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The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II
U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II
The text of this published glossary of abbreviations was prepared shortly after the close of World War II. It is presented here exactly as in the original, except that fifty-nine words which originally appeared in an addenda page have been integrated in the main text of the document.
GLOSSARY OF U.S. NAVAL ABBREVIATIONS
OPNAV 29-P1000
(Revised APRIL 1949)FIFTH EDITION
Prepared by
OFFICE OF NAVAL RECORDS AND HISTORY
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS NAVY DEPARTMENT * WASHINGTON, D.C.APRIL 1949
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Foreward
The roads around Pearl Harbor were alive in wartime with vehicles marked "AdComPhibsPac." The waters of Casco Bay were plowed by small boats bearing at their bows the mystic inscriptions, "DesLant" or "SOPA." In a single dim corridor of the Navy Department, "OIR" and "OR&I" indicated adjacent but quite distinct offices of "EXOS."Altogether the Navy produced, officially or unofficially, thousands of such abbreviations during the war. A few, such as "SecNav," "CominCh," "CNO," "BuPers," and "J.g.," were well-known throughout the service. most of the rest, however, were thrown around in familiar fashion by those immediately concerned, but might be thoroughly mystifying to the rest of the Naval Establishment. it would be difficult to find a person who could even approach a perfect score in identifying "CAFAC," "JOSCO," and "OMPUS," to say nothing of "COLanForASCU," "LanCraBNAW," "NOBDUCHAR," and "PaCorNaLong," even while the war was in progress; as it grows more distant, those symbols will become even less familiar.
For the benefit of naval personnel, officials, and scholars who may have occasion to consult correspondence, reports and historical narratives in which such abbreviations occur, it has seemed desirable to prepare a glossary identifying the principal terms likely to be encountered in such documents. The need for such a glossary was indicated by the preparation of various partial lists during the war; none of these, however, covered more than a fraction of the whole.
The glossary includes most of the principal Navy, marine Corps and Coast Guard abbreviations in use from 1940 to the end of 1946. Four particular categories have been given in great detail: vessel types, naval aircraft types, commissioned and enlisted personnel designations, and Fleet Post Office numbers. The vessel types, while numerous, are clear cut. For aircraft, the nickname as well as the official designation is given, and the general meaning of the initials indicating function and manufacturer. The personnel designations were changed several times during the period, particularly for reserve officers; these are all included, with cross-referencing to avoid needless repetition. For purposes of security, the names of overseas stations and units were frequently omitted not only from envelope addresses but also from the contents; without the assistance of the list reproduced under "Navy Numbers," it would be difficult to identify the source of letters which simply had the printed headings "Naval District Headquarters, Navy No. 121, FPO New York" or "Naval Operating Base, Navy No. 1504, FPO San Francisco."
The general abbreviations fall into two major types. "Commander Philippine Sea Frontier," for instance, was sometimes contracted to "ComPhilSeaFron" and at other times to "CPSF." The former type was whimsically compared by one columnist to the practice of the Russians with their "Politburo" or "Amtogr." Such contractions are much easier to deduce than the more numerous combinations of initials which follow the British practice. Some abbreviations received an official blessing and were incorporated in aviation, communications, personnel or technical lists or manuals; others were often improvised and might vary with the individual taste of the abbreviator. "Service Squadron," for instance, appeared variously as "Seron," "Serron," "Serbon" and "Servron." Those four all appear in this glossary, but naturally it has been out of the question to include all variations.
Certain naval categories have been deliberately omitted, because of limited interest in comparison with the detail involved, or for reasons of security. One should consult pertinent bureau manuals, for instance, for the designations of their administrative subdivisions and their more specialized equipment. The long list of port markings for overseas freight shipments has likewise been left out, as have the designations of naval radio stations and plane-to-plane communication signals. The "code names" for particular operations, conferences and places will be issued shortly in a separate list.
Where the same abbreviation has more than one meaning, the several meanings have been arranged alphabetically. Abbreviations preceded by an asterisk (*), other than Navy numbers, may never be used singly; those preceded by the symbol for number (#) are the Bureau of Personnel Condensation Code for use in dispatch orders to personnel.
In addition to the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard abbreviations, it has seemed expedient to include, without any such pretense of completeness, certain items from other sources which are likely to be encountered in naval documents. Numerous entries of that sort will be found included in the general alphabetically arrangement, particularly for the United States Army, certain other branches of the United States Government, and some foreign navies.
The glossary has been prepared in the Office of Naval History, under the supervision of the Historian for Naval Administration. it was begun by Lt. (j.g.) R. Donald Spencer, USNR, but the great bulk of the research and arrangement is the work of Lt. Comdr. Dorothy E. Richard, USN.
Any requests for information concerning this publication or the Naval Historical Program should be addressed to the Director of Naval Records and History, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Washington 25, D.C.
--- A ---
A -- Acting (following Navy Chief's rating); e.g., CAOMA (Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Acting)
A -- Air
A -- Allied Aviation Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
A -- Amphibious plane (suffix to plane designation) as: PBY-6A
A -- Army
A -- Arresting Gear (suffix to plane designation) as: SOC-3A
A -- Asiatic
A -- Auxiliary
"A" -- 3-drum, express type (boiler)
A -- Brewster Aeronautical Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
A -- Noorduyn Aviation, Ltd. (manufacturer's symbol)
A -- Plane built for Army Air Forces (suffix to plane designation) as: SBD-3A
A -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Aviation Non-flying. Formerly (A)
A1 -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Heavier than Air Pilot. Formerly A-VN and (A1)
A2 -- USNR officer designation for General Service, lighter than Air Pilot. Formerly (A2) and A-VN.
A2 -- Command Staff Intelligence Office (USMC)
A-2 -- Air Intelligence (War Department)
A3 -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Heavier than Air Pilot. Formerly (A3) and A-VG
A4 -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Lighter than Air Pilot. Formerly (A4) and A-VG
A5 -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Heavier than Air Pilot. Formerly (A5) and A-VT
A6 -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Lighter than Air Pilot. Formerly (A6) and A-VT
AA -- Acting Appointment
A/a -- Analysis of accounts
AA or A/A -- Anti-Aircraft
AA -- Arlington Annex (Navy Department)
AA -- Auxiliary Ships
AA-1 -- Normal Top Priority
AA-2 -- Next highest degree of priority
AA-3 -- Next highest degree of priority
AA-4 -- Next highest degree of priority
AAA -- Anti-Aircraft Artillery
AAA -- Emergency top priority rating for individual items of extreme urgency
AA&A -- Armor, Armament and Ammunition (cf. IRNV)
AAAIS -- Anti-Aircraft Artillery Intelligence Service (Army)
AAB -- Aircraft Accident Board
AA/B -- Anti-Aircraft Balloon
AAC -- Anti-Aircraft Common
AACS -- Army Airways Communications System
AAE -- Army Aviation Engineers
AAF -- Army Air Forces
AAFIS -- Army Air Forces Intelligence School
AAFMTO -- Army Air Force headquarters, Mediterranean Theater of Operations
AAFPOA -- Army Air Forces, Pacific ocean Areas
AAFPOAAdmin -- Army Air Forces, pacific Ocean Areas (Administrative)
AAHA -- Awaiting Action of Higher Authority
AAHQ -- Allied Air Headquarters
AAI -- Allied Armies in Italy
AAIC -- Allied Air Intelligence Center
AAMG -- Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun
AAPIU -- Allied Aerial Photographic Interpretation Unit
AAQM -- Acting Assistance Quartermaster (USMC)
AAR -- Aircraft Accident Record
AATB -- Advanced Amphibious Training Base
AATC -- Anti-Aircraft Training Center
AATraCen -- Anti-Aircraft Training Center
AAT&TC -- Anti-Aircraft Training & Test Center
AB -- Aerial burst bombs
AB or A/B -- Air Base
ABOne -- Air Bases Command, 1st Naval District
AB -- Air Bomber
AB or A/B -- Airborne
AB -- Archivist
AB -- Artist
AB -- Ballistic and Test Firing Expert
AB -- Crane Ship
ABATU -- Advanced Base Aviation Training Unit
ABC -- American, British, Canadian Plans
ABC-1 -- Report of the Combined British, Canadian and United States Staff Conversations
ABCA -- Army Bureau of Current Affairs (GB)
ABCCTC -- Advanced Base Combat Communication Training Center (Pearl Harbor)
ABCD -- Advanced Base Construction Depot
ABD -- Admiralty Berthing Officer
ABD -- Advanced Base Depot
ABD -- Advanced Base Dock
ABDA -- American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (1942)
ABDACOM -- Advanced Base Depot Area Command
ABDACOM -- American-British-Dutch-Australian Supreme Command (1942)
ABDAFLOAT -- American-British-Dutch-Australian Naval Operational Command (1942)
ABDAIR -- American-British-Dutch-Australian Air Operational Command (1942)
ABDARM -- American-British-Dutch-Australian Army Operational Command (1942)
ABF -- Aircraft Battle Force
ABG -- Air Base Group
Able -- "A" in the phonetic alphabet
Able -- Term used by shorebased ADCC'S for "experimental" or "calibration"
ABM -- Aviation Boatswain's Mate
ABMAG -- Aviation Boatswain's Mate, Arresting Gear and Barriers
ABMCP -- Aviation Boatswain's Mate, Catapult
ABMGA -- Aviation Boatswain's Mate, Gasoline System
ABMPH -- Aviation Boatswain's Mate, Plane Handler
ABQ -- Admiralty Berthing Officer (GB)
A-bomb -- Atom bomb
ABP -- Auxiliary Barracks Ship
ABPA -- Advanced Base Personnel Administration
ABPG -- Advanced Base Proving Ground
ABPO -- Advanced Base Personnel Officer
ABPU -- Advanced Base Personnel Unit
ABR -- Amphibian Boat Reconnaissance Aircraft
ABRB -- Advanced Base Receiving Barracks
ABRD -- Advanced Base Repair Depot
ABRD -- Advanced Base Reshipment Depot
ABSD -- Advanced Base Sectional Dock
ABSD -- Advanced Base Supply Depot
ABTF -- Airborne Task Force
ABTU -- Advanced Base Torpedo Unit
ABTU -- Advanced Base Training Unit
ABTU -- Air Bombers Training Unit
A/c -- Accounts
AC (number) -- Admiral Commanding (number) Aircraft Carrier Squadron
AC -- Air Corps
A/C -- Aircraft
A-C -- Allis Chalmers (ship engines)
AC -- Alternating Current
AC -- Amphibious Corps
AC -- Collier
AC -- Symbol for hydrocyanic acid
ACA -- American Communication Association
ACA -- Physically on board awaiting cobat assignment
ACAC -- Allied Container Advisory Committee
ACAF -- Amphibious Corps, Atlantic Fleet
ACAS(1) -- Assistant Chief of Staff, War Department (US) (Intelligence)
ACBMAG -- Aviation Chief Boatswain's Mate, Arresting Gear and Barriers
ACBMCP -- Aviation Chief Boatswain's Mate, Catapult
ACBMGA -- Aviation Chief Boatswain's Mate, Gasoline System
ACBMPH -- Aviation Chief Boatswain's Mate, Plane Handler
ACC -- Air Center Commander
ACC -- Allied Control Commission (Italy)
ACD -- Admiralty Chart Depot (GB)
#ACDU -- Active Duty
ACEM -- Aciation Chief Electrician's Mate
ACEORP -- Automotive and Construction Equipment Overhaul and Repair Plant
ACEPD -- Automotive and Construction Equipment Part Depot
ACFC -- Aviation Chief Fire Controlman
ACG -- Airborne Coordinating Group
ACGM -- Aircraft Carrier General memorandum
ACI -- Air Combat Intelligence
ACIC -- Allied Captured Intelligence Center (US & GB)
ACIC -- Auxiliary Combat Information Center
#ACINS -- Active duty under instruction
ACIO -- Air Combat Intelligence Office(r)
ACK -- Acknowledge
ACk -- Assistant Cook
ACM -- Auxiliary Mine Layer
ACM -- Aviation Chief Metalsmith
ACMF -- Air Corps Medical Forces
ACMF -- Allied Central Mediterranean Forces
ACMM -- Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate
ACMMC -- Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate, Carburetor Mechanic
ACMMF -- Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate, Flight Engineer
ACMMH -- Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate, Hydraulic Mechanic
ACMMI -- Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate, Instrument Mechanic
ACMMP -- Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate, Propellor Mechanic
ACMMT -- Aviation Chief Machinist's Mate, Gas Turbine Mechanic
ACNB -- Australian Commonwealth Naval Board
ACNO -- Assistant Chief of Naval Operations
ACNO(T) -- Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Transportation)
ACofS -- Assistant Chief of Staff (Army)
ACOM -- Aviation Chief Ordnanceman
ACOMT -- Aviation Chief Ordnanceman, Turret Mechanic
Acorn -- An airfield assembly designed to construct, operate and maintain an advanced landplane and seaplane base and provide facilities for operations
ACP -- Admiralty Civil Police (GB)
ACPF -- Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet (USMC)
ACR -- Aircraft Control Room
ACRM -- Aviation Chief Radioman
ACRT -- Aviation Chief Radio Technician
ACS -- Alaskan Communications System
ACSEA -- Air Command, Southeast Asia
*ACT -- Acting
ACT -- Action
ACT -- Aviation Classification Test
ACTG -- Advance Carrier Training Group
ACT/IC -- Active-In Commission (vessel status)
ACT/IS -- Active-In Service (vessel status)
ACT/OC -- Active-Out of Commission (vessel status)
ACT/OS -- Active-Out of Service (vessel status)
ACTPC -- Acting Pay Clerk
ACTREP -- Activities Report (shipping)
ActSecNav -- Acting Secretary of the Navy
ACTY -- Activity
ACV -- Aircraft Carrier, Escort (GB)
ACV -- Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier or Tender
AD -- Active Duty
AD -- Air Depot
A/D -- Airdrome
AD -- Destroyer Tender
AD -- USNR officer designation. See A and D. Formerly (AD).
