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Planned Operations of World War II |
NOTE: This is an early version created by agglomerating information from Wikipedia. The descriptions are essentially straight from wikipedia. This is a placeholder to provide a place for starting research. It will be revised extensively as I research more into each operation and verify Wikipedia's claims.
Soviet Union
Saturn (1942) — Proposed major attack following the Stalingrad encirclement; revised to Little Saturn.
Sweden
Rädda Danmark ("Save Denmark") (1945) —
Swedish plan to liberate Denmark before the country was occupied by
the Soviet Union (cancelled because of German surrender)
Rädda
Själland (1945) — Swedish landings on Zealand
Rädda
Bornholm (1945) — Swedish landings on Bornholm
Spain
C (1939) — Spanish plan for the seizure of Gibraltar
British Empire
Plan W (1942) – Joint British/Irish planning to deal with a
German invasion of Ireland.
Operation Accolade (1942) proposed
British occupation of Rhodes, and subsequently, failed occupation of
the Dodecanese
Operation Constellation (1943) — one of
several proposals to retake the Channel Islands
Operation
Condor (1943) — proposal to retake Jersey
Operation
Concertina (1943) — proposal to retake Alderney
Operation
Coverlet (1943) — proposal to retake Guernsey
Operation
Comet (1944) - Early Version of Market Garden
Operation Ventilate
(1945) — cancelled assault crossing of the Maas by British 3rd
Infantry Division
Operation Backbone & Backbone II (1942 &
1943) — contingency plans to occupy Spanish Morocco and area
around Gibraltar if Germans entered Spain
Operation Challenger
(?) — plan to seize Ceuta
Operation Culverin (1943) —
Proposed allied invasion of northern Sumatra
Operation Zipper
(1945) Planned British seaborne landing in Malaya.
Operation
Catherine (1939) British plan to gain control of Baltic Sea
Operation Jupiter (1942) — suggested invasion of Norway
Operation R 4 (1940) — Planned British invasion of Norway
United States of America
Giant II — cancelled landing of U.S. 82nd Airborne near
Rome.
Operation Olympic
Operation Coronet
Operation Roundup
(1942) - plan to invade Europe in event of German or Soviet
collapse.
Operation
Sledgehammer (1942) - establishment of beachhead in Cherbourg or
Brest.
Operation
Roundhammer – Revised version of Roundup.
Nazi Germany
Fall Blau (Case Blue) 1935 - German defense planning on the
eastern border, simultaneously with Fall Rot
Fall Rot (Case Red)
1935 - German defense planning on the western border, simultaneously
with Fall Blau. The 1940 version was used to invade France.
Fall
Otto (Case Otto) 1937 - German plan to occupy Austria
Fall
Richard 1937 - German contingency planning for Soviet takeover of
Spain
Fall Rot 1937 - German planned invasion of Czechoslovakia
Fall Grün 1938 - German plan for invasion of Czechoslovakia
Fall Otto 1938 - German plan to establish a puppet government in
Austria
Unternehmen Nordwest 1939 - German study for a potential
invasion of Britain; parts of Operation Nordwest were integrated into
Operation Seelöwe
Plan Z 1939 - German plan to expand the
Kriegsmarine to match the strength of the British Royal Navy
Unternehmen Felix 1940 - German planned invasion of Gibraltar via
the Iberian Peninsula
Unternehmen Seelöwe 1940 - German planned invasion of
Britain; anglicised as 'Sealion'
Fall
Grün (Case Green) 1940 - German plan for a diversionary invasion
of Ireland in support of Operation Seelöwe
Unternehmen Grüne Bewegung 1940 - German planned landing at
Brighton, England; part of Operation Seelöwe
Unternehmen Herbstreise (Autumn Journey) 1940 - German planned
diversionary invasion of Scotland, Britain; part of Operation
Seelöwe
Unternehmen Hummel 1940 - German intelligence gathering for Operation
Seelöwe
Dietrich (1942) — planned counter-attack to relieve Sixth
Army using Grossdeutschland & LSSAH. Unimplemented.
