'Prien' (ii) was a German operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the north Istrian region of German-occupied Yugoslavia (8/11 August 1944)., The G... Read More

'Prien' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation of the 'second wave' in the Atlantic against the HX.47 and HX.48 convoys (12/17 June 1940)., Named for Oberleutnant Günther Prien,... Read More

This was a British unrealised plan by Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s South-East Asia Command to take Phuket island off the coast of Japanese-occupied Thailand and devel... Read More

'Prijedor' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (18/27 February 1942)., T... Read More

'Primrose' was a British series of small-scale landings at Åndalsnes, Ålesund and Molde in central Norway in preparation for the arrival of an infantry brigade involved in t... Read More

'Primrose' (ii) was the British retrospective cover designation for the 'EB' capture of U-110 (9 May 1941)., A number of highly secret cipher documents were recovered from the... Read More

'Primrose' (iii) was a British exercise to test the practicality of firing self-propelled guns from the decks of tank landing craft during the assault phase of an amphibious l... Read More

'Primus' was a British unrealised plan for the air self-delivery of aircraft from Rangoon to Penang and Port Swettenham in Malaya during the early stages of 'Zipper' (summer/a... Read More

'Princeton' was the US outline plan for the recapture of the Japanese-held Visayan islands and Mindanao island in the Philippine islands group, and of Borneo and the Netherlan... Read More

'Principal' (i) was the British overall designation for the contingency plan to be activated in the event that the Vichy French battle-cruiser Dunkerque sortied from the Vichy... Read More

'Principal' (ii) was a British air transport movement of men and urgent stores to Malta (?). ... Read More

'Principal' (iii) was a British attack with 2.5-kt Chariot manned torpedoes on targets in the Italian ports of Palermo and La Maddalena on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia r... Read More

'Prinz Eugen' (i) was a German major raid by the 143rd Gebirgsjägerregiment of Generalleutnant Christian Philipp’s 6th Gebirgsdivision of General Ferdinand Schörner’s Ge... Read More

'Prinz Eugen' (ii) was the German plan, later realised as 'Konstantin', for the seizure of the Italian-occupied areas of the Balkans in the event that Italy defected from the ... Read More

The 'Prinz Eugen-Stellung' was a German switch line in the primary defence position along a 250-mile (400-km) sector of the Eastern Front for Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model... Read More

'Pripyetsee' was a German operation to kill all Jews in nine areas of Belorussia and three areas of Ukraine in the region of the Pripyet marshes and Pripyet river in the Germa... Read More

'Pritchard' was a British naval undertaking to land a party of Special Operations Executive agents on the coast of Japanese-occupied Malaya (December 1943). ... Read More

'Privet' was the British overall designation for aerial minelaying operations off Danzig in the southern part of the Baltic Sea (?). ... Read More

'Prize' was the British overall designation for the scheme, including 'Capital' (i) and 'Dracula' (ii), for the reconquest of Japanese-occupied Burma (1944). ... Read More

'Probation' was a British unrealised plan for three-stage operation to retake Rangoon, the capital of Burma, from the occupying Japanese forces (1943)., The plan also included... Read More

'Probestück' was a German naval minelaying operation in the North Sea off Harwich and Orfordness, on the east coast of England (24/25 September 1943)., The operation was unde... Read More

'Profit' (i) was a British operation to base one squadron of Supermarine Walrus amphibian flying boats in Iceland for anti-submarine and rescue duties (June 1940 onward)., The... Read More

'Profit' (ii) was one of several British special forces raids by a party of the Special Boat Section against a target on Ramree island, off the Arakan western coastal region o... Read More

'Progress' was a British programme of naval minelaying operations off the ports of Boulogne and Dieppe in German-occupied northern France (October/November 1944)., In British ... Read More

'Prometheus' was a German naval undertaking to relocate several warships from Germany to the northern part of German-occupied Norway (8/12 December 1942)., In this undertaking... Read More

'Propeller' was the British passage of a single merchant vessel from Gibraltar to Malta (13/19 September 1941). , As the second such undertaking, 'Propeller' followed 'Temple'... Read More

The 'Proskurov-Chernovtsy Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking, the sixth, largest and most important of the 10 sub-operations together constituting the 'Dniepr-Carpa... Read More

'Prospect' was a British programme to reinforce the forces in the Middle Eastern theatre (?). ... Read More

'Proteus' was a British operation in support of 'Fortitude' in the form of an armed reconnaissance in force to suggest that the British were assessing the feasibility of a sea... Read More

'Providence' was an Allied unrealised plan to garrison and hold the area of Gona, Sanananda and especially Buna on the coast of North-East New Guinea (13/22 July 1942)., Lying... Read More

'Provident' (i) was the British overall designation of operations to retake the northern and central parts of Japanese-occupied Burma (1944). ... Read More

'Provident' (ii) was a British naval sweep by elements of Admiral Sir Henry Moore’s Home Fleet against German coastal shipping off the west coast of German-occupied Norway (... Read More

'Provident' (iii) was a British beach reconnaissance operation on Ramree island, off the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma, by a Special Boat Service pa... Read More

'Provincia di Lubiana' was an Italian operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (12 July/7 August 194... Read More

'Prüfstand XII' was a German programme to develop an encapsulated version of the V-2 ballistic missile which could be towed across the Atlantic Ocean by a U-boat for launch a... Read More

'PS' was a British naval gunfire bombardment of the port facilities of Calais on the north-east coast of German-occupied France (17 October 1940)., The ships involved were the... Read More

The 'Pskov Defensive Operation' was the Soviet defence of Pskov, on the Velikaya river just to the south of Lake Peipus and about 12.5 miles (20 km) to the east of the border ... Read More

The 'Pskov-Ostrov Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by General Ivan I. Maslennikov’s 3rd Baltic Front against part of General Herbert Loch’s 18th Army of Gener... Read More

'PT' (i) was the designation of Allied tanker convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Paramaribo, Netherlands Guiana, to Trinidad, and as such recipro... Read More

'PT' (ii) was the designation of US military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian islands group, to Tarawa, Gilbert islands ... Read More

'PT' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Auckland, New Zealand, to Sydney, Australia (October 1942). ... Read More

'PTS' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Pointe Noire, Congo, via Takoradi, Gold Coast, to Freetown, Sierra Leone, ... Read More

'Puddle' was a British airborne reconnaissance operation to parachute 11 men of the 153rd Gurkha Parachute Battalion into the Myitkyina region of Japanese-occupied Burma (3 Ju... Read More

'Puff' (i) was an Allied air attack on the marshalling yards at Modane in the south-east of German-occupied France on the strategically important route to Turin in north-weste... Read More

'Puffin' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to contact the resistance movement and train its groups in the Oslo area of German-occupied Norway, and al... Read More

'Pugilist-Gallop' was the British breakthrough of the Axis positions along the Mareth Line by General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s 8th Army (20/27 March 1943)., The comparative ... Read More

'Pugnacious' was a British unrealised plan to move one infantry brigade group from India to Burma in the event of 'certain conditions' (May 1943). ... Read More

'Pullman' was a British diversionary attack by Lieutenant General N. M. Ritchie’s XII Corps of Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2nd Army of General Sir Bernard Montg... Read More

'Pullover' was a British plan to attack the railway line in German-occupied northern Norway linking the mineral ore fields in northern Sweden (Kiruna and Gällivare) with the ... Read More

'Pullthrough' was a British unrealised operation by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Allied 21st Army Group to cross the Rhine river at Wesel, later replaced by 'Plund... Read More