| B |
 |
| Bagration |
Operational
codename for Soviet strategic offensive against
the German Army Group Centre, June 1944. |
| Barbarossa |
Operational
code name for the German invasion of the Soviet
Union in June 1941. (Barbarossa, or "Red Beard"
was the nickname for Emperor Frederick I, who
attempted to unify Germanic states in the 12th
century.) |
| Battleaxe |
Operational
code name for the British offensive in North Africa
intended to relieve Torbuk, June 1941 |
| Baytown |
Operational
code name for the Allied landings in southern
Italy, September 1943 |
| BCRA |
Bureau
Centrale de Renseignements et d'Action - de Gaulle's
secret intelligence service |
| BEF |
British
Expeditionary Force |
| Benjamin |
Code
name for British Jamming equipment to counter
German "Y-Beams" |
| Bernhard |
Operational code name for German scheme to counterfeit
British bank notes and put them into circulation
- began in 1942. |
| Bertram |
Operational
code name for the British deception operations
prior to El Alamein offensive, North Africa
October 1942 |
| Bestrafung |
Operational
code name for German "punishment" air attacks
on Belgrade, April 1941 |
| Blitzkrieg |
"Lightning
War" - a term used to describe the rapid German
invasions using fast, piercing armoured formations |
| Bodenplatte |
"Base
Plate" - Operational code name for the German
air offensive against Allied airfields in north-western
Europe, January 1945 |
| Bodyguard |
Operational
code name for the deception operations intended
to conceal Allied intentions in north-west Europe
from 1944 |
| Bolero |
Operational
code name for the build up of US forces in Britain
prior to the invasion of France |
| Bomb,
The |
Slang
term for the computers used at Bletchley Park,
England, to decode German Enigma messages |
| Brevity |
Operational
code name for the British offensive in the Halfaya
Pass, May 1941 |
| Brimstone |
Operational
code name for the proposed Allied invasion of
Sardinia, 1944 |
| Bromide |
Code
name for British Jamming equipment used to counter
German "X-Beams" |
| Bulge,
Battle of the |
Term
used to describe the actions following the German
offensive through the Ardennes forests in December
1944. |
| Buzz
Bomb |
Nickname
for the German V-1 flying bomb |
