List of Japanese operations during World War II

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The list of Japanese operations during World War II includes planned, executed, and canceled operations by the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army between 1941 and 1945.

surgery year target
Operation B 1941 Japanese invasion of Sarawak , British Borneo
Operation E 1941 Japanese invasion of Thailand and northeastern Malaysia
Operation FU 1941 Japanese invasion of Indochina
Operation M 1941 Japanese invasion of the Philippines
Operation AI 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Operation AL 1942 Japanese invasion of the Aleutians
Operation B 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma
Operation C 1942 Japanese reconnaissance in the Indian Ocean
Operation D 1942 Japanese invasion of the Andaman Islands
Operation H. 1942 Japanese invasion of Celebes , Ambon and Timor
Operation J 1942 Japanese invasion of Java
Operation K 1942 Japanese reconnaissance and air raid on Pearl Harbor
Operation Ka 1942 Destruction of the Allied fleet at Guadalcanal and recapture of the island
Operation L 1942 Air landing and landing operation to capture Palembang
Operation X 1942 Conquering Christmas Island
Operation MI 1942 Japanese invasion of the Midway Islands , canceled
Operation MO 1942 Japanese invasion of Port Moresby , canceled
Operation R 1942 Japanese invasion of Rabaul and Kavieng
Operation SR 1942 Japanese invasion of Lae and Salamaua
Operation Stanley 1942 Japanese campaign to conquer the Kokoda Track
Operation T 1942 Japanese invasion of North Sumatra
Operation U 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma
Operation I. 1943 Japanese air strike against Allied advance on New Guinea and Guadalcanal
Operation 21 1943 Japanese invasion of India, plan abandoned
Operation Ke 1943 Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal
Operation Ry 1943 Japanese invasion of Naurus and the Ocean Islands
Operation RO 1943 Japanese plan to defend Rabaul
Operation Ta 1943 Japanese attack on Bougainville
Operation A-gō 1944 Japanese attack on the US fleet off Saipan
Operation Ban-gō 1944 Japanese Irrawaddy River Defense Plan
Operation Ha-gō 1944 Preparatory operation for Operation U-gō , in which British - Indian troops were to be isolated and destroyed at Arakan .
Operation U-gō 1944 Japanese attack on Imphal and Kohima
Operation Yū / Operation Tatsumaki 1944 Japanese attack on Ulithi Atoll with " Type 4 Ka-Tsu " tanks to be transported by submarine , canceled
Operation Dan-gō 1944 Japanese defense plan after the failed Operation U-gō
Operation FS 1944 Japanese plan to isolate Australia by conquering Caledonia canceled
Operation Fu-gō 1944 Japanese plan, the United States by fire balloon attack
Operation Ichi-gō 1944 Japanese invasion of East China
Operation Ko-gō 1944 First phase of the attack on East China (part of Operation Ichi-gō )
Operation To-gō 1944 Second phase of the attack on east China (part of Operation Ichi-gō )
Operation Kan-gō 1944 Japanese Defense Plan for Southern Burma
Operation Kon 1944 Japanese defense plan for Biak
Operation Shō-gō 1944 Large-scale defense plan of the Japanese motherland
Operation Shō I. 1944 Japanese attack on the US fleet in front of Leyte (part of Operation Shō-gō )
Operation Shō II 1944 Formosa's Japanese Defense Plan (part of Operation Shō-gō )
Operation Shō III 1944 Japanese Defense Plan of Honshū (part of Operation Shō-gō )
Operation Shō IV 1944 Hokkaidō's Japanese Defense Plan (part of Operation Shō-gō )
Operation Ta 1944 Japanese attack on US forces at Cape Torokina
Operation Take-Ichi 1944 Japanese convoy to reinforce the troops in New Guinea
Operation Te 1944 Japanese air raid on airfields on Leyte (part of Operation Wa )
Operation Wa 1944 Japanese ground attack on airfields on Leyte (part of Operation Te )
Operation Arashi 1945 Japanese air raid on Ulithi Atoll
Operation Hikari 1945 Japanese reconnaissance of Ulithi Atoll (part of Operation Arashi )
Operation Tan 2 1945 Japanese plan of attack against the anchorage of Allied ships at Ulithi Atoll
Operation Ketsu-gō 1945 Japanese defense plan against a potential allied landing on mainland Japan
Operation Kikusui 1945 Japanese air raid on US fleet off Okinawa
Operation daycare 1945 Japanese ship relocation and naval transport from Singapore to Japan
Operation Ten-gō 1945 Japanese attack on US fleet off Okinawa
Operation Ken 1945 Japanese air raid on airfields in the Mariana Islands , canceled
Operation Gi-gō 1945 Japanese air landing in Okinawa to sabotage US airfields and airfields
Operation Kon-gō 1945 Japanese one-man torpedo attack on Allied ships, canceled

literature

  • Christopher Chant: The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II Routledge, 2013
  • Robert Lyman: Kohima 1944 Osprey Publishing, 2010 ISBN 978-1-84603-939-3

Individual evidence

  1. Lyman, p. 5.
  2. Headquarters, United States Army, Japan: BURMA OPERATIONS RECORD: 15TH ARMY OPERATIONS IN IMPHAL AREA AND WITHDRAWAL TO NORTHERN BURMA (Revised Edition) (1952)