| ALPHA |
Invasion beach at Cavalaire, southern France. |
| ANAKIM |
Plan to retake Burma and open the line of communications to China through the port of Rangoon. |
| ANVIL |
The planned 1944 Allied invasion of southern France in the Toulon–Marseille area. |
| ARCADIA |
U.S.-British conference at Washington, December 1941—January 1942. |
| AVALANCHE |
Plan to seize Salerno. |
| BANG |
Shipping designator for Zone III, ETO. |
| BEAVER |
An amphibious exercise in preparation for the cross-Channel attack. |
| BIGOT |
Code for correspondence dealing with plans for future military operations. |
| BOLERO |
Build-up of troops and supplies in the United Kingdom in preparation for a cross-Channel attack. |
| CAMEL |
Invasion beach at St. Raphael, southern France. |
| CARGO |
An amphibious exercise in preparation for the cross-Channel attack. |
| CELLOPHANE |
An amphibious exercise in preparation for the cross-Channel attack. |
| CENT |
Task force built around the 45th Infantry Division for the invasion of Sicily. |
| CHASTITY |
Plan for the construction of an artificial harbor in the Qui-beron Bay area, on the southern coast of
Brittany. |
| CRIMSON |
Project to set up in central and northeastern Canada a series of airfields situated along alternate
routes to permit a choice of landing fields in the event of bad weather. |
| CRYSTAL I |
U.S. weather station and airfield at Fort Chimo, Labrador. |
| CRYSTAL II |
U.S. weather station and airfield on Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island. |
| CRYSTAL III |
U.S. weather station and airfield on Padloping Island. |
| DELTA |
Invasion beach at St. Tropez, southern France. |
| DIME |
Task force built around the 1st Infantry Division for the invasion of Sicily. |
| DRAGOON |
Allied invasion of southern coast of France, 15 August 1944, planned under the code name ANVIL. |
| DUCK I |
First U.S. large-scale exercise in preparation for the cross-Channel attack. |
| FABIUS |
A full-dress rehearsal in preparation for the cross-Channel attack. |
| FLAMBO |
AFHQ Advance Administrative Echelon. |
| FORTUNE |
Algiers. |
| Fox |
An amphibious exercise in preparation for the cross-Channel attack. |
| GLUE |
Shipping designator for Zone II, ETO. |
| GOOSEBERRY |
A partial breakwater, formed by sinking blockships moored bow-to-stern and designed to provide a
sheltered area for tugs, barges, landing craft, and DUKWs. |
| GYMNAST |
Early plan for the invasion of North Africa. |
| HARLEQUIN |
An exercise in preparation for the launching of an amphibious force from the southern coast of
England. |
| HUSKY |
Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. |
| Joss |
Task force built around the 3rd Infantry Division for the invasion of Sicily. |
| MAGNET |
Movement of U.S. forces to Northern Ireland, 1942. |
| MULBERRY A |
Artificial port in American sector at OMAHA Beach. |
| MULBERRY B |
Artificial port in British sector at Arromanches-les-Bains. |
| NABOB |
Northern Ireland. |
| 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. |
| OMAHA |
Invasion beach north of Aure River, northern France. |
| OVERLORD |
Plan for the invasion of northwest Europe, spring 1944. |
| QUADRANT |
First Quebec Conference, August 1943. |
| RAINBOW 4 |
U.S. joint Army-Navy plan of 1940 for defense in the event that both Britain and France should be
defeated. |
| ROUNDUP |
Plan for major U.S.-British attack across the Channel in 1943. |
| SEXTANT |
Cairo-Tehran Conferences, 22 November-7 December 1943. |
| SHARK |
II Corps in the invasion of Sicily. |
| SHINGLE |
Plan for landings at Anzio. |
| 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. |
| Soxo |
Shipping designator for Zone I, ETO. |
| TIGER |
The final rehearsal for the assault on UTAH Beach. |
| TORCH |
Allied invasion of North and Northwest Africa, November 1942. |
| TRIDENT |
Washington Conference, May 1943. |
| UGLY |
A scheme for numbering requisitions so that the overseas command could readily identify all items en
route in a convoy by the receipt of a cargo cable listing the identifying numbers and the cargo tonnage under each
number. |
| UTAH |
Invasion beach on the Cotentin peninsula, northern France. |
| WILDFLOWER |
Great Britain. |