CODENAMES

AGREEMENT  

Raid on Axis oil installations at Tobruk and Benghazi carried out on 13 September 1942

BOLERO  

Plan for build-up of American troops in United Kingdom

CANTER  

Preliminary assault on forward Mareth Line

   

positions, March 1943

CRUSADER  

British offensive, Western Desert, November 1941

FLAX  

Allied air operation to disrupt the Axis system of air transport to Africa, April 1943

GALLOP  

50th Division assault on Mareth Line, 20 March 1943

GYMNAST  

Original plan for British landing in French North Africa

SUPER GYMNAST  

Plan for Anglo-US landings in French North Africa (later to become TORCH)

HUSKY  

Plan for capture of Sicily

LIGHTFOOT  

Opening phase of Battle of Alamein

JUPITER  

Proposed Allied invasion of Norway

ROUNDUP  

First plan for invasion of Europe

SATIN  

Allied plan to drive between German armies in Tunisia, January 1943

SLEDGEHAMMER  

Plan for Allied landing on Cherbourg peninsula in 1943

STRIKE  

Final phase of First Army’s assault on Tunis and Bizerte, May 1943

SUPERCHARGE  

(i) Last phase of Battle of Alamein

   

(ii) British attack at Tebaga Gap, March 1943

TORCH  

Allied landings in French North Africa, November 1942

VULCAN  

18th Army Group offensive to destroy Axis forces in Tunisia, April–May 1943

WALK  

Guards Brigade attack on Horseshoe Hill at Mareth Line, 16 March 1943

WOP  

US II Corps advance on Gafsa and El Guettar, March 1943