A1D -- USNR officer designation. Same as A1, plus qualified in deck duties. Formerly (A1D).
A2D -- USNR officer designation. Same as A2 and D. Formerly (A2D).
A3D -- USNR officer designation. Same as A3 and D. Formerly (A3D).
A4D -- USNR officer designation. Same as A4 and D. Formerly (A4D).
A5D -- USNR officer designation. Same as A6t plus qualified in deck duties. Formerly (A5D).
A6D -- USNR officer designation. A6 plus qualified in deck duties. Formerly (A6D).
A-Day -- Day on which atom bomb was tested at Bikini (Operation Crossroads), 1 July 1946
ADC -- Aide-de-camp (Army)
#ADCASHAL -- Advance men cash allowance for quarters and subsistence in accordance with current Bureau of Naval personnel Circular Letter
ADCC -- Air Defense Control Center
AdCom or AdComd -- Administrative Command
AdCominPac -- Administrative Command, Minecraft, Pacific Fleet
AdComPhibsPac -- Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet
AdComSubordComPhibsPac -- Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, Subordinate Command
ADCON -- Advise all concerned
ADDL -- Aircraft Dummy Deck Landing
ADEE -- Addressee
AdIntelCen -- Advanced Intelligence Center
Adj -- Adjutant (Army)
ADLS -- Air Dispatch Letter Service
Adm -- Administrative
Adm -- Admiral
ADMIN -- Administration, Administrative
ADMLTY -- Admiralty (GB)
AdmO -- Administrative Officer (Army)
AdmO -- Administrative Order (Army)
ADN -- USNR officer designation. See A, D and N. Formerly (AD)-N.
A1DN -- USNR officer designation. See A1D and N. Formerly (A1D)-N.
A2DN -- USNR officer designation. See A2D and N. Formerly (A2D)-N.
A3DN -- USNR officer designation. See A3D and N. Formerly (A3D)-N.
A4DN -- USNR officer designation. See A4D and N. Formerly (A4D)-N.
A5DN -- USNR officer designation. See A5D and N. Formerly (A5D)-N.
A6DN -- USNR officer designation. See A6D and N. Formerly (A6D)-N.
ADP -- Air Defense Position
ADR -- Aircraft Direction Room
ADR -- USNR officer designation. See A, D and R. Formerly (AD)-R.
A1DR -- USNR officer designation. See A1D and R. Formerly (A1D)-R.
A2DR -- USNR officer designation. See A2D and R. Formerly (A2D)-R.
A3DR -- USNR officer designation. See A3D and R. Formerly (A3D)-R.
A4DR -- USNR officer designation. See A4D and R. Formerly (A4D)-R.
A5DR -- USNR officer designation. See A5D and R. Formerly (A5D)-R.
A6DR -- USNR officer designation. See A6D and R. Formerly (A6D)-R.
ADRDE -- Air Defense Research and Development Establishment
ADroBn -- Airdrome Battalion
ADT -- USNR officer designation. See A, D and T. Formerly (AD)-T.
A1DT -- USNR officer designation. See A1D and T. Formerly (A1D)-T.
A2DT -- USNR officer designation. See A2D and T. Formerly (A2D)-T.
A3DT -- USNR officer designation. See A3D and T. Formerly (A3D)-T.
A4DT -- USNR officer designation. See A4D and T. Formerly (A4D)-T.
A5DT -- USNR officer designation. See A5D and T. Formerly (A5D)-T.
A6DT -- USNR officer designation. See A6D and T. Formerly (A6D)-T.
*ADU -- Aircraft Delivery Unit
*ADV -- Advance(d)
AdvHed -- Advanced Headquarters
AdvIntelCen -- Advanced Intelligence Center
Advon -- Advanced Echelon (USMC)
ADX -- USNR officer designation. See A, D and X. Formerly (AD)-X.
A1DX -- USNR officer designation. See A1D and X. Formerly (A1D)-X.
A2DX -- USNR officer designation. See A2D and X. Formerly (A2D)-X.
A3DX -- USNR officer designation. See A3D and X. Formerly (A3D)-X.
A4DX -- USNR officer designation. See A4D and X. Formerly (A4D)-X.
A5DX -- USNR officer designation. See A5D and X. Formerly (A5D)-X.
A6DX -- USNR officer designation. See A6D and X. Formerly (A6D)-X.
AE -- Ammunition Ship
AEAF -- Allied Expeditionary Air Force
AEDO -- USN officer designation; Aviation Engineering Duty
AEF -- American Expeditionary Forces (Army)
AE-# -- "Grasshopper"; single-engine Navy Utility plane (VJ), manufactured by Piper
AEI -- Acrylic Eye Illustrator (Medical)
AEL -- Aeronautical Engine Laboratory
AEM -- Aviation Electrician's Mate
AEngrServ -- Army Engineer Service
AEO -- Air Engineer Officer
AEOB -- Advanced Engine Overhaul Base
AER -- Aerographer
*AER -- Aeronautics
AERM -- Aerographher's Mate
AERO -- Aerographer
Aero -- Aerological
AerOf -- Aerological Officer
AEROG -- Aerologist
AETAC -- Aviation Electronic Technician's Mate, Combat Aircrewman
AETM -- Aviation Electronic Technician's Mate
AEW -- Airborne Early Warning (Radar)
AEWTU -- Airborne Early Warning Training Unit
AExServ -- Army Exchange Service
AF -- Air Force
AF -- Army Force
AF -- Asiatic Fleet
AF -- Audio Frequency
AF -- Automatic Following (radar)
AF -- Provision Storeship
AFAF -- Amphibious Force Atlantic Fleet
AFC -- Aviation Fire Controlman
AFCE -- Automatic Flight Control Equipment
AFD -- Mobile Floating Drydock
AFDB -- Auxiliary Floating Drydock, Big
AFDL -- Auxiliary Floating Drydock, Little
AFDL(C) -- Auxiliary Floating Drydock, Little, Concrete
AFDM -- Auxiliary Floating Drydock, Medium
AFDO -- Assistant Fighter Director Office
AFDS -- Auxiliary Fighter Director Ship
AF(F)MMIU -- Amphibious Forces Ordnance Material mobile Instruction Unit
AFGIS -- Aerial Free Gunnery Instruction School(s)
AFGU -- Aerial Free Gunnery Unit
AFHQ -- African Force Headquarters
AFHQ -- Allied Force Headquarters (US & GB)
AFHQ(CIC) -- Allied Force Headquarters (Counter Intelligence Corps)
AFHQPS -- Allied Force Headquarters Petroleum Section
AFI -- Armed Forces Institute (US)
AFL -- American Federation of Labor
AFMFP -- Aircraft Fleet Marine Force Pacific
AFO -- Admiralty Fleet Order (GB)
AFO -- Atlantic Fleet Organization
AFRS -- Armed Forces Radio Service
AFSU -- Auxiliary Ferry Service Unit
AFSub -- Army Air Forces Anti-Submarine Command
AFSWA -- Assistant Secretary of War for Air
AFV -- Armored Fighting Vehicle (USMC)
AFWesPac -- U.S. Army Forces, Western Pacific
AG -- Adjutant General (Army)
AG -- Air Group
AG -- Armed Guard
AG -- Arresting Gear and Barriers
AG -- Miscellaneous Auxiliary (ship)
AGas -- Aviation Gasoline
AGC -- Armed Guard Center
AGC -- General Communications Vessel (1943); Amphibious Force Flagship equipped with special communication facilities (1945)
AGCTS -- Armed Guard Center Training School
AGD -- Adjutant General's Department (Army)
AGD -- Seagoing Dredge
AGE -- Admiralty Gunnery Establishment
AGF -- Army Ground Forces
AGFRTS -- Air and Ground Forces Resources and Technical Staff (Army)
AGIO -- Armed Guard Inspection Officer
AGIS -- Armed Guard Inspection Service
AGL -- Lighthouse Tender
AGLO -- Air Ground Liaison Officer (USMC)
AGN -- Articles for the Government of the Navy
AGO -- Adjutant General's Office (Army)
AGO -- Air Gunnery Officer
AGOS -- Aviation Gunnery Officers School
AGP -- Motor Torpedo Boat Tender
AGS -- Allied Geographic Section (SWPac)
AGS -- Armed Guard School(s)
AGS -- Surveying Ship
AGSc -- Surveying Ship (Coastal)
AGWAR -- Adjutant General, War Department
AH -- Hospital Ship
AHQ -- Air Headquarters
AHQ -- Army Headquarters
AI -- Airborne Intercept Radar
AI -- Air Intelligence (Royal Air Force)
A&I -- Alteration and Improvement Program
AIC -- Advanced Intelligence Center
AIC -- Allied Intelligence Committee (London)
AIC -- Army Industrial College
AICO -- Action Information Control Officer
AICPOA -- Advanced Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas
AIF -- Air Intelligence Force
AIF -- Amphibian Imperial Forces
AIFS -- Advanced Instruction Flying School
AIG -- Address Indicating Group (GB)
AIL -- Aviation Instrument Laboratory
AINO -- Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance
AIntSec -- Air Intelligence Section (Army)
AIO -- Action Information Organization
AIO -- Allied Interrogating Organization (US & GB)
*AIR -- Aircraft
AirAF -- Aircraft, Asiatic Fleet
AirArmUnit -- Aircraft, Armament Unit
AirASDevLant -- Aircraft Anti-Submarine Development Detachment, Atlantic Fleet
*AIRB -- Airborne
AirBaseCom -- Air Base Commander
AirBatForPac -- Aircraft Battle Force, Pacific Fleet
AirDefCom -- Air Defense Commander
AirElO -- Air Electrical Officer
AirEngPropAccOverhaul -- Airplane Engine, Propellor and Accessory Overhaul
AirEO -- Air Engineer Officer
AirEvacWing -- Air Evacuation Wing
AirFerons -- Naval Air Ferry Squadrons
AirFMFPac -- Aircraft, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific
AirForward -- Shore-based Air Force, Forward Area, Central Pacific
AirGrp -- Air Group
AirIS -- Air Store Issuing Ship
AirLant -- Air Forces, Atlantic Fleet
AirMG -- Aircraft, machine Gunner
AirNorSols -- Aircraft, Northern Solomons
AirOps -- Air Operations
AirPac -- Air Forces, Pacific Fleet
AirPac(Adv) -- Air Forces Pacific Advanced (later ComFairWesPac)
AirPac(Pearl) -- Air Forces Pacific, Pearl Harbor
AirPacSubComFord -- Air Forces Subordinate Command, Forward Area
AirScoForPac -- Aircraft Scouting Force, Pacific Fleet
AirshipGr -- Airship Group
AirshipRon -- Airship Squadron
AirSoPac -- Aircraft, South Pacific Force
AirSoWesPac -- Aircraft, Southwest Pacific Force
AirTrainRon -- Air Training Squadron
AirTransRon -- Air Transport Squadron
AirTransRonLant -- Air Transport Squadrons, Atlantic
AirTransRonPac -- Air Transport Squadron, Pacific
AirTransRonWestCoast -- Air Transport Squadron, West Coast
AIS -- Air Intelligence Service
AITC -- Action Information Training Center
A/J -- Anti-Jamming (radar)
AK -- Cargo Ship, auxiliary (cargo ship of any type operated by the Navy)
AKA -- Cargo Ship, Attack
AKD -- Deep Hold Cargo Ship
AKF -- Refrigerated Cargo Ship (1943)
AKN -- Net Cargo Ship
AKS -- General Stores Issue Ship
AKV -- Cargo Ship and Aircraft Ferry
AL or A/L -- Air Liaison
AL -- Alameda, California
*AL -- Alaska
AL -- Lightship
AL -- USNR officer designation. Limited General Service, Aviation non-flying Duties. Formerly (A)L.
A1L -- USNR officer designation. Limited General Service, Heavier than Air Pilot. Formerly A-VN.
A2L -- USNR officer designation. Limited General Service, Lighter than Air Pilot. Formerly (A2)L and A-VN.
A3L -- USNR officer designation. Limited General Service, Heavier than Air Pilot. Formerly (A3)L and A-VG.
A4L -- USNR officer designation. Limited General Service, Lighter than Air Pilot. Formerly (A4)L and A-VG.
A5L -- USNR officer designation. Limited General Service, Lighter than Air Pilot. Formerly (A5)L and A-VT.
A6L -- USNR officer designation. Limited General Service, Lighter than Air Pilot. Formerly (A6)L and A-VT.
ALA -- Alabama
ALAMCABCO -- All American Cable Company
*ALAS -- Alaska
AlaskanDept -- Commanding General, Alaskan Department
AlBus -- All Bureaus
Alco -- American Locomotive Company
AlCom -- A dispatch to all commands in an area
ALLOW -- Allowance(s)
ALN -- USNR officer designation. Se AL and N. Formerly (A)L-N.
A1LN -- USNR officer designation. Se A1L and N. Formerly (A1)L-N.
A2LN -- USNR officer designation. Se A2L and N. Formerly (A2)L-N.
A3LN -- USNR officer designation. Se A3L and N. Formerly (A3)L-N.
A4LN -- USNR officer designation. Se A4L and N. Formerly (A4)L-N.
A5LN -- USNR officer designation. Se A5L and N. Formerly (A5)L-N.
A6LN -- USNR officer designation. Se A6L and N. Formerly (A6)L-N.
