the South-Western Approaches to the UK and the English Channel (9/30 April 1945)., T... Read More

'Artut' was a German unrealised plan, schemed in conjunction with a Luftwaffe air bombing campaign over the UK, to support Irish Republican Army activities in Éire, the only ... Read More

'AS' (i) was the designation of British convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Greece (generally Piraeus) to Alexandria, Egypt, and as such reciproca... Read More

'AS' (ii) was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying from ports on the east coast of the USA via Ascension Island, and Freetown, ... Read More

'AS2' was a British naval sweep against U-boats thought to be patrolling in the Western Approaches (9/10 September 1939)., The force departed Plymouth, and was based on the fl... Read More

'Ascendant' was a British return convoy from Malta to Gibraltar timed to coincide with the 'MG3' operation and the 'Pedestal' convoy from Gibraltar to Malta (10/14 August 1942... Read More

'Ascot' (i) was a British unrealised plan for the seizure of the Bodø peninsula, on the west coast of German-occupied Norway, as a base for light naval forces to operate agai... Read More

'Acot' (ii) was a British operation by Lieutenant General N. M. Ritchie’s XII Corps of Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2nd Army to drive the German forces back from... Read More

'Aspidistra' was the Allied final operation in which personnel of the Office of Strategic Services' Morale Operations branch took part, in co-operation with the Special Operat... Read More

'Assassin' (i) was a British unrealised plan for the dispersal of Admiral Sir Charles Forbes’s Home Fleet in the event of a German invasion of the UK (1940). ... Read More

'Assassin' (ii) was a British partially completed and unsuccessful deception operation, related to 'Spanner', to discredit the Icelandic consul in the Spanish port city of Vig... Read More

'Assault' was a British naval undertaking within 'Kinetic' for a patrol in the Bay of Biscay to locate and sink German shipping (5/28 August 1944)., The ships involved were th... Read More

The 'Assault on Budapest Offensive' was the Soviet and Romanian 50-day encirclement and capture of Budapest, the capital of Hungary (24 December 1944/13 February 1945)., An el... Read More

The 'Assault on Vienna Operation' was the Soviet seizure of Vienna, the capital of German-annexed Austria, as the culmination of the 'Vienna Strategic Offensive Operation' (5/... Read More

'Assumption' was a British operation to deliver the second echelon of the 'Creforce' garrison force to Crete (October/November 1940)., When the Italians invaded Greece on 28 O... Read More

'Assurance' was a British convoy operation to move Brigadier A. A. E. Filose’s Indian 3rd Motor Brigade from India to the Middle East (22 January/6 February 1941)., The brig... Read More

'Aster' (i) was a German naval minelaying operation by Kapitänleutnant Peter-Ottmar Grau’s U-601 in the Pechora Sea (14/26 July 1943)., The operation was part of a larger G... Read More