'MF8' was a British naval gunfire bombardment of German and Italian targets on the Italian-controlled island of Rhodes by a force of cruisers and destroyers of Rear Admiral P.... Read More

'MG' (i) was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying from Malta to Gibraltar, and as such reciprocals of t... Read More

'MG' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Mississippi river to Galveston, Texas, and as such reciprocals of ... Read More

'MG1' was a British naval undertaking by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet to support the operation to resupply Malta from Alexandria by means of the MW.10... Read More

'MG2' was a British unsuccessful naval operation to intercept and destroy an Italian convoy carrying troops, weapons and supplies from ports in the south of Italy to North Afr... Read More

'MG3' was a British naval undertaking associated with 'Callboy' (i) and designed to ensure the safe passage of a 'convoy' from Malta (October 1941)., In fact the ships involve... Read More

'MG4' was a British naval gunfire bombardment of Axis positions on the island of Rhodes (12/14 August 1942). , Undertaken by the light cruiser Arethusa and the light anti-airc... Read More

'MG6' was a British naval gunfire bombardment of Derna on the coast of Axis-held North Africa by ships of Admiral Sir Henry Harwood’s Mediterranean Fleet (August 1942). ... Read More

'MG7' was a British naval gunfire bombardment of Daba on the coast of Axis-held North Africa by ships of Admiral Sir Henry Harwood’s Mediterranean Fleet (September 1942). ... Read More

'MG8' was a British naval attempt to send the 3,320-ton tanker Empire Patrol from Alexandria in Egypt to Malta (1/3 November 1942)., The tanker was escorted by the Free Greek ... Read More

'MG9' was a British diversionary landing on the coast of Axis-held North Africa (October 1942). ... Read More

The 'Mga Offensive Operation' was the two-part Soviet undertaking (22 July/22 August and 15/22 September), otherwise known as the '5th Sinyavino Offensive', designed to open t... Read More

'MH' (i) was a British naval operation in which ships patrolled off Boulogne to look for evacuees trying to escape France for the UK after the success of 'Sichelschnitt' (5/8 ... Read More

'MH' (ii) was the designation Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Milford Haven to Holyhead, and as such reciprocals of the 'HM' (ii) serie... Read More

'MH' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Milford Haven to the Clyde river (22 January/19 May 1945)., The first... Read More

'MH1' was a British naval undertaking to send a cruiser minelayer from Egypt to Malta with 350 tons of desperately needed food (10/12 November 1942)., The ship used was Manxma... Read More

'MH2' was the British naval support undertaking for the ME.11 convoy from Malta to Port Said, Egypt (7/11 December 1942)., The merchant ships which departed Malta at 10.00 on ... Read More

'MI' (i) was a British and French naval minelaying associated with the creation of the Dover Barrage and concerned with the laying of fields off the coasts of Belgium and the ... Read More

'Mi' (ii) was a Japanese naval undertaking designed to capture Midway island, about two-thirds of the distance from Tokyo to Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian islands group, as a b... Read More

'Michael' (i) was a German operation using a number of specially created Kampfgruppen in the 'land bridge' corridor linking the Demyansk pocket with the rest of the German for... Read More

'Michael' (ii) was a German unrealised plan for the evacuation of all Axis forces from Crimea (28 October 1943)., The implementation of the plan was specifically refused by Ad... Read More

'Michael' (iii) was a German counterattack against Allied positions on Monte Cairo just before the start of the Allied attack in 'Avenger', otherwise the 2nd Battle of Cassino... Read More

'Michaelmas' was the US amphibious seizure of Saidor on the north coast of North-East New Guinea by Brigadier General Clarence A. Martin’s 'Michaelmas' Task Force (reinforce... Read More

'Mickey Finn' was a Canadian raiding patrol operation in North-West Europe (7/8 December 1944)., During the winter 1944/spring 1945 period the Canadian and other Allied armies... Read More