AlNav -- Communication directed to all Navy and Marine Corps activities
AlNavSta -- Letter to all Naval Stations
ALO -- Air Liaison Officer (USMC)
ALO -- Allied Liaison Office
ALO -- American Liaison Office
ALO -- Army Liaison Officer
ALOS -- Mission of Army G-2 to investigate German scientific development
ALOT -- Allotment
ALP -- Air Liaison Party
A1Pac -- A dispatch to all commands and personnel in the Pacific Ocean Areas
A1Pac -- A dispatch to all Army, Navy and Marine Commands in the Pacific Ocean Areas
ALR -- USNR officer designation. See AL and R. Formerly (A)L-R.
A1LR -- USNR officer designation. See A1L and R. Formerly (A1)L-R.
A2LR -- USNR officer designation. See A2L and R. Formerly (A2)L-R.
A3LR -- USNR officer designation. See A3L and R. Formerly (A3)L-R.
A4LR -- USNR officer designation. See A4L and R. Formerly (A4)L-R.
A5LR -- USNR officer designation. See A5L and R. Formerly (A5)L-R.
AlSeaFron -- Alaskan Sea Frontier
AlSec -- Alaskan Sector
AlStaCon -- Letter to All Stations, Continental United States
*ALT -- Alternations
Alt -- Alternating
ALT -- Altitude
ALT -- USNR officer designation. See A1 and T. Formerly (A)L-T.
A1LT -- USNR officer designation. See A1L and T. Formerly (A1)L-T.
A2LT -- USNR officer designation. See A2L and T. Formerly (A2)L-T.
A3LT -- USNR officer designation. See A3L and T. Formerly (A3)L-T.
A4LT -- USNR officer designation. See A4L and T. Formerly (A4)L-T.
A5LT -- USNR officer designation. See A5L and T. Formerly (A5)L-T.
A6LT -- USNR officer designation. See A6L and T. Formerly (A6)L-T.
Alt F Fl -- Alternating Fixed and Flashing
Alt F Gp Fl -- Alternating Fixed and Group Flashing
Alt Fl -- Alternating Flashing
Alt Gp Occ -- Alternating Group Occulting
Alt Occ -- Alternating Occulting
ALUSLO -- U.S. Naval Liaison Officer
ALUSNA -- U.S. Naval Attach&ecaute;
ALUSNOB -- U.S. Naval Observer
*ALUTS -- Aleutian Islands
ALX -- USNR officer designation. See AL and X. Formerly (A)L-X.
A1LX -- USNR officer designation. See A1L and X. Formerly (A1)L-X.
A2LX -- USNR officer designation. See A2L and X. Formerly (A2)L-X.
A3LX -- USNR officer designation. See A3L and X. Formerly (A3)L-X.
A4LX -- USNR officer designation. See A4L and X. Formerly (A4)L-X.
A5LX -- USNR officer designation. See A5L and X. Formerly (A5)L-X.
A6LX -- USNR officer designation. See A6L and X. Formerly (A6)L-X.
*AM -- American
AM -- Amplitude Modulation
AM -- Antemeridian
AM -- Aviation Metalsmith
AM -- Mine Sweeper
AMb -- Mine Sweeper, Harbor
AMC -- Air Mail Center
AMC -- American Maritime Cases
AMC -- Armed Merchant Cruiser (GB)
AMC -- Army Medical Center
AMc -- Mine Sweeper, Coastal
AmCon -- American Consul
AmConRepO -- American Consular Reporting Officer
AMCROSS -- American Red Cross
Amc (U) -- Coastal Mine Sweeper (underwater location)
AMDI -- Admiralty Merchan Ship Defense Instructions
AMG -- Aircraft Machine Gunner
AMG -- Allied Military Government
*AMGM -- Airmailgram
AML -- Aeronautical Materials Laboratory
AML -- Allied Military Liaison (Balkans)
AMM -- Aviation Machinist's Mate
AMMAC -- Aviation Machinist's Mate, Combat Aircrewman
AMMC -- Aviation Machinist's mate, Carburetor Mechanic
AMMF -- Aviation Machinist's Mate, Flight Engineer
AMMH -- Aviation Machinist's Mate, Hydraulic Mechanic
AMMI -- Aviation Machinist's Mate, Instrument Mechanic
AMMO -- Ammunition
AMMP -- Aviation Machinist's Mate, Propellor Mechanic
AMMT -- Aviation machinist's Mate, Turret Mechanic
AMO -- Aircraft Material Officer
AMPH -- Amphibious, Amphibian
AmphForLant -- Amphibious Force, Atlantic
AmphForMed -- Amphibious Force, Mediterranean
AmphForPac -- Amphibious Force, Pacific
Amphib -- Amphibious
AmphibFor -- Amphibious Forces
AmphibForCenPac -- Amphibious Forces, Central Pacific
Amphs -- Amphibious
*AMPS -- Amperes
AMS -- Army Map Service
AMS -- Minesweeper, High Speed
AMSC -- Allied Military Staff Conference (Quebec, Yalta, etc.)
AMSI -- Admiralty merchant Shipping Instructions
AMSI -- Atlantic Merchant Shipping Instructions
Amt -- Amount
Amtrack -- LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked)
AMUN -- Ammunition
AMVETS -- American Vewterans of World War II
AN -- Annapolis, Maryland
AN -- Army-Navy Joint Type Ordnance
AN -- Net Laying Ship
AN -- USNR officer designation. See A and N. Forermly (A)-N.
A1N -- USNR officer designation. See A1 and N. Forermly (A1)-N.
A2N -- USNR officer designation. See A2 and N. Forermly (A2)-N.
A3N -- USNR officer designation. See A3 and N. Forermly (A3)-N.
A4N -- USNR officer designation. See A4 and N. Forermly (A4)-N.
A5N -- USNR officer designation. See A5 and N. Forermly (A5)-N.
A6N -- USNR officer designation. See A6 and N. Forermly (A6)-N.
AN/ARC-1 -- A radio transceiver
ANC -- Army Nurse Corps
ANDUS -- Anglo-Dutch-United States
ANGAU -- Australia-New Guinea Administrative Unit
"Angels" -- Radar countermeasures; now called "Kites"
ANJSB -- Army-Navy Joint Specifications Board
ANMB -- Army-Navy Munitions Board
ANMC -- Assistant Navy Mail Clerk
AnnRept -- Annual Report
ANPB -- Army-Navy Petroleum Baord
ANPPPC -- Army-Navy Petroleum Pool, Pacific Coast
ANSCOL -- Army-Navy Staff College
ANSIA -- Army-Navy Shipping Information Agency
ANSO -- Assistant Naval Stores Officer
ANTS -- Advanced Naval Traiing School
ANTU -- Air Navigation Training Unit
ANZAC -- Australian-New Zealand Army Corps
AO -- Administration Officer
AO -- Oiler, or Fuel Oil Tanker
AOACB -- Aviation Ordnanceman, Combat Aircrewman, Air Bomber
AOB -- Advanced Operational Base
AOC -- Air Officer Commanding (USMC)
AOC -- Aviation Officer Candidate
AOG -- Aircraft on Ground
AOG -- Gasoline Tanker
AOil -- Aviation Oil
AOL -- Absent over leave
AOM -- Aviation Ordnanceman
AOMAC -- Aviation Ordnanceman, Combat Aircrewman
AOMB -- Aviation Ordnanceman, Bombsight Mechanic
AOMT -- Aivation Ordnanceman, Turret Mechanic
AOND -- Administrative Officer, Navy Department
AOO -- Aviation Ordnance Officer
AOQ -- Aviation Officers' Quarters
AOR -- Air Operations Room
AOTC -- Aviation Officers Training Corps
A/P -- Airplane
AP -- Air Publication
AP -- Armor Piercing
AP -- Aviation Pilot
AP -- Transport (operated by teh Navy)
APA -- Appropriation Purchases Account
APA -- Transport, Attack
APB -- Barracks, Ship, self-propelled
APC -- Acetylsalicylic Acid, Acetophenetidin, Caffeine compound ("all purpose capsules")
APc -- Coastal Transport (small)
APCCLA -- Aviation Petroleum Coordinating Committee, Latin American
APD -- Transport (high speed)
APEL -- Aeronautical Photographic Experimental Laboratory
APF -- Administration Flagship
APG -- Supporting Gunnery Ship
APH -- Transport for wounded
APL -- Labor Transport or Barrack Ship (non self-propelled)
APLA -- Aviation Pilot, Airship
APM -- Assistant Paymaster (USMC)
APM -- Mechanized Artillery Transport
APN -- Non-Mechanized Artillery Transport
APO -- Area Petroleum Office(r)
APO -- Army Post Office
APP -- Troop Barge, Class A
APPAC -- Aviation Petroleum Products Allocation Committee
APPAC-L -- Aviation Petroleum Products Allocation Committee, London
APPN -- Appropriation
APR -- Rescue Transport
*APPROX -- Approximate
APR/SPR -- Shipboard Radar Receiver
APS -- Army Postal Service
APS -- Transport, Submarine
AP & SC Honolulu -- Army Port and Service Command, Honolulu
APT -- Armor Piercing Traced
APT -- Troop Barge, Class B
APU -- Army Postal Unit
APUC -- Area Production Urgency Committee
APV -- Transport and Aircraft Ferry
AR -- Airship Rigger
AR -- Allocated Reserve
AR -- Amphibian Reconnaissance
*AR -- Area
AR -- Argentia, Newfoundland
AR -- Army Regulations
A&R -- Assembly and Repair
AR -- Repair Ship
AR -- USNR officer designation. See A and R. Formerly (A)-R.
A1R -- USNR officer designation. See A1 and R. Formerly (A1)-R.
A2R -- USNR officer designation. See A2 and R. Formerly (A2)-R.
A3R -- USNR officer designation. See A3 and R. Formerly (A3)-R.
A4R -- USNR officer designation. See A4 and R. Formerly (A4)-R.
A5R -- USNR officer designation. See A5 and R. Formerly (A5)-R.
A6R -- USNR officer designation. See A6 and R. Formerly (A6)-R.
ARB -- Repair Ship, Battle Damage
ARC -- Cable Repairing or Laying Ship
ARCO -- Aircraft Resources Control Office
ARD -- Auxiliary Repair Dock (Floating Drydock)
ARDC -- Auxiliary Repair Dock, Concrete
ARG -- Repair Ship, Internal Combustion Engine
ARG -- Admiralty Regional Officer (GB)
Argus -- Shore-based fighter director unit
ARH -- Heavy-Hull Repair Ship
ARI -- Arithmetic Reading test
ARZ -- Arizona
ARK -- Arkansas
ARL -- Repair Ship, Landing Craft
ArlAnn -- Arlington Annex (Navy Department)
AMR -- Armament
ARM -- Aviation Radioman
ARM -- Heavy machinery Repair Ship
ARMAC -- Aviation Radioman, Combat Aircrewman
*ARMD -- Armored
ArmdComd -- Armored Command (Army)
ArmGrd -- Armed Guard
ArmGrdCen -- Armed Guard Center
ARO -- Air Radio Officer
AROU -- Aviation Repair and Overhaul Unit
ARP -- Air Raid Precautions
#ARPROREP -- Upon arrival further proceed and report (to)
#ARREP -- Upon arrival report (to)
#ARREPCOVES -- Upon arrival report to commanding officer of that vessel for duty
#ARREPISC -- Upon arrival report to immediate superior in command if present; otherwise by dispatch for duty indicated
ARRL -- Aeronautical Radio and Radar laboratory
ArrUS -- Arrived within continental limits of U.S.
ARRV -- Arrive
ARS -- Air Regulating Squadron
ARS -- Salvage Vessel
ARSD -- Aviation Repair Supply Depot
ARS(D) -- Salvage Lifting Vessel
ARS(T) -- Salvage Craft Tender
ART -- Article
ART -- Aviation Radio Technician
ARTL -- Awaiting result of trail
Arty -- Artillery
ARV -- Aircraft Repair Ship
ARV(A) -- Aircraft Repair Ship (Aircraft)
ARV(E) -- Aircraft Repair Ship (Engine)
AS -- Altostratus
AS -- Anti-Submarine
A/S -- Anti-Submarine
AS -- Apprentice Seaman
AS -- Asiatic
AS -- Astoria, Oregon
AS -- Submarine Tender
AS -- United States to West African ports (routing designation)
ASA -- Aviation Supply Annex
ASAC -- Altostratus and Altocumulus
ASAP -- Anti-Submarine Attack Plotter
ASATTU -- Anti-Submarine Attack Teacher Training Unit
ASB -- Airborne Search Radar
ASC -- Air Service Command (Army)
ASC -- Air Support Control
ASCU -- Air Support Control Units
ASD -- Airborne Search Radar
ASD -- Artillery Spotting Division
ASD -- Aviation Supply Depot
ASDevLant -- Anti-Submarine Development Detachment, Atlantic Fleet
Asdic -- Allied Submarine Devices Investigation Committee (World War I); also, general term applied to any type of under-water supersonic echo-ranging equipment of vessels
ASE -- Airborne Search Radar
ASE -- Aircraft Stores Establishment
A/SEE -- Anti-Submarine Experimental Establishment
ASF -- Alaskan Sea Frontier
ASF -- Army Service Forces
A/SFDO -- Anti-Submarine Fixed Defenses Officer
ASFTrnTraRonPac -- Auxiliary Service Force, Transition Training Squadron, Pacific
ASG -- Airborne Search Radar
ASH -- Airborne Search Radar
ASIS -- Ammunition Stores Issuing Ship
ASN -- Army Serial Number
ASO -- Air Signal Officer
ASO -- Air Staff Officer
ASO -- Assistant Secretary's Office (Navy)
ASO -- Aviation Supply Office (Philadelphia)
ASOS -- Assistant Supervisor of Shipbuilding
ASP -- Anti-Submarine Patrol
ASR or A/SR -- Air-Sea Rescue
ASR -- Submarine Rescue Vessel
ASRS -- Anglo-Soviet Recognition Signals
ASSERON -- Army Service Squadron (corresponds to Navy's CASU)
AS&SL -- All Ships and Stations Letters
ASSRON -- Air Service Support Squadron (Army)
Asst -- Assistant
*AST -- Assistant (to)
AstCk -- Assistant Cook
ASTP -- Army Specialized Training Program
ASTRP -- Army Specialized Training Reserve Program
AstSecNav -- Assistant Secretary of the Navy
AstSecNavAir -- Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air
ASTU -- Air Support Training Units
ASTU -- Army Specialized Training Unit
ASU -- Aircraft Scheduling Unit
ASV -- Airborne Search Radar
*ASW or A/SW -- Anti-Submarine Warfare
ASW -- Assistant Secretary of War
ASWO -- (Naval) Air Stations Weekly Orders
ASWORG -- Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group
ASWTC -- Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center
ASWTraCen -- Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center
ASWTU -- Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Unit
ASWUnit -- Anti-Submarine Warfare Unit
AT -- Anti-Tank
A/T -- Anti-Torpedo (Nets)
A/T -- Attack teacher
AT -- Ocean-going Tug
AT -- United States to United Kingdom (routing designation)
AT -- USNR officer designation. See A and T. Formerly (A)-T.
