| OVERLORD | Codename for the Allied operation to invade Normandy in June 1944 (8) |
| OPERATIONOVERLORD | Codename for the Allied invasion of northern France in June 1944 (9,8) |
| MOUNTBATTEN | Lord Louis ... was placed in overall command of combined Allied operations on April 18, 1942 |
| CHASTISE | Operation , codename for the Dambusters Raid on Germany in 1943 (8) |
| NORMANDY | A region of Northern France, on the English Channel; scene of the Allied landings in 1944 (8) |
| SYRACUSE | It was the chief city of Sicily for the ancient Greeks. It was settled about 734 BCE by Corinthians, and its history is a long story of invasions and conflict, including the Allied invasion of 1943. I |
| DYNAMO | Codename for the wartime operation to evacuate Allied soldiers from Dunkirk in 1940 (6) |
| THEFEW | Name for the Allied airmen of the Royal Air Force who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second Wor |
| OPERATION | Codename for the Battle of Normandy. launched on 6 June (9.8) |
| DESERTSTORM | Codename for the US air campaign during the 1991 Gulf War, Operation ... (6,5) |
| OPERATIONHUSKY | Code name for the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 |
| SOHAM | Cambridgeshire location of ammunitions train disaster in June 1944 (5) |
| EUREKA | The codename for the Tehran Conference of 1943 |
| LITTLEBOY | What was the codename for the first atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima? (6,3) |
| FATMAN | What was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki? (3,3) |
| JUNE | The D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944 took place in this month (4) |
| DUNKIRK | French harbour city famous for the Allied WWII evacuation |
| OMAHA | Codename for one of the Normandy landing sites for the Allies on D-Day in WWII (5) |
| LHR | Three-letter codename for the UK's busiest airport. (1,1,1) |
| SEINEMARITIME | Northernmost of the five departments making up the region of Normandy in NW France (5-8) |
