Index Winter Line, 1185 Winter Storm See Stalingrad, Battle of; WINTERGEWITTER Winter War (1939) See Finnish-Soviet War WIRBELWIND (August 1942), 1185 – 86 Wireless See Radio Witzleben, Erwin von (1881–1944), 1186 Wolf pack, 264, 350, 1186 See also Intelligence; Kondor; Radio Wolfram, 1014, 1186 Wolfsschanze, 527, 618, 734, 893, 1179, 1186 – 87 See also July Plot; Werwolf Wolfsschlucht I and II See Hitler’s headquarters Women See African Americans; Air Transport Auxiliary; Axis Sally; Balloons; Civil Air Patrol; Civilians; Concentration camps; Death camps; Flakhelfer; Food supply; Forrestal, James; Germany, conquest of; Hitlerjungend; Holocaust; Ianfu; Indian National Army; Leningrad, siege of; Molotov cocktail; Nanjing massacre; Nazism; Partisans; Rape; Reichsluftschutzbund; Resistance; Resistance (Germany); Résistance (France); Schutzstaffel (SS); Snipers; Speer, Albert; War correspondents; War crimes; Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES); Women’s Airforce Service Pilots; Women’s Army Corps (WAC); Women’s Auxiliary Corps (WAC); individual country and armed forces entries Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 1187 Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), 1187 Women’s Army Corps (WAC), 1187 – 88 Women’s Auxilliary Corps (WAC), 1188 World Disarmament Conference (1932– 1933) See Geneva Disarmament Conference World Economic Conference (1933), 470, 929, 1114, 1188 Wotan See Y-Gerät Wotan Line, 318, 820, 828, 1188 See also Donbass offensive operation Wrecker, 1188 Wunderwaffen, 237, 444, 521, 688, 784, 798, 1074, 1148, 1149, 1188 – 89 See also Bombers; Bombs; Fighters; Nerve agents; New Order; Nuclear weapons programs; V-weapons program Würzburg, 1189 X craft, 288, 1191 X Force, 1191 See also Y Force X-Gerät, 636, 681, 1191 Xi’an incident (December 1936), 226, 229, 487, 601, 614, 982, 1191 – 92, 1208 XX-Committee, 396, 419, 1192 See also Special Operations Executive (SOE) Yak See Fighters Yalta Conference (February 4–11, 1945), 239, 293, 496, 536, 606, 649, 713, 735, 806, 859, 866, 933, 945, 953, 980, 1011, 1080, 1097, 1193 – 95 Yamagata, Aritomo (1838–1922) See Imperial Japanese Army Yamamoto, Isoroku (1884–1943), 35, 321, 559, 603, 610, 726, 787, 840, 1157, 1195 – 96 Yamamoto Force See Imphal offensive Yamashita, Tomoyuki (1885–1946), 580, 636, 697, 823, 849, 980, 1082, 1196 – 97 Yamato, IJN, 623, 752, 811, 1071, 1197 See also Midway Yap Islands, 1197 – 98 Yasukuni Shrine See Shinto; Tojo, Hideki Yelnia operation (August 1941), 135, 901, 1198, 1210 Yenangyaung, Battle of (1942) See Burma campaign (1941–1942) Yeremenko, Andrei I (1892–1970), 119, 281, 317, 698 – 99, 903, 996, 1036, 1063, 1198 See also TAIFUN Yezhovshchina, 154, 195, 367, 386, 486, 634, 639, 640, 707, 734, 800, 897, 927, 1005, 1018, 1027, 1077, 1098, 1199 – 1200 See also Beria, Lavrenti; Marco Polo Bridge incident; Molotov, Vyacheslav; Nuclear weapons programs; Tukhachevsky, Mikhail Y Force, 1200 See also X Force Y-Gerät, 1200 Yugoslavia, 1201 – Zagradotryady See Blocking detachments Zahme Sau, 155, 1184, 1205 See also Berlin bomber offensive (1943–1944) Zaibatsu, 597, 608, 1055, 1081, 1097, 1205 – 1321