'Lancing' was a British unrealised special forces plan for the simultaneous launch of two series of attacks to destroy German radar installations and so open a gap in the line... Read More

'Lancuch' was the Polish resistance movement’s successor and supplement to 'Taśma' (late 1943)., In August 1943 the headquarters of the Armia Krajowa had ordered 'Taśma' a... Read More

'Landau' was a British fast ship transport undertaking between Gibraltar and Malta (?). ... Read More

'Landbrücke' was the German alternative name for the 'Brückenschlag' relief of Demyansk pocket (21 March/21 April 1942). ... Read More

'Landcrab' was the US recapture of Attu island in the Aleutian islands group off Alaska in an operation often but wrongly called 'Sandcrab' (11/29 May 1943)., Attu island lies... Read More

'Landfried' was a German commando operation by three special forces groups of SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny’s SS Jagdverband 'Mitte' (ex-SS Sonder Lehrgang zbV 'Friedent... Read More

'Landgraf' was a German deception effort within Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel’s Heeresgruppe 'B' in coastal areas of German-occupied northern France and the Low Countrie... Read More

'Landlubber' was a British unrealised plan by the Special Operations Executive to prevent the shipment of ferro-chrome to Germany from Narvik in German-occupied Norway (March ... Read More

'Landmark' (i) was a British naval undertaking in the Mediterranean as a diversion to support the 'Crusader' (i) land operation in the Western Desert (20/22 November 1941)., E... Read More

'Landmark' (ii) was a US operation to redeploy troops and equipment from the European theatre, where the end of the war against Germany was clearly in sight, to the Pacific th... Read More

'Landonvillers' was a US tactical deception by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops to to simulate the continued presence of Major General Harry L. Twaddle’s 95th Division ... Read More

'Landrail' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to assume command of the many military groups operating in the Trøndelag region of German-occupied Norw... Read More

'Landsknecht' was a U-boat wolfpack operation in the Atlantic against the HX.224 convoy (22 January/3 February 1943)., The wolfpack comprised U-71, U-187, U-257, U-262, U-267,... Read More

'Landsman' was the RAF element of a British delivery of air reinforcements to Malta from the fleet carrier Eagle (July 1942)., The two such undertakings by Eagle in this month... Read More

'Landsturm' was a German operation against the partisan forces of Josip Broz Tito in the Dalmatian coastal area of Makarska within German-occupied Yugoslavia (October 1943)., ... Read More

'Landvik' was the German alternative designation for 'Laubfrosch III' (October 1944/May 1945). ... Read More

'Landwirt' was the German naval effort to infiltrate significant numbers of U-boats into the area of the English Channel off Normandy and so open the possibility of sinking or... Read More

'Langtoft' was a British deception by the London Controlling Section to conceal from the Germans the Allied reduction in the manufacture of chemical warfare weapons, to discou... Read More

'Languste' was the German first in a series of four naval minelaying operations in the Ligurian Sea by ex-Italian torpedo boats of Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen’s 10t... Read More

'Lansdale' was a British maritime delivery of stores to Malta (?). ... Read More

'Lanz' was a German possible plan by the resistance group within the armed forces on the Eastern Front (February 1943)., The existence of this plan is not proved, and it is th... Read More

The 'Lapinsota' was the limited war between Finland and Germany in Finland’s northernmost province of Lapland (September 1944/April 1945). , While the Finns saw this as a se... Read More

'Lapwing' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to reconnoitre the Røros railway, in the area to the south of Trondheim in German-occupied Norway, with ... Read More

'Largesse' was a British unrealised plan for an assault landing near Sfax on the eastern coast of Tunisia (5 January 1943)., The intended object of the undertaking was to atta... Read More

'Lark' was a British unrealised operation by the Special Operations Executive within the 'Maundy' series of undertakings to lay mines in the coastal waters near Trondheim in G... Read More

'Lark' (ii) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive in tandem with 'Lark' (i) to establish radio contact, receive weapons, train and build up resistance gr... Read More

