Code Name Quiz (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

I am reading Andrew Roberts' Masters and Commanders about how the Allies formulated strategy during WW II. The book focuses primarily on Churchill and FDR (Masters) and Marshall and Alan Brooke (the Commanders), the latter being the real stars of the book. It's an excellent book and shows how the Combined Chiefs of Staff worked together, how strategy evolved and compromises made to get a strategy acceptable to Brooke and Marshall and their superiors.

Anyway, at the back of the book Roberts has an appendix on code names used by the Allies during WW II so here's a quiz on eleven of them, some shouldn't be difficult but some are. No googling please!

Operation Sledgehammer
Operation Roundup
Operation Bolero
Operation Baytown
Operation Gymnast
Operation Anakim
Operation Culverin
Operation Modicum
Operation Jupiter
Operation Sextant
Operation Veritable

Note: not all refer to battleplans but may be codenames for a conference or a visit.

Hint: the first three are connected and was the cause of much acrimony among the Staffs.

 

[glossman]

I am reading Andrew Roberts' Masters and Commanders about how the Allies formulated strategy during WW II. The book focuses primarily on Churchill and FDR (Masters) and Marshall and Alan Brooke (the Commanders), the latter being the real stars of the book. It's an excellent book and shows how the Combined Chiefs of Staff worked together, how strategy evolved and compromises made to get a strategy acceptable to Brooke and Marshall and their superiors.

Anyway, at the back of the book Roberts has an appendix on code names used by the Allies during WW II so here's a quiz on eleven of them, some shouldn't be difficult but some are. No googling please!

Operation Sledgehammer
Operation Roundup
Operation Bolero
Operation Baytown
Operation Gymnast
Operation Anakim
Operation Culverin
Operation Modicum
Operation Jupiter
Operation Sextant
Operation Veritable

Note: not all refer to battleplans but may be codenames for a conference or a visit.

Hint: the first three are connected and was the cause of much acrimony among the Staffs.

Brad,

Operations Sledgehammer and Roundup were the precursor operational planning codenames for Operation Overlord ie the Allied Invasion of France at Normandy on 6th June 1944.

I am not sure how Operation Bolero fits into this.

Raymond.

 

[binder001]

OK, without Googling, wasn't "Bolero" the buildup of US troops in Britain before an invasion of Europe?

"Veritable" was one of the later operations before Monty's Rhine Crossing ("Varsity").

Gary

 

[jazzeum]

You both are correct. Bolero was the buildup and Roundup was what became Overlord. Sledgehammer was to be an invasion of Cherbourg, proposed by the Americans, but the British eventually convinced them it would be folly.

 

[UKReb]

I think Operation Gymnast was the original code-name for Operation Torch-my father served in North Africa and mentioned the name (at the time unknown to me) when I told him that during my term served on the Rock of Gibraltar I had actually sat in Eisenhower's chair (his office was/is buried deep within the Rock itself and is perfectly preserved exactly as it was) where he planned the invasion. He said "We knew it as Operation Gymnast".

Reb

 

[jazzeum]

Bob,

That's correct. You guys are starting to knock this off!