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PA MUANG PADETSUK 1; THAILAND; C EARLY 1977
  Code name for a Thai offensive against communist insurgents
in N Thailand.

PANDORA; RHODESIA; C APRMAY 1966
  Code name for a police/military operation to locate ZANU
guerrillas raiding across the Zambezi R into Rhodesia. 

PANJSHER; USSR; C 198285
  Code name for a series of Soviet operations in Afghanistan
against Afghan mujaheddin guerrillas during the Soviet
intervention in Afghanistan.  Operations were numbered at least
through 9.

PANTHER; GERMANY; C LATE 1943
  Code name for an antiguerrilla offensive in N Greece during
WWII.

PANTHER; WESTERN ALLIED; 17 JAN 1944
  Code name for an Allied ground offensive across Garigiano
River, Italy during WWII.

PAPERCLIP; UNITED STATES; C 194490
  Code name for a longranging program enlisting German and
other foreign national scientists and technical personnel to work   '        0*((@@  for the US, primarily in the Defense Advance Projects Agency
(DARPA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) after WWII.

PARKPLATZ; GERMANY/FINLAND; SPRING 1943
  Code name for a planned Axis offensive to capture Leningrad,
USSR during WWII.

PAUL REVERE; UNITED STATES/S VIETNAM; 10 MAY  30 JUN 1966
  Code name for a US 25th Inf Div and ARVN forces operation in
Pleiku province, II Corps Tactical Zone, S Vietnam during the
Vietnam War.

PEACE IN GALILEE; ISRAEL; 6 JUN 1982
  Code name for the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in
response to intensified PLO raids in Israel.

PEDESTAL; WESTERN ALLIED; 315 AUG 1942
  Code name for one of several convoys resupplying the island
of Malta from Gibraltar during WWII.

PEGASUS/LAM SON 207; UNITED STATES/S VIETNAM; 115 APR 1968
  Code name for a US 1st Cav Div, US 1st Marine Div and ARVN
parachute unit relief of the Khe Sanh combat base, I Corps
Tactical Zone, S Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
   '         0*((@@  ԌPERSHING; UNITED STATES; 11 FEB 1967  19 JAN 1968
  Code name for an area pacification program in Binh Dinh
province, I Corps area, S Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

PERSHING; UNITED STATES; 22 JAN  29 FEB 1968
  Code name for a US 1st Cav Div area pacification operation,
part of Tet counteroffensive, I Corps tactical zone, S Vietnam
during the Vietnam War.

PHOENIX; UNITED STATES/S VIETNAM; C JUL 1968APR 1972
  Code name for an intelligencegathering and liaison program
in S Vietnam during the Vietnam War.  Continued abuse, corruption
and false reporting led to the program's suspension.

PIGSTICK; UNITED KINGDOM
  Planned limited operations on the S Mayu Peninsula, Burma
during WWII.  Cancelled in favor of BUCCANEER.

PILGRIM; WESTERN ALLIED; C 1942
  Code name for the proposed capture of the Spanish Canary is.
and other Atlantic islands during WWII.  Also used for Atlantic
island plans generally.

PINBALL; UNITED STATES; C 194345
  Code name for an aerial gunnery practice program using
ceramic bullets firing at live aircraft with live pilots as   '        0*((@@  targets during WWII.

PIRANHA; UNITED STATES; C 1965
  Code name for a search and destroy operation on the Batangan
peninsula, S Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

PLAN Z; JAPAN; MAR 1944
  A plan to use Hollandia, New Guinea as a forward base
against advancing American forces in the southwest Pacific during
WWII.  The loss or neutralization of Japanese bases in the
Bismarcks, Solomons and Gilberts mitigated against the plan, and
it was never implemented.  Full details were captured by the US
in Apr 1944.

PLUNDER; UNITED KINGDOM; 23 MAR 1945
  Code name for the British 21st Army Group ground offensive
across Rhine River, Germany during WWII. 

POINTBLANK; WESTERN ALLIED; 16 JUN 1943 8 MAY 1945
  Code name for the combined Allied air offensive against
German industry in WWII.

POLARFUCHS; GERMANY; JUL 1941
  Literally "polar fox", German.  Code name for the ground
offensive from Norway into N USSR in concert with the BARBAROSSA
invasion during WWII.   '        0*((@@  ԌPOLARFUCHS; GERMANY; C 1943
  Code name for the German plans for the invasion of Sweden
during WWII.

