'Newton' was a British special forces operation by the French 3rd Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (3rd Special Air Service) to reinforce the existing 'Dickens' (ii), 'Har... Read More

'NG' was the designation of Allied convoys (with a numerical suffix) plying the route between New York and Guantánamo, Cuba, and as such reciprocals of the 'GN' series (Augus... Read More

'Nibble' was a British unrealised plan for an overland attack by one Indian brigade on Akyab island in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (1943)., De... Read More

'Nibelungenfahrt' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Krbavsko plain area of the puppet state of Croatia in German-o... Read More

'Niblick' was the British overall designation of naval operations in the Persian Gulf (July 1940). ... Read More

'Nicety' was a British special forces attack on the Axis positions at the Jalo oasis in North Africa as part of a complex of operations designed to keep the Axis forces off ba... Read More

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

'Nickel' was the British overall designation of air raids against Germany in which offensive armament was replaced by loads of leaflets urging the German civil population to a... Read More

'Nienburg' was a German part of the 'Naumburg' operation against Narvik in northern Norway as an element of 'Weserübung' (April 1940). ... Read More

'Night Ranger' was the British overall designation for operations undertaken at night as counterparts of the daylight 'Ranger' operations (1941/May 1945)., Any such undertakin... Read More

'Nightingale' was a British operation to locate and destroy German motor vessels and barges, of the types suitable for invasion tasks, as they moved along the north coast of G... Read More

'Nightlight' (i) was an Allied alternative designation for 'Rankin C' (1943/44). ... Read More

'Nightlight' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for an invasion of Norway (1944/45)., Elements of the plan were later incorporated into the Allied occupation of Norway by Majo... Read More

'Nikolaus' was a German undertaking intended to seal the gap between General Walter Weiss’s 2nd Army and Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model’s 9th Army of Generalfeldmarscha... Read More

The 'Nikopol-Krivoi Rog Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking fought as the fifth of the 10 sub-operations together constituting the 'Dniepr-Carpathian Strategic Offen... Read More

'Nimbus' was an Allied one of many training exercises in the period leading toward 'Neptune' (iii) and 'Overlord' (September 1943)., Following 'Euclid', in which no troops wer... Read More

The 'Nis Offensive Operation' was a Bulgarian offensive supported by Yugoslav partisan forces and Soviet troops against the German forces of Heeresgruppe 'F' with the object o... Read More

'Nitelight' was the British programme of sorties by de Havilland Mosquito aircraft to harass German nocturnal troop and vehicle movements in Normandy with the aid of air-dropp... Read More

'Nitwit' (i) was a British air and sea operation against S-boote operating off the south coast of England in the area of Dungeness (1941). ... Read More

'Nitwit' (ii) was a British naval minelaying operation off the port of Livorno in German-occupied north-western Italy (May 1944). ... Read More

'NiWi' was a German air-landing operation to open the way for General Heinz Guderian’s XIX Corps (mot.) of General Ewald von Kleist’s Panzergruppe 'von Kleist', within Gen... Read More

'Nixe' was a German operation against partisans in the Pinsk area of the Belorussian region of the German-occupied western USSR (19 March 1943). ... Read More

'NJ' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route round the coast of Newfoundland island from Botwood to St John’s, and as such ... Read More

'NK' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from New York to Key West, Florida, and as such reciprocals of the 'KN' series (... Read More

'NL' (i) was a British minelaying programme of 136 lays associated with 'Maple' (ii) and using coastal forces (motor launches and motor torpedo boats) of the Dover Command to ... Read More

'NL' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Labrador to the St Lawrence river, Canada, and as such reciprocals of ... Read More

'NLY' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) linking Lingayen Gulf in the Philippine islands group, Humboldt Bay in the Netherlands New Guine... Read More

This was an Allied unrealised contingency plan for the defence of Iceland and Greenland in the event of any threat of a German invasion attempt (1942). ... Read More

'Noah' (ii) was a British special forces operation by the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) to establish a base in the Ardennes region of German-... Read More

'Noah' (iii) was a British and Canadian contingency plan for a withdrawal from the line of the Maas river in the German-occupied Netherlands in the event that the Germans floo... Read More

'Noah II' was a British special forces operation in Japanese-occupied Malaya (March 1945). ... Read More

'Noah’s Ark' (i) was the British naval delivery of stores to ships operating just outside the territorial waters of neutral Turkey (October 1943). ... Read More

'Noah’s Ark' (ii) was a Free Greek operation by resistance forces associated with the democratic cause to harass the retreat of German forces from Greece (September 1944)., ... Read More

'Noball' was the Allied overall designation of operations by fighter-bombers and medium bombers against the �ski site� launching ramps for V-1 flying bombs built by ... Read More

'Nomads' was the British programme of balloon flights to aid in the calibration of the equipment used by General Sir Frederick Pile’s Anti-Aircraft Command (September 1939/M... Read More

'Nonstop' was the US plan, only partially completed, for the redeployment of very substantial formations of the US Army and USAAF from Europe, following the defeat of Germany,... Read More

'Nora' was a German convoy operation just after the end of 'Weserübung' in Norway (14/19 June 1940)., The light cruiser Nürnberg, destroyer Erich Steinbrinck and minesweeper... Read More

'Nord' (i) was the German original designation for the seizure of Denmark and Norway, and later implemented within 'Weserübung' (14 December 1939/spring 1940)., Planning for ... Read More

'Nord' (ii) was the German codeword for the start of an unrealised airborne operation by Generalleutnant Kurt Student’s 7th Fliegerdivision in the area of Ghent in northern ... Read More

'Nord' (iii) was the German first attempt to sail the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper into the North Atlantic on a commerce-raiding operation (24/30 September 1940)., The ship de... Read More

'Nordic' was a British delivery of fighters to Malta (?). ... Read More

'Nordlicht' (i) was a German pair of operations ('Nordlicht I' and 'Nordlicht II') to move Generalmajor Ferdinand Schörner’s 6th Gebirgsdivision from Greece to northern Nor... Read More

'Nordlicht' (ii) was a German unrealised and, as it emerged, final attempt to destroy Leningrad by the end of September 1942 (23 August/16 October 1942)., While the primary Ge... Read More

'Nordlicht' (iii) was the German withdrawal of its forces in the area of the Kola peninsula, in the extreme north-western USSR, to the Lyngenfjord in the northern part of Germ... Read More

'Nordmark' was a German naval operation against Allied shipping in the North Sea (18/25 February 1940)., Under the command of Admiral Wilhelm Marschall, the Flottenchef, a for... Read More

'Nordmeer' was a German naval raid against a pair of Allied convoys as they passed through the Norwegian Sea (6/13 March 1943)., The undertaking followed the completion of 'Sp... Read More

'Nordpol' (i) was a German counter-espionage operation, known to its Sicherheitsdienst (security service) originators as the Englandspiel (England game) but to the Abwehr as '... Read More

'Nordpol' (ii) was a German unrealised operation by Generaloberst Walter Model’s 9th Army of Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' to eliminate th... Read More

'Nordwind' (iii) was a German operation against partisans in the region of Smolensk in the German-occupied western USSR (1 August 1942). , In this area, between the leading ed... Read More

'Nordsee' was a German operation against partisans in the region of Mogilev in the German-occupied western USSR (2/5 September 1942). , These partisan forces threatened German... Read More