See also: World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraftĪlthough German and Italian aircraft were not given code names by their Allied opponents, in 1942, Captain Frank T. Britain, in contrast, made deliberately non-meaningful use of them, through the system of rainbow codes.Īircraft recognition reporting names The names of colors are generally avoided in American practice to avoid confusion with meteorological reporting practices. The Soviet Union's project to base missiles in Cuba was named Operation Anadyr after their closest bomber base to the US (just across the Bering Strait from Nome, Alaska).
The American group that planned that country's first ICBM was called the Teapot Committee.Īlthough the word could stand for a menace to shipping (in this case, that of Japan), the American code name for the attack on the subtropical island of Okinawa in World War II was Operation Iceberg.
The code name for the American A-12 / SR-71 spy plane project, producing the fastest, highest-flying aircraft in the world, was Oxcart. The atomic bomb project centered in New Mexico was called the Manhattan Project, derived from the Manhattan Engineer District which managed the program. For example, the British counter measures against the V-2 was called Operation Crossbow.