POLE VAULT; UNITED STATES; 112 MARCH 1976
  Code name for a US Joint Chiefs exercise simulating a post
nuclear attack environment, held in concert with REX, as a
followon to PRIME RATE.

POLO HAT; UNITED STATES
  Code name for a regular command system exercise.

PONY EXPRESS; UNITED STATES
  Code name for special air reconnaissance and sampling
operations to collect intelligence data on Soviet missile testing
over the Pacific Ocean.

PORTCULLIS; WESTERN ALLIED; 15 DEC 1942
  Last Allied resupply convoy from Alexandria, Egypt to the
island of Malta during WWII.  This convoy, unlike the preceding
nine, was unopposed, and signaled the end of the siege.

POSITIVE LEAP; UNITED STATES; C 1980
  Code name for a command post exercise testing the Rapid
Deployment force, Joint Deployment Agency and worldwide command
and control.   '        0*((@@  ԌPOWER PLAY; UNITED STATES; C 1979
  Code name for a command post exercise testing the alternate
National Command Authority system, and worldwide command and
control, held in conjunction with WINTEX/CIMEX and followed by
POLL STATION.

POWER SWEEP; UNITED STATES; 27 OCT7 NOV 1986
  Code name for a Joint Chiefs of Staff exercise, testing the
Crisis Action System. 

PRACTICE NINE; UNITED STATES; C 196668
  Code name for the US project to construct and maintain a 40
km sensor and land mine barrier to block infiltration from N
Vietnam during the Vietnam War.  This project, also called
ILLINOIS CITY, DYE MARKER and "McNamara's Wall", was a costly
fiasco from start to finish. 

PRAIRIE FIRE; UNITED STATES/S VIETNAM; C 1968
  Code name for US/ARVN operations in Laos during the Vietnam
War.

PRAIRIE FIRE; UNITED STATES; 24 MAR 1986
  Code name for attacks by US carrier aircraft on Libyan
patrol craft and land missile sites in the Gulf of Sirte.

PRAIRIE SCHOONER; UNITED STATES   '         0*((@@  Ԍ  Code name for submarine surveillance operations conducted by
the US Navy.

PRAIRIE VORTEX; UNITED STATES; C 1984
  Code name for a US Air Force bombing competition held
annually at Ellsworth AFB, S Dakota.

PRESENT ARMS; UNITED STATES; C 1986
  Code name for a Joint Chiefs Command Post Exercise
evaluating Civil Defence and postnuclear attack procedures.

PRICELESS; WESTERN ALLIED; C 1943
  Code name for the Western Allied general plans for the
invasion of Italy during WWII.

PRIME RATE; UNITED STATES; C 1975
  Code name for a command post exercise simulating a
deteriorating world situation and ending in a strategic nuclear
exchange.  It was followed by POLE VAULT.

PRIZE GAUNTLET; UNITED STATES; C 1980
  Code name for a Joint Chiefs command post exercise testing
civilmilitary interface and the worldwide command control
system.

PROTEA; S AFRICA; 2429 AUG 1981   '         0*((@@  Ԍ  South African mechanized attack on SWAPO guerrilla bases in
southwest Angola.

PROUD; UNITED STATES
  Code name for a series of Joint Chiefs sponsored
mobilization and deployment exercises; starting in about 1980,
and including PROUD SPIRIT, PROUD SABER, PROUD SCOUT, and PROUD
Eagle (1989).

PROUD SABER; UNITED STATES; C 1983
  Code name for a PROUD exercise concentrating on crisis
management.

PROUD SCOUT; UNITED STATES; 1220 NOV 1987
  Code name for a PROUD exercise that used a nonotice callup
of some 200,000 Reserve and National Guard personnel. 

PROUD SPIRIT; UNITED STATES; 626 NOV 1980
  Code name for a US exercise similar in scenario to NIFTY
NUGGET and held in concert with REX Bravo.

PROVIDENCE; UNITED STATES; C 1943
  Code name for the Western Allied planned occupation of Buna,
New Guinea during WWII.

PUGILIST; WESTERN ALLIED; SPR 1943   '         0*((@@  Ԍ  Code name for Western Allied plans for the final attack on
German Mareth Line, Tunisia, during WWII.  Renamed SUPERCHARGE.

PUMA; WESTERN ALLIED; C 1942
  Code name for the projected invasion of the Spanish Canary
islands during WWII.

PUNISHMENT; GERMANY; APR 1941
  Code name for the German ar attacks on Belgrade, Yugoslavia
during WWII, in retaliation for declared Yugoslav neutrality.
