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Appendix 10

Operational Code Names

British

COAT Passage of reinforcements for the Fleet and of troops for Malta; November 1940.
COLLAR Convoy of fast merchant ships for Malta and Alexandria; November 1940.
COMPASS Operations against the Italians in the Western Desert beginning in December 1940.
EXCESS Convoy of fast merchant ships for Greece and troops for Malta; January 1941.
HATS Passage of naval reinforcements into the Mediterranean; September 1940.
HURRY

Fly-off of Hurricanes to Malta from HMS Argus; August 1940.

WORKSHOP Plan for the capture of Pantelleria early in 1941.

German

ALPENVEILCHEN (Cyclamen)

Plan for sending German forces to help the Italians in Albania.

BARBAROSSA

The attack on Russia.

FELIX

Plan to capture Gibraltar and close the Straits.

MARITA

Invasion of Greece through Bulgaria.

MITTELMEER (Mediterranean)

Order for units of the Luftwaffe to operate from Italian bases in the Mediterranean.

SONNENBLUME (Sunflower)

Move of German forces to Libya.