List of World War II Military Operations - Uncategorized

Uncategorized

• Alpenfestung — plan for Nazi national Redoubt in Alps.
  • Werwolf (1945–50) — guerrilla force to resist occupation by Allies.
• Big Bang (1947) — demolition of defences of Heligoland
• Bracelet (1942) — Churchill's flight to Cairo and Moscow.
• Catapult (1940) — Royal Navy actions to seize, disable or destroy the French fleet after France's surrender.
• Operation Sunrise (1945) — negotiations leading to German surrender in Italy.
• Eiche ("Oak") (1943) — German rescue from custody of Benito Mussolini
• Frantic (1943) — The use of Soviet airfields by western Allied bombers.
• Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") (1936–39) — Transfer of planes, engineers, and pilots to fascist forces during Spanish Civil War.
  • Rügen (1937) — Bombing of Guernica.
  • Bodden (1937–43) — Abwehr intelligence gathering system operating from Spain and Morocco.
  • Ursula (1936–1939) — Kriegsmarine Uboat operations in support of Francoist and Italian navies.
• Gaff (1944) — attempt to kill Erwin Rommel
• Keelhaul (1945) — forced repatriation to the Soviet Union, by the western Allies, of Soviet prisoners of war
• Magic Carpet (1945–1946) — American post-war operation to transport US military personnel home
• Manna (1945) — Allied air drops of food to famine-ravaged Netherlands, with German cooperation
• Margarethe (1944) — German occupation of Hungary. Döme Sztójay, an avid supporter of the Nazis, become the new Hungarian Prime Minister with the aid of a Nazi military governor.
• Panzerfaust/Eisenfaust ("Bazooka/Armored Fist") (1943) — Kidnap of Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy's son to prevent defection of Hungary from Axis.
• Peking (1939) — removal of Polish warships to Britain, in advance of German invasion
• Pied Piper (1939) — evacuation of children from British cities.
• Rabat (1943) — Plan to kidnap the Pope and diplomatic corp. from Vatican City.
• Regenbogen ("Rainbow") (1945) — rescinded order to scuttle Kriegsmarine.
• Rösselsprung ("Knights Move") (1944) — German attempt to capture Josip Broz Tito
• Safehaven (1944) — allied efforts to capture fleeing Nazis and seize German resources abroad
• Symbol (1943) — Churchill's flight to Casablanca.
• Tabarin (1943) — British Antarctic expedition.
• Operation Walküre ("Valkyrie") (194?) — Plan to put down insurrection of slave workers within the German Reich in the event of rebellion. Used as a cover for clandestine action by the July 20 plotters.
• Worek ("Sack") (1939) — Polish naval defence of the Polish coast
• Rainbow War Plans (1920s-30s) — Global US War planning between the World Wars.