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VALKYRIE; GERMANY; C 194344
  Code name for the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate German
Chancellor Hitler during WWII.  See WALKURE.

VAN BUREN; UNITED STATES/S KOREA/S VIETNAM; 19 JAN12 FEB 1966
  Code name for the US 101st Abn Div, 2nd ROK Marine and ARVN
unit operations in Phu Yen province, II Corps Tactical Zone, S
Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

VANGUARD; WESTERN ALLIED; C 1944
  Code name for the planning to recapture Rangoon from the
sea, Burma during WWII, becoming DRACULA. 

VARSITY; WESTERN ALLIED; 24 MAR 1945
  Code name for the US and UK airdrop in support of the
crossing of the Rhine River, Germany during WWII.

VEGHEL; UNITED STATES; C 1968
  Code name for a US 101st Abn Div firebase in the A Shau
valley, S Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

VELVET HAMMER; UNITED STATES; SPRING 1970
  Code name for a prisoner of war search operation in SE Asia
during the Vietnam War.
   '         0*((@@  ԌVERITABLE; WESTERN ALLIED; 8 FEB9 MAR 1945
  Code name for a series of offensive operations to clear the
Rhine River approaches on the NW German frontier during WWII.

VERITABLE; CANADA; C LATE 1944
  Code name for a Canadian offensive in the MassRhine areas
during WWII.

VERT; FRANCE; 6 JUN 1944
  Literally "green", French.  Code name for the sabotage of
German rail and other ground communications lines in support of
the OVERLORD landings during WWII.

VERTES; USSR; C 1973
  Code name for a joint Soviet/Hungarian exercise.

VICTOR; UNITED STATES; 20 OCT 194420 JUN 1945
  Code name for the US Eighth Army operations in the
Philippines during WWII.

VIGOROUS; WESTERN ALLIED; 1416 JUN 1942
  Western Allied code name for an Alexandria, Egypt to Malta
convoy during WWII.

VINH LOC; S VIETNAM; 11 SEP 1968
  Code name for an ARVN assault on Vinh Loc Is, S China Sea   '         0*((@@  during the Vietnam War.

VIOLET; FRANCE; 6 JUN 1944
  Code name for the sabotage of telephone lines in support of
OVERLORD during WWII.

VULCAN; WESTERN ALLIED; 613 MAY 1943
  Code name for the final ground offensive in the N African
campaign, in Tunisia during WWII.

VULTURE; UNITED STATES; C MAR 1954
  Code name for the US plans to bomb Viet Minh positions
around the French forces in Dien Bien Phu from the Philippine Is
during the French Indochina War.
            0*((@@  8) éVă
VALKYRIE; GERMANY; C 194344
  Code name for the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate German
Chancellor Hitler during WWII.  See WALKURE.

VAN BUREN; UNITED STATES/S KOREA/S VIETNAM; 19 JAN12 FEB 1966
  Code name for the US 101st Abn Div, 2nd ROK Marine and ARVN
unit operations in Phu Yen province, II Corps Tactical Zone, S
Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

VANGUARD; WESTERN ALLIED; C 1944
  Code name for the planning to recapture Rangoon from the
sea, Burma during WWII, becoming DRACULA. 

VARSITY; WESTERN ALLIED; 24 MAR 1945
  Code name for the US and UK airdrop in support of the
crossing of the Rhine River, Germany during WWII.

VEGHEL; UNITED STATES; C 1968
  Code name for a US 101st Abn Div firebase in the A Shau
valley, S Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

VELVET HAMMER; UNITED STATES; SPRING 1970
  Code name for a prisoner of war search operation in SE Asia
during the Vietnam War.
   '         0*((@@  ԌVERITABLE; WESTERN ALLIED; 8 FEB9 MAR 1945
  Code name for a series of offensive operations to clear the
Rhine River approaches on the NW German frontier during WWII.

VERITABLE; CANADA; C LATE 1944
  Code name for a Canadian offensive in the MassRhine areas
during WWII.

VERT; FRANCE; 6 JUN 1944
  Literally "green", French.  Code name for the sabotage of
German rail and other ground communications lines in support of
the OVERLORD landings during WWII.

VERTES; USSR; C 1973
  Code name for a joint Soviet/Hungarian exercise.

VICTOR; UNITED STATES; 20 OCT 194420 JUN 1945
  Code name for the US Eighth Army operations in the
Philippines during WWII.

VIGOROUS; WESTERN ALLIED; 1416 JUN 1942
  Western Allied code name for an Alexandria, Egypt to Malta
convoy during WWII.

VINH LOC; S VIETNAM; 11 SEP 1968
  Code name for an ARVN assault on Vinh Loc Is, S China Sea   '         0*((@@  during the Vietnam War.

