The 'Kremenchug-Piytikhatka Offensive Operation' was the Soviet fourth of the 10 sub-operations together constituting the 'Lower Dniepr Strategic Offensive Operation' (25 Octo... Read More

'Kreml' was a German deception operation to persuade the Soviet high command that the German summer offensive of 1942 would be directed at Moscow and not into the south of the... Read More

'Kreuzotter' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the ONS.144 convoy (8/24 November 1942)., The wolfpack comprised U-84, U-184, U-224, U-262, U-383, U-4... Read More

'Kreuzotter' (ii) was the German initial preparation for offensive operations by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List’s 12th Army, later in collaboration with Bulgarian forces,... Read More

'Kreuzotter' (iii) was a German operation against non-communist resistance forces in the north-east of German-occupied Greece in the area bordering Bulgaria (5 July/25 August ... Read More

'Kreuzritter' was the German programme to land and maintain contact with meteorological teams on Spitsbergen island to the north of German-occupied Norway (4 October 1943/July... Read More

'Kresevo' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the puppet state of Croatia in occupied Yugoslavia (3 July/3 August 1942). , The A... Read More

'Kriemhilde' was a German programme to create combat formations and units from the quick-reaction forces of Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm’s (from 21 July 1944 Reichsführer-... Read More

The 'Kriemhilde-Bewegung' was the German evacuation of Generaloberst Erwin Jaenecke’s 17th Army from its Taman peninsula beach-head in the Kuban area on the eastern side of ... Read More

'Krohcol' was the British advance into southern Thailand just after the Japanese 'E' (i) invasion of Malaya (8/11 December 1941)., The operation was named 'Krohcol' after the ... Read More

'Krokodil Süd' was a German naval minelaying operation intended to block the southern exit of the Moonsund from the Gulf of Riga into the Baltic (4/6 October 1944)., The oper... Read More

'Kruschen' (i) was a British planning and training exercise by Brigadier O. M. Wales’s 163rd Brigade of Major General E. H. Barber’s (from 14 April Major General C. B. Wai... Read More

'Kruschen' (ii) was a British unrealised plan for a naval sweep by major elements of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Home Fleet against German shipping in the coastal waters of G... Read More

'KS' (i) was the designation of French slow convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying primarily from Casablanca in French North Africa to various French North African ... Read More

'KS' (ii) was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route southward from New York via Norfolk, Virginia, to Key West, Florida, and as... Read More

The 'Kuban Air Offensive Operation' was the Soviet air undertaking designed to seize and retain air superiority over the Kuban region as the land campaign approached its clima... Read More

'Kuckucksei' was a German unrealised plan for an offensive against the British forces of Lieutenant General K. A. N. Anderson’s Allied 1st Army in the Fondouk Pass area of t... Read More

'Kugelblitz' (i) was a German operation against partisans in the Polotsk, Vitebsk, Rossony and Dryssa areas of the Belorussia region in the German-occupied western USSR (22 Fe... Read More

'Kugelblitz' (ii) was a German operation against the partisan forces (II Corps in northern Montenegro and Sandzak, and III Corps [2nd, 5th 17th and 27th Divisions] in eastern ... Read More

'Kurfürst' (i) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic (16/20 June 1941)., The boats of this wolfpack were U-43, U-73, U-201, U-204 and U-371, and for the loss of non... Read More

'Kurfürst' (ii) was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the OG.73 convoy (1/18 September 1941)., The wolfpack comprised U-77, U-96, U-206, U-553, U-563, U-567... Read More

'Kurfürst' (iii) was a German unrealised operation against Gibraltar (?). ... Read More

'Kurfürst' (iv) was a German cordon defence line in the Aunay region of occupied northern France between Touroudes and Hauts Vents designed to help SS-Oberstgruppenführer un... Read More

The 'Kurile Islands Landing Operation' was the Soviet invasion and seizure of the Kurile islands group off the north coast of Hokkaido in the Japanese home islands (18 August/... Read More

The 'Kurland Offensive Operation' was the Soviet isolation and blockade of the German forces in the Kurland peninsula during the closing months of World War II (9 October 1944... Read More

