The practice of naming military operations began with the German General Staff during World War I, primarily to maintain ...

The Crimean War in the 1850s was the first war in which the military used Morse code. ... for example, hosted a Morse code operator boot camp of sorts from 1917-19 for the U.S. Naval Radio School.

For example, the U.S. Africa Command (based, of course, in Stuttgart) was allowed to choose between three groups of letters when naming the Libyan air campaign: JS-JZ, NS-NZ, and OA-OF.

Military operations are often given impressive codenames such as ' Operation Desert Storm ' during the Gulf War and ' Operation Innate Determination ' against the terrorist organization ISIL, but ...

This version came into effect in 1951 for non-military aviation only, and included many of the same words used in today’s NATO phonetic alphabet. But the IATA alphabet at that time was still a ...

The Navajo language has no military terminology, and most of the code developed was new and instilled with military meaning. For example, the Navajo word used for ships was "Toh-Dineh-ih," which ...

WWII veteran and Navajo code talker John Kinsel celebrated 106 years of life. National WWII Museum research historian Jason Dawsey talks to Fox News Digital about why code talkers were key during ...

World War II Code Is Broken, Decades After POW Used It : The Two-Way It's been 70 years since the letters of John Pryor were understood in their full meaning. That's because as a British prisoner ...