ALPHA | Beach in DRAGOON Operation; landings in the vicinity of Toulon and Marseille |
ANVIL | Plan for the Allied invasion of southern France, finally executed as Operation DRAGOON in August 1944 |
BOLERO | The build-up of U.S. troops and supplies in the United Kingdom in preparation for the cross-Channel invasion |
CAMEL | Beach in DRAGOON Operation; landings in the vicinity of Toulon and Marseille |
DELTA | Beach in DRAGOON Operation; landings in the vicinity of Toulon and Marseille |
DRAGOON | See ANVIL |
GRENADE | Ninth Army supporting attack for Operation VERITABLE |
MARKET-GARDEN | Airborne operation intended to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine in the Netherlands, September 1944. Operation MARKET involved seizure of bridges in the Nijmegen-Arnhem area, and Operation GARDEN was to open a corridor from Eindhoven northward toward Germany. |
MULBERRIES | The artificial harbors constructed off the Normandy beaches |
NEPTUNE | Code word for the cross-Channel operation, naming the specific assault area and target date, and for which a special security procedure known as BIGOT was developed |
OVERLORD | Code word which came to be applied to the general concept of a cross-Channel invasion in 1944 |
PHOENIXES | Concrete caissons towed across the English Channel and sunk to form the main breakwaters for the artificial harbors |
RHUMBA | Plan for reversing BOLERO and transferring U.S. forces, supplies, and logistic structure from the United Kingdom to the Continent |
TOMBOLA | A flexible 6-inch underwater pipeline designed to discharge POL tankers anchored offshore at Ste. Honorine-des-Pertes |
UNDERTONE | Seventh Army operation to breach West Wall and establish bridgehead over Rhine in Worms area, March-April 1945 |
VERITABLE | 21 Army Group plan for a Canadian attack between the Maas and the Rhine, January-February 1945 |
WHALE | Flexible steel roadway, made of bridge spans and resting on pontons, forming the piers for the artificial harbors |