This was the British recovery of Général d’Armée Henri Honoré Giraud from a beach near Toulon in southern France by the submarine Seraph (6 November 1942)., Captured by ... Read More

'Mink' was an Allied pair of training exercises ('Mink I' and 'Mink II') in preparation for 'Neptune' (iii) and 'Overlord' (15 and 19 March 1944). ... Read More

'Minotaur' was a British deception in which a false document, detailing the War Cabinet’s supposed thinking about the defence of British open spaces against German airborne ... Read More

The 'Minsk Offensive Operation' was a Soviet part of the second phase of the 'Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation', commonly known as 'Bagration' 1 (29 June/4 July 1944)... Read More

'Mint' was a British naval undertaking to landing a party of Secret Intelligence Service agents on the coast of Johore in Japanese-occupied Malaya (October 1944). ... Read More

'Mira' was an Italian convoy support operation across the Mediterranean from Naples in southern Italy to Tripoli in North Africa (10/13 May 1942)., The operation was designed ... Read More

The 'Mirgorod Direction Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking fought as part of 'Polkovodets Rumyantsev', and was thus one of the operations that followed the Battle o... Read More

'Mirko' was a Croat and German operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in occupied Yugoslavia (27 February/8 March 1943)., The ... Read More

'Missive' was a British series of naval undertakings to land parties of Secret Intelligence Service agents on the coast of Japanese-occupied Malaya (August 1943). ... Read More

'Mitre' was a British naval undertaking to sink the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro as a consequence of 'Dukedom' (10/16 May 1945)., Haguro had been operating as a supply ship f... Read More

'Mitte' (i) was part of the German attack to take the island of Hiuumaa (Dagö in German), in the mouth of the Gulf of Riga off the coast of Estonia, within 'Siegfried' (i) (1... Read More

'Mitte' (ii) was a German relocation of U-boats to Norwegian bases for the protection of German-occupied Norway, which Adolf Hitler firmly believed to be an inevitable target ... Read More

'Mitte Juli' was a German operation against partisans in the sector of Generaloberst Rudolf Schmidt’s 2nd Panzerarmee of Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgr... Read More

'Mittelbau' was the German decision to launch a programme to speed the development and production of V-weapons in underground military centres in the southern part of the Harz... Read More

'Mittelmeer' was the German movement of Luftwaffe forces to the Mediterranean theatre as a reinforcement for the Italian Regia Aeronautica in its operations against Malta and ... Read More

'Mitten' was the British elimination of a small north-facing German salient in the area of Château de la Londe and Château de la Landel in northern France some 6 miles (10 k... Read More

The 'Mius River Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking, partnered to the north by the 'Izyum-Barvenkovo Offensive Operation', by the South Front to clear the German 6th... Read More

The 'Mius-Linie' was a German well-sited and strongly fortified defensive line on the western bank of the Mius river in the southern USSR (December 1941/31 August 1943)., Sovi... Read More

'MK' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Madagascar to Kilindini, Kenya, and as such recipro... Read More

'MKF' was the designation of Allied fast military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from North Africa via Gibraltar to Liverpool or the Firth of Clyd... Read More

'MKS' was the designation of Allied slow military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from from North Africa via Gibraltar to L... Read More

'ML' was a British series of naval minelaying operations in the South Ruytingen Channel off the coast of the German-occupied Netherlands designed primarily to impede the flow ... Read More

'MN' (i) was a British minelaying operation to create an anti-invasion minefield opposite Dover at the north-eastern end of the English Channel and some 8 miles (13 km) off th... Read More

'MN' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Kilindini, Kenya, or Mauritius toward the Seyc... Read More

'MO' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Marseille, France, to ports in North Africa, and as such reciprocals of... Read More

'Mo' (ii) was the Japanese unsuccessful attempt to take Port Moresby in Papua (and in a parallel but successful operation Tulagi island near the south-eastern end of the Solom... Read More

'Modicum' was the US mission to the UK to present the 'Marshall memorandum' on the eventual Allied invasion of Europe to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Deputy Prime Ministe... Read More

'Modified Dracula' was the British semi-extemporised version of 'Dracula' (ii) to take Rangoon once it was realised that Japanese forces in the region were pulling out to the ... Read More

The 'Mogilev Defensive Operation' was the Soviet fourth sub-operation within the 'Smolensk Strategic Defensive Operation' and was the three-week defence of Mogilev after this ... Read More

The 'Mogilev Offensive Operation' was a Soviet component of the 'Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation', otherwise 'Bagration' (23/28 June 1944) 1., The two primary object... Read More

'Mohawk' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute Italian and US men of the Office of Strategic Services into German-occupied northern Italy (6 April/2 May 1945). ... Read More

'Mohican' was an Allied unrealised plan, formulated between 'Gymnast' and 'Torch', for an Allied amphibious landing in North-West Africa (autumn 1942). ... Read More

'Molecule' was a British programme to deliver essential stores and equipment to Malta via the Middle East (1941/42). ... Read More

'Moling' was the British overall designation of daylight bombings in which bombers were launched against specific targets in 8/10 to 10/10 cloud to approach the target using a... Read More

'Monastic' was a British naval minelaying operation in the English Channel to hamper any German naval interference in 'Neptune' (iii) (5 June 1944)., In order to increase the ... Read More

'Mondscheinsonate' was the German air attack on Coventry (14/15 November 1940)., At the start of World War II, Coventry was a major industrial city of around 238,000 persons a... Read More

'Mongoose' (i) was the British overall scheme to promote attacks and sabotage along the lines of communication to the Japanese front-line formations in Japanese-occupied Burma... Read More

'Mongoose' (ii) was a US mission to help establish an Italian partisan intelligence network in the region of Stresa (September/26 November 1944). ... Read More

'Monocle' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Lagarde area of German-occupied France (14 August 1944 on... Read More

'Monsoon' was a British operation to deliver crated aircraft by ship to Takoradi on the coast of West Africa for local assembly and then air self-delivery to the Middle East a... Read More

'Monstrous' was a US 'swamp' operation undertaken by US Navy destroyers to locate and sink Oberleutnant Siegfried Koitschka’s U-616 in the Mediterranean area to the west of ... Read More

'Monsun' (i) was a U-boat operation in the Indian Ocean by individual boats rather than a wolfpack (6 July/27 August 1943)., The notion of basing U-boats in Penang and/or Saba... Read More

'Monsun' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation between German-occupied Norway and the Svalbard islands group against Allied Arctic convoys (30 August/23 November 1943)., The wo... Read More

'Montagnards' was a French resistance operation to establish a base in the Vercors massif (July 1944)., The base area was established by some 4,000 maquisards under the leader... Read More

'Montclair' was the US definitive version of 'Princeton', the outline plan for the recapture of the Visayan and Mindanao islands in the Philippine islands group, Borneo, and t... Read More

'Moon' was a British operation in Europe by the Special Operations Executive (?). ... Read More

'Moonshine' was the British maritime delivery of vital supplies to Sweden for onward movement to the resistance forces in German-occupied Denmark, and then the collection of s... Read More

The 'Moonsund Defensive Operation' was the Soviet unsuccessful undertaking to hold the four islands of the Moonzund archipelago (Saaremaa, Hiiumaa, Muhu and Vormsi, or Ösel, ... Read More

The 'Moonzund Landing Operation' was a Soviet amphibious landing operation within the 'Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation' and designed to clear the forces of Generalfeldmar... Read More

'Moorbrand' was a German unrealised operation for Generaloberst Georg Lindemann’s 18th Army of Generalfeldmarschall Georg von Küchler’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' to halt Soviet... Read More