'PH' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Leyte, Philippine islands group, to Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea (Ja... Read More

'Phalanx' was the US basic plan to deploy substantial elements of the US Marine Corps to the South Pacific theatre as the leading element of the US campaigns to drive the Japa... Read More

This was the Allied operation to monitor Allied tactical radio networks as a means of providing commanders with immediate and accurate information about the progress of their ... Read More

'Pharos' was British operation to establish an air staging post (later developed into an air base) in the Cocos and Keeling islands group (1943)., The island group was a Briti... Read More

'Pheasant' (i) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish a radio contact with the UK and organise groups in the Valdres and northern Hallingdal ... Read More

'Pheasant' (ii) was a British and Canadian operation in the German-occupied Netherlands to liberate central and western Brabant (20 October/8 November 1944)., General H. D. G.... Read More

'Philip' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Nancy area of German-occupied France (31 August 1944 onward). ... Read More

'Philistine' was the US occupation of Nanumea atoll, the most north-westerly of the Ellice islands group (28 August 1943)., Some 7 miles (11.25 km) long with an area of 1.5 sq... Read More

'Phyllis' was the British air programme to use moonlit nights for the paradropping of supplies to Allied forces and supporters in Japanese-occupied Burma (November/December 19... Read More

'Picador' (i) was a British unrealised plan for the seizure of Dakar, the capital of Vichy French-controlled French West Africa (spring/summer 1940)., Ultimately launched as '... Read More

'Picador' (ii) was the US reinforcement of the marine forces in American Samoa (January 1942)., The first step in this process was the despatch of Brigadier General Henry L. L... Read More

'Picaroon' was the US occupation of Nukufetau atoll of the Ellice islands group (27 August 1943)., Some 650 miles (1045 km) to the south-east of Tarawa atoll in the Gilbert is... Read More

'Picket' (i) was a British naval undertaking, intended as a diversion for 'Result' (i), in which warplanes of the fleet carrier Ark Royal attacked the Santa Chiara d’Ula hyd... Read More

'Picket' (ii) was a British naval two-part undertaking ('Picket I' and 'Picket II') to deliver Supermarine Spitfire fighters to Malta (20/23 and 27/30 March 1942)., Continued ... Read More

'Pickle' was a British naval undertaking to intercept and destroy any Japanese suicide craft, and to protect all Allied shipping, both off and within the estuary of the Rangoo... Read More

'Pied Piper' was the British programme to evacuate children from cities to the country or even overseas in the face of the threat of German bombing (1939/44)., During the 1930... Read More

'Pierson' was British initial objective for Lieutenant General B. G. Horrocks’s X Corps of Lieutenant General B. L. Montgomery’s 8th Army during 'Lightfoot', or the 2nd Ba... Read More

'Pig Iron' was a US operation by the Office of Strategic Services to undermine German morale by the placement of disinformation in German newspapers (1945)., Together with 'Sh... Read More

This was an Allied training exercise for communications elements in preparation for ‘Overlord’ (7 May 1944). ... Read More

'Pigskin' was a British unrealised plan to occupy the portions of Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique) to the north of the Zambezi river in the event that Portugal sided wi... Read More

'Pigstick' was a British unrealised plan for the landing of one division at the southern end of the Mayu peninsula to help in the destruction of the Japanese forces pinning Ma... Read More

'Pike' (i) was a British unrealised proposal to use bombers to cripple Soviet oil production in the trans-Caucasus region during the period before the 'Barbarossa' invasion en... Read More

'Pike' (ii) was a British operation to run support and supply convoys from Alexandria to Tobruk and Benghazi on the north-east coast of Africa in support of 'Guillotine' (ii) ... Read More

'Piledriver' was a British unrealised plan for a special forces raid on targets in the German-occupied Channel Islands group and the nearby Cherbourg area of German-occupied n... Read More

'Pilgrim' was a British unrealised but definitive early plan to take the Portuguese and Spanish island groups in the Atlantic (July 1941/February 1942)., The invasion plan was... Read More

