Code Names
ALAMO | Task force directly under GHQ SWPA (MacArthur). |
AMOEBA | Advance Sub-Base C, Goodenough Island. |
ANVIL | Early plan for the invasion of southern France. |
ARCADIA | U.S.-British conference in Washington, December 1941-January 1942 |
AVALANCHE | Invasion of Italy at Salerno. |
BACKHANDER | Task force for Cape Gloucester. |
BATTLEAXE | British Eighth Army operation at Halfaya Pass, June 1941. |
BOLERO | Build-up of U.S. troops and supplies in United Kingdom for cross-Channel invasion. |
BREWER | Task for for Admiralties. |
BYPRODUCT | Task force for Kiriwina. |
CENT | Scoglitti beaches, Sicily. |
CHRONICLE | Invasion of Woodlark and Kiriwina Islands. |
COBRA | First Army operations in the Cotentin, France, July 1944. |
CONQUER | Code name for Ninth Army. |
CORONET | Plan for invasion of Honshu at the Tokyo plain. |
CYCLONE | Task force for Noemfoor. |
DEXTERITY | Invasion of New Britain. |
DIME | Gela beaches, Sicily. |
DIRECTOR | Task force for Arawe area. |
DRAGOON | Invasion of southern France. |
ESCALATOR | Code name for ALAMO Force. |
FABIUS | May 1944 dress rehearsal for invasion of Normandy |
FLASHPOINT | Ninth Army crossing of the Rhine. |
GLOBETROTTER | Operations in northwest New Guinea near Cape Sansapor. |
GRENADE | 21 Army Group offensive from Roer to Rhine. |
HURRICANE | Task force for Biak. |
HUSKY | Invasion of Sicily. |
ICEBERG | Invasion of the Ryukyus. |
INDIGO | Plan for movement of U.S. troops to Iceland. |
INTERLUDE | Operations on Morotai. |
JOSS | Licata beaches, Sicily. |
KING I | Plan for operations on Mindanao, canceled. |
KING II | Invasion of Philippines at Leyte, October 1944. |
KOOL | Reserve force for Sicily. |
LAZARETTO | Task force for Gasmata, New Britain. |
LEATHERBACK | Task force for Woodlark. |
LETTERPRESS | Task force for Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. |
LOVE III | Mindoro operation. |
MAGNET | Movement of the first U.S. forces to Ireland. |
MAPLE | U.S. advance base at Port Moresby |
MICHAELMAS | Task force for Saidor, northeast New Guinea. |
MIKE | Series of plans for operations on Luzon. |
NEPTUNE | Actual 1944 operations within OVERLORD. Used for security reasons after September 1943. |
NOISELESS | Task force for Tanahmerah Bay, New Guinea. |
OLYMPIC | Plan for March 1946 invasion of Kyushu, Japan. |
OMAHA | U.S. V Corps beach in Normandy, June 1944. |
OVERLORD | Allied cross-Channel invasion of northwest Europe, June 1944. |
PEMMICAN | Advance Base A, Milne Bay, New Guinea. |
PENUMBRA | Advance Sub-base B, Oro Bay, New Guinea. |
PERSECUTION | Task force for Aitape, New Guinea. |
POPPY | Name for force to be sent to New Caledonia in early 1942. |
RAINBOW | Various plans prepared between 1939 and 1941 to meet Axis aggression involving more than one enemy. |
RECKLESS | Task force for Hollandia, New Guinea. |
ROUNDUP | Plan for major U.S.-British cross-Channel operation in 1943. |
SATIN | U.S. II Corps operation against Sfax, Tunisia, January 1943, canceled. |
SHAGGY | MICHAELMAS task force resupply point at Cape Cretin, New Guinea. |
SHINGLE | Invasion of Italy at Anzio. |
SLEDGEHAMMER | Allied plan for a limited cross-Channel attack in 1942. |
SUMAC | Early code name for Australia. |
TABLETENNIS | Operation at Noemfoor Island, New Guinea. |
THE WHIP | Early code name for the bazooka. |
TIGER | U.S. VII Corps full-dress rehearsal for UTAH assault, Slapton Sands, England, April 1944. |
TILEFER | Code name for assemble of boxed and cased American vehicles in British Isles under the British Ministry of Supply. |
TORCH | Allied operations in French north and northwest Africa, November 1942. |
TORNADO | Task force Arawe-Toem area, New Britain. |
TRADEWIND | Task force for Morotai, New Guinea. |
TRIDENT | U.S.-British conference held in Washington, May 1943. |
TYPHOON | Task force for Cape Sansapor, New Guinea. |
UTAH | U.S. VII Corps beach in Normandy, June 1944. |
VICTOR | Series of operations in central and southern Philippines. |
ZEBRA | Barnes mission to Europe, February 1945. |
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