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BABACOOTE -- Eniwetok Island, Marshall Islands
BABYDOLL -- Dagi River, New Britain
BACCHUS -- Crown Island, New Guinea
BACHELOR -- Mt. Reamur, Bismarck Archipelago
BACKBITER -- Midway Island
BACKFALL -- Konn, New Guinea
BACKGROUND -- Amur River, U.S.S.R.
BACKHANDER -- Cape Gloucester, New Britain
BACKSHEESH -- Kerama Retto, Nansei Shoto Islands, Japan
BADMINTON -- Kassia, New Britain
BAGASSE -- Garua Harbor, New Britain
BAGGY -- Ceram, N.E.I.
BAGWORN -- Masibang, New Guinea
BAKER ROGER -- Plan for interception and sinking of 3 enemy blockade runners by American Task Groups in conjunction with air patrols from Natal and Ascension Island (January 1944)
BALANCE -- Almirante, Paname
BALCONY -- Turbo, Columbia [Colombia]
BALDHEAD -- Masibang, New Guinea
BADLNESS -- Gura, Eritrea
BALDPLATE -- Grand Cayman Island, B.W.I.
BALEFUL -- Cartagena, Columbia [Colombia]
BALIWICK -- Kogil River, New Britain
BALLCOCK -- Yaimas, New Guinea
BALLINTOY -- Siracusa, Sicily
BALLIOL -- Sub-port of embarkation, Excursion Inlet, Alaska
BALMY -- Old Providence Island, Caribbean Sea
BALSAM -- LCT landing inside Onorisi Pass, New Georgia-Munda Area, Solomon Islands
BALTIMORE -- Ilia River, New Guinea
BALUSTRADE -- Sililaling, New Guinea
BALUT -- Cape San Jacques, French Indo China
BAMBOO -- Operations against Hastings Harbor, Victoria Point Area, Burma
BAMBOOZLE -- Sibog, New Guinea
BANANA -- Doke Doke, New Georgia, Solomon Islands
BANDAGE -- Negros Island, P.I.
BANDBOX -- Casablanca, French Morocco
BANDYCOOT -- Sindama, New Guinea
BANJO -- Gozo Island, Mediterranean Sea
BANKNIGHT -- Arimegi Plantation, New Britain
BANKNOTE -- The Rhine River crossing (24 March 1945)
BANKRATE -- Marshall Islands Campaign
BANNERET -- St. Croix, Virgin Islands
BANNISTER -- Eten Island, Truk Lagoon, Caroline Islands
BANQUET -- Macclesfield Bank, South China Sea
BANTAM -- Arawe Harbor, New Britain
BANYAN -- Leru Island, Florida Group, Solomon Islands
BAPTISM -- Air reconnaissance from North Russia apparently for German BB Tirpitz (May-June 1944)
BARBERRY -- Nasubata Channel, Palawan Island, P.I.
BARFLY -- Moljo, India
BARGAIN -- Kabib, New Britain
BARLEY -- Lua Point, Treasury Island
BARLEYCORN -- Capetown, Union of South Africa
BARNEY -- Groups of U.S. submarines to penetrate the minefields in the Tsushima Strait, Japan Sea, and carry out a 3 weeks offensive patrol against the enemy shipping (27 May-30 June 1945)
BARNYARD -- Rooke Island, Bismarck Archipelago
BARRACUDA -- Undaga Island, Bismarck Archipelago
BARRAGE -- Combined sea and air operation to intercept Japanese submarines carrying important officials from Germany to Singapore (11-13 November 1943) (G.B.)
BARRISTER -- Operation for capture of Dakar, Africa
BASE "1" -- U.S. Naval Base, Londonderry, Ireland
BASE "2" -- U.S. Naval Base, Gore Loch, Scotland
BASE "A" -- U.S. Naval Base, Laugh Erne, Ireland
BASE "B" -- U.S. Naval Base, Loch Ryan, Scotland
BASALT -- Malangas, Mindanao, P.I.