'Pineapple' (i) was a British tactical manoeuvre for use when a U-boat attack was delivered at night against a convoy from a position ahead of it (1942/45)., Created under the... Read More

'Pineapple' (ii) was a US special forces operation to parachute an Office of Strategic Services party into the Piedimonte area of German-occupied Italy to aid local resistance... Read More

'Pinguin' was the German V-2 ballistic missile operational launch programme in accordance with Adolf Hitler’s order of 29 August 1944 (8 September 1944/27 March 1945)., On 8... Read More

'Pinnace' was the British naval undertaking to pass the obsolete battleship Centurion from the UK to India and then Egypt for service as a floating anti-aircraft battery (June... Read More

'Pinpoint' was the British naval delivery of Supermarine Spitfire fighters to Malta (14/16 July 1942)., The 32 Spitfire warplanes were despatched from the UK in the OG.85 conv... Read More

'Pinprick' was a British raid on German targets along the Maas river in the Netherlands (February 1945). ... Read More

'Pioneer' was a British naval raid on Japanese coastal shipping in the area of Kyaukpyu in the Arakan western coastal area of Japanese-occupied Burma (February 1944)., The rai... Read More

'Pipeline' (i) was a British special forces raid by a commando party against Eletot on the estuary of the Seine river on the north coast of German-occupied France (September 1... Read More

'Pipeline' (ii) was a British unrealised special forces reconnaissance mission to the port of Fécamp on the north coast of German-occupied France by the Small Scale Raiding F... Read More

'Pippin' was a British radio deception designed to conceal from the Japanese forces in Burma the fact that Major General D. F. W. Warren’s Indian 5th Division and Major Gene... Read More

'Pirat' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ON.115 convoy (29 July/3 August 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-43, U-71, U-164, U-210, U-217, U-454, U-51... Read More

'Pirate' was a British and Canadian training exercise for the assault techniques for 'Neptune' (iii) and 'Overlord' in Studland Bay, England (17/19 October 1943)., The formati... Read More

'Pisa' was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean from ports in southern Italy to Tripoli in Italian North Africa (8/12 June 1942)., The convoy was part of an ef... Read More

'Pisces II' was a British operation to land agents and stores on the west coast of German-occupied Norway (?). ... Read More

'Pistol' was a British special forces operation by the 2nd Special Air Service against German targets in the Saverne gap of the Alsace-Lorraine region in German-occupied easte... Read More

'Pitch' was the British special forces operation within 'Abstention' to take and hold Kastelorizo island in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea (25/28 February 1941)., Th... Read More

'Pitch' (ii) was the US operation by which substantial numbers of Lend-Lease warplanes were delivered from the continental USA to the USSR (March 1945). ... Read More

'Pitchbowl' was a British naval undertaking against U-boats operating in the North-Western Approaches to the UK (13/15 April 1944)., The escort carriers Emperor, Pursuer and F... Read More

'PK' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Pilottown, Mississippi to Key West, Florida, and as such reciprocals of the... Read More

'Placket C' was the Allied maritime component of the aerial 'Manna' (iii) taking the form of seaborne deliveries of essential supplies to starving Dutch civilians (spring 1945... Read More

'Plan 4' was the US plan for the defence of the western hemisphere after the 'Greer incident' (September/11 December 1941)., At 08.40 on 4 September 1941 the US destroyer Gree... Read More

'Plan A-R' was a British deception designed to male the German forces in the Western Desert believe that the British were planning to make an amphibious landing behind the Axi... Read More

'Plan A.B.' was a British deception to disseminate to the Germans, via a the 'G.W.' double agent and the Spanish embassy in London, a false listing of divisional insignia (Aug... Read More

'Plan I' was a British deception plan to test whether or not the Germans placed sufficient trust in those of their agents, whom the British had 'turned', to plan and implement... Read More

'Plan IV' was a British deception by the Twenty (XX or Double Cross) Committee in which several false air raid damage reports were passed to the Germany, via the Spanish embas... Read More