'Scullion I' was a British special forces attack by the Special Operations Executive on the shale oil refinery at Les Télots, which manufactured synthetic fuel, in German-occ... Read More

'Scullion II' was a British and US special forces operation to drop a combined Special Operations Executive and Office of Strategic Services team into the Autun area of German... Read More

'Scupper' (i) was a British naval sweep against Japanese coastal shipping in the area to the north of Gwa in the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (9/12... Read More

'Scupper' (ii) was the Allied overall scheme by Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s South-East Asia Command for Allied operations in Japanese-occupied Burma (October 1944).... Read More

'Scuttle' was the British overall designation for the daylight bombing technique in which aircraft were given a roving commission to attack targets of opportunity seen through... Read More

'SD' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Iceland to the Clyde river estuary, and as such... Read More

'SD' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Seychelles islands group to Diego Suárez, Madagascar (1944). ... Read More

'SE' (i) was a British anti-submarine patrol operation to the east of Rona island, off western Scotland, by escort destroyers based at Sullom Voe in the Shetland islands group... Read More

'Se' (ii) was the Japanese evacuation of their forces from the island of Kolombangara in the Solomon islands group at the end of the US 'Toenails' campaign to take these islan... Read More

The 'Sea of Azov Defensive Operation', known to the Germans as the Battle of the Chernigovka Pocket, was the unsuccessful Soviet attempt to halt an Axis offensive along the no... Read More

'Seagull I' was a British unrealised plan by the Special Operations Executive for the disruption of supplies of blister copper, pyrites and zinc concentrate produced at the Su... Read More

'Seagull II' was a British attack by the Special Operations Executive to disrupt the supplies of blister copper, pyrites and zinc concentrate from the Sulitjelma mines in the ... Read More

'Seal', otherwise known as the 'Liberation of La Réunion', was the Free French seizure of the Vichy French island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean (27/30 November 1942)., T... Read More

'Sealion' was an Allied unrealised contingency plan for the evacuation of Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery’s British X Corps from the northern sector of the 'Avalanch... Read More

This was a British naval undertaking, in concert with the ‘Musketry’ air patrol programme, to find and destroy U-boats running on the surface in the Bay of Biscay while on t... Read More

'Seatrain' was the Allied unrealised reciprocal of 'Sealion', namely a contingency plan for the evacuation of Major General Ernest J. Dawley’s US VI Corps from the southern ... Read More

'Seccotine' was a British operation to strengthen the defensive forces in and around Freetown, the capital and major port of Sierra Leone in West Africa, and a key point on th... Read More

'Seclusion' was the US geographical rather than operational codename for the Nanpo Shoto island groups between the Japanese home islands and the Mariana islands group in the P... Read More

'Second Enemy Offensive' was the Yugoslav designation for the Axis offensive against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the eastern part of Bosnia in Axis-occupied Yugo... Read More

'Second Undercut' was the British deception and support plan for 'Manna' (i) by exaggerating the size and strength of the British expeditionary force heading toward Greece (Oc... Read More

'Second Wind' was a US attack by part of Major General Edward M. Almond’s 92nd Division (with two of its organic African-American regiments combined into one and supplemente... Read More

'Sedan' was the German final major modification in the process of adapting 'Gelb' to include 'Sichelschnitt' (13 February 1940)., The modification emphasised the concentration... Read More

'See Saw' was a US radio deception in support of 'Quicksilver I' within 'Fortitude South', and purported to be the signal traffic of Major General Lloyd D. Brown’s US 28th D... Read More

'Seeadler' (i) was a German scheme, sometimes known as 'Taube II', devised by the foreign ministry from May 1941 after the collapse of the 'Walfisch' scheme, to use a seaplane... Read More

'Seeadler' (ii) was a U-boat minelaying operation in the Kara Sea by Oberleutnant Hans-Helmuth Bugs’s U-629 (26 August/17 September 1943)., The boat laid 16 TMC mines on 5 S... Read More

'Seebad' was the German alternative designation for the 'Küste' bombing of Warsaw within the 'Weiss' (i) campaign (13 September 1939)., The Luftwaffe opened the German attack... Read More

'Seebär' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Kara Sea by Kapitänleutnant Hans Benker’s U-625 (7/20 August 1943)., The mines claimed one victim when, on 25 Augus... Read More

