| AAA |
Antiaircraft artillery |
| AAF |
Army Air Forces |
| ABC-1 |
Agreements reached at Washington Conference, January—March 1941 |
| ABS |
Atlantic Base Section |
| ACofS |
Assistant Chief of Staff |
| ADSEC |
Advance Section |
| AEF |
Allied Expeditionary Force (World War II) |
| AEF |
American Expeditionary Forces (World War I) |
| AFHQ |
Allied Force Headquarters |
| AFSC |
Air Force Service Command |
| AGF |
Army Ground Forces |
| Alsos |
Code name for an Allied intelligence mission that sought information on German developments in nuclear
fission |
| AMGLO |
Allied Military Government Labor Office |
| ANVIL |
The planned 1944 Allied invasion of southern France in the Toulon-Marseille area (later DRAGOON) |
| AP |
Troop transport |
| AP |
Antipersonnel mine |
| Apex |
A remote-controlled drone boat |
| ASF |
Army Service Forces |
| AT |
Antitank mine |
| AUS |
Army of the United States |
| AVALANCHE |
Code name for the invasion of Italy at Salerno |
| Avgas |
Aviation gasoline |
| BACKBONE |
An assault plan which called for a foray into Spanish Morocco should Spain change its nominally
neutral position |
| BANG |
Shipping code name for Zone III, Northern Ireland |
| BARRACUDA |
Assault plan aimed directly at the harbor of Naples |
| BAYTOWN |
Assault plan that called for the British to move across the Strait of Messina to Reggio di
Calabria |
| Belgian gates |
Nickname of Element C, a beach obstacle emplaced on northern French beaches |
| BIG |
Assault plan to move nuclear intelligence teams from Freudenstadt through Horb to Haigerloch in
southwest Germany |
| BLACKSTONE |
A subtask force of Western Task Force whose mission was to capture Safi, a small port 150 miles south
of Casablanca |
| Blade Force |
Belonging to the British 78th Division; resembled a U.S. armored combat command and included an
American armored battalion |
| BOLERO |
Code name for the buildup of U.S. forces and supplies in United Kingdom for cross-Channel attack |
| Bouncing Betty |
German antipersonnel S-mine |
| BRIMSTONE |
Plan for the capture of Sardinia, canceled |
| BRUSHWOOD |
Subtask force of Western Task Force for the attack on Fedala, Morocco |
| CCA |
Combat Command A |
| CCB |
Combat Command B |
| CCR |
Combat Command Reserve |
| CCS |
Combined Chiefs of Staff |
| CE |
Corps of Engineers |
| CENT |
Task force in Sicily assault landing (45th Infantry Division); also the code name for beaches
assaulted by this force |
| CG |
Commanding general |
| Chocolate bars |
Precast concrete units with scored checkerboard surface |
| Class I |
Rations |
| Class II |
Organizational equipment |
| Class III |
Fuels and lubricants such as gasoline and coal |
| Class IV |
Construction supplies |
| Class V |
Ammunition and explosives |
| Class 30, 40, 70 |
Designation indicating weight-bearing capacities of military bridges and roads |
| CO |
Commanding officer |
| COBRA |
Code name for the operation launched by First Army on 25 July 1944, designed to break out of the
Normandy lodgment |
| CofEngrs |
Chief of Engineers |
| CofS |
Chief of Staff |
| COMZ |
Communications Zone |
| CONAD |
Continental Advance Section, Communications Zone |
| COSSAC |
Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander |
| COWPUNCHER |
Amphibious exercises before invasion of Italy |
| CTF |
Center Task Force, North African invasion |
| D-1 |
Vierville exit, OMAHA Beach, Normandy |
| D-3 |
Les Moulins leading to St. Laurent, OMAHA Beach |
| DBS |
Delta Base Section |
| DIME |
Task force for Sicily assault landing (1st Infantry Division); the beaches assaulted by the task
