Basic Military Map Symbols*
Symbols within a rectangle indicate a military unit, within a
triangle an observation post, and within a circle a supply point.
Military Units-Identification
Aircraft Artillery | |
Armored Command | |
Army Air Forces | |
Artillery, except Antiaircraft and Coast Artillery | |
Calvary, Horse | |
Calvary, Mechanized | |
Chemical Warfare Service | |
Coast Artillery | |
Engineers | |
Infantry | |
Medical Corps | |
Ordnance Department | |
Quartermaster Corps | |
Signal Corps | |
Tank Destroyer | |
Transportation Corps | |
Veterinary Corps |
Airborne units are designated by combining a gull wing symbol
with the arm or service symbol:
Airborne Artillery | |
Airborne Infantry |
* For complete of symbols see FM 21-30, from which these are taken.
Size Symbols
The following symbols placed either in boundary lines or above
the rectangular, triangle, or circle inclosing the identifying arm or service
symbol indicate the size of military organization:
Squad | |
Section | |
Platoon | |
Company, troop, battery, Air Force flight | |
Battalion, calvary squadron, or Air Force squadron | |
Regiment or group; combat team (with abbreviation CT following identifying numeral) | |
Brigade, Combat Command of Armored Division, or Air Force Wing | |
Division or Command of an Air Force | |
Corps or Air Force | |
Army | |
Group of Armies |
EXAMPLES
The letter or number to the left of the symbol indicates the unit
designation; that to the right, the designation of the parent unit to which
it belongs. Letters or numbers above or below boundary lines designate
the units separated by the lines:
Company A, 137th Infantry | |
8th Field Artillery Battalion | |
Combat Command A, 1st Armored Division | |
Observation Post, 23d Infantry | |
Command Post, 5th Infantry Division | |
Boundary between 137th and 138th Infantry |
Weapons
Machine gun | |
Gun | |
Gun battery | |
Howitzer or Mortar | |
Tank | |
Self-propelled gun |
Last updated 12 October 2004 |