APPENDIX 10

Operational Code Names


BRITISH

COAT

Passage of reinforcements for the Fleet and of troops for Malta; November 1940.

COLLAR

Convoy of fast merchant ships for Malta and Alexandria; November 1940.

COMPASS

Operations against the Italians in the Western Desert beginning in December 1940.

EXCESS

Convoy of fast merchant ships for Greece and troops for Malta; January 1941.

HATS

Passage of naval reinforcements into the Mediterranean; September 1940.

HURRY

Fly-off of Hurricanes to Malta from H.M.S. Argus; August 1940.

WORKSHOP

Plan for the capture of Pantelleria early in 1941.


GERMAN

ALPENVEILCHEN
(Cyclamen)

Plan for sending German forces to help the Italians in Albania.


BARBAROSSA

The attack on Russia.

FELIX

Plan to capture Gibraltar and close the Straits.

MARITA

Invasion of Greece through Bulgaria.

MITTELMEER
(Mediterranean)

Order for units of the Luftwaffe to operate from Italian bases in the Mediterranean.


SONNENBLUME
(Sunflower)

Move of German forces to Libya.


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