'Puma' (i) was a British unrealised plan to take the Canary islands group and possibly the Cape Verde islands group from Spain and Portugal respectively (April/May 1941)., The... Read More

'Puma' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ONS.138, ON.139 and HX.212 convoys (16/20 October 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-224, U-301, U-383, U... Read More

'Puma' (iii) was a German operation against partisan forces operating in the Epiros region of German-occupied western Greece (October/November 1943). ... Read More

The 'Puma-Stellung' was a German fallback position to the south-east of Bobruysk for the forces of Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' (summer 194... Read More

'Pumpkin' was a British operation by Major General D. T. Cowan’s Indian 17th Light Division to the south of Tiddim in the central part of Japanese-occupied Burma (December 1... Read More

'Punchbowl' was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious assault from the south to retake Singapore, at the extreme southern end of Japanese-occupied Malaya (July 1945). ... Read More

'Pungent' was a British landing by Brigadier C. R. Hardy’s 3rd Commando Brigade at Myebon in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma as the second phase... Read More

'Puran 21' was a Japanese unrealised plan by Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida’s 15th Army for an invasion of Assam in north-eastern India from western Burma (autumn/23 Decemb... Read More

'Puran Z' was a Japanese scheme promulgated by Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo for the creation of a major offensive/defensive strategy in the Pacific (May 1943)., The ... Read More

'Purblind' was the British bombing of S-boote facilities on the coast of German-occupied North-West Europe by aircraft of No. 16 Group of RAF Coastal Command under naval tacti... Read More

'Purge' was a British unrequired plan for the naval defeat, by forces controlled largely by Admiral the Hon. Sir Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax’s Nore Command, of any Ger... Read More

'Puritan' was the British component of the 'Planet' bombing attack on the German battleship Tirpitz concerned with the aerial reconnaissance of parts of the north of German-oc... Read More

'Purple' (ii) was the US unofficial designation for part of the 'Magic' intelligence programme to derive and disseminate information from the cryptanalysis of messages enciph... Read More

'Purple Whales' was an Allied deception plan to support the proposed 'Olympic' amphibious assault on Kyushu island at the south-western end of the Japanese home islands (June/... Read More

'Pussta' was a German limited offensive by Generaloberst Ernst Busch’s 16th Army to restore the position of Generalfeldmarschall Georg Küchler’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' just ... Read More

'Pussyfoot' was a British abortive special forces raid on the island of Herm in the German-occupied Channel Islands group by the Small Scale Raiding Force, called off as a res... Read More

'PV' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Melbourne to Townsville, Australia (September/October 1943)., The first of ... Read More

'PW' (i) was a British series of 23 sweeps across the English Channel in search of German coastal craft and convoys in the waters off German-occupied Belgium and the Netherlan... Read More

'PW' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Portsmouth to Wales, and as such reciprocals of the 'WP' series (July ... Read More

'PX'[ was a British naval bombardment of the German positions and shipping in the harbour of Ostend in occupied Belgium (10/11 February 1941)., The British ships involved in t... Read More

'Pyramid' was a US maritime undertaking to despatch substantial numbers of men and large quantities of weapons, equipment and supplies to the Auckland area of New Zealand for ... Read More

'Python' (i) was an Australian two-part undertaking in Borneo by the 'Z' Special Unit (October 1943/January 1944)., The operation’s tasks were to establish a wireless statio... Read More

'Q' was the British plan to destroy the naval base at Singapore and thus prevent its use by the Japanese after their seizure of the Malayan peninsula following the success of ... Read More

'QE' was a British naval operation to ambush S-boote attacking coastal shipping off East Anglia with a motor gun boat force (16/17 April 1941)., The boats involved were MGB-59... Read More

'QK' was a British minelaying operation using motor launches and motor gun boats of the Nore Command (6 September 1941/9 June 1943)., Starting with QK.7 and ending with QK.4D,... Read More

'QL' (i) was a British minelaying operation using minor craft such as motor launches and motor gun boats of the Nore Command (1 September 1941 onward)., The operation was crea... Read More

'QL' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route along the Queensland coast from Brisbane to Townsville, Australia, and as s... Read More

'QO' was a British naval mineclearing operation in British coastal waters (October 1942)., Undertaken by the 9th Minesweeping Flotilla (Bangor, Blackpool, Bridlington, Bridpor... Read More

'QP' was the designation of Allied Arctic convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from ports in the northern USSR to Iceland and later the UK, and as such ... Read More

'QS' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and in one case a literal suffix) plying the route from Quebec to Sydney, Nova Scotia, as as such recipro... Read More

'QU' was a British programme of minelaying and anti-shipping operations by the motor gun boats, motor launches and motor torpedo boats of Admiral Sir George Lyon’s (from 7 J... Read More

'Quadrangle' was a British naval undertaking by Admiral Sir Henry Harwood’s Mediterranean Fleet to expedite a series of four convoys into Malta from Egypt (6 December 1942/1... Read More

'Quadrant' was the Allied 1st Quebec Conference, attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill together with their political and military st... Read More

'Quaker' was a British and Canadian cover plan for Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s British 2nd Army and General H. D. G. Crerar’s Canadian 1st Army as they readied ... Read More

'Quarter' was a British delivery of aircraft reinforcements to Malta (1942). ... Read More

'Quaver' was the British parachute delivery, within the 'Scale' series of operations, of a two-man Special Operations Executive party and its stores (six containers and six pa... Read More

'Queen' was a US offensive by Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley’s 12th Army Group on the Rur (Roer in French and Dutch) river plain in western Germany as a staging point fo... Read More

'Quentin' (i) was the British naval operation to sever the telephone cables connecting the UK with the German-occupied Netherlands (24 May 1940)., British ships cut the cables... Read More

'Quentin' (ii) was a Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Vendée area of German-occupied France (28 September ... Read More

'Quick' was a British operation to reinforce two RAF squadrons in Malta (1941). ... Read More

'Quick Anger' was a Canadian offensive, developed from the abortive 'Anger' (ii), against the German forces holding Arnhem in the Netherlands, by Lieutenant General C. Foulkes... Read More

'Quickfire' was a US deception plan, originally known as 'Padlock' and associated with 'Sweater', to cover the 'Torch' landing and based on the dissemination among the troops ... Read More

'Quicksilver' (i) was a British unrealised operation, planned as a preliminary to 'Baytown' (i), for a landing at Bova Marina on the 'toe' of the Italian mainland (August/earl... Read More

'Quicksilver' (ii) was an Allied major component of the 'Fortitude South' deception plan designed to persuade the Germans to hold troops some distance away from Normandy in be... Read More

'Quidnunc' was the British part of the Anglo-Norwegian operation to cut the telephone cables connecting the UK and German-occupied Norway (1/2 June 1940)., The cables extended... Read More

'Quinine' was a British special forces operation to parachute a three-man 'Jedburgh' team of the Special Air Service into the Aurillac area of the département of Cantal in Ge... Read More

'Quintal' was a British unrealised plan to take and hold key positions on the Beira Railroad Corporation’s network in Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique) (1941/43). ... Read More

'Quixote' was the British part of the operation to cut the telephone cables connecting the UK and German-occupied Norway via Borkum in Germany (18 and 28 May 1940)., The Briti... Read More

'QV' was a British series of naval undertakings to create and strengthen the East Coast Mine Barrier (January 1943 onward). ... Read More

'QWC' was a British operation against German warships and shipping in the harbour of La Spezia on the north-west coast of occupied Italy (22 June 1944)., The British lost two ... Read More