'Parcel' was a British naval undertaking to deliver Lord Halifax, the new ambassador, to Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the USA (15/24 January 1941)., Prime Minister Wins... Read More

'Parkplatz' was a German unrealised plan, originally known as 'Bärenfang', for an operation to take Leningrad (15 March 1943)., The undertaking was planned, in the quiescent ... Read More

'Parnass' was a German and Italian operation against Greek partisan forces in the Lamia area of Axis-occupied Greece (June 1943). ... Read More

'Parole' was the British passage of the OS.33 convoy from Liverpool, UK, to Freetown, Sierra Leone (1/20 July 1942)., During this operation, the 'Hai' (i) wolfpack inflicted c... Read More

'Partridge' was a British feint attack by elements of Major General G. W. R. Templer’s 56th Division and No. 9 Commando of Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery’s X Corp... Read More

'Passbook' was a British naval sweep by part of Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Power’s East Indies Fleet in an effort to locate and destroy Japanese shipping in the area of the And... Read More

'Passover' was an Allied proposed deception operation within 'Sledgehammer' designed to persuade the Germans that the Allies planned to made their return to the European mainl... Read More

'Passport' (i) was the British capture by Major General C. E. N. Lomax’s Indian 26th Division of a fire base in the area to the south-east of Minbya in the Arakan coastal re... Read More

'Passport' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for an advance by Major General G. N. Wood’s Indian 25th Division and Brigadier C. R. Hardy’s British 3rd Commando Brigade of... Read More

'Pastel I' was the US initial deception plan associated with 'Olympic' for feint amphibious landings in China, the Kurile islands group and parts of the Japanese home islands ... Read More

'Pastel II' was the US unrealised deception plan developed from 'Pastel I' and designed to conceal the real nature of 'Olympic' by means of attacks against Japanese targets on... Read More

'Pastorius' was a German operation to infiltrate a core group of intelligence operatives into the USA (May/June 1942)., When Germany declared war on the USA in December 1941, ... Read More

'Pasture' was a British naval undertaking by the coastal minelayer Plover to lay an anti-submarine minefield for the protection of convoys passing through the English Channel ... Read More

'Pat' was a US special forces operation to parachute a 15-man Office of Strategic Services team into the Vabre area of German-occupied France to cut the German forces' local l... Read More

'Patent' was a British deception operation in the Middle East designed to ease the pressure on supply convoys to Malta by the supposed threat of an invasion of Greece in the D... Read More

'Paternoster' was a German naval operation to lay an anti-submarine minefield in the Baltic Sea between Skagen (The Skaw) on the northern tip of German-occupied Denmark and Ri... Read More

'Patrick' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute an Office of Strategic Services operational group, eventually numbering 25 men, into the Indre area of German-occ... Read More

'Paukenschlag' was the German 'second happy time' naval offensive by individual U-boats rather than wolfpacks against Allied shipping off the eastern and south-eastern seaboar... Read More

'Paul' (i) was a British unrealised naval plan to mine the approaches to Luleå, the important port at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia on the Baltic Sea coast of neutr... Read More

'Paul' (ii) was an German unrealised minelaying operation off the Yugor Strait between the Kara Sea and Pechora Sea off the north coast of the USSR, by Kapitänleutnant Carl B... Read More

'Paul' (iii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Côte d’Or area of German-occupied France to aid local re... Read More

'Paula' (i) was a German air operation designed to destroy the remnants of the French air force and also the French vehicle manufacturing capability in the Paris area before t... Read More

'Paula' (ii) was a German and Croat possible operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the north-western part of the Grmeč mountain region in the area of Bo... Read More

'Paula' (iii) was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the area to the north of the Sava river in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (8/25 July... Read More

'Paula-Linie' (i) was the German defence line shielding Florence in the north central part of Italy against an Allied advance from the south (summer 1944)., This defence line ... Read More

'Paula-Linie' (ii) was a German defence line on the Sillaro river in northern Italy (spring 1945)., Like most of the German secondary defence lines along river barriers in nor... Read More

'Pavot' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a six-man British, French and US team (in two parts with the 'Quentin' and 'Simon' 'Jedburgh' teams) into a souther... Read More

'Pawnbroker' was a British naval undertaking to land an agent on the coast of Japanese-occupied Malaya (December 1943). ... Read More

'Pax Romana' was a German secret operation, ordered personally by Adolf Hitler, to locate and kill as many Jews, Romanies and other 'undesirables' as possible in Romania (1942... Read More

'PB' 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 ports in India, an... Read More

'PE' was the British overall designation of the defensive operations which were to be undertaken by warships in the event that the Germans launched their 'Seelöwe' invasion o... Read More

'Peacock' was the US alternative designation for 'Vengeance' (18 April 1943). ... Read More

'Pearl' was the British cover designation for lower-grade 'Ultra' information (1941/45). ... Read More

'Pearly Pink' was a US special forces operation to parachute one man of the Office of Strategic Services into the Dordogne area of German-occupied France to provide medical as... Read More

'Pecan' was the US plan for the coastal protection of Peru (1943/44). ... Read More

'Pedal' was British carrierborne air attack on Japanese facilities at Port Blair and other locations in the Andaman islands group in the Bay of Bengal (19/21 June 1944)., The ... Read More

'Pedestal' was a British major supply convoy to Malta (9/15 August 1942). , Known to the Italians as the Battaglia di Mezzo Agosta (Battle of Mid-August), the operation was ne... Read More

'Peewit' was a British unrealised operation by the Special Operations Executive to send a two-man party (O. J. Gulbrandsen and A. Øvre) to establish links with workers in the... Read More

'Peg' was a US special forces operation to parachute a 14-man Office of Strategic Services operational group into the Axat area of German-occupied France to attack the Germans... Read More

'Pegasus' was an Allied pair of operations ('Pegasus I' and 'Pegasus II') after the failure of 'Market' and 'Garden' in order to recover across the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine) riv... Read More

'Peine' was a German bombardment of Soviet positions on the littoral of the Sea of Azov after the 'Krimhilde-Bewegung' evacuation of the Taman peninsula lodgement (12 October ... Read More

'Pelikan' was a German unrealised plan, otherwise known as 'Projekt 14', to cripple the Caribbean Sea end of the Panama Canal from St Martin Bay on the coast of Nicaragua or a... Read More

'Pence' was a British component of the 'Tiger' (ii) convoy to Egypt (May 1941). ... Read More

'Pendant' was a British landing by Brigadier R. C. Cottrell-Hill’s Indian 36th Brigade of Major General C. E. N. Lomax’s Indian 26th Division within Lieutenant General Sir... Read More

'Pender' was an Allied two-element deception designed to persuade the Axis powers and Vichy France that 'Torch' had been delayed (October/November 1942)., 'Pender I' promulgat... Read More

'Penguin' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to operate in the area between Haugesund and Egersund, including Stavanger, in German-occupied Norway for... Read More

'Penitent' was an Allied unrealised plan by Field Marshal the Hon. Sir Harold Alexander’s (later General Mark W. Clark’s) Allied 15th Army Group to take the ports of Split... Read More

'Penknife' was an Allied deception operation associated with 'Goldflake' (February/March 1945)., The operation was designed to persuade the Germans that Lieutenant General C. ... Read More

'Penna' was the German original designation for 'Hindenburg' (ii), the operation to extricate the forces trapped on the Eastern Front in a pocket to the east of the area held ... Read More

'Penny Farthing' was a US special forces operation to parachute a two-man Office of Strategic Services team into the Clermont-Ferrand area of German-occupied France (17 August... Read More