''S' Force' was a British undertaking by the reinforced Tactical Headquarters of Brigadier Dudley W. Clarke’s 'A' Force in the closing stages of the Tunisian campaign to rac... Read More

This was a British deception designed to persuade the Axis forces in the Western Desert that the British forces under the overall command of General Sir Archibald Wavell had a... Read More

This was a US tactical deception undertaking to hold Generalleutnant Wend von Wietersheim’s 11th Panzerdivision of General Erich Brandenberger’s 7th Army in the area to th... Read More

The '1st Battle of Balikpapan' was fought between Japanese and Dutch forces for the oil-rich island of Balikpapan off the south-eastern coast of the Dutch portion of Borneo in... Read More

The '1st Battle of Guam' was fought between Japanese and US forces for the US island of Guam in the Mariana islands group (8/10 December 1941)., Guam is the southernmost part ... Read More

The '1st Battle of Tarakan' was fought between Japanese and Dutch forces for the oil-rich island of Tarakan just one day after the Empire of Japan had declared war on the King... Read More

The '1st Battle of the Alps', otherwise known as the 'Italian Invasion of France', was the first major Italian military endeavour of World War II and the last major element of... Read More

The '1st Battle of the Java Sea' was fought between Japanese and Allied naval forces as a decisive element within the Japanese seizure of the Netherlands East Indies and, in p... Read More

The '1st Demyansk Offensive Operation' was the Soviet encirclement of part of Generalfeldmarschall Georg von Küchler’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' around Demyansk, to the south of ... Read More

The '1st Donbas Strategic Offensive Operation' was a Soviet campaign fought in the Donbas (Donets river basin) between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front, and while... Read More

The '1st Dukhovshchina-Demidov Offensive Operation' was part of the 2nd Battle of Smolensk within the 'Smolensk Strategic Offensive Operation' otherwise known as 'Suvorov' (13... Read More

The '1st Iassy-Kishinev Offensive Operation', otherwise known as the 'Iassy-Kishinev Operation', was a Soviet undertaking named after the two major cities of Iassy and Kishine... Read More

The '1st Kharkov Defensive Operation', otherwise known as the 1st Battle of Kharkov, was undertaken by the Soviets to hold Kharkov during the final phase of the 'Barbarossa' i... Read More

The '1st Rogachev-Zhlobin Offensive Operation', which included the Battle of Bobruysk, was the fifth of the nine Soviet sub-operations together constituting the 'Smolensk Stra... Read More

The '1st Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking otherwise known as the Battle of Rzhev and part of a series of battles which lasted for 15 months in the ... Read More

The '1st Sinyavino Offensive Operation' was the Soviet initial attempt to lift German pressure on the eastern side of Leningrad by retaking the Sinyavino heights and thereby r... Read More

The '2nd Battle of Balikpapan', otherwise 'Oboe II', marked the conclusion of the 'Oboe' campaign for Allied (primarily Australian) forces to retake the most important part of... Read More

The '2nd Battle of Guam' was fought between the US and Japanese forces for the Guam, the largest of the land masses in the Mariana islands group, as part of the 'Forager' stra... Read More

The '2nd Battle of Tarakan' was the battle between Australian and Japanese forces for the oil-rich island of Tarakan off the eastern coast of Borneo (1 May/21 June 1945)., Thi... Read More

The '2nd Battle of the Alps' was the campaign fought between forces of the re-established France and the combined forces of Germany and the Italian Social Republic in the bord... Read More

The '2nd Battle of the Java Sea' between Japanese and Allied forces was the final naval action of the campaign in which the Japanese took the Netherlands East Indies (1 March ... Read More

The '2nd Demyansk Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by the North-West Front and the Special Group 'Khozin' against those elements of the 16th Army of Heeresgruppe ... Read More

The '2nd Donbas Strategic Offensive Operation' was a Soviet major undertaking to retake the Donbas industrial, resources and agricultural region to the east of the great bend ... Read More

