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Code-words are used as titles for various military and police operations that require a level of security.

Some examples of code-words used in World War 2:

  • Case White (German Invasion of Poland 1939)
  • Exercise Wesser (German Invasion of Scandinavia 1940)
  • Case Yellow (German Invasion of Western Europe)
  • Operation Barbarossa (German Invasion of USSR 1941)
  • Operation Z (Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941)
  • Operation Dynamo (British Evacuation of Dunkirk 1940)
  • Operation Jubilee (British attack on Dieppe 1942)
  • Operation Torch (Allied Landings on French Morocco 1943)
  • Operation Citadel (German attack at Kursk 1943)
  • Operation Overlord (Allied Invasion of Europe 1944)
  • Operation Market-Garden (Allied attack on the Rhine Bridges 1944)
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