BASEBALL or BB -- England to Russia air shuttle
BASTILLE -- Wu Hsii Island, Formosa Strait
BAYTOWN -- First assault on mainland of Italy by 8th Army, ferried from West Sicilian ports to landing beaches north of Reggio (3 September 1943) (G.B.)
BEADLE -- Thule, Greenland
BEADSMAN -- Samarai, New Guinea
BEARCAT -- Flores Strait, N.E.I.
BEARSKIN -- Release of certain information to Tito to coordinate peak of Partisan activity
BEAST -- Dungun, Malaya
BECKY -- Awio, New Britain
BEDFORD -- Kembul, New Britain
BEDMAKER -- U.S.S.R.
BEDPOST -- Pulap Island, Caroline Islands
BEDROCK -- Nusam Island, Solomon Sea
BEDSACK -- Koma Creek, New Guinea
BEDSIDE -- La Perouse Strait, Santa Cruz Islands
BEECHNUT -- U.S. First Military District
BEEFSTEAK -- Emirau Island, Admiralty Islands
BEEMAN -- Makari, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
BEERHOUSE -- Jenkins Bay, Sideia Island
BEESWING -- Keflavik, Iceland
BEETHOVEN -- Richtofen Bay, New Britain
BEFRIEND -- Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands
BEGONIA -- Siota, Florida-Tulagi Group, Solomon Islaznds
BEGRUDGE -- Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands
BEGUILE -- Operations against Hokkaido, Japan
BEHEAD -- Seydisfjorjur, Iceland
BELABOR -- Cape Croisilles, New Guinea
BELLOWS -- Babuyan Channel, P.I.
BELLTENT -- Ladd Field, Alaska
BELMONT -- 1st Marine Raiders
BELSHAZZER -- Sumatra, N.E.I.
BENEFICE -- Anatahan Island, Marianas Islands
BENEFIT -- Man Le, Burma
BENEVOLENT -- Milne Bay, New Guinea
BEQUEST -- Yap Island, Caroline Islands
BERLIN -- Awab Point, New Britain
BERRY -- Wake Island (canceled)
BESTRIDE -- Faisi, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
BETA -- South Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands
BETHESDA -- Luxor, Egypt
BETTY -- Porlock Harbor, New Guinea
BEULAH -- Mairi Creek, New Guinea
BEVY -- Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands
BEWILDER -- Annenberg, New Guinea
BEWITCH -- Hollandia, New Guinea
BIAS -- Nteni, New Britain
BIBLICAL -- Kolomi, New Britain
BICARBONATE -- Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, Bismarck Archipelago
BICYCLE -- Pambukan Sur, Samar, P.I.
BIDDIE -- Bongomol, New Britain
BIGCLUB -- Khartoum, Sudan
BIGELOW -- Igashik, Alaska
BIGHEART -- Pointe Noire, French Africa
BIGHUSKY -- American Mission, Fortaleza, Brazil
BIGTOP -- Accra, Gold Coast, Africa
BIGWIG -- Luya, New Guinea
BILGE -- Mission Pier, Trobriand Island, New Guinea
BILIOUS -- Central Pacific
BILLFISH -- Mave (Rahe) River, New Guinea
BILLSTICKING -- Huon Peninsula, New Guinea
BILLYCAN -- Alexandria, Egypt
BINDWEED -- Boeroe Island, N.E.I.
BINGHAM -- Sorrento, Italy
BINGO -- Nome, Alaska
BINOCULAR -- Lae, New Guinea (canceled)
BIOCELATE -- Yakot, New Guinea
BIPED -- Ivigtut, Greenland
BIPED -- The British
BIRCH -- Christmas Island, Pacific Ocean
BIRCH -- Doma Cove, Solomon Islands
BIRTHDAY -- Trobriand Island, New Guinea
BISHOP -- Covering operation for DRACULA (27 April-6 May 1945) (G.B.)
BISHOP -- Mappi River, New Guinea
BISON -- Kumbum Village, New Guinea
BITING -- Combined operation for capture of prisoners and equipment from the enemy Radio Direction Finder Station at Bruneval, France (27-28 February 1942) (G.B.)
