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1942 - US Army Center Of Military History

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[ GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS ]<br />

OLIVE<br />

OLYMPIC<br />

OMAHA<br />

OVERLORD<br />

PANTHER<br />

PARIS<br />

PERSECUTION<br />

PICCADILLY<br />

PIGSTICK<br />

PLUNDER<br />

POINTBLANK<br />

PROVIDENCE<br />

PUGILIST<br />

QUADRANT<br />

QUEEN<br />

RAINCOAT<br />

RASHNESS<br />

RAVENO<strong>US</strong><br />

RECKLESS<br />

RENO<br />

RO<br />

ROAST<br />

ROGER<br />

ROMEO<br />

ROMUL<strong>US</strong><br />

ROOSTER<br />

ROSE<br />

ROSIE<br />

ROUNDUP<br />

RUGBY<br />

SATIN<br />

SAUCY<br />

SEA LION<br />

SEXTANT<br />

SHINGLE<br />

SHO<br />

SITKA<br />

SLAPSTICK<br />

SLEDGEHAMMER<br />

STALEMATE<br />

STRANGLE<br />

SUPERCHARGE<br />

SUPERCHARGE<br />

SWORD<br />

TALON<br />

TARZAN<br />

TED<br />

TERMINAL<br />

THUNDERBOLT<br />

TIDALWAVE<br />

TIGER<br />

TOGO<br />

TORCH<br />

TOREADOR<br />

[ 559 ]<br />

Attack on Gothic Line, Italy.<br />

Plan for March 1946 invasion of Kyushu, Japan.<br />

Normandy beach assaulted by troops of U.S. V Corps, 6 June 1944.<br />

Allied cross-Channel invasion of northwest Europe, June 1944.<br />

British 10 Corps drive across the Garigliano, Italy.<br />

XVIII Corps (A/B) phase line west of Erie, Germany.<br />

Assault force for Aitape operations, New Guinea.<br />

Drop site for Chindits, Burma.<br />

Limited operation on south Mayu Peninsula. Canceled.<br />

21 <strong>Army</strong> Group assault across the Rhine north of the Ruhr.<br />

Combined bomber offensive against Germany.<br />

Occupation of Buna area, New Guinea, <strong>1942</strong>. Canceled.<br />

Attack on Mareth Line, Tunisia, 1943.<br />

U.S.-British conference at Quebec, August 1943.<br />

12th <strong>Army</strong> Group operation on Roer Plain between Wurm and Rocr<br />

Rivers.<br />

Assault on Camino hill mass, Italy.<br />

Revised CARBONADO plan.<br />

4 Corps plan for recapture of northern Burma.<br />

Assault force for Hollandia operation.<br />

SWPA plans for operations in the Bismarck Archipelago, along northern<br />

coast of New Guinea and thence to Mindanao, P.I.<br />

Japanese air operation to augment Rabaul air forces and delay Allied<br />

offensives.<br />

Operation to clear Comacchio Spit, Italy.<br />

Capture of Phuket Island, off Kra Isthmus, Burma.<br />

French commando force that lands at Cap Nigre, Mediterranean.<br />

Arakan part of CAPITAL plan.<br />

Operation to fly Chinese 22d Division to Chihchiang.<br />

Ruhr pocket, April 1945.<br />

French naval force that lands southwest of Cannes.<br />

Plan for major U.S.-British cross-Channel operation in 1943.<br />

Airborne force that drops to rear of southern France assault beaches.<br />

Plan for U.S. II Corps operation against Sfax, Tunisia. Canceled.<br />

Limited offensive to reopen land route from Burma to China.<br />

Planned German invasion of United Kingdom. Canceled.<br />

International conference at Cairo, November and December 1943.<br />

Amphibious operation at Anzio, Italy.<br />

Japanese plan to counterattack U.S. forces in Western Pacific.<br />

Force that takes islands of Levant and Port Cros, Mediterranean.<br />

Airborne drop at Taranto, Italy.<br />

Plan for limited cross-Channel attack in <strong>1942</strong>.<br />

Invasion of the Palaus.<br />

Air operation to interdict movement of enemy supplies in Italy.<br />

British 30 Corps breakout, Egypt, <strong>1942</strong>.<br />

Revised plan of assault on Mereth Line, March 1943.<br />

Normandy beach assaulted by troops of British 3d Division, 6 June 1944.<br />

Akyab part of CAPITAL plan.<br />

India-based portion of general offensive in Burma.<br />

Task force in Aitape area, New Guinea<br />

International conference, Potsdam, Germany, 16 July–2 August 1945.<br />

<strong>Of</strong>fensive in Metz area.<br />

Low-level heavy bomber attack on Ploesti, Rumania, 1943.<br />

One of the rehearsal exercises for OVERLORD.<br />

Second phase of ICHIGO operation.<br />

Allied invasion of northwest Africa.<br />

Airborne assault on Mandalay.

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