Operation Weserübung (German: Unternehmen Weserübung [ˈveːzɐˌʔyːbʊŋ], transl. Operation Weser Exercise, 9 April – 10 June 1940) was the invasion of Denmark...

Shirer 1971, pp. 534–535. Shirer 1971, p. 534. "Operation Weserübung (Unternehmen Weserübung) – The German invasion of Denmark and Norway; 9th April 1940"...

border) to guard the German rear during the Invasion of Poland and Unternehmen Weserübung by other parts of the German armed forces. In preparation of the...

Location Operation Date Notes Norway Operation Weserübung (German: Unternehmen Weserübung) 9 April 1940 German attack on Norway and Denmark Cross English...

Operation Wonderland (Unternehmen Wunderland) was an operation from 16 to 30 August 1942 by the Kriegsmarine in the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea off the...

first deployed during the invasions of Norway and Denmark in Operation Weserübung in April 1940. In this operation the Fallschirmjäger were deployed on...

Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany's code name for their planned invasion of the United...

named Operation Platinum Fox (Unternehmen Platinfuchs). The second pincer, codenamed Operation Arctic Fox (Unternehmen Polarfuchs), was to be launched...

was the code word to begin German submarine operations during Operation Weserübung - Nazi Germany's invasion of Denmark and Norway. Occasionally these operations...

Operation Viking (German: Unternehmen Wikinger) was a German naval sortie into the North Sea by six destroyers of the Kriegsmarine on 22 February 1940...

attacked from Petsamo to Murmansk in Operation Platinum Fox (German: Unternehmen Platinfuchs). The attack failed and the corps never reached its goal...

Operation Zitronella, also known as Unternehmen Sizilien (Operation Sicily), was an eight-hour German raid on Spitzbergen, in the Svalbard Archipelago...

Operation Zarin ( English: Tsarina [Unternehmen Zarin]) was a German minelaying operation off the north-western coast of the islands of Novaya Zemlya...

Operation Ikarus (Unternehmen Ikarus or Fall Ikarus in German) was a Second World War German plan to invade Iceland, which had been occupied by British...

Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers and on 16 August, Admiral Scheer conducted Unternehmen Wunderland, a sortie against Russian ships thought to be sailing along...

Operation Rainbow (Unternehmen Regenbogen) was a 1942 sortie into the Arctic Ocean by warships of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during the...

Operation Safari (German: Unternehmen Safari) was a German military operation during World War II aimed at disarming the Danish military. It led to the...

Baranowitschi, VI 1942 – 11 X 1943. {Possibly participated in reprisals after Unternehmen "Hermann" (August 1943) and especially in the execution of 11 nuns?]...

northern Norway, under the command of Vice-Admiral Oskar Kummetz, began Unternehmen Regenbogen (Operation Rainbow). After Convoy PQ 18, the force had waited...

Unternehmen Rösselsprung (Operation Knight's Move) was a plan by the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) to intercept an Arctic convoy in mid-1942. It was the...

delivery expected in March/April 1940 but this was forestalled by Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway of 9 April 1940. At the outbreak of hostilities...

mine at Petsamo. The joint Finnish–German Operation Silver Fox (German: Unternehmen Silberfuchs; Finnish: operaatio Hopeakettu) was started on 29 June 1941...

assigned all flying units intended for the conquest of Norway (Operation Weserübung) to the corps. The X. Fliegerkorps was active there from April 1940 onwards...

Staffeln of JG 2 were ordered to Aalborg Airfield in support of Operation Weserübung, the German assault on Denmark and Norway. The two squadrons returned...

Operation Doppelschlag (Operation Double Blow/Unternehmen Doppelschlag) was a German plan for a sortie in 1942 during the Second World War into the Arctic...

claimed two Dutch Fokker D.XXI fighters shot down. In support of Operation Weserübung, the Germany assault on Denmark and Norway, II./186 (T) was ordered to...

aircraft and submarine attack. British naval intelligence in June reported Unternehmen Rösselsprung (Operation Knight's Move), the German plan to use their...

days without in-port replenishment or repair). April 3 – WWII: Operation Weserübung – German ships set out for the invasion of Norway. April 4 – Neville Chamberlain...

Operation Berlin (German: Unternehmen Berlin) was a raid conducted by the two German Scharnhorst-class battleships against Allied shipping in the North...

and other Nazi officials and seize control of the German government. Weserübung – Weser Exercise (commonly, Water Exercise); invasion of Denmark and Norway...