Appendix XIII: Glossary of Code Names and Abbreviations
| A.F.V. | Armoured fighting vehicle |
| A.I. | Air interception—radar carried by fighters |
| A.M.E.S. | Air Ministry Experimental Station (i.e. radar station) |
| ANVIL | Allied landings in Southern France—1944—see DRAGOON |
| Asdic | Shipborne apparatus for the detection of underwater objects |
| ASV | Air-to-surface vessel—airborne search and homing radar used for anti-U-boat and anti-shipping operations |
| BINGHAM | Establishment of air forces at Zara (Yugoslavia)—April, 1945 |
| BLACKMAIL | Sabotage operations by French workers |
| BOWLER | Air attack on shipping in harbour of Venice—21st March, 1945 |
| BRASSARD | Amphibious operations to capture Island of Elba—25th May, 1944 |
| BROADWAY; | Landing ground—north-east Burma (1944) |
| Cab Rank | Small formations of patrolling fighters and fighter-bombers on immediate call for close tactical support |
| CHOWRINGHEE | Landing ground-north-east Burma (1944) |
| CLARION | Widespread air attacks on communications throughout Central Germany—22nd February, 1945 |
| CORK | Coastal Command anti-U-boat patrols (1944) |
| COSSAC | Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander |
| CROSSBOW | Offensive and defensive measures to counter V-weapon attack |
| DIADEM | Assault to effect union between main front and Anzio beachhead—May, 1944 |
| DIVER | The V.1 (flying bomb) |
| DRACULA | Allied combined assault on Rangoon—May, 1945 |
| DRAGOON | Originally ANVIL—Allied landings in Southern France—15th August, 1944 |
| DUNN | Air evacuation of refugees from Slovenia—March, 1945 |
| EARTHQUAKE MAJOR | Assault on tactical targets by heavy bombers—Burma, 1944/1945 |
| EARTHQUAKE MINOR | Assault on tactical targets by medium bombers—Burma, 1944/1945 |
| EUREKA | Portable ground radio-beacon |
| fido | Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation |
| FLASHPOINT | The United States Ninth Army assault across the Rhine in operation PLUNDER—March, 1945 |
| FLOWER | Patrol of enemy night fighter airfields |
| Freya (German) | Radar installation for long-range detection |
| GARDENING | Sea mine-laying by aircraft |
| G.C.I. | Ground-controlled interception |
| GEE | Medium-range radar aid to navigation employing ground transmitters and airborne receiver |
| G.H. | Radar blind bombing system which used GEE equipment in conjunction with airborne transmitter and two ground beacons |
| GOMORRAH | Bomber Commands main offensive on Hamburg, 24th/25th July-2nd/3rd August, 1943 |
| GOODWOOD | Twenty-First Army Group offensive south of Caen—July, 1944 |
| GRENADE | The United States Ninth Army offensive in conjunction with operation VERITABLE—February, 1945 |
| HERMANN (German) | Attacks on Allied airfields—1st January, 1945 |
| H2S | Airborne radar navigational and target location aid |
| INTRUDER | Offensive night patrols over enemy territory intended to destroy hostile aircraft and to dislocate the enemy flying organization |
| MALLARD | Airborne landing of 6th Air Landing Brigade and the Airborne Armoured Recce. Regiment in N.W. Europe—6th June, 1944 |
| MALLORY MAJOR | Disruption of the enemy’s flow of supplies into Northern Italy by the destruction of rail and road bridges—12th/15th July, 1944 |
| MANNA | Air transportation of supplies and food to the citizens of Holland—April/May, 1945 |
| MARKET | Airborne operations—Arnhem, September, 1944 |
| MASTIFF | Air transportation of medical supplies and evacuation of Allied Prisoners of War—Far East, 1945 |
| NEPTUNE | The amphibious operations within OVERLORD—5th/6th June, 1944 |
| NOBALL | Rocket and flying bomb sites, storage and manufacturing centres |
| OBOE | Ground-controlled radar system of blind bombing in which one station indicates track to be followed and another the bomb release point |
| O.T.U. | Operational Training Unit |
| Operation C (Japanese) | Projected advance into India—February, 1944 |
| OVERLORD | Allied re-entry into N.W. Europe—June, 1944 |
| PICADILLY | Landing ground—north-east Burma (1944) |
| PICADILLY HOPE A | Landing ground at Griblje (Slovenia) area |
| PLUNDER | The northern crossing of the Rhine by Twenty-First Army Group—23rd/24th March, 1945 |
| POINTBLANK | The attack on German fighter forces and the industry upon which they depended—1943/1944 |
| Round-Up | Projected Anglo-American operation against northern France—1943 |
| RUMPELKAMMER (German) | Flying bomb attack on England |
| SELFRIDGE | Anglo-American air operations designed to destroy the ball-bearing manufacturing centre at Schweinfurt |
| SLEDGEHAMMER | Projected Anglo-American operation against northern France—1942 |
| TAXABLE | Bomber Command surface convoy deception operation—5th/6th June, 1944 |
| THURDSAY | Operations behind Japanese armies in northeast Burma (1944) |
| Torbeau | Torpedo-carrying Beaufighter |
| TORCH | Anglo-American landing operation in French North Africa—November, 1942 |
| T.R.E. | Telecommunications Research Establishment |
| VARSITY | Airborne operations in support of the northern crossing of the Rhine—March, 1945 |
| VERITABLE | Offensive by Canadian First Army on the Rhineland—February, 1945 |
| V.L.R. | Very Long Range |
| WILDHORN III | Pick-up operation in Poland—25th July, 1944 |
| WINDOW | Metallized paper strips dropped by bomber aircraft in order to disrupt enemy radar system |
| Würzburg (German) | Ground radar system used for controlling searchlights, anti-aircraft guns and night fighter aircraft |
| ZIPPER | Projected assault on Malaya—1945 |
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