Glossary of Code Names

ANFA

Sometimes used by OPD officers as a code name for the Casablanca Conference of January 1943.

ANAKIM

Plans for operations in Burma.

ANVIL

The planned 1944 Allied invasion of southern France in the Toulon-Marseille area.

ARCADIA

U.S.-British staff conference at Washington, December 1941-January 1942.

ARGONAUT

International conference held at Malta and Yalta, 30 January-9 February 1945.

BIGOT

Code for messages dealing with plans for future military operations.

BLACKLIST

General MacArthur's plan for the occupation of Japan.

BLUE

Prewar plan for the defense of the United States, should war occur.

BOBCAT

Force for Bora Bora Island in the South Pacific.

BOLERO

The build-up of troops and supplies in the United Kingdom in preparation for a cross-Channel attack.

BOSCO

Telephone directory of American and British delegations at QUADRANT.

CAMPUS

Admiral Nimitz' plan for the occupation of Japan.

CORONET

Assault planned for 1 December 1945 on Tokyo Plain.

CRICKET

International conference at Malta, 30 January-2 February 1945.

EUREKA

International conference at Tehran, 28-30 November 1943.

HUSKY

Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943.

MAGNET

1942 build-up of U. S. forces in Northern Ireland.

MAGNETO

International conference at Yalta, 4-9 February 1945.

MANHATTAN DISTRICT

Atomic bomb project.

MODICUM

Name for group that went to England in April 1942 to present the "Marshall Memorandum" to the British.

NEPTUNE

Actual 1944 operations within OVERLORD. This code name was used for security reasons after September 1943 on all OVERLORD planning papers which referred to the target area and date.

OCTAGON

International conference at Quebec, 12-16 September 1944.

OLYMPIC

Assault planned for 1 March 1946 on Kyushu.

ORANGE

Prewar plan to be used should war with Japan occur.

OVERLORD

Plan for the invasion of northwest Europe in the spring of 1944.

QUADRANT

International conference at Quebec, 14-24 August 1943.

RAINBOW

Name for various prewar plans of military action to meet situations created by Axis aggression.

RANKIN

Plan for an emergency return to the Continent in event of a collapse of German resistance.

RED

Prewar plan to be used should war with the British Empire occur.

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ROUNDHAMMER

Code name used at the TRIDENT Conference in May 1943 to designate a modified ROUNDUP invasion.

ROUNDUP

Various 1941-43 plans for a cross-Channel attack in the final phases of the war.

SEXTANT

International conference at Cairo, 22-26 November and 3-7 December 1943.

SLEDGEHAMMER

Plan for a limited-objective attack across the Channel in 1942 designed either to take advantage of a crack in German morale or as a "sacrifice" operation to aid the Russians.

SYMBOL

International conference at Casablanca, 14-23 January 1943.

TERMINAL

International conference near Potsdam, 16-26 July 1945.

TORCH

Allied invasion of North and Northwest Africa, November 1942.

TRIDENT

International conference at Washington, 12-25 May 1943.

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