| M |
 |
| MAAF |
Mediterranean
Allied Air Force |
| MAC |
Mediterranen
Air Command |
| Magic |
Code
name for US code breaking operations against the
Japanese |
| Maginot
Line |
Series
of sophisticated French fortifications positioned
along France's eastern borders consisting of steel
and concrete anti-tank emplacements and pillboxes |
| MAN |
German
armed anti-nazi resistance group, named after
the MAN engineering works in Bavaria |
| Manhattan
Project |
Cover
name (actually 'Manhattan Engineer District')
for the development of the atomic bomb in the
USA |
| Maquis |
Name
given to groups of the French Resistance
(after a type of foliage in Corsica, behind which
resistance fighters on the island used to hide) |
| Marita |
Operational
code name for the German attack on Greece in April
1941 |
| Market
- Garden |
Operational
code name for the Allied operation intended to
establish a bridgehead across the river Rhine
at the town of Arnhem in the Netherlands |
| Menace |
Operational
code name for Allied operations at Dakar
- September 1940 |
| Merkur |
"Mercury"
- Operational code name for the German air attacks
on Crete - April 1941 |
| Message
Personnels |
System
used to communicate with members of the Resistance
on the European mainland from Britain by using
coded messages broadcast on BBC radio |
| MI5 |
British
security service responsible for national security
matters within the United Kingdom |
| MI6 |
British
security service, otherwise known as the Secret
Intelligence Service, responsible for collecting
foreign intelligence relating to national
security |
| MI9 |
British
service responsible for assisting escaped prisoners
of war |
| Milice |
Paramilitary
police force of Vichy France (Milice Francaise) |
| Millennium |
Operational
code name for the RAF bombing of Cologne - May
1942 |
| Mincemeat |
Operational
code name for British deception operation in April
1943 where false operational plans were planted
on a corpse and left floating off the coast of
Spain - The Germans intercepted and believed the
plans, which gave the impression that an Allied
invasion of Greece was iminent, whereas the real
invasion was planned for Sicily |
| Moonshine |
British
device used on aircraft to fool German radar into
seeing far more aircraft than actually existed |
| MT |
Motor
Transport |
| MTB |
Motor
Torpedo Boat |
| MTO |
Mediterranean
Theatre of Operations |
| Mulberries |
Transportable
floating harbours constucted from hollow concrete,
towed to the D-Day landing sites and used to offload
equipment and supplies during the Normandy landings |
