'Longsuit' was the US seizure of Betio islet, the main Japanese position of the Tarawa atoll, as part of the 'Galvanic' seizure of the Gilbert islands group (20/23 November 19... Read More

'Longtom' was the Allied overall designation of unrealised plans for landings on the coast of mainland China in the area of Shanghai, the seizure of the approaches to the Japa... Read More

'Lonmay' was the British involvement of the Special Operations Executive in the planning and execution of 'Torch' (autumn/winter 1942). ... Read More

'Lorry' was a British naval undertaking by elements of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Home Fleet to deliver to Murmansk personnel, supplies, mail and RAF equipment for the Briti... Read More

'Lost' was a British special forces operation by the French 2nd Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (4th Special Air Service) to secure intelligence in the Serent area of Bri... Read More

'Lot' was a British two-part special forces operation to parachute a 14-man part of B Squadron, 1st Special Air Service, into the Poitiers area of German-occupied France to se... Read More

'Lotus' was a British unrealised plan for the basing of a significant bomber force on the island of Malta for major operations against Italian cities, bases and industrial are... Read More

'Lougre' was a French special forces operation to parachute a four-man naval counter-scorch team into the Malay area of the Saône-et-Loire region of German-occupied France (1... Read More

'Louise' was a US special forces operation to parachute an operational group of the Office of Strategic Services into Ardèche area of German-occupied France to establish liai... Read More

'Love' was the Allied overall designation of plans for the recapture of Luzon, the main island of the Philippine islands group, and neighbouring Mindoro from the Japanese in a... Read More

'Love II' was the Allied unrealised plan within the 'Love' series of landings on the central and northern islands of the Japanese-occupied Philippine islands group for an amph... Read More

'Love III' was the US seizure of a sizeable lodgement on Mindoro island in the central part of the Japanese-occupied Philippine islands group (15/21 December 1944)., Mindoro i... Read More

'Low Ramrod' was the British overall designation for the low-altitude equivalent to the standard 'Ramrod' operation, designed to penetrate German-controlled airspace below the... Read More

'Loudham' was the British maritime movement of the stores required for 'Lonmay' (late 1942). ... Read More

'Löwe' was the German unrealised initial plan, paving the way to the definitive 'Seelöwe', by the staff of Generalmajor (from 19 July Generalleutnant) Alfred Jodl, the chief... Read More

The 'Löwen-Stellung' was a German interception position to the south-east of Bobruysk on the Eastern Front (summer 1944). ... Read More

'Löwenherz' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the HX.231 convoy (1/10 April 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-168, U-191, U-260, U-270, U-563, U-564, U-5... Read More

The 'Lower Dniepr Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet strategic offensive to drive the German forces back to the western bank of the lower reaches of the Dniepr rive... Read More

The 'Lower Solesian Offensive Operation' was the Soviet offensive by Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Ivan S. Konev’s 1st Ukrainian Front to clear the German forces from much of Lo... Read More

'Loyalist' was the British overall designation of unrealised plans, initially formulated as 'X-Ray', for the earliest possible liberation of Burma from Japanese occupation (19... Read More

'Loyton' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service under Lieutenant Colonel Brian Franks to establish a base near Verney in the eastern part of Ger... Read More

'LQ' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Barrier Reef ports toward Brisbane, Australia (July 1943/February 1944)... Read More

'LS' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the West African route generally from Lagos, Nigeria, to Freetown, Sierra Leone (April/Aug... Read More

'LSD' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Lagos, Nigeria, via Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Dakar, French West Africa, ... Read More

'LT' was the designation of Allied convoys plying the route from Lagos, Nigeria, to Takoradi, Gold Coast, and as such reciprocals of the 'TL’series (September 1942/August 19... Read More

'LTS' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Lagos, Nigeria, via Takoradi, Gold Coast, to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and a... Read More

The 'Lublin-Brest Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking within the larger 'Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation' ('Bagration') to clear the German forces from cen... Read More

'Luchs' (i) was the German planned breakthrough in the centre of the Vosges region between Breisach in Germany and Strasbourg in eastern France as part of 'Grün' (iii) (26 Ma... Read More

'Luchs' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the SC.101 and HX.209 convoys (27 September/6 October 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-183, U-216, U-254, ... Read More

The 'Luchs-Stellung' was a German defence position extending on an west/east axis between Nevel and Novosokolniki on the Eastern Front (late 1943)., The position was occupied ... Read More

'Lucid' was a British attempt, planned as 'Lucifer', to destroy the barge forces which the Germans were concentrating in Dutch, Belgian and northern French ports, rivers and c... Read More

'Lucie' was a German unrealised plan for an assault landing on the island of Texel off the mouth of the IJsselmeer (Zuiderzee) in the Netherlands (May 1940)., Ultimately, the ... Read More

'Lucifer' was the designation under which the British operation implemented as 'Lucid' was planned (summer/autumn 1940). ... Read More

'Lucky Guess' was a British unrealised plan for an operation against a target in German-occupied Norway (?). ... Read More

'Lucky Strike' was an Allied unrealised scheme for General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group to strike to the north-east in the direction of the Seine ... Read More

The 'Ludendoff-Stellung' was a German position on the Karelian front of Finland in the area of SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Matthias Kleinheisterkamp’s (... Read More

'Ludwig' was a German unrealised contingency plan for implementation in the event that the Allies attempted an amphibious landing in the area of the major port city of Livorno... Read More

'Luftparade' was the German first night bomber raid on British bomber airfields in England (1/2 August 1940). ... Read More

'Lug' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia with the object of destroying ... Read More

The 'Luga Line' was the Soviet defence line shielding Leningrad from the German attack of Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' within the conte... Read More

'Luise' was a German minelaying undertaking off Cromer in East Anglia by two torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Hans Marks’s 6th Torpedoboots-Flottille and raid on the Briti... Read More

'Lumberjack' was a US strategic offensive between Koblenz and Köln in western Germany (1/7 March 1945)., The offensive was undertaken by Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges... Read More

'Lupo' was an Italian convoy from Tripoli in Italy’s North African colony of Libya to Naples on the Italian mainland (2/6 April 1942)., On 2 April the Italians despatched th... Read More

'Lurcher One' was an Allied deception and diversion plan associated with the 'Shingle' landing at Anzio in the west coast of Italy (21/22 January 1944)., The operation involve... Read More

This was the Allied movement of British, Australian and New Zealand troops from Egypt to Greece in response to the failed Italian invasion and the likelihood of a German invas... Read More

'Lüttich' was the German counter-offensive in the Mortain area of north-western France against the 'Cobra' break-out from the Normandy lodgement by the US formations of Lieut... Read More

'Lutto' was a German unrealised special forces plan for a Kampfgruppe of Oberstleutnant Paul Haehling von Lanzenauer’s Lehr-Regiment 'Brandenburg' zbV 800 to disrupt the lin... Read More

'Lux' was the Allied overall designation of convoys sailing toward India with supplies for trans-shipment to China via the Ledo Road (1944/August 1945)., Ledo is a village in ... Read More

'LW' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the 'Levant West' route from Haifa, Palestine, to Port Said, Egypt, and as such recipr... Read More

'LW' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the east coast of the USA to the South-West Pacific Area (June/Novembe... Read More