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Term	Definition
Oboe	Code name for British radio-navigational aid used by RAF bombers
Octagon	Code name for the second Quebec conference between Roosevelt and Churchill - September 1944
OFEC	Office of Foreign and Economic Co-ordination (USA)
Oflag	Offizier-Lager - "Officer Camp" German prisoner-of-war camps for Allied officers
OKH	Oberkommando der Heeres - High Command of the German Army
OKL	Oberkommando der Luftwaffe - High Command of the German Air Force
OKM	berkommando der Kriegsmarine - High Command of the German Navy
OKW	Oberkommando der Wehrmacht - High Command of the German Armed Forces
Olive	Operational code name for the Allied assault on the Gothic Line, Italy - August 1944
Omaha	Code name for one of the US Normandy beach landing areas used on D-Day, the site was between Coleville and Vierville
OPD	Operations Division of the US Department of War
OSS	Office of Strategic Services - US military intelligence and special operations agency
Overlord	Operational code name for Allied operations in Normandy and North West Europe, beginning with Operation Neptune on D-Day, 6th June 1944.
OWI	Office of War Information (USA)

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