Unternehmen
Ikarus 1940 - German planned invasion of Iceland in response to
British Operation Fork; originally planned to launch in conjunction
with Operation Seelöwe
Unternehmen Kathleen 1940 - German
planned invasion of Ireland
Unternehmen Lucie 1940 - German
planned invasion of the Dutch island of Texel in the North Sea
Unternehmen Löwe 1940 - German planned invasion of Britain;
precursor of Operation Seelöwe
Unternehmen Spark 1940 -
German planned assassination of Adolf Hitler and coup d'état
against the Nazi German government
Unternehmen Tannenbaum
(Christmas Tree) 1940 - German planned invasion of Switzerland
Unternehmen Wal 1940 - German aborted plan to coordinate actions
with Scottish and Welsh nationalist groups
Unternehmen Fritz 1941
- German planned invasion of the Soviet Union; later abandoned in
favor of Operation Barbarossa
Unternehmen Isabella 1941 - German
planned invasion of the Iberian Peninsula
Unternehmen Strafe 1941
- German planned invasion of Bulgaria
Unternehmen Südwind
1941 - German defense plan against a general uprising in occupied
France
Unternehmen Alpenveilchen (Alpine Violet) 1941 - German
aborted planned intervention during the Italian invasion of Albania
Unternehmen Sportpalast 1942 - Failed planned naval operation to
attack Arctic convoys PQ-12 and QP-8
Fall Anton 1942 - German
occupation of Vichy France with Italian support in 1942
Unternehmen
Bettelstab 1942 - German planned offensive at Leningrad, USSR
Unternehmen Donnerschlag 1942 - German planned break-out movement
from Stalingrad, USSR
Unternehmen Gertrud 1942 - German planned
response in case of Turkey joining the Allies
Unternehmen Gisella
1942 - German planned invasion of the Iberian peninsula; revised from
Operation Isabella
Unternehmen Herbstzeitlose 1942 - German
cancelled planned plan to advance to the Don and Volga Rivers in the
Caucasus region of Southern USSR
Unternehmen Herkules 1942 -
German planned airborne invasion of Malta
Unternehmen Hornbläser
1942 - German planned attack on Alexandria harbor, Egypt
Unternehmen
Ilona 1942 - German planned invasion of the Iberian peninsula;
revised from Operation Isabella
Unternehmen Lila 1942 - German
attempt to capture French fleet at Toulon, France
Unternehmen
Möwe I 1942 - German planned operation to sabotage aluminum
factories in southern Scotland, Britain
Unternehmen Nordlicht
1942 - German planned attack on Leningrad, USSR; formerly planned as
Operation Feuerzauber
Unternehmen Nordpol 1942 - German cancelled
planned operation east of Moscow, USSR
Unternehmen Pastorious
1942 - German plan to sabotage industrial targets at Long Island, New
York, United States
Unternehmen Schamil 1942 - German planned
operation to secure Caucasus oil fields in Southern USSR using
paratroopers
Unternehmen Silberstreife 1942 - German planned
operations against Allied convoys to Murmansk, USSR
Unternehmen
Brunhild 1943 - German planned evacuation from the Caucasus region in
Southern USSR
Unternehmen Husar 1943 - German cancelled planned
anti-shipping operation in Kara Sea by Lützow
Unternehmen
Michael 1943 - German cancelled planned evacuation of Crimea
Unternehmen Nürnberg 1943 - German planned response in case
of an Allied invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, focusing largely
around the defense of the Pyrenees passes
Unternehmen Panzerfaust
1943 - German operation to kidnap Miklós Horthy's son to
prevent Horthy from siding with the Allies; codename later changed to
Maus
Unternehmen Rabat 1943 - German plan to kidnap the Pope from
the Vatican City
Unternehmen Schwarz 1943 - German plan in the
event of an Italian surrender
Unternehmen Ulm 1943 - German
planned aerial bombing operation against Soviet industries in the
Ural Mountains
Unternehmen Wunderland II 1943 - German planned
naval operation involving Admiral Scheer in the East Siberian
Sea
Fall Falke 1944 - German defense plan in case of an Allied
invasion of Norway
Fall Forelle I 1944 - German defense plan in
case of an Allied invasion of the Balkans via the Adriatic Sea
Fall
Forelle II 1944 - German defense plan in case of an Allied invasion
of the Balkans via the Aegean Sea
Unternehmen Freischütz
1944 - German cancelled planned operation to occupy the island of Vis
off Croatia, Yugoslavia
Unternehmen Großer Schlag 1944 -
German planned mass-deployment of fighters against Allied bombers
Unternehmen Herbstnebel 1944 - German rejected plan to withdraw
German troops in Italy behind the Po River
Unternehmen Laura 1944
- German proposed planned evacuation of Courland, Latvia
Fall
Marder 1944 - German defense plan in case of an Allied invasion of
Italy; activated after Allies launched Operation Shingle
Fall
Marder I 1944 - German defense plan in case of an Allied invasion of
Italy via the Ligurian Sea; part of Fall Marder
Fall Marder II
1944 - German defense plan in case of an Allied invasion of Italy via
the Adriatic Sea; part of Fall Marder
Unternehmen Martin 1944 -
German planned attack of the Ardennes region as proposed by Gerd von
Rundstet; rejected by Adolf Hitler for being too conservative
Unternehmen Richard 1944 - German defense plan in case of an
Allied invasion of Italy; activated after Allies launched Operation
Shingle
Unternehmen Tanne West 1944 - German planned invasion of
the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea from Finland
Unternehmen
Walküre 1944 - German attempt to overthrow Adolf Hitler, written
under the cover of a plan to foil potential worker rebellions;
Anglicized as 'Valkyre'
Unternehmen Zeppelin 1944 - German failed
operation to destroy power plants in Moscow, USSR
Unternehmen
Aktion 24 1945 - German aborted planned suicide aerial attack on
bridges over river Weichsel in attempt to disrupt Soviet supply lines
Unternehmen Alpenfestung 1945 - German plan for a redoubt in the
German Alps
Unternehmen Gertraud 1945 - German planned aerial
bombing of hydropower plants east of Moscow, USSR
Imperial Japan
Operation FS 1944 - Japanese cancelled plan to isolate Australia
by capturing New Caledonia, Samoa, and Fiji
Operation Ketsu-Go
1945 - Japanese defense plan against potential American invasion of
the Japanese home islands
Operation Ken 1945 - Cancelled Japanese
operation to use transports to land suicide troops on American
airfields in the Mariana Islands
Operation Kon-Go 1945 -
Cancelled Japanese offensive against American ships using manned
torpedoes
Bibliography
Wikipedia
(for initial quick and dirty research)