force |
| DRAGOON |
Final code word for the invasion of southern France |
| DUKW |
A 2½-ton, 6-by-6 amphibian truck |
| E-1 |
Easy Red, leading up between St. Laurent and Colleville, OMAHA Beach |
| E-3 |
Colleville draw, OMAHA Beach |
| EAC |
Engineer Amphibian Command |
| EAF |
Eastern Assault Force, North African invasion |
| EBS |
Eastern Base Section |
| ETF |
Eastern Task Force, North African invasion |
| ETIT |
Engineer technical intelligence team |
| ETOUSA |
European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army |
| EUCOM |
European Command |
| EXPLOIT |
An elaborate deception scheme designed to trick the Germans into expecting a crossing of the Rhine
River at Uerdingen, some fifteen miles south of Rheinberg |
| F-1 |
Draw leading off Fox Red, OMAHA Beach |
| FABIUS |
Amphibious landing exercises of all assault forces except Force U, early May 1944, southern
England |
| FEC |
French Expeditionary Corps |
| FECOMZ |
Forward Echelon, Communications Zone |
| FFA |
First French Army |
| FFI |
French Forces of the Interior |
| FLASHPOINT |
A plan to cross the Rhine at Rheinberg, fifteen miles south of Wesel |
| G-1 |
Personnel officer of division or higher staff |
| G-2 |
Intelligence section |
| G-3 |
Plans and operations section |
| G-4 |
Logistics and supply section |
| GANGWAY |
Assault plan aimed at the beaches immediately north of Naples |
| GHQ |
General Headquarters |
| GLUE |
Mailing code name for Zone II, Bristol and London |
| GOALPOST |
Task force for assault landing in Mehdia—Port Lyautey area, North Africa |
| GOOSEBERRY |
Partial breakwater formed off the Normandy beaches by the sinking of blockships |
| GPA |
General Purchasing Agent |
| GPB |
General Purchasing Board |
| GRENADE |
Code word for a Ninth U.S. Army assault crossing of the Roer followed by a northeastward drive to link
with the First Canadian Army along the Rhine, February 1945 |
| Hards |
Short for hardstandings |
| HE |
High-explosive |
| HHC |
Headquarters and Headquarters Company |
| HUSKY |
Code name for Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 |
| IBC |
Iceland Base Command |
| IBCAF |
Iceland Base Command, Air Force |
| IBS |
Island Base Section |
| INDIGO |
Code name for occupation of Iceland |
| ISIS |
Inter-Service Information Series (British) |
| ISS |
Identification of Separate Shipments to Overseas Destinations |
| Joss |
Task force for Sicily assault landing (3rd Infantry Division); the beaches assaulted by the task
force |
| KooL |
Task force for Sicily assault landing (2nd Armored Division less Combat Command A); the beaches
assaulted by the task force |
| LBV |
A fifty-ton self-propelled barge |
| LCA |
Landing craft, assault |
| LCI |
Landing craft, infantry |
| LCM(I) |
Landing craft, mechanized, Mark I |
| LCM(III) |
Landing craft, mechanized, Mark Il1 |
| LCP |
Landing craft, personnel |
| LCT |
Landing craft, tank |
| LCVP |
Landing craft, vehicle and personnel |
| LSI |
Landing ship, infantry |
| LST |
Landing ship, tank |
| LVT |
Landing vehicle, tracked |
| MAGNET |
Plan for shipment of American forces to Northern Ireland |
| MAMD |
Marshaling area mapping depots |
| MBS |
Mediterranean Base Section |
| MP |
Military police |
| MPLS |
Military Pipeline Service |
| MRS |
Military Railway Service |
| MSR |
Main supply route |
| MT 80 |
Motor gasoline |
| MTO |
Mediterranean Theater of Operations |
| MULBERRY |
The artificial harbor constructed off the Normandy beaches |
| MUSKET |
Assault plan that would bring Fifth Army into Taranto, Italy |
