'OW' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Australia to Ceylon, India and the Middle East (November 1942/July 194... Read More

'Oxalic' was the British final objective for Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese’s XXX Corps of Lieutenant General B. L. Montgomery’s 8th Army in the 'Lightfoot' first pha... Read More

'Oxtail' was a British unrealised plan to form a specialised anti-shipping air unit for operations against Japanese vessels in the Pacific theatre with 'Highball' surface-skip... Read More

'Oyster' was the British daylight air attack by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris’s RAF Bomber Command on the Philips radio factory at Eindhoven in the German-occupied Netherlan... Read More

'Ozone' was a British unrealised naval undertaking to intercept and capture or destroy a Vichy French convoy to Madagascar (1941). ... Read More

'Ozren' (i) was a Croat attempt to clear the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito from the Axis lines of communication, most especially the railway line connecting Doboj and Sar... Read More

'Ozren' (ii) was the Croat and German part of the operation known to the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito as the 'Second Enemy Offensive' (14/23 January 1942) within the con... Read More

'Ozren' (iii) was a Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Sunja area of the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (15/17 April 19... Read More

'PA' (i) was a British series of four minelaying operations in northern British waters (12 January/20 March 1940)., The auxiliary minelayer Princess Victoria, escorted by the ... Read More

'PA' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from the ports of the Persian Gulf to Aden (Septemb... Read More

'Packard' (i) was a British unrealised naval contingency plan for operations by the warships of the Home Fleet and warplanes of RAF Coastal Command in the event that the Germa... Read More

'Packard' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Lozière area of German-occupied France to estab... Read More

'Packhorse' was the British programme of naval and air operations against U-boats in the South-Western Approaches and Bay of Biscay (1941/43). ... Read More

'PAD' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Pointe Noire, Congo, via Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Dakar, French West Afr... Read More

'Paddle' was a British and Canadian offensive to the north-east of Falaise by General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group to close the neck of the 'Falai... Read More

'Paderborn' was the German third and finally successful naval endeavour to transfer the battle-cruiser Scharnhorst and escorting destroyers from the Baltic to the waters of Ge... Read More

'Padlock' was a US initial designation of the deception for 'Torch' which was later implemented as 'Quickfire' (September 1942). ... Read More

'Page' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for Fanning island in the Line islands group in the Pacific Ocean(1941/45)., Fanning island is a comparatively ... Read More

'Pageant' was a British operation to ship crated Hawker Hurricane fighters to Takoradi in West Africa for assembly and subsequent self-delivery to the Middle East theatre (Mar... Read More

The 'Palisaden-Stellung' was a German defensive position on the Zhidra river to the south of Chernichi in the Orel region of the German-occupied western USSR (winter 1942/43).... Read More

'Palmerston' was a British special forces operation to dislocate the Axis headquarters in the Cyrenaica region of Italian-held North Africa, and also damage the German-used ai... Read More

'Palmyra' was a British special forces raid by the Special Air Service (?). ... Read More

'Pampa' was the Allied programme of meteorological flights over Germany and eastern Europe (7 November 1941/May 1945)., The first such undertaking was flown on 7 November 1941... Read More

'Pamphlet' was the British convoy to transport the Australian 9th Division from the port of Suez at the southern end of the Suez Canal in Egypt to ports in Australia as this f... Read More

'Pancake' (i) was the Allied repatriation of Soviet and French prisoners of war released in German-occupied Norway (June/July 1943). ... Read More

'Pancake' (ii) was the US bombing offensive against German supply dumps in the region of Bologna in northern Italy in conjunction with 'Olive' (iii) (October/December 1944). ,... Read More

'Panda' was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man team of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 into the Pyabon area of Japanese-occupied Burma ... Read More

'Panhandle' was the US geographical rather than operational codename, earlier 'Anaconda', for Truk atoll in the Caroline islands group of the central Pacific (1941/45)., A gro... Read More

'Pantaloon' was the British air force contribution to 'Perpetual' (i) for the delivery of Hawker Hurricane fighters to bolster the defensive strength of Malta (10/12 November ... Read More

'Panther' (i) was the British movement of Air Vice Marshal A. Wright’s No. 1 Group of Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal’s RAF Bomber Command to France (2 September 1939)., Th... Read More

'Panther' (ii) was a German unrealised plan for an offensive in the Strasbourg area of eastern France toward Gerberville as part of 'Braun' (i) (June 1940). ... Read More

'Panther' (iii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ONS.136 and ONS.137 convoys (6/20 October 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-71, U-84, U-89, U-132, U... Read More

'Panther' (iv) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ONS.148 and HX.217 convoys (29 November/11 December 1942)., The wolfpack was formed in the central A... Read More

Allied operation to cross the Garigliano river in southern central Italy by Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery’s British X Corps of Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark’s U... Read More

'Panther' (v) was a German unrealised plan for an offensive to envelop the Soviet forces in the area to the east of Kharkov (April/May 1943). , In the third week of March 1943... Read More

'Panther' (vi) was a German operation against partisans in the region of Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein’s Heeresgruppe 'Süd' in the German-occupied western USSR (A... Read More

'Panther' (vii) was a German operation by elements of Generaloberst Alexander Löhr’s Heeresgruppe 'E' against partisan forces in the Metsovo pass, Mt Olympos, Parnassos mou... Read More

'Panther' (viii) was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito operating in the Metsovan pass region of south-eastern Croatia in Germ... Read More

'Panther' (x) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Norwegian Sea against the JW.61 and RA.61 convoys (16 October/10 November 1944)., The wolfpack comprised U-293, U-295, U-3... Read More

The 'Panther-Bewegung' was the German withdrawal into the 'Panther-Stellung' (i) defences along the Dniepr river, in the area of Smolensk and Vitebsk, on the Eastern Front by ... Read More

The 'Panther-Stellung' (i) was a German strategic defence line in the USSR, planned to run from Narva on the Gulf of Finland in the north to the Sea of Azov near Melitopol in ... Read More

The 'Panther-Stellung' (ii) was a German defence line in the Netherlands (October 1944/45)., During their occupation of the Netherlands, the Germans made use of the Dutch 'Gre... Read More

'Panzer' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (23 November/11 December 1942). , The wolfpack comprised U-135, U-211, U-254, U-439, U-445, U-465, U-524, U-611, U-623... Read More

'Panzerfaust' was the German seizure, otherwise known as 'Eisenfaust', of Burberg Castle in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, at the time that the Hungarian regent, Vezérföka... Read More

'Papoose' was an Allied unrealised proposal for the launch of a series of short-duration landing operations to take and destroy the German V-1 flying bomb and, to a secondary ... Read More

'Paprika' was a British unrealised deception by the Twenty (XX or Double Cross) Committee to sow dissent in the upper elements of the German political and military leadership ... Read More

'Parabola' was the Allied petrol supply operation for the forces in North-West Europe by means of the 'PLUTO' underwater pipeline from the UK (summer 1944). ... Read More

'Paradise' was a British five-element amphibious deception involving the installation of dummy lighting on unused parts of the 'Overlord' assault area to decoy any German bomb... Read More

'Parallax' was a British naval undertaking to clear the harbour of Tobruk and re-establish the facilities of this captured Italian port in North Africa as a base for the light... Read More

'Paravane' was a British air attack which inflicted heavy damage on the German battleship Tirpitz at anchor in the Kaafjord spur of the Altafjord in the far north of German-oc... Read More