Glossary
| AAF | Army Air Forces |
| AAR | After action report |
| AB | Airborne |
| ACCOLADE | Seizure of the Dodecanese |
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ACHSE |
German plan to take over the control of Italy |
| ACV | Auxiliary aircraft carrier or tender |
| Admin | Administrative |
| Adv | Advance |
| AFHQ | Allied Force Headquarters |
| AGF | Army Ground Forces |
| AGP | Army group |
| AGWAR | Adjutant General, War Department |
| AK | Cargo ship |
|
ALARICH |
Occupation of northern Italy by Rommel’s Army Group B if Italy collapsed politically. |
| AP | Transport ship |
| ARCADIA | U.S.-British staff conference at Washington, December 1941-January 1942 |
| Arty | Artillery |
| AT | Antitank (gun) |
| AVALANCHE | Amphibious assault, Salerno, Italy |
| BARCLAY | Plan to induce the Axis to give priority to maintaining and reinforcing its forces in southern France and the Balkans |
| BARRACUDA | Plan for a sea and airborne assault on Naples. Canceled. |
| BAYTOWN | Invasion of the Italian mainland opposite Messina |
| Bd | Board |
| Br | British, branch |
| BRIMSTONE | Plan for capture of Sardinia |
| BUTTRESS | British operation against toe of Italy |
| CAD | Civil Affairs Division |
| CC (A, B, C) | Combat Command (A, B, C) |
| CCAC | Combined Civil Affairs Committee |
| CCS | Combined Chiefs of Staff |
| CENT | Code name for beaches at Scoglitti |
| Chem | Chemical |
| CHESTNUT | Four airborne missions sent by Montgomery in an effort to aid his army in Sicily with airborne troops |
| CIC | Counter Intelligence Corps |
| Conf | Conference |
| CORKSCREW | Operation against Pantelleria, Italy, mid-June 1943 |
| COS | British Chiefs of Staff |
| Cositinreps | Combined situation and intelligence reports |
| DCofS | Deputy Chief of Staff |
| DIME | Code name for beaches in Gela area |
| ENTF | Eastern Naval Task Force |
| Exec | Executive |
| FA | Field Artillery |
| FAN | Symbol for messages from Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force, to the Combined Chiefs of Staff |
| FATIMA | Mason-MacFarlane Mission |
| FBIS | Foreign Broadcast Information Service |
| FIREBRAND | Invasion of Corsica, 1943 |
| FO | Field order |
| G-1 | Personnel section of division or higher staff |
| G-2 | Intelligence section of division or higher staff |
| G-3 | Operations section of division or higher staff |
| G-4 | Logistics and supply section of division or higher staff |
| G-5 | Civil affairs section of division or higher staff |
| GANGWAY | Plan for an unopposed landing in Naples. Canceled. |
| GIANT I | Plan for an air landing and drop along the Volturno River. Canceled. |
| GIANT II | Plan for an airdrop near Rome. Canceled. |
| GMDS | German Military Documents Section, Alexandria |
| GOBLET | Invasion of Italy at Cotrone. Canceled. |
| GSUSA | General Staff, U.S. Army |
| HARDIHOOD | Aid to Turkey to induce her to enter the war |
| HUSKY | Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 |
| Instr(s) | Instructions |
| Intel | Intelligence |
| JIC | Joint Intelligence Committee |
| Joss | Code name for beaches in Licata area |
| JP | Joint Planners (British) |
| JPS | Joint Staff Planners (U.S.) |
| JWPC | Joint War Plans Committee |
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Kampfgruppe |
German combat group of variable size |
|
KONSTANTIN |
Reinforcement of German troops in the Balkans and Greece |
|
KOPENHAGEN |
German plan for seizure of the Mt. Cenis Pass (part of Plan ACHSE) |
| LCI | landing craft, infantry |
| LCI (L) | landing craft, infantry (large) |
| LCM | landing craft, mechanized |
| LCT | landing craft, tank |
| LCVP | landing craft, vehicle and personnel |
|
LEHRGANG |
Evacuation of German troops from Sicily to the Italian mainland, 11–17 August 1943. |
| LST | Landing ship, tank |
| Ltr | Letter |
| MAC | Mediterranean Air Command |
| Min | Minutes |
| Med | Mediterranean |
| MEF | Middle East Forces (British) |
| MIDEAST | Middle East |
| MINCEMEAT | Cover plan in connection with HUSKY to induce the Germans to believe that Allied objectives were Sardinia and the Peloponnesus |
| MTB | Motor Transport Brigade |
| Mtg | Meeting |
| MUSKET | Projected landing on heel of Italy near Taranto, 1943 |
| MUSTANG | Plan for an overland seizure of Naples after initial landings in Calabria. Canceled. |
| MVSN | Fascist Militia |
| NAAF | Northwest African Air Forces |
| NAAFTCC | Northwest African Air Force Troop Carrier Command |
| NAF | Symbol for messages from the Combined Chiefs of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force |
| NARS | National Archives and Records Service |
| NASAF | Northwest African Strategic Air Force |
| NATAF | Northwest African Tactical Air Force |
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OB SUED |
Oberbefehlshaber Sued (Headquarters, Commander in Chief South) |
| OCMH | Office, Chief of Military History |
| OKH |
Oberkommando des Heeres |
| OKM |
Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine |
| OKL |
Oberkommando der Luftwaffe |
| OKW |
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces High Command) |
| OPD | Operations Division |
| Opns | Operations |
| OSS | Office of Strategic Services |
| OVRA | Italian Secret Police |
| Prov | Provisional |
| Rcd | Record |
| RCT | Regimental combat team |
| Reinf | Reinforced |
| ROUNDHAMMER | A cross-Channel operation, intermediate in size between SLEDGEHAMMER and ROUNDUP |
| ROUNDUP | Various 1941–43 plans for a cross-Channel attack in the final phases of the war |
| S-3 | Operations section, regimental or lower echelon |
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SIEGFRIED |
German plan for occupying the southern coast of France (part of Plan ACHSE) |
| SIM | Servizio Informazione Militari (Military Intelligence Service) |
| Sitrep | Situation report |
| SLEDGEHAMMER | Plan for a limited-objective attack across the Channel in 1942 designed either to take advantage of a crack in German morale or as a “sacrifice” operation to aid the Russians |
| SNOL | Senior naval officer, landings |
| SOC | “Seagull”; single-engine Navy scout-observation (VSO) land plane or seaplane, biplane |
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Stato Maggiore Generale (Comando Supremo) |
Italian Armed Forces High Command and General Staff |
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Stato Maggiore Regia Aeronautica (Superaereo) |
Italian Air Force High Command and General Staff |
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Stato Maggiore Regio Esercito (Superesercito) |
Italian Army High Command and General Staff |
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Stato Maggiore Regia Marina (Supermarina) |
Italian Navy High Command and General Staff |
| Sum | Summary |
| Tel | Telephone |
| Telg | Telegram |
| Tk | Tank |
| T/O | Table of Organization |
| TORCH | Allied invasion of North and Northwest Africa, 1942 |
| TRIDENT | International conference in Washington, May 1943 |
| VULCAN | Operation against the Germans holding out on Cape Bon |
| WDCSA | Chief of Staff, U.S. Army |
| WDGO | War Department General Order |
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WFSt |
Wehrmachtführungsstab (German Armed Forces Operations Staff) |
| WNTF | Western Naval Task Force |