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Trench code. Trench codes (a form of cryptography) were codes used for secrecy by field armies in World War I. [1] [2] Messages by field telephone, radio and carrier pigeons could be intercepted, hence the need for tactical World War I cryptography. Originally, the most commonly used codes were simple substitution codes, but due to the relative ...
1950 – Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman. 1994 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter (impact site pictured) , with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin .
March 2023 edition cover page of the Multi-Service Brevity Codes. Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words. American/NATO codes. This is a list of American standardized brevity code words. The ...
The Navajo code is the only spoken military code never to have been deciphered. Nubian. In the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, Egypt employed Nubian-speaking Nubian people as code talkers. Tlingit. During World War II, American soldiers used their native Tlingit as a code against Japanese forces. Their actions remained unknown, even after the ...
Legislator, author, entrepreneur. William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964), generally known as Lord Beaverbrook ("Max" to his close circle), was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century.
World War I was the first war to see major use of planes for offensive, defensive and reconnaissance operations, and both the Entente Powers and the Central Powers used planes extensively. Almost as soon as they were invented, planes were drafted for military service. See also the following articles: Aviation in World War I; Aviation history ...
This article is on Japanese army and diplomatic ciphers and codes used up to and during World War II, to supplement the article on Japanese naval codes. The diplomatic codes were significant militarily, particularly those from diplomats in Germany. Japanese army (IJA) and diplomatic codes were studied at Arlington Hall (US), Bletchley Park (UK ...
The Rainbow Codes were a series of code names used to disguise the nature of various British military research projects. They were mainly used by the Ministry of Supply from the end of the Second World War until 1958, when the ministry was broken up and its functions distributed among the forces. The codes were replaced by an alphanumeric code ...