Glossary

AA Antiaircraft
AAF Army Air Forces
ACofS Assistant Chief of Staff
AdVon Advance Echelon
AF Air Force
AFPAC Army Forces, Pacific
AGC Combined operations communications headquarters ship. In Pacific most frequently used as flagships of amphibious force or group commanders.
AGO Office of The Adjutant General
AKA Cargo ship, attack
ALF Allied Land Forces
ANF Allied Naval Forces
AP Transport
APA Transport, attack
APC Coastal transport
APD High-speed destroyer-transport
ATIS SCAP Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
AW Automatic weapons
BAR Browning automatic rifle
Bazooka Rocket launcher, hand-carried
BB Battleship
BYPRODUCT Code name for Trobriand Islands (Kiriwina)
CA Coast Artillery
CCS Combined Chiefs of Staff
CG Commanding General
CHRONICLE Code name for plan for seizure of Woodlark and Kiriwina
CINCPAC Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet
CINCPOA Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Area
CINCSWPA [Commander in Chief] Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area
CM-IN Classified Message, In
CM-OUT Classified Message, Out
CNO Chief of Naval Operations
CO Commanding Officer
C(s)ofS Chief(s) of Staff
Com Committee
COMAIRSOPAC Commander [land-based], Aircraft, South Pacific Force
COMAMPHIBFORSOPAC Commander, Amphibious Force, South Pacific Force
Comd Command
Comdr Commander
COMGEN Commanding General
COMGENSOPAC Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area
COMINCH Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet
COMSOPAC Commander, South Pacific Area and South Pacific Force
COMSOWESPAC Commander, Southwest Pacific (also CINCSWPA)
Cons Construction
CRU Cruiser
CTF Commander, Task Force
CTG Commander, Task Group
CV Aircraft carrier
CVE Aircraft carrier, escort
DD Destroyer
DEXTERITY Code name for western New Britain–Saidor operation
DMS Destroyer-minesweeper
DRYGOODS Code name for assembly of supplies at Guadalcanal–Tulagi area for offensive in New Georgia, February 1943
DUKW 2½-ton, 6 x 6 amphibious truck
ELKTON Code name for MacArthur’s plan for recapture of Rabaul
ESB Engineer special brigade
FA Field Artillery
FEC Far East Command
FM Field Manual
FO Field Orders
G-1 Personnel officer or section of a general staff, down through divisional level
G-2 Intelligence officer or section of general staff, down through divisional level
G-3 Operations officer or section of a general staff, down through divisional level
G-4 Supply officer or section of a general staff, down through divisional level
GHQ General headquarters
GO General Orders
Incl(s) Inclosure(s)
Ind Indorsement
Instal Installation
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jnl(s) Journal(s)
JPS Joint Staff Planners
Jt Joint
JUSSC Joint U.S. Strategic Committee
KCRC Kansas City Records Center, Office of the Adjutant General, Kansas City, Missouri
LCI Landing craft, infantry
LCM Landing craft, mechanized
LCP(R) Landing craft, personnel (ramp)
LCT Landing craft, tank
LCV Landing craft, vehicle
LCVP Landing craft, vehicle, personnel
LEATHERBACK Code name for Woodlark Island
LHQ Land Headquarters (also ALF)
LST Landing ship, tank
MAC Marine Amphibious Corps
MAINYARD Code name for Guadalcanal Island
Min Minutes
MIS Military Intelligence Section
MTB Motor torpedo boat
NCB Naval construction battalion
NGF New Guinea Force
NGOF New Georgia Occupation Force
NLG Northern landing group
OCMH Office of the Chief of Military History
OI Operations Instructions
ONI Office of Naval Intelligence
OPD Operations Division, War Department General Staff
PB4Y4 Naval designation of B-24
PBY Twin-engine U.S. Navy patrol bomber (Black Cat)
Plng Planning
POA Pacific Ocean Area
POSTERN Code name for Lae–Finschhafen–Madang operations
PT Motor torpedo boat
PTO Pacific Theater of Operations
PV-1 Twin-engined Navy patrol plane, also used as a night fighter
RAAF Royal Australian Air Force
RAAFCAAF Royal Australian Air Force Comand, Allied Air Forces
RAF Royal Air Force
RAN Royal Australian Navy
Rcn Reconnaissance
RCT Regimental combat team
RENO Code name for MacArthur’s plan for advancing along north coast of New Guinea and thence to Mindano
RN Royal Navy
S-3 Operations officer or section of a regimental or battalion headquarters
SBD Scout bomber (Douglas)--a Navy dive-bomber
SC Submarine chaser
SCR Signal Corps radio
SL Searchlight
SNLF Special naval landing force (Japanese)
SOPAC South Pacific Area, South Pacific Force
SOPACBACOM South Pacific Base Command
SR Special Regulations
SWPA Southwest Pacific Area
SYMBOL Code name for Casablanca Conference 14—23 January 1943
TBF Single-engine U.S. Navy torpedo bomber
TF Task Force
TM Technical Manual
TOENAILS Code name for New Georgia operation
TU Task Unit
USA U.S. Army
USAFFE U.S. Army Forces in the Far East
USAFISPA U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area
USASOS SWPA U.S. Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area
USMC(R) U.S. Marine Corps (Reserve)
USN U.S. Navy
USSBS U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey
WD War Department
WDGS War Department General Staff
YMS Motor minesweeper