Glossary
Term | Definition / Description | |
Cluster | grouping of small incendiaries (e.g. 4 lb.) into a Small Bomb Container | |
escapers | prisoners who break free from enemy control and confinement | |
evaders | combatants who elude capture by the enemy force | |
gardening | laying of air-dropped anti-shipping sea mines in designated areas coded with names of vegetables, fruits, flowers, shrubs | |
Holger Dansk | Danish Resistance group formed in Copenhagen in 1942 | |
mission | USAAF terminology equivalent to RAF operation | |
Monroe | RAF name for bomb for dropping propaganda leaflets | |
Nickels | RAF code for propaganda leaflets dropped from aircraft | |
operation | an attack on an enemy target; compare with mission and sortie | |
plant | RAF “gardening” code for dropping mines in enemy waters | |
Silverthorne | RAF “gardening” code name referring to a large portion of the Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden | |
sortie | a given aircraft flying on an operation to an enemy target | |
staffel | Luftwaffe equivalent of RAF squadron | |
Statens Civile Luftværn |
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 | |
veg | vegetable; RAF code for an acoustic or magnetic mine to be “planted” or “sowed” in enemy waters on a “gardening” operation | |
Wangannui | airborne sky-marker flares dropped on the calculated point of weapon release when complete cloud obscured the target |