BIVALVE -- Ceuta, Spanish Morocco, Africa
BLACKBERRY -- Enogai, New Georgia, Solomon Islands
BLACKBOY -- Segi Village, New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands
BLACKLIST -- Operations of Commander-in-Chief, Air Forces, Pacific, to occupy Japanese held territory after the surrender
BLACKSMITH -- Wewak Airdrome, New Guinea
BLACKSTONE -- Safi, French Morocco, Africa
BLANCMANGE -- Safi, French Morocco, Africa
BLAZEUP -- Davao, P.I.
BLEACHER -- Tongatabu, Tonga Islands
BLENNY -- Yembokau, New Guinea
BLISSFUL -- Choiseul Island, Solomon Islands
BLONDIE -- Sand Island, New Guinea
BLOODSUCKER -- Roumania [Romania]
BLOSSOM -- Madu Island, Flores Sea, N.E.I.
BLUEBEARD -- Lama, Ceram, N.E.I.
BLUEBELL -- Kaylan Point, Florida - Tulagi Group, Solomon Islands
BLUEBERRY -- Daly Rock, Treasury Island
BLUEGRASS -- Hate Tabako Airdrome, Halmahera Island, N.E.I.
BLUFF -- Iran
BLUIE -- Greenland (canceled)
BLUNDERBUSS -- Japan Sea
BOARSHEAD -- Sourabaya, Java, N.E.I.
BOBCAT -- Bora Bora Island, Society Islands
BODKIN -- Sondrestromfjord, Greenland
BOGGY -- Port Sufaga, Egypt
BOILINGPOINT -- Vitiaz Strait, New Guinea
BOISTEROUS -- Operations for the capture of Malaya
BOLERO -- Operation of transferring American armed forces from the United States to the United Kingdom
BOMBARDON -- Cruciform steel silos (part of MULBERRY)
BONUS -- Tui Island, Bismarck Archipelago
BOODLE -- Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands
BOODLE -- Seuri, New Guinea
BOOKIE -- Fort Chimo, Province of Quebec, Canada
BOOKWORM -- Dilli, Timor, N.E.I.
BORAX -- Military Attaché, Haiti, West Indies
BOREALIS -- Alaskan-Siberian Air Ferry Project
BOTANICAL -- Kawasaki, Kaga' Hara
BOTANY -- Rome, Italy
BOTTLE -- Yulinkan, French Indo China
BOULDER -- Saidia, Algeria
BOURGEOIS -- Reykjavik, Iceland
BOWERY -- Aircraft for Malta from U.S.S. Wasp and H.M.S. Eagle (8-15 May 1942)
BOWLER -- Dar Es Salaam, Tanganykia, Africa
BOWSTRING -- Petropavlovsk, U.S.S.R.
BOXCAR -- Belem, Brazil
BOXCAR -- Moemi Airdrome, New Guinea
BOXCLOTH -- Apamama, Gilbert Islands
BOXER -- Tawi Tawi Bay, P.I.
BOXWOOD -- Norupena Point, Torokina Island, Solomon Islands
BOYLE -- Capua, Italy
BRACKER -- Fotuna Point, Treasury Island
BRANCHPIPE -- Menado, Celebes, N.E.I.
BRANGLE -- Singor, New Guinea
BRASENOSE -- Haiti, West Indies
BRASSARD -- Amphibious operation launched from Corsica with the object of capturing Elbe in Mediterranean (17 June 1944)
BRASSHAT -- Amphibious Training Group, Southwest Pacific
BRASSIERE -- Ulamaingi, New Britain
BRAWN -- Operation to deliver a second heavy air strike on the German BB Tirpitz in Altenfiord and incapacitate her for the rest of the war (19 May 1944) (G.B.)
BREACH -- Denial to enemy of Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland, and reception base; destruction of shipping and harbor facilities and minelaying of approaches (2 February 1941) (G.B.)
BREAKDOWN -- Markham River Valley, New Guinea
BREAKFAST -- Arafura Sea, Australia
BRED -- Missana Island, Celebes, N.E.I.
