Code Names

CLIPPER

Offensive by the 30 British Corps (including 84th U.S. Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient.

COMET

Plan to seize river crossings in the Netherlands near Arnhem along the projected axis of the Second British Army.

GOODWOOD

British attack in Normandy, late July 1944, preceding U.S. Operation COBRA.

MARKET-GARDEN

Combined ground-airborne operation intended to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine in the Netherlands, September 1944.

NEPTUNE

Actual operations within Operation OVERLORD. Used for security reasons after September 1943 on all OVERLORD planning papers that referred to target area and date.

OMAHA

Normandy beach assaulted by troops of U.S. V Corps, 6 June 1944

OVERLORD

Plan for invasion of northwest Europe, spring 1944.

QUEEN

12th Army Group operation on the Roer plain, November 1944.

UTAH

Normandy beach assaulted by troops of U.S. VII Corps, 6 June 1944

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