'Chimaera' was a British amphibious raid on Ramree island off the Arakan western coastal region of Japanese-occupied Burma (February 1945). ... Read More

'Chloroform' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US team into the Drôme area on the edge of the Vercors plateau in German-occupied Fran... Read More

'Chocolate' was a British small-scale air campaign against Axis positions, installations and, most especially, lines of communication in and around Tobruk by warplanes operati... Read More

'Choker I' was an Allied unrealised plan by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army for an airborne operation to breach the 'Siegfried-Linie' defence... Read More

'Choker II' was an Allied unrealised plan by Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton’s Allied 1st Airborne Army for an airborne landing to the east of the Rhine river by Major ... Read More

This was the designation of US tactical air operations in support of ‘Varsity’ and ‘Plunder’ (23 March 1945). ... Read More

'Chopper' was a British special forces raid for reconnaissance and prisoner-seizing purposes against St Vaast and St Aubin on the north coast of German-occupied France by 25 m... Read More

'Chopstick' was a British unrealised plan for the seizure of the Cape Verde islands group, a Portuguese possession off the north-west coast of Africa, in the event of a German... Read More

'Chough' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to to recruit men from the Bremnes area of German-occupied Norway to work for SOE in the Shetland islands ... Read More

'Chowhound' was the US counterpart of the British 'Manna' (iii) to deliver urgently needed food by air to the starving population of part of the German-occupied Netherlands (1... Read More

'Christmas Cake' was a British unrealised deception plan, schemed by the London Controlling Section, to allow a German prisoner of war to escape back to the occupied European ... Read More

'Christopher' was a US special forces operation to parachute a 52-man operational group of the Office of Strategic Services into the Poitiers area of German-occupied France to... Read More

'Christopherus' was a German undertaking to secure as many as 6,000 civilian transport vehicles for deployment to the Eastern Front in the USSR for the use of Generalfeldmarsc... Read More

'Christrose' was a German plan for an offensive in the Ardennes developed by the staff of Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, the chief-of-staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, but ... Read More

'Chromatic' was a British operation by a team of the Special Operations Executive operating from Gibraltar (?). ... Read More

'Chronicle' was the US occupation of Kiriwina island in the Trobriand islands group and also of Woodlark island off the south-eastern corner of Papua to protect the right flan... Read More

'Chronometer' was the British capture of airfields and other Italian installations at Assab, the main port of Eritrea, an Italian possession on the south-west coast of the Red... Read More

'Chrysler' (i) was a US special forces operation to parachute a five-man Office of Strategic Services operational group into the Val d’Ossoga area near Como in German-occupi... Read More

'Chrysler' (ii) was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a team of two British and one French operatives of a 'Jedburgh' team, departing from Blida in Algeria, into... Read More

'Chuck' was a British air and naval undertaking to interfere with the movement of German shipping to and from ports of German-occupied Norway by the laying of dummy mines in t... Read More

'Chuckle' was was a British and Canadian offensive by Lieutenant General Sir Richard McCreery’s British 8th Army across the Montone river and the Fiumi Uniti (conjoined Ronc... Read More

'Church' (i) was a British unrealised plan to destroy the Arctic port of Petsamo as a means of halting or at least hindering nickel ore shipments to Germany (July 1940)., This... Read More

'Church' (ii) was a British naval undertaking by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet to support the military convoy delivering personnel and stores to Souda ... Read More

'Cigno' was an Italian convoy from Naples to Tunis involved in a naval action to the south-west of Marettimo island, off the western tip of Sicily (15/16 April 1943)., The act... Read More

'Cinderella' (i) was a British training plan to enhance the capabilities of anti-aircraft units in the event of a German invasion of the UK (1940). ... Read More

'Cinderella' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for an amphibious landing to the north of Porto Garibaldi on the north-east coast of German-occupied Italy between Lake Comacch... Read More

'Cinnamon' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British and French 'Jedburgh' team into the Var area of German-occupied France (14 August 1944). ... Read More

'Circus' was the British designation for fighter-escorted daylight bombing raids by light and medium bombers of No. 2 Group of RAF Bomber Command against targets in German-occ... Read More

'Cisco' was a British special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive to parachute a two-man team of No. 1 Special Force into the Balocociti area near Modena in G... Read More

'Citroen' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man French and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Lagarde area of the Vaucluse region in German-occupied France ... Read More

'Citronelle' was an Allied special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive to parachute a liaison team into the Ardennes region of Belgium to establish the streng... Read More

'CJ' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Calcutta, India, to Colombo, Ceylon, and as such re... Read More

'CK' (i) was a British naval undertaking to sink blockships in the Dunkirk channel (3 June 1940)., The undertaking was part of the programme to deny the Germans free use of ca... Read More

'CK' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida (October 1942/August 1943)., The fi... Read More

'CK' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Charleston, on the east coast of the USA, to the UK (January/November... Read More

'CL' (i) was a British naval sweep toward Texel in the neutral Netherlands with the object of locating and either capturing or sinking German coastal shipping (21 September 19... Read More

'CL' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from St Johns, Newfoundland to Sydney or Halifax, Nova Scotia, and as such ... Read More

'Clairvale' was an Allied deception plan to suggest that Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese’s British 8th Army was preparing to undertake a major advance to the north along... Read More

'Clairvoyant' was a British unrealised operation by the Special Operations Executive for a concentrated wave of attacks on key infrastructure elements in German-occupied Norwa... Read More

'Clandon' was a British undertaking to increase the strength of General Sir Bernard Montgomery’s (from 29 December 1943 Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese’s) 8th Army in ... Read More

'Clarence' was an Allied special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive to parachute a three-man Dutch and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Groesbeek area of the Germ... Read More

'Claribel' was the British overall designation of planning by the Special Operations Executive for clandestine operations in Belgium in the event of a German invasion of the U... Read More

'Clarion' was an Allied major bombing offensive designed to destroy German surface communications and morale (22/23 February 1945)., Nearly 9,000 Allied sorties attacked targe... Read More

'Claude' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man Dutch and US 'Jedburgh' team into the Groesbeek area of the German-occupied Netherlands as part of the... Read More

'Clausewitz' (i) was the German alternative designation of 'Blau II', the second part of the summer offensive of 1942 in the southern USSR (30 June/31 July 1942). ... Read More

'Clausewitz' (ii) was a German plan for the defence of the city of Berlin against the Soviet 'Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation' (April/May 1945)., The plan was created by ... Read More

'Claw' was a British deception undertaking to suggest an amphibious assault on Moulmein, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Martaban and thus at the head of the long and narro... Read More

'Clawhammer' was a British unrealised plan for a special forces raid by commando units on a German radar and communications site near Cherbourg on the north coast of the Coten... Read More

'Claymore' was the British first major special forces raid, directed against targets in the Lofoten islands group off the north-west coast of German-occupied Norway just to th... Read More

'Cleanser' was thea Canadian offensive by Major General B. M. Hoffmeister’s 5th Armoured Division of Lieutenant General C. Foulkes’s I Corps of General H. D. G. Crerar’s... Read More