Code name policy of assigning code names intended to give no such clues to the uninitiated. For example, the British counter measures against the V-2 was called "Operation Crossbow". The atomic bomb project centered in New Mexico was called the Manhattan Project, derived from the Manhattan Engineer District which managed the program. The code name for the American A-12 / SR-71 spy plane project, producing the fastest, highest-flying aircraft in the world, was "Oxcart". The American group that planned that country's first ICBM was called the Teapot Committee. Although the word could stand for a menace to shipping (in this case, that
Gertrude (code name) Gertrude (code name) The Gertrude or Gertrud was the code name of the joint invasion plan for Turkey by Nazi Germany and Bulgaria, the idea began forming in the beginning of the summer of 1942. This code name was eventually changed. The project was abandoned because of the rapid advance of the Red Army in the Caucasus region, and the Allied invasion of Sicily. According to the documents that were supposedly found in the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, Nazi leaders knew very well that sooner or later Pan-Turkism would be a danger to Germany if they allowed Turkey