| A-Force |
British intelligence organization responsible for deception and espionage in the Mediterranean and Middle East.
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| A4 |
Aggregat 4 - earlier name for the German V2 rocket
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| ABC |
American-British-Canadian talks in 1941
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| Abwehr |
Intelligence service for the German Armed Forces - run by Admiral Canaris
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| Accolade |
Operational code-name for Allied attempt to capture the Dodecanese Islands in the Agean.
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| Acrobat |
Code name for British advance on Tripoli in 1941.
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| Adlertag |
Code name for the day of intense German air attack on Britain (Eagle Day) 15th September 1940.
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| AEF |
Allied Expeditionary Force
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| AK |
Armja Krajowa ("Home Army") - The Polish Resistance
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| Aktion T4 |
Extermination of mentally ill and handicapped patients by the Nazi authorities. (Named after Tiergartenstrasse 4, the address of Nazi Central Office in Berlin.)
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| Allgemeine SS |
Standard branch of the SS, as opposed to the military or armed Waffen SS.
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| Allies |
Those countries fighting against the Axis powers. i.e. Britain, France, USA, Canada, USSR etc
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| Altreich |
Term used to describe Germany before the annexation of Austria.
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| Amt Mil |
German Army intelligence organization which succeeded the Abwehr
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| Anakim |
Code name for the Allied re-occupation of Burma in 1944.
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| Anschluss |
German annexation of Austria in March 1938.
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| Anti-Comintern Pact |
Agreement by Germany, Japan and Italy to oppose the Communist International organisation
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| Anton |
Code name for the German occupation of Vichy France, November 1942 - later known as Atilla
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| Anvil |
Operational code name for the Allied invasion of the South of France, August 1944.
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| ANZAC |
Australia and New Zealand Army Corps
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| Arcadia |
Code name for the first Anglo-American conference in Washington, December 1941.
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| Argonaut |
Code name for the Anglo-American-Soviet conference at Yalta, February 1945.
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| Argument |
Operational code name for Allied air attacks on German factories in February 1944.
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| Aspirin |
British equipment used for jamming German Knickebein radar
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| Atilla |
Code name for the German occupation of Vichy France, November 1942
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