A1T -- USNR officer designation. See A1 and T. Formerly (A1)-T.
A2T -- USNR officer designation. See A2 and T. Formerly (A2)-T.
A3T -- USNR officer designation. See A3 and T. Formerly (A3)-T.
A4T -- USNR officer designation. See A4 and T. Formerly (A4)-T.
ATA -- Army Transportation Association
ATA -- Ocean Tug (Auxiliary)
ATAD -- Absent on temporary additional duty
ATAD -- Air Technical Analysis Division
*ATAK -- Attack
ATANDT -- American Telephone and Telegraph Company
ATB -- Amphibious Training Base
ATC -- Airport Traffic Control
ATC -- Air Transport Command (USAAF)
ATC -- Army Training Center
ATCC(L) -- Allied Tanker Coordinating Committee in London
ATCC(W) -- Allied Tanker Coordinating Committee in Washington
ATCLO -- Amphibious Training Command Liaison Officer
ATCom -- Atoll Commander
ATCOR -- Air Traffic Coordinator
ATCOREU -- Air Traffic Coordinator Europe
ATCORUS -- Air Transport Coordinator for the United States
ATD -- Actual Time of Departure
AT (E) -- Administration of Territories (Europe)
ATF -- Ocean Tug, Fleet
ATIS -- Allied Translation and Intelligence Section
Atl -- Atlantic
ATL -- Awaiting trial
ATL -- Tank-landing craft, ocean going
ATMU -- Aircraft Torpedo Maintenance Unit
ATO -- Assisted take-off
ATO -- Ocean Tug, Old
ATR -- Aircraft Trouble Report
ATR -- Aviation Training Record
ATR -- Ocean Tug, Rescue
ATRON -- Atlantic Squadron (before Feb. 1941)
ATS -- Army Transport Service
ATSC -- Air Technical Service Command (Army)
ATSU -- Air Travel Security Unit
AT&T -- American Telegraph and Telephone Company
*ATT -- Mess attendant
ATTC -- Aviation Technical Training Center
*ATTN -- Attention
ATU -- Advanced Training Unit
AugU -- Augmenting Unit
AUS -- Army of the United States
*AUTH -- Authority
Auth -- Authority
#AUTHEXANDO -- Authority granted to execute acceptance and oath of office for
Auto Weap -- Automatic Weapons
*AUX -- Auxiliary or Auxiliary Craft
AV -- Audio-Visual
*AV -- Aviator, Aviation
AV -- Seaplane Tender
AVC -- American Veterans' Committee
AVC -- Catapult Lighter
AVCAD -- Aviation Cadet
AVD -- Seaplane Tender (highspeed)
"Avenger" -- See TBF-#, TBM-#
AVG -- Aircraft Carrier, Escort [see CVE]
A-V(G) -- USNR aviation officers holding designation as naval aviators, qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (A3), (A3)L, (A4)L, S(A3), or S(A4).
AvGas -- Aviation Gasoline
AVH -- USN officer designation. Designated Naval Aviator, Heavier than Air, on Flight Duty, USN.
AVIA -- Aviaiton pay
AVL -- Aviation officer designation. Designated Naval Aviator, Lighter than Air, on Flight Duty, USN.
AVM -- Air Vice-Marshal
Avn -- Aviation
A-V(N) -- USNR aviation flight officers, detailed to actve duty in the aeronautic organization of the Navy immediately following their completion of traiing and designation as naval aviators.This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (A1), (A1)-L, (A2), (A2L), S(A1), or S(A2).
AvnCdt -- Aviation Cadet
AvnEngrBn -- Aviation Engineer Battalion (USMC)
AvnU -- Aviation Unit (USMC)
AVP -- Seaplane Tender (Small)
AVR -- Aircraft Rescue Vessel
Avr -- Aviator
A-V(RS) -- USNR aviation officers, commissioned and warrant, including radio electricians, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by the proper aviation or engineering classification with the suffix "T".
AVS -- Aviation Supply Ship
A-V(S) -- USNR aviaiton officers, commissioned and wearrant, including guners, radio electricians, machinists, aerographers, and photographers, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (A), (A)L, (D), (D)L, (AD), (S), or S(A).
AVT -- Aviation Medicine
AVT -- Aviation Medicine Technician
A-V(T) -- USNR aviaiton officers, former civil aviation pilots or aviators of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard, qualified for specialist duties. This classificaiton was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (A5), (A5)L, (A6), (A6)L, S(A5), or S(A6).
AVTR -- Aviator
AW -- Articles of War (Army)
AW -- Automatic Weapons (Army)
AW -- Distilling Ship
AWA or AWAS -- Air Warfare Analysis Section (GB)
AWC -- Army War College
A&WI -- Atlantic and West Indies
AWK -- Water Tanker
AWOL -- Absent without official leave
AWrnCo -- Aircraft Warning Company (USMC)
AWS -- Air Warning Squadron (USMC)
AWS -- Physically on board awaiting sentence of court martial; not ship's company
AWT -- Physically on board awaiting trial by court martial; not ship's company
AX -- Planned Auxiliary, New Construction
AX -- USNR officer designation. See A and X. Formerly (A)-X.
A1X -- USNR officer designation. See A1 and X. Formerly (A1)-X.
A2X -- USNR officer designation. See A2 and X. Formerly (A2)-X.
A3X -- USNR officer designation. See A3 and X. Formerly (A3)-X.
A4X -- USNR officer designation. See A4 and X. Formerly (A4)-X.
A5X -- USNR officer designation. See A5 and X. Formerly (A5)-X.
A6X -- USNR officer designation. See A6 and X. Formerly (A6)-X.
AZ -- Air ship Tender (Lighter than Air)
--- B ---
B -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a bomber plane
B -- Beech Aircraft Company (manufacturer's symbol)
B -- Biplane
B -- Boeing Aircraft Company (manufacturer's symbol)
B -- Boeing Aircraft of Canada, Ltd. (manufacturer's symbol)
B -- Boilermaker
B -- Bomber Field
B -- Built for British (suffix to plane designation, as: F4F-4B)
B -- Budd Manufacturing Company (manufacturer's symbol)
IVB -- Classified Civil Service Worker
B -- Ship Symbols preceded by B represent Lend-Lease vessels for Royal Navy; e.g.: BAm is British Minesweeper
B -- Butcher
B-314 -- "Clipper"; four-engine Navy Transport (VR (HS)), seaplane, manufactured by Boeing; formerly Pan-American "Clipper")
BA -- Balboa, Canal Zone
BA -- British Admiralty
BA -- British Army
BABS -- Blind Approach Beam System (radar)
BAC -- British Air Commission (Washington)
BACC -- British-American Coordinating Committee (Turkey)
BAD -- British Admiralty Delegation (Washington)
#BAGAIR -- (Total pounds) baggage authorized while in an air travel status
BAGR -- BuAer General Representative (formerly, General Inspector of Naval Aircraft)
BAGR, ED -- BuAer General Representative, Eastern District
BAGR, CD -- BuAer General Representative, Central District
BAGR, WD -- BuAer General Representative, Western District
BAIRES -- Buenos Aires
BAK -- Cargo Ship (Lend-Lease to Great Britain)
BAKA (foolish) -- Allied name for Japanese Oka (rocket propelled one man guided missile); earlier, called "Viper"
Baker -- "B" in the phonetic alphabet
*BAKS -- Barracks
BAL -- Balance
BALDNY -- Ballistic Density
BALWND -- Ballistic Wind
BAM -- British Air Ministry
BAm -- Mine Sweeper (Lend-Lease to Great Britain)
BAMO -- Bureau of Aeronautics Material Officer
BAMRO -- Bureau of Aeronautics Maintenance Repair Officer
BAMRRO -- Bureau of Aeronautics Maintenance Resident Representative Officer
BAMS -- Broadcast to Allied Merchant Ships
BAMSR -- British Admiralty Maintenance and Supply Representative
BAR -- Browning Automatic Rifle
BAR -- Bureau of Aeronautics Representative (formerly Inspector of Naval Aircraft)
BARDay -- Bureau of Aeronautics Representative, Dayton, Ohio
BARM -- British Admiralty Repair Mission
BARR -- Bureau of Aeronautics Resident Representative
BARS -- Salvage Vessel (Lend-Lease to Great Britain)
BaseFor -- Base Force
BaseServUnit -- Base Service Unit
Bat -- Battalion (USMC)
*BAT -- Battle, Battleship
BAT -- Oceangoing Tug (Lend-Lease to Great Britain)
BatCruLant -- Battleships and Cruisers, Atlantic Fleet
BatCruPac -- Battleships and Cruisers, Pacific Fleet
BatDiv -- Battleship Division
BatFor -- Battle Force
BatLant or BatShipsLant -- Battleships, Atlantic Fleet
BatPac or BatShipsPac -- Battleships, Pacific Fleet
BatRon -- Battleship Squadron
BATSHIP -- Battleship, Battleforce
BatshipsBatForPac -- Battleships, Battle Force, Pacific Fleet
BAVG -- Aircraft Carrier Escort (lend-Lease to GB)
BAYONGRU -- Bayonne Group
B/B -- Baby Incendiary Bomb
BB -- Battleship
BBB -- Basic Boxed Base
BBC -- Bombenzyl Cyanide
BBH -- Battalion Beachhead (Army)
BBL -- Barrel
BC -- Battery Commander (Army)
BC -- Battle Cruiser (GB)
BC -- United States East Coast to Society Islands (routing designation)
BCD -- Bad Conduct Discharge
BCDD -- Base Construction Depot Detachment
Bcn -- Bombardment calling wave
BCRA -- Bureau Centrale de Renseignements et d'Action (Free French)
BD -- Bomb Disposal
BD-# -- "Havoc"; twin-engine Navy bomber (VB), manufactured by Douglas
BdD&M -- Board of Decorations and Medals
BDE -- Escort Vessel (Lend-Lease to GB)
BDGC -- Bad conduct discharge, general court martial, after confinement in prison
BDGI -- Bad conduct discharge, general court martial, immediate
BDGP -- Bad conduct discharge, general court martial, after violation of probation
BDI -- Bearing Deviation Indicator (Sonar)
BDSI -- Bad conduct discharge, sentence of summary court martial, immediate
BDSP -- Bad conduct discharge, summary court martial, after violation of probation
"Bearcat" -- See F8F-#
Benef -- Beneficiary
B Eng -- Basic Engineering
"Bermuda" -- See SB2A-#
BerSeaPat -- Bering Sea Patrol
Beth -- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
BEW -- Board of Economic Warfare
BF -- Brought Forward
BFM -- Basic Field Manual (Army)
Bfo -- Beat frequently oscillator
BG -- British Guiana
BG-# -- Single-engine Navy bomber (VB), biplane, manufactured by Great Lakes
BGM -- Basegram
BGM -- Buglemaster
Bgmstr -- Buglemaster
BGPP -- Beneficiary Government Production Program
BHO -- Branch Hydrographic Office
BHQ -- Brigade Headquarters (Army)
BI -- Bermuda Islands
BI -- Biographical inventory
BIGOT -- British Messages Replanning and Direction of Major Operations
BIM -- Basic Industrial Materials (Program)
BIO -- Branch Intelligence Officer
BIS -- Board of Inspection and Survey
BJM -- Bluejacket's Manual
BJSM -- British Joint Staff Mission
BJU -- Beach jumper Unit
BK -- Yardarm Blinker
BKR -- Baker
Bks -- Barracks
BKT -- Blinker Tube
B/L -- Bill of Lading
BL -- Bomb Line
"Black Widow" -- See FT-#
BLADING -- Bill of Lading
BlimpHedron -- Blimp Maintenance Squadron
BlimpRon -- Blimp Squadron
BLO -- Bombardment Liaison Officer
BLO -- British Liaison Officer
Block -- Airborne television system
*BLP -- Bombing landplane
BLT -- Battalion Landing Team (Army)
BL&T -- Blind Loaded and Traced
BM -- Boatswain's Mate
BM1 -- Boatswain's Mate 1st class
BM2 -- Boatswain's Mate 2nd class
B-M -- Boilers, Propulsion Division of Engineering Department aboard a carrier
BMCBB -- Boatswain's Mate, Construction Battalion, Boatswain
BMCBS -- Boatswain's Mate, Construction Battalion, Stevedore
BMD -- Base Maintenance Division
BMG -- Browning Machine Gun
BMKR -- Boilermaker
BMM -- Boatswain's Mate A (Master-at Arms)
BMR -- Beachmaster
BMSM -- British Merchant Shipping Mission
BMSRC -- Boatswain's mate, Ship Repair, Crane Operator
BMSRR -- Boatswain's Mate, Ship Repair, Rigger
BMSRS -- Boatswain's Mate, Ship Repair, Canvasman
Bmstr -- Bandmaster
Bn -- Battalion
BN -- Brazilian Navy
BNAS -- British Naval Air Service
BnHQ -- Battalion Headquarters (USMC)
BNLO -- British Naval Liaison officer
BNP -- Bureau of Naval Personnel Publications