The '2nd Gomel-Rechytsa Offensive Operation' was the Soviet ninth of the 15 sub-operations together constituting the 'Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation' (10/30 Novembe... Read More

The '2nd Iassy-Kishinev Strategic Offensive Operation' was the Soviet strategic offensive, following the '1st Iassy-Kishinev Offensive Operation', by the 2nd Ukrainian Front a... Read More

The 'Kharkov Defensive Operation' (ii), otherwise known as the 3rd Battle of Kharkov, was a Soviet unsuccessful undertaking to hold the key city of Voronezh (19 February/15 Ma... Read More

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The '2nd Kiev Strategic Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking which resulted in the liberation of Kiev and Zhitomir (3/13 November 1943)., At a time late in September ... Read More

The '2nd Rogachev-Zhlobin Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by the right-wing forces of General Konstantin K. Rokossovsky’s Belorussian Front (from 24 February 1... Read More

This was a Soviet operation otherwise known as 'Mars' (i) and constituting the second battle in the Rzhev-Sychevka salient within the 'Rzhev-Sychevka Strategic Offensive Opera... Read More

This was the Soviet offensive in the area of the Rzhev salient and better known as 'Mars' (i) (25 November/20 December 1942)., The offensive was a joint operation of General P... Read More

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This was a Soviet operation of the summer and autumn of 1942 planned with the aim of breaking the siege of Leningrad and establishing a reliable route along which supplies cou... Read More

This was the Soviet formal designation of the operation better known as 'Iskra'. ... Read More

'5 Kolonne' was a German naval minelaying operation in the North Sea (21/24 August 1942)., The minelayers Roland, Kaiser and Skagerak, together with the minesweepers M 82, M 1... Read More

This was a Soviet two-part offensive, otherwise known as the 'Mga Offensive Operation' or '3rd Battle of Lake Ladoga', intended to break the siege of Leningrad (22 July/25 Sep... Read More

'A' was the Japanese naval counter-offensive against the US 'Forager' amphibious invasion of Saipan in the Mariana islands group leading to the Battle of the Philippine Sea (1... Read More

This was the German overall designation for the movement and redeployment of major land and air forces toward the country’s eastern border in preparation for the 'Weiss' (i)... Read More

This was a British naval minelaying operation in the Heligoland Bight (September 1939)., The first offensive minefield, which targeted the exits from Germany’s main naval ba... Read More

This was the Allied designation (together with a numerical suffix) of miscellaneous Allied convoys (1939/40)., The first convoy of this series was AB.1 of 2/13 September 1939,... Read More

This was the designation of Allied slow convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route across the Indian Ocean from Aden to Bombay, India ... Read More

This was a German undertaking to eliminate Poland’s ability to effect any revival as opposition to the establishment of a German 'new order' in eastern Europe (September 193... Read More

This was the British early version of the plan, together with an associated deception scheme, for an undertaking in fact executed as 'Atmosphere' for the capture of Massawa in... Read More

This was a British contingency plan for the defence of Turkish naval bases in the event that Turkey entered the war on the side of the Allies (?)., Alone of the major powers w... Read More

This was the US basic policy plan about its relations with Japan in the event that the Japanese moved forces into the Kra isthmus region near the Thai/Malay frontier (1941). ... Read More

This was the American, British and Canadian first military agreement (hence the designation) reached at the secret Washington conference between the senior military staffs of ... Read More

This was the British and US air power agreement reached by military leaders at the 'Arcadia' first Washington conference (29 January/27 March 1941)., The plan established that... Read More

This was the Allied agreement on overall strategy reached at the 'Arcadia' first conference in Washington (22 December 1941/14 January 1942)., This conference was the first in... Read More

'Abcol' was the British overall plan for the defence of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s installations in Iran (1939/42)., In 1925, after years of internal warfare, political... Read More

'Abeam' was a British disinformation effort to persuade the Italians that the British had deployed airborne forces to North Africa (1941)., The unit at the heart of this decep... Read More