Glossary

A-1	Personnel section of an air staff; officer in charge of this section
A-2	Intelligence section of an air staff; officer in charge of this section
A-3	Operations and training section of an air staff; officer in charge of this section
A-4	Materiel and supply section of an air staff; officer in charge of this section
AAA	Antiaircraft Artillery
AAC	Army Air Corps
AAF	Army Air Forces
AAFEFTC	Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command
AAFSETC	Army Air Forces Southeast Training Command
AAFTC	Army Air Forces Training Command
AAFTTC	Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
AAI	Allied Armies in Italy
AAR	After Action Report, prepared by unit concerned
ACofAS	Assistant Chief of Air Staff
Actg	Acting
AFACT	Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Training
AFCC	Air Force Combat Command
AFHQ	Allied Force Headquarters
AFWESPAC	Army Forces, Western Pacific
AG	Adjutant General
AGCT	Army General Classification Test
AGWAR	Adjutant General, War Department
A.M.E.	African Methodist Episcopal
AMMISCA	American Military Mission to China
Amph	Amphibian; amphibious
APO	Army Post Office
Armd	Armored
Arty	Artillery
ASF	Army Service Forces
ASFTC	Army Service Forces Training Center
Asst	Assistant
ASW	Assistant Secretary of War
ASWA	Assistant Secretary of War for Air
ASWAAF	Arms and Services with Army Air Forces
Avn	Aviation

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AWC	Army War College
AWOL	Absent without leave
BOLERO	Build-up of U.S. forces and supplies in the United Kingdom for cross-Channel attack
CA	Coast Artillery
CofAAF	Chief of Army Air Forces
CofAC	Chief of Air Corps
CAS	Chief of Air Service
CofAS	Chief of Air Staff
Cav	Cavalry
CBI	China-Burma-India Theater
CofCAV	Chief of Cavalry
CofCH	Chief of Chaplains
CofE	Chief of Engineers
CE	Corps of Engineers
CG	Commanding General
CINCPAC	Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet
CINCSWPA	Commander in Chief, Southwest Pacific Area
CINCWESPAC	Commander in Chief, Western Pacific
CIO	Congress of Industrial Organizations
Cir	Circular
Civ	Civilian
Cld	Colored
CMTC	Citizens' Military Training Camps
CO	Commanding officer
Com	Committee
Comdt	Commandant
COMGENSOPAC	Commanding General, South Pacific Area
COMSOPAC	Commander, South Pacific Area
COMZ	Communications Zone (between active front and rear bases)
Cp	Camp
CPT	Civilian Pilot Training
CofS	Chief of Staff
CT	Combat Team
CWS	Chemical Warfare Service
DCofAS	Deputy Chief of Air Staff
DCofS	Deputy Chief of Staff
DF	Disposition form
Dir	Director
DTC	Desert Training Center

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Dukw	2 1/2-ton 6x6 amphibian truck
EM	Enlisted men
Engr	Engineer
Enl	Enlisted
ETO	European Theater of Operations
ETOUSA	European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army
Ex0	Executive officer
FA	Field Artillery
FO	Field order
G-1	Personnel section of divisional or higher staff
G-2	Intelligence section of divisional or higher staff
G-3	Operations section of divisional or higher staff
G-4	Supply section of divisional or higher staff
Gen	General
GHQ	General Headquarters
GHQAF	General Headquarters Air Force
GI Sec	General Inspectorate Section, European Theater of Operations
GO	General order
Gp	Group
H.R.	House of Representatives
IBT	India-Burma Theater
I-BT	India-Burma Theater
I&E	Information and Education
IGD	Inspector General's Department
Inf	Infantry
JAG	,Judge Advocate General
JAGO	Judge Advocate General's Office
JANCWR	Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation
Jul	Journal
LCT	Landing craft, tank
L&L	Legislative and Liaison
Ln	Liaison
LST	Landing ship, tank
MAAF	Mediterranean Allied Air Force
MB	Morale Branch
Med	Medical; medium
Memo	Memorandum
Mil	Military
Mob	Mobilization
Movmt	Movement
MP	Military police

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MPD	Military Personnel Division
M/R	Memorandum for record
MR	Mobilization Regulation
M/S	Memorandum slip used for informal interoffice communication
Msg	Message
MTO	Mediterranean Theater of Operations
MTOUSA	Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army
NAACP	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAAF	North African Air Force
NATO	North African Theater of Operations
NATOUSA	North African Theater of Operations, U.S. Army
NGUS	National Guard United States
NOPE	New Orleans Port of Embarkation
O	Office, as OTIG, Office of the Inspector General
OB SUEDWEST	Oberbefehlshaber Suedwest (Headquarters, Commander in Chief Southwest [Italy])
OinC	Officer in charge
OCofAC	Office of the Chief of Air Corps
OCAS	Office Chief of Air Service
OCofAS	Office of the Chief of Air Staff
OCD	Office of Civilian Defense
OCMH	Office of the Chief of Military History
OCS	Officer candidate school; Office, Chief of Staff
Off	Officer
OFF	Office of Facts and Figures
OI	Operations Instruction
OPD	Operations Division, War Department
OPMG	Office of the Provost Marshal General
Opns Rpt	Operations Report
ORC	Officers' Reserve Corps
Ord	Ordnance
Orgd	Organized
PofE	Port of Embarkation
Pers	Personnel
PMG	Provost Marshal General
PMP	Protective Mobilization Plan
PMS&T	Professor of Military Science and Tactics
P&O	Plans and Operations
POE	Port of Embarkation
POL	Petrol (gasoline) , oil, and lubricants
POM	Preparation for Overseas Movement

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Prcht	Parachute
Prog	Program
PT	Patrol vessel, motor torpedo boat
QMC	Quartermaster Corps
QMG	Quartermaster General
RA	Regular Army
Rad	Radio message; radiogram
RCT	Regimental Combat Team
R&D	Research and Development
ROTC	Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Rqmts	Requirements
R&R's	Routing and record slips
RS	Routing slip
R&-SC	Replacement and School Command
RTC	Replacement Training Center
SECOND WIND	Symbolic code name for g2d Division's Spring 1945 offensive
Secy	Secretary
Sep	Separate; unit not a part of a larger unit
SGO	Surgeon General's Office
SGS	Secretary of the General Staff
SHAEF	Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces
SOS	Services of Supply
Sq	Squadron
STU	Special Training Unit
Sv	Service
SW	Secretary of War
TAG	The Adjutant General
TC	Training Center; Transportation Corps
TD	Tank destroyer
Telg	Telegram
TF	Task Force
TI&E	Troop Information and Education
TIG	The Inspector General
Tk	Tank
Trig	Training
T/O	Table of organization
T&O	Training and Operations
TOE	Table of organization and equipment
Trp	Troop
TTC	Technical Training Command
TUB	Troop unit basis
USAFICPA	U.S. Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area

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USAFIL	U.S. Army Forces in Liberia
USAFIME	U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East
USAFISPA	U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area
USASOS	U.S. Army, Services of Supply
USFET	U.S. Forces, European Theater
USO	United Service Organizations
USW	Undersecretary of War
WRAC	Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
WAC	Women's Army Corps
WD	War Department
WDGS	War Department General Staff
WPD	War Plans (afterward, Operations) Division
ZI	Zone of interior (Continental United States)