A-2 |
Intelligence section of air staff |
AAF |
Army Air Forces |
AAR |
After action report |
ABDA area |
American-British-Dutch-Australian theater of war covering
area from Bay of Bengal to Australasia |
Abn |
Airborne |
AC |
Air Corps |
ACofAS |
Assistant Chief of Air Staff |
Admiral Kanalkueste |
Admiral commanding Channel coast naval district |
AF |
Air Force |
AEAF |
Allied Expeditionary Air Force |
AFHQ |
Allied Force Headquarters |
AGWAR |
Adjutant General, War Department |
A Gp |
Army group |
AKA |
Cargo Ship, Attack |
Amph |
Amphibious |
ANCXF |
Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force |
ANFA |
Hotel at Casablanca at which plenary meetings were held
in January 1943 |
Anlage |
Appendix or annex |
APA |
Transport Ship, Attack |
l'Armée Secrète |
Secret army formed by officers and men of the French
Regular Army |
ASW |
Assistant Secretary of War |
BAR |
Browning Automatic Rifle |
Bazooka |
Rocket launcher, hand-carried |
BCRA |
Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action
(Central Intelligence and Operations Bureau) |
Belgian Gate |
Barricade-like gates used as underwater obstacles |
Bn |
Battalion |
bodenstaendig |
Static (division) |
Br |
British; branch |
Bull |
Bulletin |
CC |
Combined Commanders |
CCA |
Combat Command A |
CCS |
Combined Chiefs of Staff |
CG |
Commanding General |
CinC |
Commander in Chief |
CO |
Commanding Officer |
COA |
Committee of Operations Analysis |
CofS |
Chief of Staff |
COHQ |
Combined Operations Headquarters |
Comdr |
Commander |
Commandos |
Specially trained British assualt troops |
Concertina wire |
Cylindrical portable barbed wire entanglement |
le Conseil National de la Résistance |
National Council of Resistance |
Corncobs |
Blockships |
COS |
British Chiefs of Staff |
Cosintrep |
Combined situation and intelligence report |
COSSAC |
Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (Designate) |
CPS |
Combined Planning Staff |
DBST |
Double British Summer Time |
DD |
Duplex Drive amphibious tank |
D Day |
The first day of any military operation, specifically
the day OVERLORD was launched |
DSC |
Distinguished Service Cross |
DSO |
Distinguished Service Order |
DUKW |
2 1/2-ton, 6x6 amphibious truck |
E-boat |
Small German torpedo boat (German S-Boot) |
Ersatzheer |
German Replacement Army |
ETO |
European Theater of Operations |
ETOUSA |
European Theater of Operations, United States Army |
FA |
Field Artillery |
FFI |
Forces Françaises de l'lntérieur
(French Forces of the Interior) |
Flak |
Antiaircraft |
FO |
Field Order |
Francs Tireurs et Partisans |
French communist resistance group |
Freiwillige |
Volunteers |
Fuesilier battalion |
Separate infantry and reconnaissance battalion in the
German 1944-type division |
FUSA |
First United States Army |
FUSAG |
First United States Army Group |
G-l |
Personnel section of divisional or higher staff |
G-2 |
Intelligence section |
G-3 |
Operations section |
G-4 |
Supply section |
Geschwader |
Luftwaffe wing |
GHQ |
General headquarters |
Gkdo. |
Generalkommando (German corps-type headquarters) |
GO |
General Order |
Grossadmiral |
Grand-Admiral |
Hedgehog |
Portable obstacle, made of three crossed angle irons |
Hilfswillige |
Volunteer Auxiliaries (non-German) |
Hornets |
88-mm. self-propelled antitank guns |
Int sum |
Intelligence summary |
Jaeger (division or other unit) |
Light infantry (division or other unit) |
JB |
Joint Board |
JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff |
Jedburgh teams |
Three-man inter-Allied teams, parachuted into French
territory to act as liaison between the maquis groups and SHAEF |
JIC |
Joint Intelligence Committee |
JPS |
Joint Planning Staff |
JSM |
Joint Staff Mission |
JSSC |
Joint Strategic Survey Committee |
JWPC |
Joint War Plans Committee |
Kampffuehrung |
Conduct of operations |
Kampfgruppe |
A term loosely assigned to improvised combat units of
various sizes, named usually after their commanders |
KMA |
German coastal mine |
KTB |
Kriegstagebuch (war diary) |
Landesschuetzen battalion |
Home Guard battalion sometimes employed outside Germany |
Landfront |
Landward fortifications of Cherbourg |
Landwirt submarines |
Submarines of "Group Landwirt," a special
