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| FH |
Fremde Heere - German intelligence evaluation service
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| FHO |
Fremde Heere Ost - German intelligence evaluation service - eastern section
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| FHW |
Fremde Heere West - German intelligence evaluation service - western section
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| Final Solution |
Name given to the German policy of genocide of the Jewish population
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| Fischfang |
"Fish Trap" - Operational code name for the German counter attack on the Allied beachead at Anzio in February 1944
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| Flash |
Code name for the assassination attempt on Hitler by the Schwarze Kapelle in March 1943 - where a bomb was placed on Hitler's aircraft.
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| Flat Top |
Nickname for aircraft carrier
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| Flintlock |
Operational code name for the US invasion of the Marshall Islands in January 1944
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| Forager |
Operational code name for the US invasion of the Mariana Islands in June 1944
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| Forschungsamt |
The intelligence service of the Luftwaffe
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| Fortitude |
Operational code name for the Allied deception operations prior to the invasion of Normandy
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| FUSAG |
First US Army Group - a fictitious army group under the command of General Patton which appeared to be based in south-east England prior to the Normandy landings and was intended to give the impression that the Allies were due to invade France via the Pas de Calais
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| Galvanic |
Operational code name for the US occupation of the Gilbert Islands - November 1943
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| GC&CS |
Government Code and Cipher School - based at Bletchley Park, England
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| Gestapo |
Geheime Staatspolizei - the German Secret State Police
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| GKO/GOKO |
Soviet State Defence Committee
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| Gold |
Code name for one of the landing beaches in Normandy (in the British/Canadian sector) in the area of Arromanches
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| Gomorrah |
perational code name for the RAF bombing of Hamburg in July/August 1943
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| Goodwood |
Operational code name for the Allied breakout from Normandy via Caen in July 1944
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| Gothic Line |
German defence line in Italy - north of Florence
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| Granit |
Operational code name for the US operations in the Central Pacific - March 1944
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| Greif |
Operational code name for the dropping of English-speaking German Troops wearing American uniforms behind the Allied lines in the Ardennes, prior to Hitler's last offensive in the west
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| Grenade |
Operational code name for the US offensive in the Rhineland - February 1945
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| Gustav Line |
German defence line in Italy - centred on Monte Cassino
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| H2S |
British airborne radar used for identifying and locating ground targets
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