Hi folks,
Does anyone have a list of radio code-names used by the RAF during WW2/BoB for identifying landmarks? I’m re-reading “Reach For The Sky” and hearing them talk of “Diamond” (Beachy Head), “Big Wood” (St Omer), “Golf Course” (Le Torquet) etc, it’s quite emotive.
Plus, if we could navigate in BoB using the original RAF codenames, we’d out-buff the opposition in competitive flights… 
Dozer, we have our own names for features on the Normandy map around here somewhere. For example, the river delta near Omaha beach is ‘The Fingers’, the three islands off the coast of Sword and Juno are ‘Africa’, ‘The Footprint’ and ‘The Potato’, while the curve of the Caen canal next to the river as it exits to the sea is ‘The P’ or ‘The Walking Stick’. There is a map link somewhere around here, but it’s a bit late. Can anyone remember where that useful bit of gen was stored? 
Can anyone remember where that useful bit of gen was stored?
There’s a copy of a code-card (something like that) in the latest (later, 2004 at least) edition of Clostermans “The big show”, but the thing is that I think it was changed now and then.
The explanation beneath claims that it was changed once a week.
reading a book called ‘Most dangerous enemy’ it seems that Canterbury may of been referred to as Red Queen??
Is that the Bungay book, mate? Brilliant work on the BoB - probably the best researched piece I’ve ever read.
Not sure why ‘Red Queen’. Probably some historical joke about beheading