'Marder-Riegel' was a German blocking position on the Daugava river to the north-east of Beshenkovichi in the Belorussian region of the German-occupied western USSR (summer 19... Read More

'Mardonius' was a British operation by two Norwegian agents of the Special Operations Executive against German shipping in Oslofjord in German-occupied Norway (12 March/4 May ... Read More

'Marécage' was a French deception designed to cover the 'Véritable' offensive against the German isolated garrisons round the Gironde estuary by suggesting that the offensiv... Read More

'Marfa' was the Allied overall designation for the plans created by General Douglas MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Area command for its operations to capture key points alon... Read More

'Margarethe I' was the German occupation of Hungary to prevent the country’s defection for the Axis alliance (9/12 March 1944)., Adolf Hitler felt himself forced to make thi... Read More

'Margarethe II' was the German unrealised contingency plan for the occupation of Romania in the event of that country’s collapse or defection (January/23 August 1944)., In ... Read More

'Margin' (i) was a British bombing attack on Augsburg in Germany (17 April 1942)., The Allies made three major air assaults on Augsburg in World War II in the form of two Brit... Read More

'Margin' (ii) was a British series of special forces reconnaissance raids on the coast of German-occupied northern France in the area of Calais and Cherbourg (early 1944). ... Read More

'Margot' was the British establishment of a meteorological station on St Paul’s islet off the north-west coast of the Mediterranean island of Malta (?). ... Read More

'Marianne' was a German naval minelaying operation at the north-eastern end of the English Channel by the torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Kondor and Seeadler of Korvettenkapitän ... Read More

'Marie' was a British and Free French unrealised plan for the seizure of French Somaliland (1941)., More formally known as the Côte Française des Somalis and administered fr... Read More

The 'Marienburg-Stellung' was a German defence line in occupied Latvia (summer/autumn 1944)., Extending from the western shore of Lake Pskov along a generally south-westerly l... Read More

'Marigold' was a British unsuccessful special forces operation by the Special Air Service and the Special Boat Section to make a landing on the east coast of Sardinia and then... Read More

'Marita' was the German and Italian strategic seizure of the Greek mainland and many of the Greek islands (6/30 April 1941)., As presaged by Adolf Hitler’s Führerweisung Nr... Read More

'Mark' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Tarn et Garonne area of German-occupied France to aid local resis... Read More

'Market' was an Allied airborne undertaking comprising landings in the south of the German-occupied Netherlands to take the main crossings over the Zuit Willemsvaart Canal and... Read More

'Markgraf' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ON.10, ON.11 and SC.42 convoys (28 August/16 September 1941)., The U-boats of this wolfpack were U-38, U... Read More

'Marmalade' was the British naval operation to capture or destroy the Iranian warships, including the sloop Babr, 'Azerbaijan' class motor launches, and 'Charogh' class motor ... Read More

'Maroubra' was the Allied designation of the elements of Major General George A. Vasey’s Australian 7th Division involved in the Kokoda Trail and later operations against Ma... Read More

This was the British alternative designation for 'Joshua' (December 1941/January 1942). ... Read More

'Mars' (i) was a Soviet operation constituting the second battle in the Rzhev-Sychevka salient within the 'Rzhev-Sychevka Strategic Offensive Operation' against the German for... Read More

'Mars' (ii) was a German 'alternative' undertaking, performed at the express order of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, in an effort to determine the whereabouts of Benito Mu... Read More

'Mars' (iii) was a US Army task force created for service in Burma, and officially designated as the 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) (second half of 1944)., With a strength of 3,... Read More

This was a German and Croat operation against the Yugoslav forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in south-western Croatia round the village of Kocerina within Axis-occupied Yugosl... Read More

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'Mars II' was the Axis movement of Italian reinforcements for the Axis 'Blau' summer offensives of 1942 by Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock’s Heeresgruppe 'Süd' of 1942 ... Read More

'Mars III' was the Axis movement of Hungarian reinforcements for the Axis 'Blau' summer offensives of 1942 Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock’s Heeresgruppe 'Süd' on the E... Read More

'Marshall' was a British special forces operation by the French 3rd Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (3rd Special Air Service) to harass the German retreat from Normandy n... Read More

'Marshfield' was a British attack by the Special Operations Executive on the Rødsand iron ore mines, to the north of Åndalsnes, in German-occupied Norway (8/10 November 1942... Read More

'Marston' was the British coup-de-main airborne assault on the Primosole bridge, 10 miles (16 km) to the north of Lentini on the eastern seaboard of Sicily, by Brigadier G. W.... Read More

'Martello' was a British deception plan, designed by Colonel Dudley W. Clarke’s Force 'A' Force as a subsidiary of 'Bertram' and associated with 'Murrayfield', to use of dum... Read More

'Martha' (ii) was German operation by General Anton-Reichard Freiherr von Mauchenheim und Bechtolsheims XXIX Corps, of General de armatâ Petre Dumitrescu’s Romanian 3rd Arm... Read More

'Martin' (i) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive in which G. Solberg was instructed to go to the county of Troms in the north of German-occupied Norway... Read More

'Martin' (ii) was the German operational plan, developed as an alternative to 'Herbstnebel' (i), devised by the headquarters of the Oberbefehlshaber 'West', Generalfeldmarscha... Read More

'Martin Red' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to create radio contact between the UK and local groups in the Troms area of German-occupied Norway, i... Read More

'Martlet' was a British preliminary undertaking by Major General E. H. Barker’s 49th Division and Major General D. A. H. Graham’s 50th Division of Lieutenant General G. C.... Read More

'Märzfieber' was a German operation against partisans in the Belorussia region of the German-occupied western USSR (March 1942). ... Read More

'Mascot' (i) was an unsuccessful British carrierborne air attack on the German battleship Tirpitz at her anchorage in the Kaafjord, a spur of the Altafjord, in northern Norway... Read More

'Mascot' (ii) was a British naval attack on a small force of German destroyers in the Langfjorden in German-occupied Norway (17 July 1944). ... Read More

'Masque' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Isère area of German-occupied France to aid local resistance f... Read More

'Massingham' was the British base of the Special Operations Executive at Guyotville near Algiers in French North Africa (November 1942/43). ... Read More

'Masuren' was a German naval minelaying operation in the English Channel by torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Hans Wilcke’s 3rd Torpedoboots-Flottille (1/2 August 1942). ... Read More

'MAT1' was a British naval minelaying operation by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet in the Ionian Sea between Lefkada and Kefaloniá islands (21 May 1941)... Read More

'Matador' (ii) was the British unrealised and indeed unrequired naval plan for the defence of Singapore against seaborne assault (1940/February 1942). ... Read More

'Matador' (iii) was the British amphibious thrust to take the strategic port of Kyaukpyu at the north-western tip of Ramree island in the Arakan western coastal region of Japa... Read More

'Matriarch' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious assault on the north-western part of the island of Sumatra in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies (1945).... Read More

'Matterhorn' was the US fully developed version of 'Drake' (ii) for the bombing of targets including the Japanese home islands and Japanese bases in China and South-East Asia,... Read More

This was a German attack by Generalleutnant Robert Martinek’s 7th Gebirgsdivision, of Kenraaliluutnantti Hjalmar Siilasvuo’s Finnish III Armeijakunta (corps], in the opera... Read More

'Mattscheibe' was a German aerial night-fighting technique used against the night bombers of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command in the 'Helle Nachtjagd... Read More

'Maulwurf' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Mediterranean Sea by two ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10th Torpedoboots-Flott... Read More