VIOLET; FRANCE; 6 JUN 1944
  Code name for the sabotage of telephone lines in support of
OVERLORD during WWII.

VULCAN; WESTERN ALLIED; 613 MAY 1943
  Code name for the final ground offensive in the N African
campaign, in Tunisia during WWII.

VULTURE; UNITED STATES; C MAR 1954
  Code name for the US plans to bomb Viet Minh positions
around the French forces in Dien Bien Phu from the Philippine Is
during the French Indochina War.
            0*((@@  8) éWă
WACHT AM RHINE; GERMANY; 16 DEC 1944 1 JAN 1945
  Literally "watch or guard on the Rhine", German.  Code name
for the German ground offensive in Belgium and Luxembourg, aimed
at Antwerp. Commonly known as "the Battle of the Bulge" in WWII.

WALK; UNITED KINGDOM; C MAR 1943
  Code name for the attack on German positions south of the
German Mareth line in Tunisia during WWII.

WALKURE; GERMANY; 20 JUL 1944
  Literally "valkyrie", German.  Code name for the takeover of
the German government following the assassination of German
Fuhrer Hitler by members of the German Army during WWII.  The
plan was foiled because the attempt on Hitler's life was
unsuccessful.

WALLOWA/WHEELER; UNITED STATES; 11 NOV 196711 NOV 1968
  Code name for the offensive operations of 23rd Div in Quang
Nam and Quang Tin provinces, I Corps zone, S Vietnam during the
Vietnam War.

WASSERMANN; GERMANY; C 194045
  See CHIMNEY.

WATCHTOWER; UNITED STATES; 7 AUG 1942 7 FEB 1943   '         0*((@@  Ԍ  Code name for the amphibious invasion of Solomons Is at
Guadalcanal during WWII.  The derogatory code name for this
operation is "Shoestring", because of the lack of support
available.  This remarkable air/land/sea campaign saw the
resurgence of US fighting power in the Pacific and demonstrated a
lack of Japanese ability to defend remote outposts.

WEBFOOT; UNITED STATES; 1719 JAN 1944
  Code name for the rehearsal for the SHINGLE landings during
WWII.

WEISS; GERMANY; 1 SEP 1939
  Literally "white", German.  Code name for the planning for
and execution of the German land/air invasion of Poland,
precipitating WWII.

WEISS; GERMANY/ITALY; EARLY 1943
  Literally "white", German.  Code name for the operations
against Cetniks and partisans in Croatia during WWII.

WESERUBUNG; GERMANY; 8 APR 1940
  Literally "water exercise", German.  Code name for naval
operations in support of the WILFRED invasion of Scandinavia
during WWII.

WHITE ELEPHANT; UNITED STATES; C 196472   '         0*((@@  Ԍ  Code name for a series of maritime raids on the coast of N
Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

WHITE STAR; UNITED STATES; C 1960
  Code name for Project 404 operations in Laos, training
Laotian army and Montagnard troops in irregular warfare
operations during the Vietnam War.

WHITE WING; UNITED STATES; JANFEB 1966
  From MASHER. Code name for ground operations in the An Lao
valley of S Vietnam during the Vietnam War.  

WILFRED; GERMANY; 8 APR 1940
  Code name for the land, sea and air invasion of Denmark and
Norway during WWII.

WINTERGEWITTER; GERMANY; DEC 1942
  Literally "Winter Storm", German. Code name for the ground
offensive intended to relieve the German Sixth and Fourth Panzer
Armies trapped in Stalingrad, USSR after the Soviet URANUS
offensive in WWII.

WOLF; GERMANY; C 1944
  Code name for an offensive against partisans in N Greece
during WWII.
   '	         0*((@@  ԌWOP; UNITED STATES; C MAR 1943
  Code name for the diversionary attack by US II Corps on the
German Mareth Line in Tunisia, covering for WALK during WWII.
   
         0*((@@  8) éYă
YAMA SAKURA; UNITED STATES 
  Code name for a joint US/Japanese exercise held in Japan.

YELLOW
 See GELB

YIFTACH; ISRAEL; MAY 1948
  Code name for an Israeli offensive on the Arabheld town of
Safed northwest of the Sea of Galilee during the 194748 War for
Israeli Independence.
   0         0*((@@  8) éZă
ZIGEUNERBARON; GERMANY; 16 MAY6 JUN 1943
  Literally "robber baron", German.  Code name for a counter
partisan operation in the Bryansk area, USSR during WWII.

ZIPPER; WESTERN ALLIED; C 194445
  Code name for Western Allied plans for the recapture of
Malaya during WWII.

ZITADELLE; GERMANY; 1 JUL 1943
  Literally, "citadel", German.  Code name for the German
ground offensive around the Soviet Kursk salient during WWII.
