'MD8' (i) was a British naval operation by ships of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet to undertake a gunfire bombardment of an Italian airfield near Derna ... Read More

'MD8' (ii) was a British naval undertaking by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet to support the passage of the unladen 9,776-ton commissioned fast transport... Read More

'ME' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Malta to Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt, and inaug... Read More

'ME1' was a British naval undertaking by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet in support of the MF.1 fast convoy and MS.2 slow convoy from Malta to Alexandria... Read More

'ME3' was a British naval diversion by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet in support of the 'Substance' passage of the GM.1 convoy from Gibraltar to Malta (... Read More

'ME.4' was a British naval bombardment of Axis coastal positions in Libya in support of the 'Chieftain' and 'Landmark' (i) dummy convoys designed to divert Axis attentions fro... Read More

'ME5' was a British naval plan for the co-operation of two forces in surface ship attacks on Axis convoys plying across the Mediterranean between Italy or Greece and North Afr... Read More

'ME7' was a British naval undertaking to find and destroy an Axis convoy carrying troops, weapon and supplies to North Africa (20/25 November 1941)., The undertaking used the ... Read More

'ME9' was a British naval operation by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet to pass a fuel-carrying ship to Malta and at the same time to intercept and destro... Read More

'Measure' was a British unrealised contingency plan for the naval actions to be undertaken in the event of a German invasion of Ireland (1941). ... Read More

'Medium' was a British naval and air bombardment of Cherbourg on the north coast of the Cotentin peninsula in German-occupied France (10/12 October 1940)., The air element was... Read More

'Medley' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to protect the Bårdshaug electricity sub-station and Berkåk repeater station in the southern part of the... Read More

'Medloc' was the British maritime movement of troops from the UK across the English Channel and through France and Belgium to join Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Ang... Read More

The 'Medvezhyegorsk Offensive Operation' was a minor Soviet offensive by elements of General Leytenant Valerian A. Frolov’s Karelia Front in Finland against elements of Kenr... Read More

'Meeting House' was a US air attack on Tokyo using incendiary rather than HE bombs (9/10 March 1945)., The first air raid by the USAAF on Tokyo had been the so-called 'Doolitt... Read More

'Mei' was the Japanese coup d'état to remove the Vichy French régime in Indo-China (9 March 1945)., At this time French Indo-China comprised the colony of Cochin-China and t... Read More

'Meise' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the North Atlantic against the SC.126, HX.234 and ONS.4 convoys (11/27 April 1943)., The first seven boats of this pack assembled as... Read More

'Meisterwerk' was a German programme to rest, rehabilitate, reinforce and retrain exhausted formations and units, all of which had been hard hit in the intensive operations on... Read More

'Meksyk II' was the Polish first major operation by the Szare Szeregi (Grey Ranks) resistance group during the German occupation of Poland (26 March 1943)., Undertaken in Wars... Read More

The 'Melitopol Offensive Operation' was the Soviet second of 10 undertakings within the 'Lower Dniepr Strategic Offensive Operation' by the South Front (from 20 October the 4t... Read More

'Melting Pot' was a British deception within 'Bertram' in the period leading to the 'Lightfoot' first phase of the 2nd Battle of El Alamein, and involved the use of dummy tank... Read More

The 'Memel Offensive Operation' was the Soviet offensive toward Memel on the Baltic Sea coast of Lithuania in the final stage of the 'Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation', th... Read More

'Menace' was a British and Free French attempt to take the strategically important Vichy French port of Dakar in the Senegal region of French West Africa (31 August/29 Septemb... Read More

'Mercantile' was a US unrealised plan for an amphibious assault on the north-western end of the Japanese-occupied island of New Ireland leading to the capture of Kavieng, roun... Read More

'Mercerised' was a British series of naval gunfire bombardments, by light naval vessels, of the German positions on each side of the Corfu Channel, on Corfu island to the west... Read More

'Merchant of Venice' was the Allied capture of Myitkyina in the north of Japanese-occupied Burma (17 May/3 August 1944)., The success was achieved by the forces of Lieutenant ... Read More

'Mercury' was a British deception plan, otherwise known as the 'Southern Railway Plan', to use the double agent 'Tate' to pass to the Germans false plans for the movement of A... Read More

'Meridian I' was a British carrierborne air attack on the oil refineries at Palembang on Sumatra island in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies (24 January 1945)., Th... Read More

'Meridian II' was a British carrierborne air attack on the oil refinery at Soengei Gerong on Sumatra island in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies as a successor to ... Read More

'Merit' was the British liberation of the island of Alderney as part of the 'Nest Egg' liberation of the Channel Islands (16 May 1945). ... Read More

'Merker Plan' was a German scheme to accelerate the building of warships and U-boats by limiting the number of yards dedicated to the completion of small surface vessels so th... Read More

'Merkur' (i) was the German combined airborne and amphibious seizure of the Greek island of Crete (20/31 May 1941)., The battle of Crete was unique inasmuch as it was the firs... Read More

'Merkur' (ii) was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Krbavsko plain area of the puppet state of Croatia in German-occupied Yugo... Read More

'Merlin' (i) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to organise and instruct groups in the Bergen area of German-occupied Norway, establish radio contact ... Read More

'Merlin' (ii) was a British operation by Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery’s 8th Army to capture Faenza in the Ravenna region in north-eastern Italy (21/25 November 19... Read More

'Mermaid' was a British unsuccessful operation by the Special Intelligence Service to land one man and a quantity of supplies on Dugi island off the coast of Dalmatia in Germa... Read More

'Merrythought' was an Allied diversion plan for the 'Shingle' amphibious assault on the western coast of the Italian 'leg' (January 1944). ... Read More

This was a US tactical deception by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops in succession to '11th Panzer Division', and was a sound deception to simulate the concentration of US... Read More

'Mespot' was the Allied overall designation for the cover and deception policy for the whole of North-West Europe up to 21 days after 'Overlord', and as such the precursor to ... Read More

'Messer' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Ligurian Sea by S-boote and the ex-Italian torpedo boats TA 25 and TA 29 of Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10... Read More

'Metril' was a British convoy along the coast of Palestine (28 June 1942)., The convoy was attacked by Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Bürgel’s U-97, which sank the 1,755-ton Gr... Read More

'Metropole' was a British special forces raid on a target on the north coast of German-occupied France (March 1943). ... Read More

'Metz' was a US two-part deception by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops in connection with the battle for Metz in eastern France (28 December 1944/9 January 1945)., 'Metz I... Read More

'MF' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route between the island of Malta and Alexandria on the Egyptian coast of North Af... Read More

'MF' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Port Moresby to Milne Bay and Fall River, Papua, and as such reciproca... Read More

'MF1' was a British naval undertaking associated with the passage of the ME.8 convoy and reinforcements for Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet from Malta to... Read More

'MF2' was a British naval undertaking associated with the passage of the 9,919-ton commissioned assault ship Glengyle to Malta with stores, and the retrieval of the empty 9,77... Read More

'MF3' was a British naval undertaking by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet in support of the passages of the MW.8A and MW.8B convoys from Alexandria to Mal... Read More

'MF4' was a British convoy support operation between Alexandria and Malta to ensure the safety of the exchange of the empty 7,798-ton Rowallan Castle, last of the 1941 arrival... Read More

'MF5' was a British naval undertaking to ensure the safe passage of three transport ships in the MW.9A and MW.9B convoys from Alexandria in Egypt to Malta in the Mediterranean... Read More