BNPCL -- Bureau of Naval Personnel Circular Letters
BNYD -- Boston Navy Yard
BO -- Base Order
"BOATS" -- A Boatswain's Mate
"Bobcat" -- See JRC-#
BODU -- Bureau of Ordnance Design Unit
*BOI -- Boiler
*BOM -- Bombing
BomCom -- Bomber Command (Army)
BOMID -- Branch Office, Military Intelligence Division (War Department)
BomRon -- Bombing Squadron
BOQ -- Bachelor Officers Quarters
BORU -- Boat Operating and Repair Unit
BOS -- Boston, Massachusetts
BOSN -- Boatswain (Warrant)
BosGrp -- Boston Group
BOU -- Boat Operating unit
BP -- Base Pay
BB -- Base Planning Board
BPFILO -- British Pacific Fleet Intelligence Liaison Officer
BPFLO -- British Pacific Fleet Liaison Officer
BPO -- Base Post Office (Army)
BPR -- Bridge Plotting Room
B&Q -- Barracks and Quarters (Army)
BQM -- Base Quartermaster (USMC)
BR -- Bomber Reconnaissance Aircraft
BR -- Bremerton, Washington
BR -- Briefing Room
BRAL -- Bureau de Renseignements et d'Action, Londres (Free French)
BrancHydro -- Branch Hydrographic Office
Braso -- Branch Aviation Supply Office
BREM -- Bremerton, Washington
BRG -- Bearing
BrgBln -- Barrage Balloon
Brig -- Brigade
BRIGEN -- Brigadier General (USMC)
BrigGen -- Brigadier General
BRIT -- British
BRL -- Bomb Release Line
BRO -- British Routing Office
BrQM -- Brigade Quartermaster (USMC)
BRR -- Bridge Receiving Room
BRU -- Boat Repair Unit
BRUSA -- British-United States Agreement (Circuits)
BS -- Battleship Squadron
BS -- Boston (Navy Yard)
BS -- Busch Sulzer (ship engines)
BSC -- Balkan Supply Center
BSerBn -- Base Service Battalion (USMC)
BSI -- British Solomon Islands
BSN -- Boston, Massachusetts
BSO -- Base Supply Officer
BSO -- Bomb Safety Officer
BSO -- British Supply Office
BSR -- Boilermaker, Ship Repair
BSU -- Base Service Unit
BT-# -- Single-engine Navy bomber (VB), manufactured by Northrop
BT -- Bahia to Trinidad (routing designation)
BT -- Bathythermograph (sonar)
BT2C -- Twin-engine Navy fighter (VF(M)), manufactured by Curtiss
BTCA -- Basic Tables of Commissioning Allowances (now Tables of Basic Allowances--TBA)
BTD-# -- Single-engine Navy scout bomber (VSB), manufactured by Douglas
BTE -- British Troops in Egypt
BTM-# -- Twin-engine Navy fighter (VF(M)), manufactured by Martin
Btry -- Battery
*BU -- Bureau
BuAer (BuAero) -- Bureau of Aeronautics
BUAER -- Chief, Bureau of Aeronautics
BUCon -- Bureau of Construction and Repair (to 1940)
BuC&R -- Bureau of Construction and Repair (to 1940)
BuDocks -- Bureau of Yards and Docks
BUDOCKS -- Chief, Bureau of Yards and Docks
BuEng -- Bureau of Engineering (to 1940)
BuExp -- Bureau Express (boiler)
"Buffalo" -- See F2A-#
BUG -- Bugler
BuMed -- Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
BUMED -- Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
BuM&S -- Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
BuNav -- Bureau of Navigation (to 1942)
BuOrd -- Bureau of Ordnance
BUORD -- Chief, Bureau of Ordnance
BuPers -- Bureau of Naval Personnel
BUPERS -- Chief, Bureau of Naval Personnel
BUPS -- Beacon, Ultra Portable "S" Band
BuSandA -- Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
BUSANDA -- Chief, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
BUSCI -- British-United States Convoy Instructions
BuShips -- Bureau of Ships
BUSHIPS -- Chief, Bureau of Ships
BUSRA -- British-United States Routing Agreement
"Buttress" -- Mine Recovery Vessel
BuY&D -- Bureau of Yards and Docks
BUZZ BOMB -- V-1 (Pilotless Flying Bomb)
B&W -- Babcock and Wilcox (boilers)
B&W -- Black and White (film)
B&W -- Bread and Water
BWC -- Board of War Communications
BWI -- British West Indies
BWP -- Basic War Plan
BX -- Boston to Halifax (routing designation)
BY -- Bayonne, New Jersey
BYMS -- British Yard Motor Minesweepers
--- C ---
(C) -- Caretaker Status
C -- Center--as NATTC (Naval Air Technical Training Center)
C -- Central
C -- Cessna Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
C -- Chief; e.g., CMUS (Chief Musician)
C -- Class; used with number for Navy rating as: 1c (first class)
C -- Commandant (USCG)
C -- Commander; as: CNAB (Commander Naval Air Bases)
C -- Commissary (USMC)
C -- Confidential Dispatch
C -- Culver Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
C -- Curtiss-Wright Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
C -- Freighter Aircraft
C -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Communications Duties. Formerly (C).
CA -- Assistant Commandant (USCG)
CA -- Civil Authorities
CA -- Combat Aircrew (man)
CA -- Convening Authority
CA -- Heavy Cruiser
CAA -- Civil Aeronautics Authority
CAAF -- Combined Allied Air Forces
CAA-WTS -- Civil Aviation Authority--War Training Service
CAB -- Civil Aeronautics Board
CAC -- Coast Artillery Corps (Army)
CAC -- Combat Air Crew
CAC -- Commander Air Center
CACW -- Chinese-American Composite Wing
CAD -- Civil Affairs Division (Army)
CAdC -- Combined Administrative Committee
CADRC -- Combined Air Documents Research Center
CAer -- Chief Aerographer
CAerM -- Chief Aerographer's Mate
CAF -- Clerical, Administrative and Fiscal (Civil Service employees designation)
CAFAC -- Commander All Forces, Aruba-Curacao
CAFAF -- Commander Amphibious Force Atlantic Fleet
CAFO -- Confidential Admiralty Fleet Order (GB)
CAFT -- Consolidated Advance Field Teams
Cal -- Caliber
CALF -- Combined Allied Land Forces
CALIF -- California
CAM -- Administrative Management Division (USCG)
CAMDI -- Confidential Admiralty merchant Ship Defense Instructions (GB)
"Campbell" -- Navy crash boat equipped with television
CAMSI -- Canadian, American Merchant Shipping Instructions
CAMSI -- Confidential Admiralty Merchant Shipping Instructions
*CAN -- Canada, Canadian
CANCEL -- Vessels on which construction was stopped (Code)
CANCON -- Canadian Control System (for convoys in Canadian Coastal Zone)
CandR -- Construction and Repair (USCG)
CandR -- Convoy and Routing
CANF -- Combined Allied Naval Forces
CANFSWPA -- Combined Allied Naval Forces Southwest Pacific Area
CANFSWPAOPPlan -- Combined Allied Naval Forces Southwest Pacific Ocean Area Operation Plan
CAO -- Civil Affairs Officer
CAP -- Catapult and Arresting-Gear Pool
CAP -- Chief Aviation Pilot
CAP -- Civil Air Patrol
CAP -- Combat Air Patrol
CAP -- Current Assessment Plan
CAPCP -- Civil Air Patrol Coastal Patrol
CAPT -- Captain
CapLB -- Captain, Landing Barges
CAPUC -- Coordinating Area Production Urgency Committee
*CAR -- Carrier
CAR -- Chief Airship Rigger
CarAirGroup -- Carrier Air Group
Carb -- Carburetor
CarDiv -- Carrier Division
CARE -- Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe
*CARIB -- Caribbean
CaribSeaFron -- Caribbean Sea Frontier
Carp -- Carpenter
CarPac -- Carriers, Pacific Fleet
"Carpet" -- Electronic jammer (radar)
"Carpet Sweeper" -- Electronic transceiver (radar)
CarTaskFor -- Carrier Task Force
CarTransRon -- Carrier Transport Squadron
CARTU -- Combat Aircrew Refresher Training Unit
CAS -- Chief of Air Staff (USMC)
CAS -- Civil Affairs Section
CASCP -- Caribbean Area Small Craft Project
CASCU -- Commander Aircraft Support Control Unit
CASD -- Carrier Aircraft Service Detachment (USMC)
CASD -- Carrier Aircraft Service Division
CASDIV -- Carrier Aircraft Service Division
Cast -- "C" in the phonetic alphabet; now obsolete and replaced by "Charlie"
CASU -- Carrier Aircraft Service Unit
CASU (F) -- Combat Aircraft Service Unit
CASUM -- Civil Affairs Summary
CASWO -- Confidential and Secret Weekly Orders (Naval Air Stations)
"Catalina" -- See PB2B-#, PBY-#
CATCUSAF -- Commander Amphibious Training Command United States Atlantic Fleet
CATS -- Civil Affairs Training School
CATU -- Combat Aircrew Training Unit
CAVU -- Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited
"Caydet" -- N2S; single-engine Boeing, Wichita (Stearman) Navy training, primary
CAZ -- Planned Auxiliary, Conversion (Cruiser)
CB -- Chief Boilermaker
CB -- Confidential
CB -- Construction Battalion ("Seabees")
CB -- Cooper Bessemer (ship engines)
CB -- Cumulonimbus
CB -- Large Cruiser
CBALS -- Carrier Borne Air Liaison Section
CBC -- Contraband Control
CBD -- Board of Review, Discharges and Dismissals (USCG)
CBD -- Construction Battalion Detachment
CBgmstr -- Chief Buglemaster
CBI -- China-Burma-India (Theater of Operations)
CBLO -- Chief Bombardment Liaison Officer
CBLS -- Carrier Borne Air Liaison Section
CBM -- Chief Boatswain's Mate
CBMA -- Chief Boatswain's Mate Acting
CBMCBB -- Chief Boatswain's Mate, Construction Battalion, Boatswain
CBMCBS -- Chief Boatswain's Mate Construction Battalion, Stevedore
CBmkr -- Chief Boilermaker (USCG)
CBMM -- Chief Boatswain's Mate A (Master-at-Arms)
CBMSRC -- Chief Boatswain's Mate, Ship Repair, Crane Operator
CBMSRR -- Chief Boatswain's Mate, Ship Repair, Rigger
CBMSRS -- Chief Boatswain's Mate, Ship Repair, Canvasman
CBMU -- Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit
#CBN -- Construction Battalion
#CBNDET -- Construction Battalion Detachment
CBO -- Board of Review, Officer Retirements (USCG)
CBO -- Coding Board Officer
CBR -- Budget and Requirements Division (USCG)
CBRD -- Construction Battalion Replacement Depot
CBSR -- Chief Boilermaker, Ship Repair
CBT -- Clinical laboratory Technician
CC -- Combat Command (Army)
CC -- Cyanogen chloride
CC -- USN officer designation for Construction Corps, USN
CCA -- Cash Clothing Allowance (quarterly)
CCAC -- Combined Civil Affairs Committee
CCAC/L -- Combined Civil Affairs Committee, London Subcommittee
CCAC/S -- Combined Civil Affairs Committee, Supply Subcommittee
CCAO -- Chief Civil Affairs Officer (US & GB)
CCATNA -- Combined Committee on Air Training in North America
CCB -- Combined Communications Board
CCB -- Contraband Control Base
CCBP -- Combined Communications Board Publications
CCC -- Chief Cable Censor
CCC -- Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC -- Combined Coordinating Committee (CCB)
CCC -- Commodity Credit Corporation
CCFET -- Central Commissioning Detail
CCF -- Captain, Coastal Force
CCFET -- Captain, Coastal Forces, Eastern Theatre
CCGD -- Commander Coast Guard District; e.g., CCGDTHREE
CCk -- Chief Cook
CCk(B) -- Chief Cook (Baker)
CCk(C) -- Chief Cook (Commissary)
CCL -- Communications Circular Letter
CCM -- Chief Carpenter's Mate
CCM -- Combined Cipher Machine
CCM -- Combined Coding Machine
CCMCBB -- Chief Carpenter's Mate, Construction Battalion, Builder
CCMCBD -- Chief Carpenter's Mate, Construction Battalion, Draftsman
CCMCBE -- Chief Carpenter's Mate, Construction Battalion, Excavation Foreman
CCMCBS -- Chief Carpenter's Mate, Construction Battalion, Surveyor
CCMSRB -- Chief Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair, Boatbuilder--Wood
CCMSRJ -- Chief Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair, Joiner
CCO -- Convoy Control Officer
CCS -- Chief Commissary Steward
CCS -- Combined Chiefs of Staff
CCSC -- Civil Affairs Staff Center (Wimbledon, England)
CCSF -- Commander Caribbean Sea Frontier
CCSTD -- Chief Commissary Steward
CCT -- Communications Control Team
CC-V(S) -- USNR designation for Engineer Officers, commissioned and warrant, including carpenters, qualified for specialist duties. Classification abolished in 1944 and replaced by S(E) classification.
