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| German army in North Africa |
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Afrika Corps | |
| Yugoslav guerrilla resistance movement led by Colonel Draza Mihailovic; eventually collaborated with Axis forces, opposing the Allies |
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Chetniks | |
| Units of the British Indian Army, trained to fight behind Japanese lines in Burma – created and led by Brigadier (later Major General) Orde Wingate |
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Chindits | |
| Nickname, originated by Lord Haw Haw, of the British 7th Armoured Division – often used for the British 8th Army, of which they were a part |
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Desert Rats | |
| British–led corps of elite Ethiopian troops, fighting Italian occupation |
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Gideon Force | |
| Formed in May 1940; name changed in July 1940; stood down in December 1944; disbanded in December 1945 |
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Home Guard |
| Name used from 1935 to 1945 for the German navy (previously Reichsmarine) |
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Kriegsmarine | |
| Nazi security police: Gestapo and |
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Kripo (Kriminalpolizei) | |
| British army unit set up in Egypt 1940, to carry out mechanised reconnaissance, intelligence gathering and desert navigation |
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Long Range Desert Group | |
| The German air force during World War II – name literally means 'air weapon'; formed in 1935, it ceased to be an effective force after a failed attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries on 1 January 1945 |
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Luftwaffe | |
| Name given to rural guerilla bands of French resistance fighters – from the Mediterranean shrubland ecosystem in which they often hid (particularly in their early days) |
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Maquis | |
| "Churchill's secret army" – set up in 1940 under Hugh Dalton, to encourage and facilitate espionage and sabotage behind enemy lines – based in Baker Street, London, and sometimes known as the Baker Street Irregulars |
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Special Operations Executive | |
| Name used for the combined armed forces of Nazi Germany ('defence force') |
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Wehrmacht | |
| WLA |
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Women's Land Army | |
| Mulberry (as used in the D–Day landings) |
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Artificial harbour |
| Tallboys and Grand Slams were |
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Bombs | |
| Manufacturer of the Blenheim aircraft |
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Bristol | |
| RAF fighter bomber made almost entirely of wood; nicknamed "the Wooden Wonder" or the "Timber Terror" |
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De Havilland Mosquito | |
| Name given by Allied airmen to hostile anti–aircraft fire |
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Flak | |
| The Boeing B–17 was also known as the |
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Flying Fortress | |
| A Horsa was a type of |
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Glider | |
| Cargo vessels built as part of the US war effort |
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Liberty ships | |
| Allied project (1942) to develop the atom bomb – led by J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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Manhattan Project | |
| British army tank of World War II – said to be named after a cartoon duck |
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Matilda | |
| 'X–craft' in WWII |
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Midget submarines | |
| Popular nickname for an air raid siren, or a German rocket launcher (used to deliver chemical weapons); also a peevish person |
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Moaning Minnie | |
| English translation of the German word Vergeltung (which was what the V stood for in the names of the V–1 flying bomb and the V–2 ballistic missile) |
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Retribution | |
| Crusader, Challenger, Cavalier, Centurion, T34 (famous Soviet design of WWII): types of |
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Tank | |
| Official (German) name for the doodlebug, buzz bomb or flying bomb |
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V–1 | |
| The Mitsubishi A6M fighter was commonly known as the |
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Zero | |
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