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This is a list of known World War II era military operations, and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2008[update] this is not a comprehensive list but most major operations which Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included alongside operations that involved neutral nation states. Operations are categorised according to the theater of operations, and an attempt has been made to cover all aspects of significant events including the Holocaust. Operations contained in the Western Front category have been listed by year. Operations which follow the cessation of hostilities along with those which occurred in the pre-war period are also included. Operations are listed alphabetically, and where multiple aspects are involved these are listed inline.
Flags used are those of the time period.
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Africa
Excluding North African campaigns
- Appearance (1941)
— British seaborne assault on Italian-held British Somaliland - Canned (1940) — British naval bombardment of Banda Alula, Italian Somaliland
- Chronometer (1941) — British landings at Assab, the last Italian-held harbour on the Red Sea
- Ironclad (1942)
— The Battle of Madagascar - Menace (1940)
— seaborne Free French and British attack on Dakar, French West Africa (Senegal) - Supply (1941) — Allied anti-submarine naval patrol off Madagascar
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
- 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
- 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
- Zauberflöte ("Magic Flute") (1942)
- Stonewall (1943) — Allied operation to intercept blockade runners in the Bay of Biscay
- 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
Eastern Front
Mediterranean Sea
South West Pacific and Pacific Ocean
China
- Sankō (1942-1944)
— Japanese campaign in five provinces of northeastern China to crush the Chinese resistance following the Hundred Regiments Offensive - Alpha (1944)
— improvement of the defences of Kunming against Japanese threats - Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation (1945)
— Soviet invasion of Manchuria and other Japanese occupied territories - Ichigo (1944) — Japanese campaign in eastern China to secure overland routes to Indo-China and airfields
- Matterhorn (1944) — establishment of bases for US B-29 bomber aircraft
South and South East Asia
Iran, India, Burma, Malaya and Indo-China, and the Indian Ocean
- Anakim (1943)
— proposed strategy to retake Burma and reopen the land route to China - Bajadere (1942)
— German special forces operation in India, including Free India Legion personnel - Balsam (1945) — photographic reconnaissance of southern Malaya and airstrikes against Sumatran airfields
- Boarding Party (1943) — raid against German ships interned in neutral port of Goa.
- Canned (1944) — search and destroy operation for German supply tanker
- Capital (1943) — Allied capture of northern Burma
- Cockpit (1944)
— Allied naval airstrike on Sabang, Sumatra - Collie (1945) — naval airstrikes against the Nicobar Islands and air cover for minesweeping forces near Phuket Island
- Culverin (1943) — Proposed allied invasion of northern Sumatra
- Countenance (1941) — Allied invasion of neutral Iran.
- Crimson (1944) — Allied naval airstrike and bombardment of Sabang, Sumatra
- Dracula (1945) — British amphibious assault on Rangoon, Burma.