CCZA -- Canadian Coastal Zone Atlantic
CCZP -- Canadian Coastal Zone Pacific
CD -- Coastal Defense (USMC)
CD -- Confidential Document
CD -- Conning Director
CD -- USNR officer designation. See C and D. Formerly (CD)
CDC -- Caribbean Defense Command(er)
CDD -- Certificate of Disability for Discharge (Army)
CDN -- USNR officer designation. See C, D and N. Formerly (CD)-N
CDO -- Command Duty Officer
Cdo -- Commando
CDR -- Commander
CDR -- USNR officer designation. See C, D, and R. Formerly (CD)-R
CDRE -- Commodore
CdreIC -- Commodore-in-Charge (GB)
CdrelchPortsmouth -- Commodore Commanding Landing Craft Bases, Portsmouth Command (GB)
CdreSupt -- Commodore Superintendent (GB)
CdrF -- Command, Flying (GB)
CdrSBU -- Commander, Special Boats Units (GB)
CDS -- Central Distribution System (publications)
CDS -- Commander, Destroyer Squadron
CDT -- Cadet (USCG)
CDT -- Commandant
CDT -- USNR officer designation. See C, D, and T. Formerly (CD)-T.
CDX -- USNR officer designation. See C, D, and X. Formerly (CD)-X.
CE -- Chief Engineer
CE -- Civil Engineer
CE -- Combustion Engineering
CE -- Corps of Engineers (Army)
CEC -- Central Economic Committee
CEC -- USN officer designation for Civil Engineer Corps, USN
CECR -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Civil Engineering Corps. Formerly CEC.
CECS -- USNR officer designation for Cargo Handling Specialists. Formerly (CEC)S.
CEC(S1) -- USN officer designation for Special Service, Special CEC duties as Mechanical Engineer.
CEC(S2) -- USN officer designation for Special Service, Special CEC duties as Electrical Engineer.
CEC(S3) -- USN officer designation for Special Service, Special CEC duties as Cargo Handling Specialist.
CEC-V(S) -- USNR officer designation for Civil Engineer Officers, commissioned and warrant, including carpenters, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: CEC(S), CEC(S1), CEC(S2) or CEC(S3).
CEF -- Captain (Commanding) Escort Forces
CEF -- Corps Expeditionaire Francais
CEM -- Chief Electrician's Mate
CEMCBC -- Chief Electrician's Mate, Construction Battalion, Communications
CEMCBD -- Chief Electrician's Mate, Construction Battalion, Draftsman
CEMCBG -- Chief Electrician's Mate, Construction Battalion, General
CEMCBL -- Chief Electrician's Mate, Construction Battalion, Line and Station
CEMSRG -- Chief Electrician's Mate, Ship Repair, General Electrician
CEMSRS -- Chief Electrician's Mate, Ship Repair, Shop Electrician
CEMSRT -- Chief Electrician's Mate, Ship Repair, I.C. Repairman
*CEN -- Center, Central
CenCATS -- Central Pacific Combat Air Transport Service (joint Army, Navy and Marine Corps) (later TAG)
CenDraft -- Central Drafting Officer (Navy Yard, N.Y.)
CenPac -- Central Pacific Area
CenPacFor -- Central Pacific Forces
CentCom -- Central Pacific Communications Instructions
CentPacBaCom -- Central pacific Base Command
CEO -- Casualty Evacuation Officer
CEOinC -- Civil Engineer, Officer-in-Charge
CESF -- Commander Eastern Sea Frontier
CEV -- Convoy Escort Vessel
CEWA -- Combined Economic Warfare Agencies
CF -- Carry Forward
CF -- Coastal Frontier (Army)
CF -- Flying Deck Cruiser
CFC -- Chief Fire Controlman
CFC -- Controlled Force Circulation (boilers)
CFCO -- Chief Fire Controlman, Operator
CFCS -- Chief Fire Controlman, Submarines
CFLN -- Comite Francais Liberation Nationale
CFO -- Connection Fitting Out (name of ship)
CFO -- Physically on board for the commissioning and fitting out of a specified ship or activity
CG -- Coast Guard
CG -- Commanding General (USMC)
CG -- Phosgene
CGA -- Coast Guard Academy
CGAB -- Coast Guard Air Base
CGAS -- Coast Guard Air Station
CGC -- Coast Guard Cutter
CGD -- Coast Guard District
CGM -- Chief Gunner's Mate
CGMB -- Commanding General, Marine Base
CGMCBG -- Chief Gunner's Mate, Construction Battalion, Armorer
CGMCBP -- Chief Gunner's Mate, Construction Battalion, Powderman
CGOB -- Coast Guard Operating Base
CGOS -- Combat Gunnery Officers School (Army Air Forces)
C&GS -- Coast and Geodetic Survey
C&GS -- Command and General Staff (Army)
CGTS -- Coast Guard Training Station
CGYD -- Coast Guard Yard
CH -- Charleston (Navy Yard)
*CH -- Chief of the ---; e.g., ChBuOrd (Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance)
ChAer -- Chief Aerographer
Chap -- Chapter
Char -- Navy Yard, Charleston
Charlie -- "C" in the phonetic alphabet; formerly "Cast"
ChasGrp -- Charleston Group
Chasn -- Charleston, South Carolina
ChBosn -- Chief Boatswain
ChC -- USN officer designation for Chaplain Corps, USN
ChCarp -- Chief Carpenter
ChCk -- Chief Cook
CHCP -- USNR officer designation for probationary commission in Reserve Chaplain Corps. Formerly CHC(P).
CHCR -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Chaplain Corps. Formerly CHC.
CHCS -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Chaplain Corps. Formerly CHC(S).
ChC-V(G) -- USNR officer designation for Chaplain qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by ChC or ChC(S).
ChC-V(P) -- USNR officer designation for seniors in theological seminaries commissioned as ensigns in probationary status and, after qualification and transfer to ChC-V(G), available for general detail ashore or afloat. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by ChC(P).
ChC-V(S) -- USNR officer designation for Chaplains qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by ChC or ChC(S).
ChElec -- Chief Electrician
ChemBomb -- Chemical Bomb
"Cherry Blossom" -- See "Oka"
ChGun -- Chief Gunner
ChMach -- Chief Machinist
ChNavAirShipTra -- Chief of Naval Airship Training
ChNavMis -- Chief, U.S. Naval Mission to (Country)
CHOP -- Change of Operational Control; dividing line in North and South Atlantic Oceans for American and British control of convoy and ship movements
CHORI -- Chief of Office of Research and Inventions
ChPClk -- Chief Pay Clerk
ChPhar -- Chief Pharmacist
ChPhot -- Chief Photographer
CHQ -- Corps Headquarters (Army)
CHQ -- Chops Headquarters Company (Army)
ChQmClk -- Chief Quartermaster Clerk (USCG)
ChREle -- Chief Radio Electrician
ChSClk -- Chief Ship's Clerk
CHT -- Chemist
ChTorp -- Chief Torpedoman
CHU -- Cable, Radio Censorship Office
CI -- Cirrus
CI -- Cost Inspector; also NCI (Naval Cost Inspector)
CIAA -- Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
CIC -- Combat Information Center
CIC -- Combined Intelligence Committee
CIC -- Counter Intelligence Corps (G-2, Army)
CIG -- Central Intelligence Group
CIGS -- Chief of Imperial General Staff [UK]
CIMS -- Communications Instructions for Merchant Ships
*CinC -- Commander-in-Chief
CinCAF -- Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces
CinCAF -- Commander-in-Chief, US Asiatic Fleet
CinCAFPac -- Commander-in-Chief, US Army Forces in the Pacific
CinCAL -- Commander-in-Chief, Alaska
CINCA&WI -- Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic and West Indies
CinCBPF -- Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet
CinCEI -- Commander-in-Chief, British East Indies Station
CincFE -- Commander-in-Chief, Far East
CinCLANT -- Commander-in-Chief, US Atlantic Fleet
CinCLantFlt -- Commander-in-Chief, US Atlantic Fleet
CinCMed -- Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean
CinCNedE -- Commander-in-Chief, Netherlands Forces in the East
CinCPac -- Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Fleet
CinCPac-CinCPoa -- Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas
CinCPacFlt -- Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Fleet
CinCPacHedPearl -- Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor
CinCPOA -- Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas
CinCPoaHedPearl -- Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas Headquarters, Pearl Harbor
CinCSA -- Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station (GB)
CinCUS -- Commander-in-Chief, US Fleet (now, CominCh)
CIO -- Combat Intelligence Officer
CIOS -- Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-committee
CIOS -- Combined Intelligence Operations Section
CIPC -- Combined Intelligence Priorities Committee (US, GB) (London)
"Circus" -- Mobile torpedo field unit mounted on tractors and trailers and out-fitted with air compressors, tools, testing gear and a small crew of trained personnel
CIRES -- Communication Instructions for Reporting Enemy Sightings
CIS -- Cost Inspection Service
CIT -- California Institute of Technology
*CIT -- Citation
CITEJA -- Comite Internationale d' Experts Juridques Aeriens
CIU -- Central Interpretation Unit (British Air Ministry)
CIVCLO -- Civilian Clothing
CJTF -- Commander Joint Task Force
CK -- Check
Ck -- Cook
Ck(B) -- Cook (Baker)
Ck(C) -- Cook (Commissary)
CKD -- Checked
CKT -- Circuit
C/L -- Circular Letter
CL -- Light Cruiser
CL -- USNR officer designation for Limited General Service, Communication Duties. Formerly (C)L.
CL(AA) -- Light Cruiser (Anti-Aircraft)
CLAC -- Combined Liberated Areas Committee
Class -- Classification
Cler -- Clerical
"Clipper" -- See B-314
CLN -- USNR officer designation. See CL and N. Formerly (C)L-N.
CLR -- USNR officer designation. See CL and R. Formerly (C)L-R.
CLT -- Clerical Technician, Medical
CLT -- USNR officer designation. See CL and T. Formerly (C)L-T.
CLTE -- Commissioned loss to enlisted status (revocation of appointment)
CLUSA -- Continental Limits, United States of America
CLX -- USNR officer designation. See CL and X. Formerly (C)L-X.
CM -- Carpenter's Mate
CM -- Centimetres
CM -- Chief Metalsmith
C&M (also CM) -- Construction and Machinery
CM -- Controlled Mine Field
CM -- Countermeasure
CM -- Court Martial
CM -- Mine Layer
CMaM -- Chief Mailman
CMc -- Coastal Mine Layer
CMC -- Combined Meteorological Committee
CMC -- Commandant of the Marine Corps
CMC -- Merchant Marine Council (USCG)
CMCB -- Carpenter's Mate, Construction Battalion
CMCBB -- Carpenter's Mate, Construction Battalion, Builder
CMCBD -- Carpenter's Mate, Construction Battalion, Draftsman
CMCBE -- Carpenter's Mate, Construction Battalion, Excavation Foreman
CM&D -- Counter Measures and Deception (radar) (small)
CMG -- Chief Marine Gunner
CMH -- Congressional Medal of Honor
CMl -- Chief Moulder
CML2N -- Navy midget rocket engine
CMM -- Chief Machinist's Mate
CMMCBE -- Chief Machinist's Mate, Construction Battalion, Equipment Operation
CMMG -- Chief Machinist's Mate, Industrial Gas Generating Mechanic
CMMR -- Chief Machinist's Mate, Refrigeration
CMMS -- Chief Machinist's Mate, Shop
CMMSRO -- Chief Machinist's Mate, Ship Repair, Outside Machinist C
CMn -- Chief Mineman
CMO -- Controlled Materials Officer
CMO -- Court Martial Orders
CMoMM -- Chief Motor Machinist's Mate
CMoMSRD -- Chief Motor Machinist's Mate, Ship Repair, Diesel Engineering Mechanic
CMoMSRG -- Chief Motor Machinist's Mate, Ship Repair, Gasoline Engineering Mechanic
CMP -- Controlled Materials Plan (of the War Production Board)
CMP -- Corps of Military Police (Army)
CMSR -- Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair
CMSRB -- Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair, Boatbuilder-Wood
CMSRB -- Chief Metalsmith, Ship Repair, Blacksmith
CMSRC -- Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair, Carpenter
CMSRC -- Chief Metalsmith, Ship Repair, Coppersmith
CMSRJ -- Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair, Joiner
CMSRK -- Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair, Caulker-Boat
CMSRN -- Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair, Cement Worker-Concrete
CMSRS -- Chief Metalsmith, Ship Repair, Sheet Metal Worker
CMSRS -- Carpenter's Mate, Ship Repair, Shipwright
CMT -- Commissary
CMT -- Commissary Technician, Medical
CMTC -- Civilian Military Training Camp
CMTC -- Combined Military Transportation Committee
CMus -- Chief Musician
CN -- Chloracetophenone
CN -- Cuban Navy
CN -- USNR officer designation. See C and N. Formerly (C)-N.
