Glossary

<table class="uk-table uk-table-striped" style="width: 100%;"><thead><tr align="center" valign="top"><td style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Term</span></strong></td><td><strong> </strong></td><td style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Definition / Description</span></strong></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">Cluster</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">grouping of small incendiaries (e.g. 4 lb.) into a Small Bomb Container</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">escapers</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">prisoners who break free from enemy control and confinement</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">evaders</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">combatants who elude capture by the enemy force</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">gardening</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">laying of air-dropped anti-shipping sea mines in designated areas coded with names of vegetables, fruits, flowers, shrubs</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">Holger Dansk</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">Danish Resistance group formed in Copenhagen in 1942</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">mission</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">USAAF terminology equivalent to RAF operation</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">Monroe</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">RAF name for bomb for dropping propaganda leaflets</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">Nickels</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">RAF code for propaganda leaflets dropped from aircraft</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">operation</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">an attack on an enemy target; compare with mission and sortie</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">plant</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">RAF "gardening" code for dropping mines in enemy waters</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">Silverthorne</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">RAF "gardening" code name referring to a large portion of the Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">sortie</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">a given aircraft flying on an operation to an enemy target</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">staffel</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">Luftwaffe equivalent of RAF squadron</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td style="text-align: left;" align="left" valign="top">Statens Civile<br> Luftværn</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">National Civil Air Defense; a Danish government agency in existence 1938-1949 within the Ministry of the Interior to assist civilians in the event of aerial attack</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">veg</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">vegetable; RAF code for an acoustic or magnetic mine to be "planted" or "sowed" in enemy waters on a "gardening" operation</td></tr><tr align="center" valign="top"><td align="left" valign="top">Wangannui</td><td> </td><td style="text-align: justify;">airborne sky-marker flares dropped on the calculated point of weapon release when complete cloud obscured the target</td></tr></tbody></table>