anti-invasion force of thirty-six small U-boats |
LCA |
Landing Craft, Assault |
LCG |
Landing Craft, Gun |
LCI |
Landing Craft, Infantry |
LCM |
Landing Craft, Mechanized |
LCT |
Landing Craft, Tank |
LCT (R) |
Landing Craft, Tank (Rocket) |
LCVP |
Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel |
LSH |
Landing Ship, Headquarters |
LST |
Landing Ship, Tank |
Luftflotte Reich |
German Home Air Command |
Luftgaukommando Westfrankreich |
Headquarters of the Luftwaffe administrative and supply
organization in western France |
Luftwaffe |
German Air Force |
Maquisards |
Men of the maquis |
Mark III, IV |
German medium tanks |
Mark V |
German medium tank with heavy armor and high-velocity
gun |
Merkbuch |
Notebook |
Militaerbefehlshaber |
Military governor |
MLR |
Main Line of Resistance |
MRU |
Machine Records Unit |
MS-Flotilla |
German mine sweepers |
Nebelwerfer |
Rocket projector or chemical mortar |
OB SUED |
Oberbefehlshaber Sued, German theater headquarters
in Italy |
OB WEST |
Oberbefehlshaber West, Highest German ground
headquarters of the Western Front |
OKH |
Oberkommando des Heeres (Army High Command) |
OKL |
Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe High command) |
OKM |
Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine (Navy High Command) |
OKW |
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces High
Command) |
ONI |
Office of Naval Intelligence |
OPD |
Operations Division, War Department General Staff |
Opns |
Operations
|
Org. Abt. |
Organisations Abteilung (Staff subdivision in
charge of organization) |
Organization Todt |
Paramilitary construction organization of the Nazi party,
auxiliary to the Wehrmacht. Named after its founder, Dr. Todt. |
OSS |
Office of Strategic Services |
Ost |
East |
Osttruppen |
Non-German volunteer troops from east-European countries |
Panther |
German Mark V tank |
Per Rpt |
Periodic report |
Plan Tortue |
Resistance plan to block road traffic |
Plan Vert |
Resistance plan to cut railroads |
POD |
Plans and Operations Division |
RAF |
Royal Air Force |
Rangers |
Specially trained American assault troops |
Rhino ferry |
Barge constructed of ponton units |
RN |
Royal Navy |
S-1 |
Personnel section of regimental or lower staff |
SAC |
Supreme Allied Commander |
SAS |
Special Air Service |
S-Boot |
E-boat |
SCAEF |
Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force |
SF |
Special Force |
SFHQ |
Special Force Headquarters |
SGS |
Secretary General Staff |
SHAEF |
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force |
SIS |
Special Intelligence Service |
Sitrep |
Situation report |
SNCF |
Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer
(National French railroad system) |
SO |
Special Operations |
SOE |
Special Operations Executive |
SPOBS |
Special Observers |
SS |
Schutzstaffel (EliteGuard) |
Stuetzpunkt |
Strong point |
Teller mines |
German antitank mines |
Tetrahedra |
Pyramid-shaped steel antitank obstacles |
TF |
Task Force |
Tiger |
German Mark VI tank |
Tk Bn |
Tank Battalion |
TM |
Technical Manual |
T/O |
Table of Organization |
UK |
United Kingdom |
USA |
United States Army |
USAFBI |
United States Army Forces in the British Isles |
USN |
United States Navy |
USSAFE |
United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe |
USSTAF |
United States Strategic Air Forces |
Vergeltung |
Vengeance |
Verteidigungsbereich |
Defensive areas |
Volksdeutsche |
Citizens of a country other than Germany who were considered
Germans racially |
Volkswagen |
German jeep |
Waffen-SS |
Combat arm of the SS, in effect a partial duplication
of the German Army |
WD |
War Department |
WDCSA |
War Department Chief of Staff, U.S. Army |
Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Niederlande |
Armed Forces Commander Netherlands |
Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab |
Armed Forces Operations Staff |
Werfer |
Mortars; rocket launchers |
WFSt |
Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab (Armed Forces Operations
Staff) |
Widerstandsnest |
Resistance nest |
WP |
War Plans |
XAP |
Merchant cargo ship |
Y Day |
Target date for any military operation, specifically
target date for OVERLORD |
Zweite Stellung |
German secondary defense position |