CNA -- Canadian Northwest Atlantic (Area)
CNA -- Chief of Naval Air
CNAAdTra -- Chief of Naval Air Advanced Training (formerly CNAOpTra)
CNAB -- Commander Naval Air Base
CNABTra -- Chief of Naval Air Basic Training
CNAIntermTra -- Chief of Naval Air Intermediate Training (now CNABTra)
CNAIT -- Chief of Naval Air Intermediate Training
CNAOpTra -- Chief of Naval Air Operational Training (now CNAAdTra)
CNAOT -- Chief of Naval Air Operational Training
CNAPrimTra -- Chief of Naval Air Primary Training (now CNARFSTra)
CNAPT -- Chief of Naval Air Primary Training
CNAResTra -- Chief of Naval Air Reserve Training
CNAT -- Chief of Naval Air Training
CNATE -- Chief of Naval Airship Training and Experimentation
CNATec(LTA) -- Commander, Naval Air Technical Training (Lighter Than Air)
CNATechTra -- Chief of Naval Air Technical Training
CNATra -- Chief of Naval Air Training
CNB -- Commander, Naval Base
CNB Ottawa -- Canadian Naval Board, Ottawa
CNC -- Chief Naval Censor
CNC -- Chief of Naval Communications (formerly DNC)
CNDO -- Chief Navy Disbursing Officer
CNF -- Commander Naval Forces
CNG -- Commander Northern Group
CNI -- Chief of Naval Intelligence
CNMO -- Canadian Naval Mission Overseas
CNO -- Chief of Naval Operations (also OpNav)
CNOB -- Commander, Naval Operating Base
CNR -- Change(s) to Navy Regulations
CNS -- Canadian Naval Service
CNTS -- Chief, Naval Transportation Service; formerly DNTS
*CO -- Coast(al)
CO -- Columbia River
CO -- Combined Operations
CO -- Commanding Officer
CO -- Communications Officer
Co -- Company
COAC -- Commanding Officer, Atlantic Coast
COAirEvacRon -- Commanding Officer, Air Evacuation Squadron
COB -- Committee of Combined Boards
CoC -- Chief of Chaplains
COCEEE -- Committee on Captured Enemy Electronics Equipment
CODAN -- Coded weather analysis
CODIS -- Completed discharge
CODCAVE -- Committee on Decentralization of Controls after V-E Day (War Production Board)
COEV -- Canadian Ocean Escort Vessel
Cof--- -- Chief of --- (Army)
CofG -- Convenience of the Government
COFRON -- Coastal Frontier (USCG)
CofS -- Chief of Staff (Army)
CofT -- Chief of Transportation (Army)
COGARD -- Coast Guard
COHQ -- Combined Operations Headquarters
COIC -- Combined Operational Intelligence Center
*COL -- College
Col -- Colonel
COLanForASCU -- Commanding Officer, Landing Force Air Support Control Unit
COLO -- Colorado
COLOD -- "Completed Loading"
Com -- Commandant; e.g., ComOne (Commandant, 1st Naval District
*COM -- Commander; e.g., ComAirPac (Commander Air Forces, Pacific)
COM -- Commissioned Officers Mess
Com -- Common
Com -- Communication
ComAir -- Commander Aircraft
ComAir -- Commander Air Forces
ComAT -- Commodore Air Train
*COMB -- Combined
ComBasFrance -- Commander United States Ports and Bases, France
COMCABCO -- Commercial Cable Company
ComCm -- Communication Countermeasures
*COMD -- Command
COMDAC -- Comite d' Action en France
Comdg -- Commanding
ComdGen -- Commanding General
ComdgOf -- Commanding Officer
Comdr -- Commander
Comdt -- Commandant
ComdtMarCorps -- Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
ComdtNOB -- Commandant, Naval Operating Base
ComdtNY -- Commandant, Navy Yard
Com(D)WA -- Commodore (Destroyers) Western Approaches (GB)
ComExDiv -- Commander Experimental Division
ComFair -- Commander Fleet Air COFT [sic] [ COMFT?] -- Commander Fleet Train
ComGen -- Commanding General
ComGenMed -- Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations
ComGenPOA -- Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas
ComGenTEN -- Commanding General, Tenth Army
ComGrePat -- Commander Greenland Patrol
Comin -- Commander Minecraft
CominCh -- Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet (formerly, CinCUS)
CominDiv -- Commander Minecraft Division
CominGrp -- Commander Mine Group
ComGrpOK -- Commander Mine Group Okinawa
CominLant -- Commander Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet
CominPac -- Commander Minecraft, Pacific Fleet
CominRon -- Commander Mine Squadron
ComInst -- Communications Instructions
COMLO -- Combined Operations Material Liaison Officer
*COMM -- Communications
"Commando" -- See R5C-#
ComMARIANAS -- Commander MARIANAS
#COMMDET -- Commissioning Detail
Commo -- Commodore
COMNAS(EA) -- Commodore Naval Air Stations, East Africa (GB)
ComNavEastLantMed -- Commander U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean
ComNavJap -- Commander Naval Activities Japan
ComNavNAW -- Commander U.S. Naval Forces, Northwest African Waters
ComNorPac -- Commander U.S. Naval Forces, Northern Pacific
Como -- Commodore
ComO -- Communications Officer
ComOrTexGru -- Commander Orange, Texas Group, Inactive Fleet, Atlantic Fleet
*COMP -- Composite
CompGenDec -- Comptroller General Decisions
Com(No.)PhibFor -- Commander (No.) Amphibious Force; e.g., Com3rdPhibFor
ComPatPlaneRepRonsPac -- Command Patrol Plane Replacement Squadrons Pacific
CompoRon -- Composite Squadron
Composite -- Combination Diesel electric and Diesel geared drive
#COMPRET -- Upon completion thereof return to station
CompRon or CompoRon -- Composite Squadron
#COMPTEM -- Upon completion of temporary duty
#COMPTEMDET -- Upon completion of temporary duty detached
#COMPTEMINS -- Upon completion of temporary duty under instruction
COMRATS -- Commuted Rations
ComRoute -- Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet, Convoy and Routing Section
Com(location)SeaFron -- Commander (location Sea Frontier; e.g., ComGuilfSeaFron
ComSerForSoPacSubCom -- Commander Service Force South Pacific Subordinate Command
COMSQN -- Communications Squadron (USMC)
CoMTBFlot -- Commander Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla
CoMTBRon -- Commander Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron
CoMTBRonTraCent -- Commander Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center
ComTonGru -- Commander Tongue Point Group, Inactive Fleet, Pacific Fleet
ComTrainCarRonPac -- Commander Carrier Training Squadron, Pacific Fleet
ComUSBasFrance -- Commander U.S. Ports and Bases, France
ComZ or ComZone -- Communications Zone
*CON -- Consul
CON -- United States Safety-at-Sea Committees for the Revision of the International Convention of 1929 (USCG)
CONAB -- Commanding Officer, Naval Advanced Base
CONAB -- Commanding Officer, Naval Air Base
Con act d -- Continuous active duty
CONAIR -- Commanding Officer, Naval Air Wing
CONALT -- Construction and repair, alteration (USCG)
CONAS -- Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station
#CONASAERO -- These orders constitute assignment to duty in a part of the aeronautic organization of the Navy
"Conestoga" -- See RB-#
Conf -- Confidential
Conf -- Confine(d), confinement
ConfBul -- Confidential Bulletin
Confid -- Confidential
CONHYDROLANT -- Confidential hydrographic Office Reports (Atlantic)
Conn -- Connecticut
#CONPRESDU -- Continue Present Duty
ConRoute -- Convoy and Routing Section (US Fleet)
CONSOL -- British name for German "Sonne"; see LORAN
Const -- Construction
Constr -- Construction
#CONTREAT -- Continue treatment at (naval hospital or medical activity indicated)
Conv -- Convict (ed) (ion)
ConVAir -- Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation
ConvDD -- Converted Destroyer
#CONVERS -- Connection conversion
Convn -- Convenience
CoP -- Co-Pilot
COPP -- Combined Operations Pilotage Party
*COR -- Corps
*CORD -- Coordinate (ion) (ator)
Cord -- Coordinating of Research and Development
COREP -- Combined Overload Repair Control
"Coronado" -- See PB2Y-2-3-5-5R
Corp -- Corporal (USMC)
Corp -- Corporation
"Corsair" -- See F3A-#, FG-#, F4U-#
*CORT -- Escort
CortDiv -- Escort Division
COS -- Chief of Staff (USMC)
COSD -- Combined Operations Supply Depot
COSMD -- Combined Operations Signal Maintenance Depot
COSMO -- Combined Operations Signal maintenance Officer
COSO -- Combined Operations Signal Officer
COSSAC -- Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Command
COSU -- Combined Operations Scout Unit (now NSU)
COTC -- Commander Fleet Operational Training Command
COTCLant -- Commander Fleet Operational Training Command, Atlantic Fleet
COTCPac -- Commander Fleet Operational Training Command, Pacific Fleet
COTCPacSubCom -- Commander Fleet Operational Training Command Subordinate Command
COTP -- Captain of the Port (USCG)
COUSNAB -- Commander of U.S. Naval Advanced Base (Weser River, Germany)
COUSS-- -- Commanding Officer, United States Ship (name of ship)
COX -- Coxswain
CoxCBS -- Coxswain, Construction Battalion, Stevedore
CoxSRR -- Coxswain, Ship Repair, Rigger
CoxSRS -- Coxswain, Ship Repair, Canvasman
Coy -- Company (USMC)
CP -- Cable Censor
CP -- Catapult
CP -- Command Post (Army)
CP -- Communication Personnel (USMC)
CPA -- Civilian Production Administration
CPAD -- Central Pay Accounts Division
CPC -- Chief Pay Clerk
CPC -- Chief Planning and Control Staff (USCG)
CPC -- Crafts, protective and Custodial Series (Civil Service employees designation)
CPCU -- Custody Pending Completion of Use
CPD -- Central Procurement Division (USMC)
CPD -- Counter-Propaganda Directorate (GB)
CPFF -- Cost plus fixed fee
CPhM -- Chief Pharmacist's Mate
CPhMDP -- Chief Pharmacist's Mate, Dental Prosthetic Technician
CPho -- Chief Photographer
CPhoM -- Chief Photographer's Mate
CPI -- Public Information Division (USCG)
CPIC -- Combined Photographic Interpretation Center
Cpl -- Corporal
CPL&D -- Civilian Personnel Letters and Dispatches
CPM -- Chief Patternmaker
CPO -- Chief Petty Officer
CPR -- Program Planning Division (USCG)
CPRB -- Combined Production and Resources Board (US & GB) (Washington)
CPrtr -- Chief Printer
CPrtrL -- Chief Printer, Lithographer
CPrtrM -- Chief Printer, Offset Process
CPS -- Combined Staff Planners
Cps -- Cycles per second
CPtr -- Chief Painter
CptrV -- Chief Painter, Aircraft
CPX -- Command Post Exercise (Army)
C/Q -- Certificate of assignment of quarters
C/Q(not) -- Not assigned to quarters
C/Q(Term.date) -- Termination of assignment (date) to quarters
CQM -- Chief Quartermaster
CQMC -- Chief Quartermaster Clerk
CQTU -- Carrier Qualification Training Unit
CR -- Camera Repairman
C/R -- Change of Rating
C&R -- (Bureau of) Construction and Repair (until 1940)
C&R -- Convoy and Routing Section
CR -- Creditable record
CR -- Cryptographer
CR -- Heavy or Light Cruiser (GB)
CR -- USNR officer designation. See C and R. Formerly (C)-R
CRA -- Air-Sea Rescue Agency (USCG)
*CRA -- Craft
Cra -- Cramp Shipbuilding Company
CRACC -- Communication and Radar Assignment Coordinating Committee
CRAG -- Carrier Replacement Air Group
CRC -- Central Requirements Committee
CRC -- Combined Rubber Committee
CRdM -- Chief Radarman
CRE -- Chief Radio Electrician
CRED -- Credit
CRF -- Cryptographic Repair Facility
CRIME -- Censorship Records and Information, middle East
CRM -- Chief Radioman
CRMB -- Combined Raw Materials Board (US & GB) (Washington)
CRO -- Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
CRO -- Civilian Repair Organization, Aircraft
Cross -- Red Cross
CRPM -- Combined Registered Publication Memoranda
CRPM -- Communication Registered Publication Memoranda
CRT -- Cathode Ray Tube
CRT -- Chief Radio Technician
CRU -- Cruiser
CruBatFor -- Cruisers, Battle Force
CruDiv -- Cruiser Division
CRUIT -- Recruit(ing)
CruitSta -- Recruiting Station
CruLant -- Cruisers, Atlantic Fleet
CruLantFlt -- Cruisers, Atlantic Fleet
CruPac -- Cruisers, Pacific Fleet
CruPacFlt -- Cruisers, Pacific Fleet
CruScoFor -- Cruiser Scouting Force
CruScoRon -- Cruiser Scouting Squadron
CRWO -- Coding Room Watch Officer
Crypto -- Cryptographic
CS (number) -- Admiral Commanding (number) Cruiser Squadron
C/S -- Chief of Staff
CS -- Cirrostratus
CS -- Coco Solo, Canal Zone
CS -- Commissary Store
CSA -- Chief Special Artificer
CSA -- Consular Shipping Adviser
CSAB -- Combined Shipping Adjustment Board (US & GB)
CSAD -- Chief Special Artificer, Synthetic Training Devices
CSAI -- Chief Special Artificer, Instruments
CSAITR -- Chief Special Artificer, Instruments, Typewrite and Office Equipment Repairman
CSAIWR -- Chief Special Artificer, Instruments, Watch Repairman
CSAO -- Chief Special Artificer, Optical
CSC -- Civil Service Commission
CSC -- Combined Shipbuilding Committee
CSClk -- Chief Ship's Clerk
CSDIC -- Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Center
CSDIC NOI -- Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Center--Non-Operational Intelligence
CSF -- Caribbean Sea Frontier
CSF -- Chief Shipfitter
CSFCBM -- Chief Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Mechanical Draftsman
CSFCBP -- Chief Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Pipefitter and Plumber
CSFCBR -- Chief Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Rigger
CSFCVS -- Chief Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Steel Worker
CSFCBW -- Chief Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Welder
CSFPSC -- Commander, Subordinate Command, Service Force, Pacific Fleet
CSFSR -- Chief Shipfitter, Ship Repair
CSFSRP -- Chief Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Pipe Fitter and Plumber
CSFSRW -- Chief Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Welder
CSHS -- Chief Superintendent of Hydrographic Supplies
CSigO -- Chief Signal Officer (Army)
CSk -- Chief Storekeeper
CSkCB -- Chief Storekeeper, Construction Battalion, Stevedore
CSkD -- Chief Storekeeper, Disbursing
CSkT -- Chief Storekeeper, Technical
CSkV -- Chief Storekeeper, Aviation
CSM -- Chief Signalman
CSM -- Commodore Superintendent, Malta (GB)
CSO -- Communication Standing Order
CSoM -- Chief Sonarman
CSomH -- Chief Sonarman, Harbor Defense
CSp -- Chief Specialist
CSP -- Combined Staff Planners
CSP -- Communications Security Publication
CSpA -- Chief Specialist, Physical Training Instructor
CSPM -- Communication Security Publication Memorandum
CSpMP -- Chief Specialist, Motion Picture Production
CSpO -- Chief Specialist, Petroleum Inspector
CSpPBL -- Chief Specialist, Laboratory
CSpPPG -- Chief Specialist, Photogrammetry Chief Specialist, V-Mail
CSpPVM -- Chief Specialist, Graphic Arts
CSpR -- Chief Specialist, Identification
CSpR -- Chief Specialist, Recruiter
CSpS -- Chief Specialist, Personnel Supervisor V-10
CSpS -- Chief Specialist, Shore Patrol and Security
CSpT -- Chief Specialist, Teacher
CSpTLT -- Chief Specialist, Link Trainer Instructor
CSpV -- Chief Specialist, Transport Airman
CSpW -- Chief Specialist, Chaplain's Assistant
CSpX -- Chief Specialist, All Designators
CSpY -- Chief Specialist, Control Tower Operator
CSSA -- Clothing and Small Stores Account
CSSF -- Clothing and Small Stores Fund
CSSM -- Chief Ship's Service Man
CSSMB -- Chief Ship's Service Man, Barber
CSSMC -- Chief Ship's Service Man, Cobbler
CSSML -- Chief Ship's Service Man, Laundryman
CSSMT -- Chief Ship's Service Man, Tailor
CSt -- Chief Steward
CT -- Cartographer
CT -- Chief Telegrapher
CT -- Combat Team
CT -- Crystal Grinders
CT -- USNR officer designation. See C and T. Formerly (C)-T.
