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[1] Pancake - Code word ordering an aircraft or formation to land. Rag – decoy flying operations to misdirect the enemy. [1] Ramrod – short range bomber attacks to destroy ground targets, similar to Circus attacks. [1] Ranger – freelance flights over enemy territory by units of any size, to occupy and tire enemy fighters. [1]
In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences.
A well-known sign/countersign used by the Allied forces on D-Day during World War II: the challenge/sign was "flash", the password "thunder" and the countersign (to challenge the person giving the first codeword) "Welcome". [2] Some countersigns include words that are difficult for an enemy to pronounce.
A A&TWF – Acquisition and technology work force a – Army AA – Assembly area AA – Anti-aircraft AA – Aegis ashore AAA – Anti-aircraft artillery "Triple A" AAAV – Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle AAC – Army Air Corps AAD – Armored amphibious dozer AADC – Area air defense commander AAE – Army acquisition executive AAG – Anti-aircraft gun AAK – Appliqué armor kit (US ...
List of Luftwaffe aircraft prototype projects during World War II; List of Luftwaffe aircraft by manufacturer, World War II; List of aircraft of Russia, World War II; List of aircraft of the U.S. military, World War II; List of undersea-carried planes during World War II; List of units using the B-26 Marauder during World War II
The plan called for 10 battleships, four aircraft carriers, three battlecruisers, eight heavy cruisers, 44 light cruisers, 68 destroyers and 249 U-boats by 1944 that was meant to challenge the naval power of the United Kingdom. The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 came far too early to implement the plan.
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Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...