| NAAF |
Northwest African Air Forces |
| NAAFI |
Navy-Army-Air Force Institution (British equivalent to post exchange) |
| NAASC |
North African Air Service Command |
| NATOUSA |
North African Theater of Operations, U.S. Army |
| NCDU |
Naval combat demolition unit |
| NEPTUNE |
Actual 1944 operations within OVERLORD. The code name was used for security reasons after September
1943 on all OVERLORD planning papers which referred to the target area and date. |
| NIBS |
Northern Ireland Base Section |
| NIF |
Northern Ireland Forces |
| NORDWIND |
Code word for a German counteroffensive launched on New Year’s Eve 1944 near the southern end of
the Allied line in Alsace |
| NYPOE |
New York Port of Embarkation |
| OCE |
Office of the Chief of Engineers |
| OMAHA Beach |
Landing beach in Normandy |
| OVERLORD |
Plan for the invasion of northwest Europe, June 1944 |
| PBS |
Peninsular Base Section |
| PBS (Main) |
Leghorn half of Peninsular Base Section |
| Pensouth |
Naples half of Peninsular Base Section |
| PLUTO |
Pipeline Under the Ocean |
| POE |
Port of Embarkation |
| POL |
Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants |
| PROCO |
Projects for Continental Operations |
| QUADRANT |
Quebec Conference, August 1943 |
| RAF |
Royal Air Force |
| RAINBOW-5 |
A U.S. war plan designed to implement that portion of ABC-1 which applied to the United Kingdom in the
event of U.S. entry into the war |
| RCT |
Regimental combat team |
| ROUNDUP |
Plan for major U.S.-British attack across the Channel in 1943 |
| RSJ |
Rolled steel joist |
| SBS |
Southern Base Section |
| SCR-625 |
U.S. mine detector |
| SEXTANT |
International conference at Cairo, November and December 1943 |
| SHARK |
Task force (II Corps), Operation HUSKY |
| SHAEF |
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force |
| SHINGLE |
Code name for the Anzio landing, 22 January 1944 |
| SLEDGEHAMMER |
Plan for a limited-objective attack across the Channel in 1942 |
| SOLOC |
Southern Line of Communications (Rhone Valley) |
| GLOSSARY |
575 |
| SOS |
Services of Supply |
| Soxo |
Mailing code name for Zone I, northern England |
| SPOBS |
Special Observer Group |
| TAG |
The Adjutant General |
| TBA |
Table of Basic Allowance |
| TC |
Transportation Corps |
| TERMINAL |
A special landing party |
| TIGER |
Code name for an amphibious rehearsal for OVERLORD |
| TOE |
Table of Organization and Equipment |
| TOMBOLA |
A flexible six-inch underwater pipeline designed to discharge POL tankers anchored offshore at Ste.
Honorine-des-Pertes |
| TORCH |
Code name for the Allied invasion of Northwest Africa, 1942 |
| TPP Section |
Transportation, Plant, and Personnel Section |
| TRIDENT |
Washington Conference, 1943 |
| UCRB |
Unit Construction Railway Bridge (British) |
| UGLY |
Shipping address code name for United Kingdom |
| USAAF |
U.S. Army Air Forces |
| USAFBI |
U.S. Army Forces British Isles |
| USANIF |
U.S. Army Northern Ireland Forces |
| USMC |
U.S. Marine Corps |
| USFET |
U.S. Forces in the European Theater |
| UTAH Beach |
Landing beach in Normandy |
| VERITABLE |
A 21 Army Group plan for a Canadian attack between the Maas and the Rhine, January—February
1945 |
| WBS |
Western Base Section (England) |
| WEBFOOT |
Code name for a practice landing preparatory to Anzio landings |
| WNTF |
Western Naval Task Force |
| Woofus |
A rocket-firing LCM |
| WTF |
Western Task Force (North African invasion) |
| XO |
Executive officer |
| ZA |
Zone of the Advance |
| ZI |
Zone of the Interior |