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This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 [update] this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.
Operation Sledgehammer was an Allied plan for a cross-Channel invasion of Europe during World War II, as the first step in helping to reduce pressure on the Soviet Red Army by establishing a Second Front.
Operation Green (invasion of Ireland in support of Sea Lion, also known as Fall Grün. Not to be confused with the military plan to invade Czechoslovakia by the same name , see above) Operation Whale (German Operations to instigate nationalist uprisings and support Scottish independence and Welsh independence movements)
Invasion of Iceland; Battle of Imphal; Japanese invasion of French Indochina; Invasion of Val d'Aran; Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran; Italian invasion of British Somaliland; Italian invasion of Egypt; Allied invasion of Italy; Battle of Iwo Jima
AL (1942) — invasion of the western Aleutians as a diversion from the attempted invasion of Midway Island. AOB (1942) — seizure of Kiska Island; AQ (1942) — seizure of Attu Island; Ke-Go (1943) — evacuation of Kiska, Aleutians; Nauru (1940) two German attacks on Nauru Island. First Attack (1940) sinking of five British, Australian and ...
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world. It had 20 battleships and battlecruisers ready for service or under construction, twelve aircraft carriers, over 90 light and heavy cruisers, 70 submarines, over 100 destroyers as well as numerous escort ships, minelayers, minesweepers and 232 aircraft.
Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to begin their fight against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on a limited scale. [6]
Operation Barbarossa [g] 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. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history, with around 10 million combatants taking part, [ 26 ] and over 8 million casualties by the end of the operation.