ABATTOIR Dutch New Guinea ABBEY and SLOANE United States and British policy in event of Japanese occupation of Kra Isthmus, Thailand ABBOTT Airagalpua, Bismarck Archipelago ABDOMEN Salmaga Island, Aleutian Islands ABERCROMBIE Raid on French coast between Boulogne and Etaples (21-22 April 1942) (G.B.) ABERCROMBIE U.S. #World conqueror 2 china burma india theater code#Select the first letter of the code word from the listing below:Ī AARON Bulawatan, New Britain ABACUS Kepler Point, Bawean Island, N.E.I. VICTOR II Landings on Cebu, Bohol, and Eastern Negros VICTOR I Landings on Panay and Western Negros SHEKEL Faeringerhavnen, Greenland SINGSING Airfield on Eastern Island, Midway KNUCKLEHEAD Russell Islands aerial patrol HUDDLE Occupation of Nedni, Santa Cruz Islands Richard, W, USNR, under the supervision of the Historian for Naval Administration.Īddenda ALCATRAZ Airfield at San Island, Midway ARGUS Night fighter development project Naval Abbreviations, this glossary was prepared in the Office of Naval History by Lt. Like the previously published Glossary of U.S. The list is primarily Navy Army and British code words have been added insofar as they are of interest to the Navy. No doubt there are many other code words which the Navy used but which could not be found others could not be included because they are still classified. Someone picked these words out of a dictionary and someone in a higher echelon applied them to a particular person, place, or action. There was no reason why DUCKPIN identified General Eisenhower, nor why ZOOTSUIT referred to Auk, New Britain, nor why OPIUM was the transfer of a Marine regiment to Samoa. Without it, no one, not even a cryptographer, can read the primary sources of World War II intelligibly. As such the historian must be able to translate these terms, so, for that reason, this glossary of operational and geographical code words has been compiled. The recollections stirred by the sight or sound of these words belong to the men who were actually there, but the operations and geographical locations are a part of history. To them, TORCH will always be vast numbers of ships and men converging on the West and North African shores BACKBITER will be a tiny point in the Pacific OVERLORD will be an armada ploughing through the choppy Channel waters on a June night in 1944 CROSSROADS will be the greatest scientific experiment of all time. But to the men of the present generation, these and many other words connote far more than their definitions by Webster. TORCH, BACKBITER, OVERLORD, CROSSROADS soon will have dropped their capitals and again become just ordinary words in the English language. Naval Code Words (NAVEXOS P-474)Īll pages are tagged for HTML referencing ()
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