'Micki Maus' was the German deposition and subsequent abduction of Vezérfökapitány Miklós Horthy de Nagybanya, the regent of Hungary (15 October 1944)., For some time befo... Read More

'Midas' was a British intelligence operation in which the sum of £20,000 was transferred from Germany via an uninvolved third party supposedly to pay the double agent 'Tate' ... Read More

The 'Middle Don Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking, otherwise known as 'Malyi Saturn', within the 'Stalingrad Strategic Offensive Operation', in the Stalingrad and ... Read More

'Midhurst' was a British unrealised plan by the Special Operations Executive against the fish-freezing facilities at Hammerfest and Melbø in German-occupied Norway (February/... Read More

'Midmar' was a British small-scale operation to repatriate German prisoners of war via Sweden (October 1943). ... Read More

'Mihailović' was the German final undertaking to suppress the Serb Četnik detachments of the Yugoslav army, headed by Colonel Dragoljub 'Draza' Mihailović, in the area of S... Read More

'Mike' was a British reinforcement landing by elements of Brigadier L. G. Thomas’s Indian 36th Brigade of Major General C. E. N. Lomax’s Indian 26th Division of Lieutenant... Read More

'Mike I' was the US reconquest of Luzon island, the largest of the Japanese-occupied Philippine islands group, which the Japanese had taken in 'M' (ii) (9 January/15 August 19... Read More

'Mike II' was a US unrealised plan for the forces of Lieutenant General Walter C. Krueger’s 6th Army to land in Dingalan Bay, on the east coast of Luzon island in the Philip... Read More

'Mike III' was a US unrealised plan for the forces of Lieutenant General Walter C. Krueger’s 6th Army to land at Vigan on the north-west coast of Luzon island in the Philipp... Read More

'Mike IV' was a US amphibious landing at Nasugbu on the western side of south central Luzon in the Philippine islands group (31 January 1945)., This landing was undertaken by ... Read More

'Mike VI' was a US unrealised plan by General Douglas MacArthur’s South-West Pacific Area command for an amphibious landing at Batangas and in Tabayas Bay on the southern si... Read More

'Mike VII' was a US amphibious landing at San Antonio in central Luzon in the Philippine islands group (29 January 1945)., Undertaken by Major General Charles P. Hall’s XI C... Read More

'Milan I' was an Allied unrealised operation for an airborne landing behind the 'Westwall' in the area of Trier in western Germany (September 1944)., The operation would have ... Read More

'Milan II' was an Allied unrealised operation for an airborne landing to secure the crossing of the Rhine river in the Koblenz and Neuweid area of western Germany (September 1... Read More

The 'Milau-Elbing Offensive Operation' was the Soviet second of the six sub-operations together constituting the 'East Prussian Strategic Offensive Operation', and was carried... Read More

'Milepost' was a US unrealised plan to increase its stocks of matériel, fuel and other supplies in the Far East (summer 1945)., The object was to support the Soviet forces wh... Read More

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

'Millennium' was a British air raid by bombers of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command against Köln (30/31 May 1942). , The undertaking was the first 'thousan... Read More

'Millennium II' was a British 'Thousand Force' bombing raid on Bremen by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command in succession to 'Millennium' (i) and 'Arabian Ni... Read More

'Millet' was a British naval attack on targets in the Japanese-occupied Nicobar islands group in the Bay of Bengal with the aim of diverting Japanese attention and efforts fro... Read More

'Mimose' was the German movement of SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Werner Ostendorff’s (from 17 June SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Ot... Read More

'Mimsy' was a British unrealised concept by Colonel R. Peter Fleming’s 'D' Division deception organisation in Burma, and modelled after 'Llama' (a radio-equipped Libyan left... Read More

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

'Mincemeat' (i) was a British naval undertaking off the coast of north-western Italy by Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Gibraltar-based Force 'H' to mine the approaches ... Read More

'Mincemeat' (ii) was a British deception plan designed to convince the Germans that the Allies were planning to launch an invasion from North Africa directed not at Sicily, wh... Read More