'Seehund' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation off the coast of South Africa and in the Indian Ocean (5 February/19 April 1943)., The boats of this wolfpack refuelled and reple... Read More

'Seehund' (ii) was a German naval minelaying operation in the Kara Sea by Oberleutnant Walter Wichmann’s U-639 (17/28 August 1943)., After laying 24 TMB mines in the estuary... Read More

'Seek' was a British naval undertaking, subsidiary to 'Hide', to clear the Skerki Channel, between the north-east coast of Tunisia and the south-west tip of Sicily (22/23 Dece... Read More

'Seekuh' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Kara Sea by Kapitänleutnant Hans Hildebrandt’s U-636 (17/30 August 1943)., The boat deposited 24 TMB mines in the es... Read More

The 'Seelow-Berlin Offensive Operation' was a Soviet part of the 'Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation' and generally known as the Battle of the Seelow Heights (16/19 April 19... Read More

'Seelöwe' was the German unrealised plan for a combined-arms invasion of the UK (16 July/November 1940)., As early as the winter of 1939/40 Grossadmiral Erich Raeder, command... Read More

'Seemöwe' (i) was a German mission planned and prepared by the Abteilung II of the Abwehr military intelligence department and Hauptmann Dr Theodor von Hippel’s Lehr-Regime... Read More

'Seemöwe' (ii) was a German naval minelaying operation in the Kara Sea by Oberleutnant Günther Heinrich’s U-960 (14 September/10 October 1943)., The boat deposited 24 TMB ... Read More

'Seemöwe I' was a German unrealised mission planned by the Abwehr’s Abteilung II, on the basis of an original concept Kurt Haller and an expert from Abteilung I-Wi (economi... Read More

'Seemöwe II' was a German unrealised mission planned by the Abwehr’s Abteilung II to be run at the same time as 'Seemöwe I' using another Irish volunteer to the anti-Briti... Read More

'Seeräuber' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the HG.76 convoy (14/23 December 1941)., The wolfpack comprised U-67, U-71, U-107, U-108, U-125, U-127... Read More

'Seeräuber' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the RS.3 convoy (22/30 March 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-67, U-123, U-159, U-167, U-172, U-513 a... Read More

'Seeräuber' (iii) was a Croat unsuccessful amphibious operation by Ustase forces against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito on the island of Brač in the Adriatic Sea off... Read More

'Seeschlange' (i) was a German bombing campaign in parallel with 'Loge' (September 1940/May 1941)., While 'Loge' was concerned with attacks on London, 'Seeschlange' (i) was co... Read More

'Seeschlange' (ii) was German naval minelaying operation in the Kara Sea by Kapitänleutnant Peter-Ottmar Grau’s U-601 (30 July/28 August 1943)., The boat deposited 24 TMB m... Read More

'Seeteufel' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic primarily against the ONS.1 convoy (21/30 March 1943)., Eight boats formed the pack on 21 March, and another seven ... Read More

'Seevogel' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Kara Sea by Oberleutnant Günther Heinrich’s U-960 (18 August/1 September 1943)., The boat deposited 16 TMC mines i... Read More

'Seewolf' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the OG.73 convoy (1/18 September 1941)., The wolfpack comprised U-69, U-71, U-77, U-83, U-94, U-95, U-96,... Read More

'Seewolf' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the SC.123 and HX.230 convoys (21/30 March 1943)., Based on an initial eight boats which concentrated to... Read More

'Seewolf' (iii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (14 April/1 May 1945)., The wolfpack comprised U-518, U-546, U-805, U-858, U-880 and U-1235, and for the loss o... Read More

'Seilbahn' was a German operation in the Caucasus by Generaloberst Richard Ruoff’s 17th Army of Generalfeldmarschall Ewald von Kleist’s Heeresgruppe 'A' to disengage from ... Read More

'Seitensprung' (i) was the German attack, by forces including Hauptmann Josef Prentl’s Flakkampfgruppe 'Prentl', within Generaloberst Eberhard von Mackensen’s 14th Army ag... Read More

'Seitensprung' (ii) was a German operation against the Yugoslav forces of the XXI Corps' 10th 'Krajina' Division of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in German-occupied Yugoslavia in su... Read More