The 'Kursk Strategic Defensive Operation' was the Soviet defence of the Kursk salient and otherwise known as the Battle of Kursk, in which the main hostilities took place on t... Read More

The 'Kursk-Oboyan Offensive Operation' was a Soviet undertaking by the right-wing forces of Marshal Sovetskogo Soyuza Semyon K. Timoshenko’s South-West Direction (20 Decembe... Read More

'Küste' was the German air campaign, otherwise known as 'Seebad', against Warsaw, the capital of Poland, in 'Weiss' (i) (25 September 1939)., Although propaganda during and s... Read More

This was the Polish assassination of Franz Kutschera, the head of the SS and Reich police in Warsaw, by the fighters of the Armia Krajowa’s Agat anti-Gestapo unit as part of... Read More

'Kutuzov' was the Soviet offensive, more formally known as the 'Orel Strategic Offensive Operation' and incorporating the 'Volkhov-Orel Offensive Operation' (12 July/18 August... Read More

'KW' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, and as such reciprocals of the 'CK' ser... Read More

The 'KW-Ligne' was the Belgian primary defence line, more fully known as the 'Koningshooikt-Wavre Ligne', against a possible German armoured invasion through the centre of Bel... Read More

'KX' was the designation of Allied special convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the route from the UK to Gibraltar and later to North African ports in support of ... Read More

'L' was the Japanese seizure of the south-eastern half of the island of Sumatra in the Netherlands East Indies as a major element of securing the 'Southern Resources Area' whi... Read More

'L' (ii) was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (9/11 July 1942)., One of three single-ship convoys, of which the other two were the 'N' and 'O' movements, t... Read More

'L’Eglise' was a US tactical deception by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops to suggest that Major General Hugh J. Gaffey’s US 4th Armored Division was moving into reser... Read More

'LA' was a British naval minelaying operation near the Farne islands off the north-west coast of England (December 1939). ... Read More

'Lace' was the British plan for the defence of Pul-i-Tang in the Khuzestan western region of Iran to the east of Kut in Iraq (?). ... Read More

'Lacerate' was a British carrierborne air attack by elements of Admiral Sir Henry Moore’s Home Fleet off the west coast of German-occupied Norway (12/17 December 1944)., Wit... Read More

'Lachs' was a U-boat pair of minelaying operations in the Pechora and Barents Seas by Oberleutnant Otto Westphalen’s U-968 (29 August/10 September and 24 September/3 October... Read More

'Lachsfang' was the German unrealised successor to the unsuccessful 'Polarfuchs' (i) combined Finnish and German offensive designed to take Kandalaksha and Belomorsk on the we... Read More

'Ladas' was a British unrequired force, provided from Middle East assets, for the occupation of the Dodecanese islands group in the Aegean Sea of German-occupied Greece in the... Read More

'Ladbroke' was a British gliderborne operation by Brigadier P. H. W. Hicks’s 1st Airlanding Brigade of Major General G. F. Hopkinson’s 1st Airborne Division to capture the... Read More

'Ladbrook' was a British unsuccessful naval undertaking to land agents of the Special Operations Executive on the south coast of German-occupied France (January 1944). ... Read More

'Lafayette' was a US special forces operation to parachute a 14-man Office of Strategic Services operational group into the Devesset area of the Ardeche region of German-occup... Read More

'Lagoon' was the Allied overall designation for long-range shipping reconnaissance flights (1942/45). ... Read More

The 'Lakhta Landing Operation' was a Soviet tactical amphibious operation by the forces of the Onega Military Flotilla during the 'Svir-Petrozavodsk Offensive Operation', with... Read More

'Lamp' (i) was a British naval undertaking to lift and cut the communications cable off Amsterdam in the Netherlands (20 May 1940)., The undertaking was accomplished by the su... Read More

'Lamp' (ii) was a British undertaking by the Special Intelligence Service, which used the vessel Seahawk to land five agents and radio equipment on Hvar and Brač islands off ... Read More

'Lancelot' was a British naval undertaking by elements of Admiral Sir James Somerville’s Eastern Fleet (February 1944). ... Read More