'Knife' (ii) was the British contingency plan for the naval measures to be adopted in the South-Western Approaches in the event of a German invasion of Ireland (1940/42). ... Read More

This was a Franco/US deception plan for a notional offensive by Général d’Armée Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny’s French 1ère Armée in the Mulhouse an... Read More

This was a Yugoslav operation by the VIII 'Dalmatia' Corps to destroy the German and Četnik forces in the area of Knin in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (26 November/4 December 194... Read More

'Knitting' was a British programme to monitor radio transmissions in German-occupied France (1944). ... Read More

'Knobelbecher' was the German evacuation of Swinemünde using naval and merchant vessels to extract some 35,000 persons to Copenhagen in German-occupied Denmark as the Soviet ... Read More

'Knocker' was the US operation to deliver military aircraft across the Atlantic from the continental USA to the UK in the first stages of the development of US military power ... Read More

'Knockholt' was a Yugoslav operation by the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, with the support of British commando and Special Operations Executive elements, to esta... Read More

'Knockout' (i) was the British delivery of weapons and other supplies by motor gun boat to the French resistance forces at Lézongar in the Bénodet area of Brittany in German... Read More

'Knockout' (ii) was the Allied aggregate designation of the notional deception operations within 'Stultify' by Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten’s South-East Asia Command i... Read More

'Knospe' was the German programme to deploy and maintain meteorological teams on the north-west coast of Spitsbergen island off the north coast of German-occupied Norway (15 O... Read More

'Knucklehead' was the US programme of air patrols over the Russell islands group, to the north-west of Guadalcanal island in the Solomon islands group in the period following ... Read More

'Ko' was a Japanese offensive in central China, launched as the first of the three components of the 'Ichi' strategic offensive, whose other components were the two parts of '... Read More

'Koblenz' was a US tactical deception by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, which simulated Major General Fay B. Prickett’s US 75h Division within the context of a feint ... Read More

'Kobra' was a German naval minelaying operation in the Mediterranean by ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10th Torpedoboots-Flottille (16/17... Read More

'Kodak' was a US tactical deception undertaking by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops on the Western Front (22/23 December 1944)., The operation was based on the simulation ... Read More

The 'Koivisto Landing Operation' was a Soviet small-scale amphibious undertaking by elements of the Baltic Fleet to seize the Finnish islands of the Koivisto archipelago to th... Read More

'Koltso' was the Soviet undertaking by General Polkovnik Konstantin K. Rokossovsky’s Don Front to destroy Generaloberst (from 31 January Generalfeldmarschall) Friedrich Paul... Read More

'Kon' (i) was the Japanese strategic plan to reinforce and hold an inner defence line in the Pacific theatre (May/June 1944)., By the second quarter of 1944, the Japanese had ... Read More

'Kon' (ii) was a Japanese campaign against Allied ships and naval bases in the central Pacific using suicide craft such as the 'Shinyo' class one-man launch, 'Kaiten 1' class ... Read More

'Königsberg' was the German disengagement and retreat of General Anton Grasser’s Armeeabteilung 'Narwa' (from 25 September the Armeeabteilung 'Grasser') not to the 'Nelken-... Read More

The 'Königsberg Offensive Operation' was the Soviet capture of Königsberg in the closing stages of the 'East Prussian Strategic Offensive Operation' (late January/9 April 19... Read More

The 'Königsberg-Linie' was a German rear-line position to the west of Moscow (winter 1941/42). ... Read More

'Konrad' was a German trio of operations launched in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve the garrison of Budapest, the capital of Hungary, after it had been invested by Marshal... Read More

'Konserven' was the German designation for the party of condemned concentration camp inmates used in 'Himmler' (August 1939). ... Read More

'Konstantin' was the German occupation of those parts of Greece and the Balkans garrisoned by Italian forces up to the time of the Italian/Allied armistice of 8/9 September (1... Read More

'Kopaonik' was a German and Bulgarian operation offensive against the Četnik resistance movement in the Kopaonik mountain area, Goč and Jastrebac within the Serbia region of... Read More

'Kopenhagen' was the German seizure of Nice as well as the passes over Mont Cenis and other parts of the Alps between France and Italy as part of 'Achse' (ii) (8 September 194... Read More

'Koralle' (i) was a German operation, previously designated as 'Neptun' (iv), against the resistance forces in the Sporades island group in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Ger... Read More

'Koralle' (ii) was a German programme to improve the repair and sea transport capabilities of the navy (1945). ... Read More

'Korda' was a British pair of naval undertakings by a motor gun boat to land men and supplies of the Special Operations Executive at L’Aber-Vrac’h in German-occupied north... Read More

'Kormoran' was a German operation against partisans in the region of the railway linking Novi Borisov and Minsk in the German-occupied western part of the USSR as a successor ... Read More

'Kornblume' was a German four-phase operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the Fruska Gora (mountain region) of Syrmia in German-occupied Yugoslav... Read More

'Körner' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ON.208, HX.263 and ONS.21 convoys (30 October/2 November 1943). , The wolfpack comprised U-212, U-231, U-... Read More

This was a German operation against the resistance forces of the Maquis de l’Ain et du Haut-Jura in the area between Bourg en Bresse and Annecy in the south-east of German-o... Read More

The 'Korsun-Shevchenkovsky Offensive Operation' was the Soviet offensive which led to the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket (24 January/16 February 1944)., Following the '... Read More

'Kosovska Operacija' was the Yugoslav final undertaking by the forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito for the liberation of Kosovo and Metohija in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (15 Octo... Read More

'Kourbash' was the US seizure of Makin atoll in the Gilbert islands group of the central part of the Pacific Ocean within 'Galvanic' (20/23 November 1943)., Butaritari atoll, ... Read More

'Kozara Gora' was a German and Croat operation against the Yugoslav partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Kozara Gora (mountain region) (19/28 October 1942)., The objectiv... Read More

The 'Kozelsk Offensive Operation' was a Soviet offensive by parts of the West Front against the 2nd Panzerarmee in the south-western part of the Kaluga region (22 August/9 Sep... Read More

'KP' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Key West, Florida, to Pilottown, Mississippi, and as such reciprocals o... Read More

'KP' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Karachi, India, to ports in the Persian Gulf (July 1943)., The only kn... Read More

'KP' (iii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the Kola inlet to Petsamo in support of the 'Petsamo-Kirkenes Strateg... Read More

'KR' (i) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Kilindini, Kenya, to Ceylon, and as such reciprocals of the 'RK' (i) se... Read More

'KR' (ii) was the designation Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Calcutta, India, and Arakan ports, Burma, to Rang... Read More

'Kranich' was the German withdrawal of the 2/738th Jägerregiment of Generalmajor Hubert Lamey’s 118th Jägerdivision from Sumartin on Brač island off the Dalmatian coast o... Read More

The 'Krasnodar Offensive Operation', which is otherwise known as the 'Krasnodar-Novorossiysk Offensive Operation', was a Soviet undertaking within the Caucasus campaign of 194... Read More

The 'Krasnoye Selo-Ropsha Offensive Operation' was the more formal designation of the undertaking better known as 'Yanvar Grom' to clear the southern and south-western approac... Read More

'Krause' was a German and Croat pair of operations ('Krause I' and 'Krause II') against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in Axis-occupied ... Read More

'Krebs' was the German naval and overland evacuation of military personnel and a last few civilians from Memel on the Baltic Sea coast of Lithuania before this city’s fall t... Read More

'Krebsfang' was the German use of small parties with powerful radio equipment in the Demyansk pocket to generate radio traffic suggesting to the Soviets that the Germans were ... Read More