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Mediterranean Allied Air Force

Mediterranean Air Command

Code name for US code breaking operations against the Japanese

Series of sophisticated French fortifications positioned along France's eastern borders consisting of steel and concrete anti-tank emplacements and pillboxes

German armed anti-nazi resistance group, named after the MAN engineering works in Bavaria

Cover name (actually 'Manhattan Engineer District') for the development of the atomic bomb in the USA

Name given to groups of the French Resistance (after a type of foliage in Corsica, behind which resistance fighters on the island used to hide)

Operational code name for the German attack on Greece in April 1941

Operational code name for the Allied operation intended to establish a bridgehead across the river Rhine at the town of Arnhem in the Netherlands

Operational code name for Allied operations at Dakar - September 1940

"Mercury" - Operational code name for the German air attacks on Crete - April 1941

System used to communicate with members of the Resistance on the European mainland from Britain by using coded messages broadcast on BBC radio

British security service responsible for national security matters within the United Kingdom

British security service, otherwise known as the Secret Intelligence Service, responsible for collecting foreign intelligence relating to national security

British service responsible for assisting escaped prisoners of war

Paramilitary police force of Vichy France (Milice Francaise)

Operational code name for the RAF bombing of Cologne - May 1942

Operational code name for British deception operation in April 1943 where false operational plans were planted on a corpse and left floating off the coast of Spain - The Germans intercepted and believed the plans, which gave the impression that an Allied invasion of Greece was iminent, whereas the real invasion was planned for Sicily

British device used on aircraft to fool German radar into seeing far more aircraft than actually existed

Motor Transport

Motor Torpedo Boa

Mediterranean Theatre of Operations

Transportable floating harbours constucted from hollow concrete, towed to the D-Day landing sites and used to offload equipment and supplies during the Normandy landings