Glossary
ACofS | Assistant Chief of Staff |
AG | Adjutant general |
AGO | Adjutant General's Office |
AIOC | Anglo-Iranian Oil Company |
AMET | Africa-Middle East Theater |
ASF | Army Service Forces |
ASF CCF | Army Service Forces, Current Classified Files |
ASF NCF | Army Service Forces, Noncurrent Classified Files |
ATC | Air Transport Command |
BAPCO | Bahrein Petroleum Company |
BMC | Compania Constructora Bechtel-McCone |
Bn | Battalion |
Br | Branch |
Bull | Bulletin |
CBI | China-Burma-India theater |
CCS | Combined Chiefs of Staff |
Cedar | Civilian Emergency Defense Aid to Russia |
CG | Commanding General |
CinC | Commander-in-Chief |
Cir | Circular |
Civ | Civilian |
CO | Commanding Officer |
Co | Company |
CofEngr | Chief of Engineers |
CofOrd | Chief of Ordnance |
CofS | Chief of Staff |
CofTrans | Chief of Transportation |
Coil | Collections |
Comd | Command |
Comdr | Commander |
Conf | Conference |
Cons | Construction |
Contl | Control |
CSP | Combined Staff Planners |
DCofS | Deputy Chief of Staff |
Dir | Director |
Dist | District |
Div | Division |
Douglas Files | Foreign Projects File, Storage Files, Douglas Aircraft Company, Santa Monica , California |
Engr | Engineer |
Engrg | Engineering |
Folspen | Foley Bros., Spencer, White and Prentis |
G-1 | Personnel section of divisional or higher staff |
G-2 | Intelligence section |
G-3 | Operations section |
G-4 | Supply section |
GMOC | General Motors Overseas Corporation |
GO | General Order |
GOC | General Officer Commanding |
GS | General Staff |
Gulf Dist | Gulf District Headquarters Files, Persian Gulf Command, now filed at the Kansas City Records Center, Adjutant General's Office, Kansas City, Mo. |
HOTI | History of the Persian Gulf Command, prepared by Historical Section, Office of Technical Information, Headquarters, Persian Gulf Command |
Hq AMET | AG decimal files seen at Headquarters, Africa Middle East Theater, Cairo, now filed at the Kansas City Records Center |
Hq PGC | AG decimal files seen at Headquarters, Persian Gulf Command, Tehran, now filed at the Kansas City Records Center |
HRS DRB AGO | Historical Records Section, Department Records Branch, Adjutant General's Office |
IG | Inspector general |
ISR | Iranian State Railway |
IWT | Inland Water Transport |
JA | Judge advocate |
JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
MA | Military Attache |
Maxwell Papers | Personal files lent by General Maxwell to the Middle East Section of the Office of the Chief of Military History and returned to him upon his retirement from the Army |
ME | Middle East |
MEF | Middle East Files; Middle East Force |
MESC | Middle East Supply Center |
MID | Military Intelligence Division |
Min | Minutes |
Mis Br | Missions Branch |
MIS MID WD | Military Intelligence Service, Military Intelligence Division, War Department |
MRS |
Military Railway Service |
Mtg | Meeting |
MTS | Motor Transport Service |
NAD | North Atlantic Division |
NADEF |
North Atlantic Division Engineer Files, New York |
NYODF | New York Ordnance District Files, New York |
OCofEngrs | Office of the Chief of Engineers |
OCMH | Office of the Chief of Military History |
OCofOrd | Office of the Chief of Ordnance |
OCSigO | Office of the Chief Signal Officer |
OCofTrans | Office of the Chief of Transportation |
OPD |
Operations Division, War Department General Staff |
OpNav | Office of the Chief of Naval Operations |
OTI | Office of Technical Information |
PAI | Force Persia and Iraq Force |
Pers | Personnel |
PGC | Persian Gulf Command |
PGF | Historical Files, Office of Technical Information, Headquarters, Persian Gulf Command, now at Office of the Chief of Military History |
PGSC | Persian Gulf Service Command |
OMQ | Quartermaster General |
RAF | Royal Air Force |
Regt | Regiment |
S-1 | Personnel section of regimental or lower staff |
S-2 | Intelligence section |
S-3 | Operations section |
S-4 | Supply section |
Serv | Service |
SL | Material formerly filed in Persian Gulf Service Command boxes at St. Louis, now filed at the Kansas City Records Center |
SL AMET | AG decimal files from Headquarters, Africa Middle East Theater, formerly filed in drawers and cabinets at St. Louis, now filed at the Kansas City Records Center |
SOS | Services of Supply |
SO | Special Order |
SWP |
Office Head Office, Spencer, White and Prentis, New York |
TAG | The Adjutant General |
TAP | Truck assembly plant |
TUP | Twin-unit pack |
UKCC | United Kingdom Commercial Corporation |
USAFIME | U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East |
WDGS | War Department General Staff |
White Office |
Head Office, J. G. White Engineering Corporation, New York |
WPD | War Plans Division, War Department General Staff |
WSA | War Shipping Administration |
page created 17 January 2002