| C |
 |
| Capital |
Operational
code name for the recapture of northern Burma
in 1944 |
| Case
Green |
Operational
code name for the intended German military invasion
of Czechoslovakia |
| Case
Red |
Operational
code name for counterstrike against France in
the event of an attack on Germany from the West |
| Case
White |
Operational
code name for the German invasion of Poland |
| Case
Yellow |
Operational
code name for the German invasion of the Netherlands,
Belgium and France |
| Catapult |
Operational
code name for the destruction of the French Fleet
by the British in North Africa, July 1940 |
| Catchpole |
Operational
code name for the US assault on the Marshall Islands,
1944 |
| CCS |
Combined
Chiefs of Staff (Allies) |
| Chain
Home |
British
air-defence radar |
| Chastise |
Operational
code name for the "Dam Busters" raid by 617 squadron
RAF in May 1943, on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe
dams in the Ruhr area of Germany |
| Chindits |
Long-range
penetration troops (British and Gurkha) who worked
behind the Japanese lines in Burma. |
| CIGS |
Chief
of the Imperial General Staff (British) |
| Citadel |
Operational
code name for the German attack on the Soviet
forces near Kursk, July 1943 |
| Cobra |
Operational
code name for the American breakout from Normandy
in July 1944 |
| Cockade |
Operational
code name for Allied deception operations intended
to draw attention away from Normandy prior to
D-Day |
| Comintern |
Communist
International organisation created to promote
the spread of communism from the Soviet Union
- disbanded in 1943. |
| Commando
Supremo |
Italian
supreme command |
| Compass |
Operational
code name for British operations in Egypt against
the Italians in December 1940 |
| COSSAC |
Chief
of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander. HQ of the
CCS in London. |
| Crossbow |
Operational
code name for Allied attacks on V-1 launch sites |
| Crusader |
Operational
code name for British attempts to relieve Torbruk
beginning in November 1942 |
