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Code Names
| ALAMO | Task force directly under GHQ SWPA (MacArthur). |
| AMOEBA | Advance Sub-Base C, Goodenough Island. |
| ANVIL | Early plan for the invasion of southern France. |
| ARCADIA | U.S.-British conference in Washington, December 1941-January 1942 |
| AVALANCHE | Invasion of Italy at Salerno. |
| BACKHANDER | Task force for Cape Gloucester. |
| BATTLEAXE | British Eighth Army operation at Halfaya Pass, June 1941. |
| BOLERO | Build-up of U.S. troops and supplies in United Kingdom for cross-Channel invasion. |
| BREWER | Task for for Admiralties. |
| BYPRODUCT | Task force for Kiriwina. |
| CENT | Scoglitti beaches, Sicily. |
| CHRONICLE | Invasion of Woodlark and Kiriwina Islands. |
| COBRA | First Army operations in the Cotentin, France, July 1944. |
| CONQUER | Code name for Ninth Army. |
| CORONET | Plan for invasion of Honshu at the Tokyo plain. |
| CYCLONE | Task force for Noemfoor. |
| DEXTERITY | Invasion of New Britain. |
| DIME | Gela beaches, Sicily. |
| DIRECTOR | Task force for Arawe area. |
| DRAGOON | Invasion of southern France. |
| ESCALATOR | Code name for ALAMO Force. |
| FABIUS | May 1944 dress rehearsal for invasion of Normandy |
| FLASHPOINT | Ninth Army crossing of the Rhine. |
| GLOBETROTTER | Operations in northwest New Guinea near Cape Sansapor. |
| GRENADE | 21 Army Group offensive from Roer to Rhine. |
| HURRICANE | Task force for Biak. |
| HUSKY | Invasion of Sicily. |
| ICEBERG | Invasion of the Ryukyus. |
| INDIGO | Plan for movement of U.S. troops to Iceland. |
| INTERLUDE | Operations on Morotai. |
| JOSS | Licata beaches, Sicily. |
| KING I | Plan for operations on Mindanao, canceled. |
| KING II | Invasion of Philippines at Leyte, October 1944. |
| KOOL | Reserve force for Sicily. |
| LAZARETTO | Task force for Gasmata, New Britain. |
| LEATHERBACK | Task force for Woodlark. |
| LETTERPRESS | Task force for Humboldt Bay, New Guinea. |
| LOVE III | Mindoro operation. |
| MAGNET | Movement of the first U.S. forces to Ireland. |
| MAPLE | U.S. advance base at Port Moresby |
| MICHAELMAS | Task force for Saidor, northeast New Guinea. |
| MIKE | Series of plans for operations on Luzon. |
| NEPTUNE | Actual 1944 operations within OVERLORD. Used for security reasons after September 1943. |
| NOISELESS | Task force for Tanahmerah Bay, New Guinea. |
| OLYMPIC | Plan for March 1946 invasion of Kyushu, Japan. |
| OMAHA | U.S. V Corps beach in Normandy, June 1944. |
| OVERLORD | Allied cross-Channel invasion of northwest Europe, June 1944. |
| PEMMICAN | Advance Base A, Milne Bay, New Guinea. |
| PENUMBRA | Advance Sub-base B, Oro Bay, New Guinea. |
| PERSECUTION | Task force for Aitape, New Guinea. |
| POPPY | Name for force to be sent to New Caledonia in early 1942. |
| RAINBOW | Various plans prepared between 1939 and 1941 to meet Axis aggression involving more than one enemy. |
| RECKLESS | Task force for Hollandia, New Guinea. |
| ROUNDUP | Plan for major U.S.-British cross-Channel operation in 1943. |
| SATIN | U.S. II Corps operation against Sfax, Tunisia, January 1943, canceled. |
| SHAGGY | MICHAELMAS task force resupply point at Cape Cretin, New Guinea. |
| SHINGLE | Invasion of Italy at Anzio. |
| SLEDGEHAMMER | Allied plan for a limited cross-Channel attack in 1942. |
| SUMAC | Early code name for Australia. |
| TABLETENNIS | Operation at Noemfoor Island, New Guinea. |
| THE WHIP | Early code name for the bazooka. |
| TIGER | U.S. VII Corps full-dress rehearsal for UTAH assault, Slapton Sands, England, April 1944. |
| TILEFER | Code name for assemble of boxed and cased American vehicles in British Isles under the British Ministry of Supply. |
| TORCH | Allied operations in French north and northwest Africa, November 1942. |
| TORNADO | Task force Arawe-Toem area, New Britain. |
| TRADEWIND | Task force for Morotai, New Guinea. |
| TRIDENT | U.S.-British conference held in Washington, May 1943. |
| TYPHOON | Task force for Cape Sansapor, New Guinea. |
| UTAH | U.S. VII Corps beach in Normandy, June 1944. |
| VICTOR | Series of operations in central and southern Philippines. |
| ZEBRA | Barnes mission to Europe, February 1945. |
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