To them, TORCH will always be vast numbers of ships and men converging on the West and North African shores BACKBITER will be a tiny point in the Pacific OVERLORD will be an armada ploughing through the choppy Channel waters on a June night in 1944 CROSSROADS will be the greatest scientific experiment of all time. But to the men of the present generation, these and many other words connote far more than their definitions by Webster. TORCH, BACKBITER, OVERLORD, CROSSROADS soon will have dropped their capitals and again become just ordinary words in the English language. It is presented here exactly as in the original, except that ninteteen words which originally appeared in an addenda page have been integrated in the main text of the document. The text of this published glossary of code words was prepared shortly after the close of World War II.
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