'Lark' (iii) was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to land arms and equipment in the Trondheim area of German-occupied Norway in preparation for the resu... Read More

'Lark Blue' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to re-establish contact with and continue organising groups in the Trondheim area of German-occupied No... Read More

'Lark Durham' was a British operation by the Special Operations Executive to establish radio contact, reorganise 'Lark', and enlarge the 'Durham' propaganda organisation in Ge... Read More

'Larkhall' was an Allied deception plan by the London Controlling Section designed to persuade the Germans that the pace of the Allied build-up in the UK, especially of US for... Read More

'Larkswood' was a British special forces operation by two squadrons of the Belgian Independent Parachute Company (5th Special Air Service) under the command of Capitaine Edoua... Read More

'Last' was an Allied one of several training exercises in preparation for 'Overlord', in this instance for formation and unit headquarters (mid-April 1944)., 'Last' was a sign... Read More

'Laubfrosch' was a German series of three meteorological undertakings (1944)., 'Laubfrosch I' was a plan in the summer of 1944 to establish a weather station on the east coast... Read More

'Läufer' was a German naval minelaying operation in the area to the south of Ancona in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea by the ex-Italian torpedo boat TA 20 of Kapitän ... Read More

'Lauffeuer' was a German and Croat operation against the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the area south of Sid and near Ilok in the Syrmian region of the puppet ... Read More

'Laura' was a German unrealised plan for the evacuation of the forces of Generaloberst Johannes Friessner’s Heeresgruppe 'Nord' from the Kurland peninsula of Latvia, via Lib... Read More

'Lawine' was a German and Croat operation against the Yugoslav forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the valley of the Lasva river and around Travnik in the Syrmia region of th... Read More

'Lazaretto' was a US unrealised plan for a landing at Gasmata, on the southern coast of New Britain island just to the west of Thilenius Harbour (late 1943)., The plan was can... Read More

'LB' (i) was a British naval minelaying operation off the east coast of England (23/24 January 1940)., The task was undertaken by the minelayer Princess Victoria, which was es... Read More

'LB' (ii) was a British naval undertaking to fly 17 Supermarine Spitfire fighters to Malta (17/20 May 1942)., The critical nature of the island’s air defence capability had ... Read More

'LC' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical and sometimes a literal suffix) plying the route from Sydney, Nova Scotia to St John’s, Newfoundland, a... Read More

'LD' was a British series of naval undertakings to lay dummy minefields off the east coast of the UK (September 1939/41)., 'LD1', for example, involved the auxiliary minelayer... Read More

'LE' was the designation of Allied convoys (together with a numerical suffix) plying the 'Levant East' route between Port Said or Alexandria in Egypt, via Famagusta in Cyprus,... Read More

'Leader' (i) was a British small-scale naval undertaking by motor torpedo boats to recover Allied personnel from Crete after the success of the island’s seizure by the Germa... Read More

'Leader' (ii) was a British and US carrierborne air attack on shipping in Bodø harbour and the nearby coastal waters of German-occupied Norway (2/6 October 1943)., The raid w... Read More

'Leaf' was a British operation to stockpile supplies at Al Fatha on the Tigris river in Iraq, to the north of Tikrit, and thereby create the basis for a local defence capabili... Read More

'League' was a Allied unrealised naval undertaking to repeat 'Leader' (ii) with further attacks by the US light fleet carrier Ranger's aircraft against shipping on the Leads o... Read More

'Leander' (i) was a German operation to move forces over the Lika Gora (mountain region) to Zara on the Dalmatian coast of occupied Yugoslavia to assume the defence of this co... Read More

'Leander' (ii) was the British undertaking to start the redeployment of forces, equipment and supplies from the UK to Australia, largely for Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser’s Pacif... Read More

'Leap' was a British naval interdiction programme by Vice Admiral Sir Edward Syfret’s Gibraltar-based Force 'H' to prevent any attempt by German warships to enter the Medite... Read More