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Operation Blitz 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Našice – Đakovo region of Slavonia, Yugoslavia. Operation Brandfackel 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Kozara Mountains in the Independent State of Croatia. Operation Braunschweig 1944 - German anti-partisan operation in the Istria Peninsula, OZAK.
Bishop (1945) – covering operation for Dracula. Diplomat (1944) – Allied exercise in preparation for joint operations against the Japanese. Dukedom (1945) – British search and destroy operation for Japanese cruiser Haguro. Exporter (1941) – British and Commonwealth invasion of Vichy French -held Syria.
Eventual cancellation and diversion of German, Italian, and other Axis forces for Operation Barbarossa. Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion[ 2 ][ 3 ] (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany 's code name for their planned invasion of the United Kingdom. It was to take place during the Battle of Britain, nine months ...
XT. Detached from MW convoys to Tripoli, Libya, or plying the route from Alexandria, Egypt, to Tripoli. Feb 1943 to Jul 1944. For operations in North Africa or for Operation Husky; reverse TX. XTG. Alexandria, Egypt via Tripoli, Libya, to Gibraltar. Jun 1943. Two convoys (XTG.1 and XTG.2); reverse GTX. XW.
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.It included campaigns in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert campaign, Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and in Tunisia (Tunisia campaign).
Date. Planned for mid-July 1942. Outcome. Cancelled in November 1942. Operation Herkules (German: Unternehmen Herkules; Italian: Operazione C3) was the German code-name given to an abortive plan for the invasion of Malta during the Second World War. Through air and sea landings, the Italians and Germans hoped to eliminate Malta as a British air ...
Dunkirk evacuation. The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large ...
Operation Barbarossa (‹See Tfd› German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.