BRETHREN -- Trinidad, B.W.I.
BREWER -- Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago
BRICABRAC -- Ndeni Island, Santa Cruz Islands
BRICKLAYER -- Removal of General Kreipe and party from Crete (14 May 1944)
BRIDE -- Western Entrance to Gulf Bone, Celebes, N.E.I.
BRIDESMAID -- Greece
BRIAR -- Laiana Beach, New Georgia-Munda Area, Solomon Islands
BRIMSTONE -- Operations for capture of Sardinia
BRINDLE -- Kra Peninsula, Thailand
BROADBEAN -- Dry Sand Cove, Florida-Tulagi Group, Solomon Islands
BROADSWORD -- Operations for the liberation of Malaya and to open the Straits of Malacca
BROCADE -- Puluwat Island, Truk Lagoon, Caroline Islands
BROCCOLI -- Olson's Landing, New Georgia-Munda Area, Solomon Islands
BROCKTON -- Aghione, Corsica
BRONCHITIS -- Kahili Airfield, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
BRONX -- Sindangan, P.I.
BRONZE -- Alaska
BROOKFIELD -- Gizarum, New Britain
BROOMSTICK -- Nankina River, New Guinea
BROOMSTICK -- Operation to counter an enemy breakout, either through the English Channel or through the Northern Passage, with the object of attacks on shipping (March 1945)
BROTHER -- Naha, Okinawa Jima, Nansei Shoto Islands, Japan
BROWN -- British Guiana, South America
BRUSH -- Palmyra Island, Line Islands
BRUSHWOOD -- Fedala, French Morocco
BUCCANEER -- Operation against Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal (21 June-15 November 1943)
BUCHAN -- Geographical location in connection with ARGONAUT
BUDDY -- Mt. Lambe, Solomon Islands
BUFFALO -- Attack by 6th Corps to establish base north of Cisterina, west coast of Italy (23 May-4 June 1944) (G.B.)
BUFFALO -- Wough Bay, Tetipari, Solomon Islands
BUICK -- Ablingi, New Britain
BUICK -- Nura Island, Solomon Islands
BULKHEAD -- Hai K'au (Kaiko), Formosa
BULLFROG -- Amphibious operations for capture of Akyab, Burma (21 June-15 November 1943)
BULLION -- Ile Rousse, Sardinia
BULLY -- Marshall Islands
BULRUSH -- Amoy Island, Amoy, China
BUMBLEPUPPY -- Map Island, Yap, Caroline Islands
BUMBOAT -- Kajartalik, Greenland
BUMPER -- Pre D-day Exercise
BUMPKIN -- Apamama, Gilbert Islands
BUNCHBERRY -- Omura, Japan
BUNDLE -- Na-Pi River, Formosa
BUNGALOW -- Projected Navy capture of Martinique and Guadaloupe, Caribbean Sea
BUNKER -- Establishment of allied officers at German Naval Headquarters at Trento and Trieste, Italy, on surrender (30 April-1 June 1945)
BUNKHOUSE -- Ryukyu Islands, Japan
BUNKUM -- Reconnaissance on the beaches of Sumatra by a naval party (23-24 April 1944) (G.B.)
BURLESQUE -- Roi Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
BURNISHED -- Dilli, Timor, N.E.I.
BURNSALL -- Special force operation mounted by Headquarters, Allied Armies in Italy
BUSTLE -- Djilolo Passage, Halmahera Island, N.E.I.
BUSYBODY -- Winguru, New Britain
BUTCHER -- Oued Bou Reg, French Morocco
BUTTERBALLS -- "Attack at night expected"
BUTTERCUP -- Woleai, Caroline Islands
BUTTERFLY -- South China Sea
BUTTON -- Espiritu Santo Island, New Hebrides Islands
BUTTRESS -- Operations against Reggio-Sangiovanni Area, Italy
BUZZER -- Operations for the capture of Wake Island
BYPRODUCT -- Trobriand Island (Kiriwina)
BYRON -- Unea Island, Bismarck Archipelago