| G |
 |
| Galvanic |
Operational
code name for the US occupation of the Gilbert
Islands - November 1943 |
| GC&CS |
Government
Code and Cipher School - based at Bletchley Park,
England |
| Gestapo |
Geheime
Staatspolizei - the German Secret State
Police |
| GKO/GOKO |
Soviet
State Defence Committee |
| Gold |
Code name for one of the landing beaches in
Normandy (in the British/Canadian sector) |
| Gomorrah |
Operational
code name for the RAF bombing of Hamburg in July/August
1943 |
| Goodwood |
Operational
code name for the Allied breakout from Normandy
via Caen in July 1944 |
| Gothic
Line |
German
defence line in Italy - north of Florence |
| Granit |
Operational
code name for the US operations in the Central
Pacific - March 1944 |
| Greif |
Operational
code name for the dropping of English-speaking
German Troops wearing American uniforms behind
the Allied lines in the Ardennes, prior to Hitler's
last offensive in the west |
| Grenade |
Operational
code name for the US offensive in the Rhineland
- February 1945 |
| Gustav
Line |
German
defence line in Italy - centred on Monte Cassino |
