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Glossary of WW2 terms and abbreviations
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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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