
Abbreviations, Acronyms, Codewords, Terms
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D
Prefix for Japanese code words assigned to British/Australian targets in the Indian Ocean
D-1
Division Personnel Officer(r)
D-2
Division Intelligence Officer(r)
D-3
Division Operations Office(r)
D-4
Division Logistics Office(r)
D/F
Direction Finding (radio)
D/F
DA
DACHSHUND
Kakimar (Yakima), New Guinea
DAFFODIL
DAGGER
DAGWOOD
Sand Island (off nothern coast of New Britain)
DAHLIA
DAISY
Taiena Island, Solomon Islands
DAISYMAE
DAMASCENE
Nauru Island, Gilbert Islands
DAMASK
DAMOCLES
DAMON
DAMRIGHT
DANIEL
Aweleng Island, Solomon Sea
DANTE
DAPPERDAN
DARBY
Arung Bay Post, New Britain
DAREDEVIL
DARKEN
DARKY
DATU
DAUGHTER
Taroa Island, Maleolap Atoll, Marshall Islands
DAVIE
Dinner Island, Bismarck Archipelago
DAYBED
Ablaugul Island, Solomon Sea
DAYFLY
Saidor Airdrome, New Guinea
DBST
Double British Summer Time
DC
DCA
DCofS
DD
DD
Duplex Drive amphibious tank
D-Day
The first day of any military operation, specifically the day OVERLORD was launched; variations include "A-Day", ""X-Day", etc.
DC/S
DE
DEADEND
DEADWOOD
Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands
DEBACLE
Maien Passage, New Britain
DEBONAIR
DEBRIS
DECANTER
Plan for capture of French Guiana (U.S. Navy)
DECEPTION
Code name for Iwo Jima Operation
DECOMPOSE
Koror Island, Palau Islands
DECREE
DEDIMUS
Commando landing designed to destroy the battery at Benerville along the coast to the east of the Orne (D-Day)
DEER
DEERSLAYER
Def
DEFILE
DELANO
Galelum Island, New Britain
DELIGHT
DELTA
DELTA
DELUXE
St. Thomas Island, Puerto Rico
DEMIJOHN
Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal
DEML
Detached Enlisted Men's List
DEMOCRAT
DEMON
Occupation of Abadan, Persia, by British treoops (25 August 1941) (G.B.)
DEMON
DEMPSEY
Task Force B, North Pacific
DENTIST
DENTYNE
Government Station, Gasmatta, New Britain
DENUNCIATION
Dept
derax
Early Air Corps term for radar
Der Beauftr d Fuhrers fur die mil Geschichtsschr-- Der Beauftragte des Fuhrers fur die militarische Geschichtsschreibung
Fuhrer's official military historian (German: p. 38, 92, 298)
DEROGATORY
Des
DESECRATE
DESERTER
DESOTO
Desp
DESSERT
DESTINY
Det
DETACHMENT
Occupation of the Bonin and Volcano Islands (Iwo Jima)
DETAINED I
Operation to kill or capture the entire garrison of the German held island of Solta, off Yugoslavia, by landing a small force (18-19 March 1944)
DETAINED II
Landing of a large force of partisans on Solta, in vicinity of Vis Is., Yugoslavia, in 5 British LCIs and withdrawn the following night (8-9, 9-10 May 1944)
Dev
DEVON
Capture of Termoli, Italy (2-3 October 1943)
DEVOTION
DEWPOND
DEXTERITY
Western New britain operation (canceled)
D/F
DIABOLIC
DIADEM
Main offensive operations by Allied Armies in Italy
DIAL
DIAPER
Bilihe Island, Bismarck Archipelago
DIAPHRAGM
DIBBLER
DICKIE
DIGNITARY
DILATORY
DIMINISH
DIMWIT
DIONCERAS
DIOGENES
DIP
Diplomatic intelligence (derived from MAGIC)
DIPLOMAT
Operation to protect shipping on the Australian-Indian shipping routes (19 March2 April 1944)
DIPLOMATIC
Discussions with Portuguese prior to Allied occupation of the Azores (July 1943)
DIPPER
Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands
DIPSOMANIAC
Wigim Island, Solomon Sea
DIPSYDOODLE
Dir
DIRECTOR
DISCUS
DISDAIJN
DISLOCATE
Rongerik Atoll, Marshall Islands
Disp
DISPLAY
Elizabethville, Belgian Congo
Dist
DISTAFF
DISTINCTIVE
Greenwich Island, Caroline Islands
DISTORT
Luther Anchorage, New Guinea
Div
DIVER
DIVES
DIVORCE
Amphibious training for U.S. Army and Marines on West Coast
DIZZY
DNI
Director of Naval Intelligence
Doc
DOCTRINE
DODGE
DODGE
Indispensable Strait, Solomon Islands
DODOS
DOESKIN
DOGEARED
Vella Lavella Island, Solomon Islands
DOGFACE
DOGFISH
Entry of allied military liaison forces into Greece after German withdrawal or surrender
DOGGED
Lukunor Island, Caroline Islands
DOGMA
Aiun Island, Solomon Islands
DOGMATIC
Waigeo Island, New Guinea
DOGONE
DOGTROT
Galimaruhi Island, Bismarck Archipelago
DOGWOOD
Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands
DOLMAN
DOMESTIC
Angaur Island, Palau Group, Caroline Islands
DOMINIE
DONATION
Pescadores Islands, Formosa
DONKEY
Fulleborn Plantation, New Britain
DOORMAT
DORMANT
DOTTY
DOUBLET
DOUBLOON
DOVETAIL
Cape Gloucester, New Britain
DOW
DOWNBEAT
Amalut Point, New Britain
DOWNFALL
Strategic plan for occupation of home islands of Japanese Empire
DOWNPOUR
Woleai Island, Caroline Islands
DOWNSIDE
Eniwetok, Marshall Islands
DOWSER
Rendova Island, Solomon Islands
DOXOLOGY
Tsis Island, Truk Lagoon, Caroline Islands
DP
Japanese code name for Darwin, Australia
DQMG
Deputy Quartermaster General
DQMG(L)
Deputy Quartermaster General (Liaison) (British)
DRACO
DRACULA
Plan for occupation of Rangoon, Burma
DRAGNET
Gasmata Island, New Britain
DRAGOMAN
DRAGOON
Allied landings on South Coast, France (15 August 1944)
DRAKE
Plan to bomb Japan with B-29 aircraft based in Bengal, operating through forward airfields in Kweilin area of China
DRAMA
American Mission, Fortaleza, Brazil
DRAWBRIDGE
Taongi Atoll, Marshall Islands
DRAWL
DRB AGO
Departmental Records Branch, Adjutant General's Office
DREAM
DREAMGIRL
DREAMLAND
Lian Airdrome, Solomon Islands
DROLLERY
DRUMFIRE
Likiep Atoll, Marshall Islands
DRYGOODS
Assembly of supplies at Guadalcanal-Tulagi Area for offensive in Russell Islands, Solomon Islands
D/S
DSC
Distinguished Service Cross
DSM
Distinguished Service Medal
DSO
Distinguished Service Order
Dtl
DUCHESS
DUCK
Bombardment of Stavanger, Norway (17 April 1940) (G.B.)
DUCK I, II, and III
First in the series of training exercises held in the Slapton Sands area in England to test all aspects of an amphibious operation, including mounting, assault, and logistic support. The DUCK exercises involved mainly elements of the V Corps and were held in January and February 1944
DUCKPIN
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, USA
DUCKPOND
DUELLIST
Erikub Atoll, Marshall Islands
DUENA
DUKW
2<,font size=-1>1/2-ton, 6x6 amphibious truck
Dumb barge
An unpowered barge that could be beached
DUMBDORA
Sauren Hamlet, New Britain
DUNKER
Foreign Minister Vyacheslaff M. Molotov
DUNMORE
DUNN
Air evacuation of refugees from Slovenia--March, 1945
DUPLICITY
DURBAR
DURBIN
Aromot Island, Bismarck Archipelago
DUSTMAN
DUSTPAN
DWARF
Dy
DYNAMO
DYNAMO
Evacuation of Allied Armies from Dunkirk (26 May4 June 1940) (G.B.)
DYNASTY
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