List of World War II Military Operations - Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Includes North Sea, Arctic Ocean and actions against naval vessels in harbour

  • Alacrity (1943) — Allied naval patrols around Azores
  • Berlin (1941) — Atlantic cruise of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
  • Catechism (1944) — final RAF air attack on Tirpitz
  • Cerberus (1942) — escape of German capital ships from Brest to home ports in Germany (Channel Dash)
  • Croquet (1944) — Allied anti-shipping off Norway
  • Cupola (1945) — British anti-shipping operation off Norway
  • Deadlight (1945) — postwar scuttling of U-boats
  • Dervish (1941) — first of the Arctic Convoys to the Soviet Union
  • Domino (1943) — second aborted Arctic sortie by Scharnhorst, Prinz Eugen and destroyers
  • Doppelschlag ("Double blow") (1942) — German anti-shipping operation off Novaya Zemlya by Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper
  • Drachenhohle (1944) — aborted attack on Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, using Mistel composite aircraft
  • Drumbeat (1942) — part of "Second Happy Time" (Paukenschlag)
  • EJ (1941) — British anti-shipping operation off Norway
  • Enclose (1943) — British anti-submarine air offensive in Bay of Biscay (also Enclose II)
  • Foxchase (1945) — British anti-shipping operation off Norway
  • Fronttheater (1943) — first aborted Arctic sortie by Scharnhorst, Prinz Eugen and destroyers
  • Goodwood I, II, III & IV (1944) — sequence of 4 carrier-borne air attacks on Tirpitz
  • Holder (1943) — British special naval transport to Murmansk
  • Husar (1943) — cancelled German anti-shipping operation in Kara Sea by Lutzow
  • Leader (1943) — antishipping operation off Norway by USS Ranger
  • Lucid (1940) — attempt to destroy German invasion barges
  • Mascot (1944) — failed carrier-borne air attack on Tirpitz
  • Nordseetour ("North Sea Tour") (1940) — first Atlantic operation of Admiral Hipper
  • Obviate (1944) — RAF air attack on Tirpitz
  • Ostfront (1943) — final operation of Scharnhorst to intercept convoy JW-55B
  • Paderborn (1943) — third and successful transfer of Scharnhorst and destroyers to Norway
  • Paravane (1944) — RAF air attack on Tirpitz
  • Paukenschlag ("Drumbeat", "Beat of the Kettle Drum", "Second happy time") (1942) — German U-boat campaign against shipping off the United States east coast
  • Planet, Brawn, Tiger Claw and Mascot (1944) — cancelled carrier-borne air attacks on the Tirpitz
  • Posthorn (1944) — British naval air attack on shipping off Norway
  • Potluck (1944) — Allied anti-shipping patrol off Norway
  • Primrose (1941) — capture of U-110's Enigma cypher machine and documents by HMS Bulldog
  • Regenbogen ("Rainbow") (1942) Germany — failed German attack on Arctic convoy JW-51B, by Admiral Hipper and Lutzow
  • Rheinübung ("Exercise Rhine") (1941) Germany — planned German attacks on Allied shipping conducted by Bismarck and Prinz Eugen
  • Rösselsprung ("Knights Move") (1942) — German naval operation (including Tirpitz) to attack Arctic convoy PQ-17
  • Roundel (1945) — British convoy escort to Murmansk
  • Source (1943) — British X class submarine (midget submarine) attacks on German warships based in Norway
  • Sportpalast (1942) — aborted German naval operation (including Tirpitz) to attack Arctic convoys PQ-12 and QP-8
    • Zauberflöte ("Magic Flute") (1942) — return of damaged Prinz Eugen from Trondheim to Germany
  • Stonewall (1943) — Allied operation to intercept blockade runners in the Bay of Biscay
  • Teardrop (1945) — anti u-boat operation
  • Tungsten (1944) — carrier-borne air attack on Tirpitz
  • Tunnel (1943) — standard British plan to intercept German blockade runners
  • Wikinger (1940) — foray by German destroyers into the North Sea
  • Wunderland (1942) — German anti-shipping operation in Kara Sea by Admiral Scheer
  • Zarin (1942) — German mining action off Novaya Zemlya by Admiral Hipper and destroyers

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