'Cleanslate' was the US seizure of the Russell islands group as the final stage in the campaign to retake the south-eastern end of the Solomon islands group (21 February 1943)... Read More

'Clearance' was a British deception reconnaissance of an airfield near Setul in the extreme south-western part of Thailand (April 1945)., The undertaking was one of a series i... Read More

'Clearance Baker' was a British special forces raid by elements of the Special Operations Executive’s Force 136 on a Japanese target in the western part of Thailand (April 1... Read More

'Clearway' was a British naval minesweeping operation off the port of Sheerness, on the southern side of the Thames river estuary, undertaken by night to avoid German detectio... Read More

'Cleaver' was a British mineclearing operation in the Skagerrak and Kattegat between Norway and Sweden in the north and Denmark in the south to allow the shipborne return of t... Read More

'Clinch' was a British unrealised plan for a landing between Mergui and Tavoy in the southern coastal 'appendix' region of Japanese-occupied Burma to allow the movement of tro... Read More

'Clipper' was a British offensive by Lieutenant General B. G. Horrocks’s XXX Corps of Lieutenant General Sir Miles Dempsey’s 2nd Army to eliminate the Geilenkirchen salien... Read More

'Clipsham' was a British special forces raid on Utsira island off the south-west coast of German-occupied Norway (September 1943). ... Read More

'Clive' was the Allied definitive designation of the type of artificial harbour, initially designated 'Clubhouse', intended for use in operations against the Japanese (1944/45... Read More

'Cloak' (i) was a British naval sweep by motor launches off the island of Alderney in the German-occupied Channel Islands (March 1942). ... Read More

This was a British cover scheme designed to cope with any Japanese discovery of elements of Lieutenant General F. W. Messervy’s Indian IV Corps in the Myittha river valley of... Read More

'Clock' (ii) was a British naval gunfire bombardment of Durazzo harbour and other installations along the coast of in German-occupied Albania by destroyers (2/3 November 1943)... Read More

'Clothall' was a British special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive to provide protection for the power stations at Askim, to the south-east of Oslo, which s... Read More

'Clover II' was a British special forces operation by the Special Operations Executive to parachute a No. 1 Special Force team into the D’Aveto area of German-occupied Italy... Read More

'Clowder' was an Allied attempt to establish contact with the forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in German-occupied Slovenia and gain their support for movement into Austria to... Read More

'Clubhouse' was the Allied initial designation of the type of artificial harbour, later designated 'Clive', intended for use in operations against the Japanese (1944/45). ... Read More

'Clump' was a British unrealised plan for the destruction of pipelines and other oil facilities in Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine in the event they came under threat from a l... Read More

'CM' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying from Cape Town or Durban, South Africa, via Kilindini, Ke... Read More

'CN' was the designation of Allied convoys steaming to the north from Cape Town, South Africa, for dispersal (January 1943/June 1944)., The first of these 'Cape Town Northward... Read More

'CNF' was the designation of Allied fast convoys (together with a numerical suffix) involved in the 'Husky' (i) invasion of Sicily (June/July 1943). ... Read More

'CO' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Newcastle to Melbourne and Adelaide, Australia, and as such reciprocals of ... Read More

'Coalbox' was the British alternative designation for 'Frankton' (7/12 December 1942). ... Read More

'Coastguard' was a British naval diversion on the North African coast during the 'Flipper' (i) special forces raid on Tobruk at the time of the 'Crusader' (i) offensive (17/18... Read More

'Coat' was a British reinforcement operation for Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s Mediterranean Fleet based at Alexandria as one of the six elements comprising 'MB8' (7/9 Nov... Read More

'Cobblestone' was a British series of attacks on German shipping on and off the coast of German-occupied Norway (February/March 1943)., The raids undertaken in 'Cobblestone' w... Read More

'Cobra' was the US break-out from the south-western edge of the 'Overlord' lodgement in Normandy in the Battle of St Lô (24/31 July 1944). , The operation was planned by Lieu... Read More

'Cobweb' was the British unrequired plan for the defence of the delta of the Nile river in northern Egypt in the event of a major Axis breakthrough to the east along the coast... Read More

'COC' was the designation of Allied military convoys (together with a numerical suffix) using coasting vessels on the route from ports in southern England to ports in Brittany... Read More

'Cockade' was the Allied overall designation for diversionary schemes to pin down German forces in the west and so prevent their movement to the Italian and/or Eastern Fronts,... Read More

'Cocker' was the US bombing raid by two Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and two Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers, under the command of Colonel Bernt Balchen, on the Germa... Read More

'Cockerel' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to carry out instruction and training of the resistance group in the Kristiansand area of German-occupie... Read More

'Cockeye' was a British special forces raid on Plage Ste Cecile on the north coast of German-occupied France (November 1942). ... Read More

'Cockpit' was a British carrierborne air attack on Sabang island off the north coast of Sumatra in the Japanese-occupied Netherlands East Indies (19 April 1944)., From the mid... Read More

'Cocksure' was a British unrealised plan for an airborne forces raid on the west coast of German-occupied Norway (summer 1943)., The operation was conceived as a way of suppor... Read More

'Coffee' was the designation of a British and Soviet party trained in the UK by the Special Operations Executive for the NKVD as part of a joint agreement between the SOE and ... Read More

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'Cognac' was a British unrealised plan for an airborne raid on an electricity-generating plant near Milan in north-western Italy (spring 1943). ... Read More

'Cold Comfort' was the British initial designation of the interdiction plan, which matured as 'Zombie', as the first step of an undertaking to block the Brenner Pass through t... Read More

'Coldstream' was an Allied undertaking in which formations of Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s US 3rd Army replaced Lieutenant General C. F. Keightley’s British V Cor... Read More

'Coldwater' was the British response to intelligence about the imminent 'Mondscheinsonate' German air attacks on Birmingham and Coventry (14/15 November 1940)., The operation ... Read More

'Coleman' was a British redesignation of 'Aflame' for a naval demonstration and small amphibious landing in the area of Berck on the coast of German-occupied northern France s... Read More

'Colfax' was an Allied deception undertaking planned and executed at the request of General the Hon. Sir Harold Alexander’s 15th Army Group, to create the threat of a landin... Read More

'Colima' was the British air force element in the naval 'Pinpoint' undertaking to deliver aircraft for the strengthening of Malta’s air defences (14/16 July 1942). ... Read More

'Colin' was a British offensive toward 's-Hertogenbosch and Breda in the German-occupied Netherlands by Lieutenant General N. M. Ritchie’s XII Corps of Lieutenant General Si... Read More

'Collar' (i) was a British special forces raid undertaken by No. 11 Commando/Independent Company at Neufchâtel Hardelot, Stella Plage, Berck and Le Touquet on the north coast... Read More

'Collar' (ii) was the British sequel to 'Coat' in the form of the first attempt to pass a convoy straight from Gibraltar to Malta and Alexandria with vitally needed supplies (... Read More

'Collarstud' was a British unrealised special forces operation against a target in the Finnmark area of the extreme north of German-occupied Norway (June 1943). ... Read More

'Collect' was a British deception plan designed to facilitate success in the 'Crusader' (i) offensive by lulling the Axis forces into a lower state of readiness with a success... Read More

'Collie' was a British naval programme of carrierborne air attacks and warship gunfire bombardments, under the command of Rear Admiral W. R. Patterson, commander on the 5th Cr... Read More

'Collodion' was an Allied special forces operation to parachute a three-man British, French and US 'Jedburgh' team, which departed from Blida in Algeria, into the Aveyron area... Read More