'Nordseetour' was the German first naval commerce-raiding foray into the Atlantic by the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper (30 November/27 December 1940)., Undertaken within the co... Read More

'Nordsturm' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic to the south of Greenland (2/9 February 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-186, U-223, U-268, U-358 and U-707, and fo... Read More

'Nordwest' was a Germany study for an amphibious invasion of the UK (13 December 1939 onward)., Parts of this study were later incorporated into 'Seelöwe'. ... Read More

'Nordwind' (i) was a German and Finnish joint naval operation in the Baltic Sea in tandem with 'Westwind' (i) and 'Südwind' (ii) (13/14 September 1941)., The operation itself... Read More

'Nordwind' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation off the north coast of German-occupied Norway (24 January/4 February 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-255, U-302, U-622, U-625,... Read More

'Nordwind' (iii) was a German offensive in the Alsace-Lorraine region of eastern France, and as such the last German major offensive on the western front (1/26 January 1945).,... Read More

'Norma' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute Italian and US men of the Office of Strategic Services into the Trento area of German-occupied northern Italy (5 Ap... Read More

'Norman' (i) was the Allied overall designation for the seizure and/or occupation of Sardinia and Corsica (13 September/3 October 1943)., 'Norman' (i) was based on two previou... Read More

'Norman' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Jura area of German-occupied France to aid local resistanc... Read More

The 'North Caucasian Strategic Defensive Operation' was a Soviet major element of the Battle of the Caucasus, which comprised seven sub-operations for the defence of the north... Read More

The 'North Caucasian Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet successor to the 'North Caucasian Strategic Defensive Operation' and was designed to drive the Germans and t... Read More

'Nothways' was a British tactical deception undertaken largely to protect the move of the headquarters of Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese’s British 8th Army from the coa... Read More

'Nostril' was the British overall designation of naval interception patrols to find and destroy German shipping in the Aegean Sea (October 1944). ... Read More

'Notebook' was the US air transport build-up to deliver supplies and equipment from India to China over the 'Hump' of the eastern Himalayan mountains (autumn 1943)., US air cr... Read More

'Notiz Halder' was an unrealised German plan for the seizure of Switzerland after the completion of the defeat of France (June 1940). ... Read More

'Notung' was a German naval operation, by six coastal minesweepers/minelayers of Kapitänleutnant Felix Freytag’s 11th Räumboots-Flottille, to lay a minefield in the Medite... Read More

The 'Novgorod-Luga Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by the Volkhov Front against part of the 18th Army involved in siege of Leningrad and tasked with the defeat o... Read More

'Novocaine' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Hautes Alpes area of German-occupied France to establish lia... Read More

The 'Novorossiysk Defensive Operation' was the Soviet fourth of the seven sub-operations together constituting the 'North Caucasian Strategic Defensive Operation' (19 August/2... Read More

The 'Novorossiysk Landing Operation' was a Soviet amphibious landing in which ships of the Black Sea Fleet landed and supported ground forces of the North Caucasus Front in th... Read More

The 'Novorossiysk-Taman Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet 30-day undertaking in two parts to complete the campaign for the Caucasus and to liberate the last portio... Read More

'NP' (i) was the designation of Allied military ferry convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the the Clyde river in the UK to Narvik in northern Norw... Read More

'NP' (ii) was a British naval minelaying programme by the light forces of Vice Admiral B. H. Ramsay’s (from 23 April 1942 Commodore R. L. B. Cunliffe’s and from 1 August 1... Read More

'NP' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Turkey to Port Said, Egypt (?). ... Read More

'NQ' was a British naval minelaying operation in the Outer Ruytingen Channel off the north-eastern end of the English Channel (January 1942)., The ship involved was the coasta... Read More

'NS' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Clyde river, UK, to Norway (May 1940)., There were only two such co... Read More

'NS' (ii) was a British series of four naval minelaying operations off the north coast of German-occupied France (February 1942)., The first was 'NSA' off Cap d’Antifer, the... Read More

'NS' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from New Caledonia island to Sydney, Australia, and as such reciprocals of... Read More

'NSF' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from North Africa to Italy in support of 'Avalanche' and subsequent la... Read More

'NSM' was the designation of a British convoy (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Scapa Flow in the Orkney islands group to Narvik in northern Norway (Apr... Read More

'NT' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Port Moresby, New Guinea, to Townsville, eastern Australia, and as such rec... Read More

'Nudger' was an Allied amphibious exercise in the loading and unloading of troops in preparation for 'Neptune' (iii) and 'Overlord' (7 December 1943). ... Read More

'Nunton' was an Allied cover and deception operation, in association with 'Diadem', designed to persuade the Germans that the Allies were planning to execute a major amphibiou... Read More

'Nürnberg' (i) was a German operation against partisans in the Dubrovka region to the east of Bonin lake in the Belorussian region of the German-occupied western USSR (18/27 ... Read More

'Nürnberg' (ii) was a German unrealised defensive plan within 'Gisela' (i) to hold the passes through Pyrenees mountain chain, separating France and Spain, in the event that ... Read More

'Nussbaum' was a German operation to establish and operate a meteorological station on Spitsbergen in the Svalbard islands group off German-occupied northern Norway (13 Octobe... Read More

'Nussknacker' was a German operation by ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10th Torpedoboots-Flottille to undertake gunfire bombardments of t... Read More

'Nutmeg' was an Allied air operation by Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker’s Mediterranean Allied Air Forces to bomb and destroy Axis coastal gun batteries between Genoa in nor... Read More

'Nuts and May' was a British unrealised plan to deliver armoured fighting vehicles directly from factories to the front line in the event of a German invasion of the UK (1940/... Read More

'Nutshell' was a British special forces operation to parachute a four-man team of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into the Moulmein area of Japanese-occupied Bu... Read More

'NV' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Naples to Augusta, Italy and thence sometimes onwar... Read More

'NY' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from New York City to a number of destinations mainly in... Read More

'O' (i) was the Japanese occupation of Kavieng on the Australian-mandated island of New Ireland in parallel with the 'R' occupation of Rabaul on New Britain (23 January 1942).... Read More

'O' (ii) was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (9/11 July 1942). , One of three single-ship convoys, together with the 'L' and 'N' convoys, this was underta... Read More

'OA' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route to the west from Southend-on-Sea on the Thames estuary (... Read More

'Oakfield' was an Allied deception plan designed to persuade the Germans that the Allies were preparing to launch amphibious assaults on the Italian coast at Rimini and Pisa, ... Read More

'Oakleaf' was an Allied deception in Italy designed to convince the Germans that the winter offensive of Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark’s Allied 15th Army Group had not be... Read More

'Oaktree' was a Free Dutch operation to land and operate a party of the Netherlands East Indies Forces Intelligence Service, under the command of Captain J. V. de Bruijn, in t... Read More

'Oatcake' was a British transfer of units from the Middle East to North Africa (?). ... Read More

'Oatmeal' was the Allied overall designation for the establishment of bases in the Azores island group, part of Portugal in the Atlantic (October 1943 onward)., Comprising nin... Read More