CTC -- Chief Turret Captain
CTC -- Combined Training Center
CTCLS -- Court of Claims
CTD -- Commander Transportation Division
CTF -- Central Task Force
CTF -- Commander Task Force
CTG -- Commander Task Group
CTM -- Chief Torpedoman's Mate
CTME -- Chief Torpedoman's Mate, Electrical
CTMV -- Chief Torpedoman's Mate, Aviation
CTorp -- Chief Torpedoman
CTU -- Commander Task Unit
CU -- Cumulus
CU -- New York to Netherlands West Indies (routing designation)
CU -- New York to United Kingdom (routing designation)
"Cub" -- An advanced base unit consisting of all the personnel and material necessary for the establishment of a medium sized advanced fuel and supply base
CUCB -- Cumulus and Cumulonimbus
CUDWR -- Columbia University Division of War Research
Cur -- Curtis design (ship engines)
CUS -- Course
*CUT -- Cutter
CV -- Cavite, P.I. (Navy Yard)
CV -- Aircraft Carrier
CVAC -- Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation
CVB -- Aircraft Carrier, Large
CVB -- Reserve Vessel Board (USCG)
CVE -- Aircraft Carrier, Escort
C-V(G) -- USNR officer designation for communication officers, commissioned and warrant, including radio electricians, qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (C), (C)L, (CD), (S) or S(C).
CVL -- Aircraft Carrier, Small
C-V(L) -- USNR officer designation for commissioned communication officers qualified for liaison duties with commercial communication industry and government communication agencies. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by S(C10.
CVLG(N) -- Night Fighter Air Group
CVS -- Seaplane Carrier
C-V(S) -- USNR officer designation for communication officers, commissioned and warrant, including radio electricians, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (C), (C)L, (CD), (S), or S(C)
C-V(X) -- USNR officer designation for communication officers qualified for Naval Communications intelligence and security duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by S(C2).
CW -- Chemical Warfare
CW -- Continuous Wave (radio symbol for code transmission) CWA -- Canadian Western Approaches
CWO -- Commissioned Warrant Officer
CWO -- Communications Watch Officer
CWPI -- Coast Watching and Communications in the South Pacific Islands (GB)
CWS -- Chemical Warfare Service (Army)
CWSF -- Commander Western Sea Frontier
CWT -- Chemical Warfare Specialist, Medical
CWT -- Chief Water Tender
CX -- USNR officer designation. See C and X. Formerly (C)-X.
CY -- Chief Yeoman
"Cyclone" -- Naval aircraft engine, 9 (14)(18) cylinders, manufactured by Wright
CZ -- Combat Zone (Army)
CZ -- Panama Canal Zone
--- D ---
D -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a drone plane
D(No.) -- Commanding Officer (number) Destroyer Flotilla
D -- Douglas Aircraft Company (manufacturer's symbol)
D -- Droppable Fuel Tank (suffix to plane designation); as F4U-1D
D -- Duty
D -- McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
D -- Radioplane Company (manufacturer's symbol)
D -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Deck Duties. Formerly (D).
DA -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) (appropriation title)
DA -- Delayed Action
DA -- Direct Action (Bomb Fuze)
DA -- Double Acting
DAA&AM -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Aircraft and Aeronautical Material
DAAE -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Administration Expenses
DAAI&OC -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Agricultural, Industrial and Other Commodities
DABLC -- Director, Advanced Base Logistics Control
DABOA -- Director, Advanced Base Office, Atlantic
DABOP -- Director, Advanced Base Office, Pacific
DAF&E -- Defense Aid (lend Lease) Facilities and Equipment
DAGO -- District Aviation Gas Office
DAM -- Damage
DAMR(W) -- Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair (Washington)
DAO -- District Accounting Office(r)
DAO -- District Ammunition Office (Army)
DAO -- District Aviation Office(r)
DAO&OS -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Ordnance and Ordnance Stores
DAS&E -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Services and Expenses
DASF -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Special Fund
DATO -- Disbursing and transportation Office
DAT&OV -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Tanks and Other Vehicles
DATRDA -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Testing, Reconditioning etc. of Defense Articles
"Dauntless" -- See SBD-#
DAV&OW -- Defense Aid (Lend Lease) Vessels and Other Watercraft
Db -- Decibell (unit of measure)
DB or D/B -- Dive Bomber Aircraft
DBH -- Division Beachhead (Army)
Dbl -- Double Reduction Gears
DBSO -- District Base Service office
DC -- "Daisy Cutter"
DC -- Deck Court
DC -- Dental Corps
DC -- Depth Charge (aerial)
DC -- Direct Current
DC -- District of Columbia
DC -- USN officer designation for Dental Corps, USN
DC -- Washington, D.C.
DCA -- Defense Contre Avion (France)
DCB -- Defense Communications Board
DCC -- District Communications Center
DCCAO -- Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Officer (US and GB)
DCGO -- District Coast Guard Officer; DCGO, one, two, etc.: DCGO 1st, 2nd, etc. Naval District
DCh -- Depth Charge
DCh -- District Chaplain
DCNO -- Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
DCNS -- Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (USMC)
DCO -- District Camouflage Office(r)
DCO -- District Clothing Office(r)
DCO -- District Communications Office(r)
DCO -- Duty Cypher Officer (GB)
DCO(I) -- Director of Combined Operations (India)
DCO(ME) -- Director of Combined Operations (Middle East)
DCofS -- Deputy Chief of Staff
DCP -- Director of Civilian Personnel
DCPB -- Departmental Civilian Personnel Branch
DCPO -- District Civilian Personnel Office(r)
DCR -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Dental Corps. Formerly DC.
DCRO -- District Civil Readjustment Office(r)
DCS -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Dental Corps. Formerly DC(S).
DC-V(G) -- USNR designation for dental officers qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by DC or DC(S).
DC-V(S) -- USNR designation for dental officers qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by DC or DC(S).
DCW -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Dental Corps. Formerly DC(W).
DD -- Destroyer
DD -- Dishonorable Discharge
DD -- Drydock
DDAS (ET) -- Deputy Director fo Armament Supply (Eastern Theater)
D-Day -- Day set for assault by land forces
DDCO (I) -- Deputy Director fo Combined Operations (India)
DDD -- Diesel direct drive
DDGC -- Dishonorable Discharge, General Corut Martial, after confinement in prison
DDGI -- Dishonorable Discharge, General Corut Martial, immediate
DDGP -- Dishonorable Discharge, General Court Martial, after violation of probation
DDO -- Destroyers, Disbursing Office
DDO -- District Dental Office(r)
DDODI -- Deputy Director Operation Division Irregular (British Admiralty)
DDT -- Dichloro-Dophenyl-Trichloroethane; an insecticide
DDTO -- District Domestic Trannsportation Office(r)
DE -- Destroyer Escort
DE -- Double-ended, cylindrical boiler
DE -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Deck and Engineering Duties. Formerly (DE).
Dec -- December
Decca (QM) -- British Long Range Radio Aid to Navigation
Decl -- Declared
DEDD -- Diesel electric direct drive
*DEF -- Defense
DefSec -- Defense Dector
Deg -- Degree(s)
Deg and Dep -- Degaussing and Deperming
Deg Range -- Degaussing Range
DEL -- Delaware
Del -- Deliver(ed)
*DEL -- Delivery
#DELREP -- Authorized to delay (number of days indicated or until date indicated) in reporting in compliance with these orders, such delay to count as leave. Keep BuPers and new station advised address.
DE-M -- USNR designation for Deck and Engineer Officers, Merchant Marine, qualified for Deck and Engineering or other appropriate duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by (DEM) or S(DEM).
DEM -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Deck and Engineering, Merchant Marine. Formerly (DEM).
DEM Bomb -- Demolition Bomb
DEML -- Detached Enlisted Men's List (Army)
DEMN -- USNR officer designation. See DEM and N. Formerly (DEM)-N.
DEMO -- Demolition
DEMOB -- Demobilization
DEMR -- USNR officer designation. See DEM and R. Formerly (DEM)-R.
DEMS School -- Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship School (British)
DEMT -- USNR officer designation. See DEM and T. Formerly (DEM)-T.
DEMX -- USNR officer designation. See DEM and X. Formelry (DEM)-X.
DEN -- USNR officer designation. See DE and N. Formerly (DE)-N.
DEO -- District Engineer Officer (Army)
DEP -- Deposit
*DEP -- Depot
DEPEND -- Allotment for support of dependents
DepermSta -- Deperming and Flashing Station
Dept -- Department
DER -- USNR officer designation. See DE and R. Formerly (DE)-R.
DERD -- Diesel electric reduction drive
Des -- Desert(ed), Deserter, Desertion
*DES -- Destroyer
DesAF -- Destroyers, Asiatic Fleet
DesBatFor -- Destroyer Battle Force
DescoFor -- Destroyer Scouting Force
DesCruPac -- Destroyers/Cruisers, Pacific Fleet
DesDiv -- Destroyer Division
DES EFF -- Deserter's Effects
DesFlot -- Destroyer Flotilla
Desig -- Designate(d), Designation
#-DESIG -- To such (ship, station, or duty) as may be designated (type duty to precede phrase "DESIG"). For example, "LST DESIG" would read "To such LST as may be designated."
Desig NAP -- Designated as Naval Aviation Pilot (USMC)
DesLant -- Destroyers, Atlantic Fleet
DESO -- District Educational Services Officer
DESOIL -- Diesel Oil
DesPac -- Destroyers, Pacific Fleet
DesRep -- Destroyer Repair
DesRep -- Destroyer Representative
DesRon -- Destroyer Squadron
DesSoWesPac -- Destroyers, Southwest Pacific Fleet
DESTN -- Destination
DET -- Absent on detached duty (serving with other than a naval activity)
DET -- Long Hull, General Motors Tandem Diesel Drive
DET -- USNR officer designation. See DE and T. Formerly (DE)-T.
*DET -- Detachment
*DET -- Detail
Det d -- Detached duty
*DEV -- Development
"Devastator" -- See TBD-#
DE-V(G) -- USNR designation for deck and engineer officers qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by (DE)
DE-V(S) -- USNR designation for deck and engineer officers qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (D), (D)L, (E), (E)L, (DE), (S), S(E), or S(E) with proper numeral indicating particular specialty within engineering
DEX -- USNR officer designation. See DE and X. Formerly (DE)-X.
*DEY -- Deputy
DF -- Delay Fuse
DF or D/F -- Direction Finder (radio)
DFC -- Distinguished Flying Cross
DFCO -- Duty Flying Control Officer
DFSB -- Defense Force Section Base
DFT -- Director, Fleet Training
DG -- Degaussing
DGD -- Diesel geared drive
DG-MG -- Diesel geared-Motor geared
DGO -- Degaussing Officer
DGRO -- Degaussing Range Officer
DGT -- Dental Technology General
DGTO -- Degaussing Technical Officer
DGWO -- Degaussing Wiping Officer
DHIRS -- District Headquarters Induction and Recruiting Station (USMC)
DHO -- District Historical Office(r)
DHQ -- Division Headquarters (Army)
DI -- District Inspector
DI -- Drill Instructor (USMC)
DIC -- Detailed Interrogation Center
DI/ES -- Vessels disposed of by sinking, burning, abandoning or other means of destruction
DIEGO -- San Diego, California
DIES -- Diesel
Dif -- Difference
DIF -- Direction Finder (radio)
DIF -- Duty involving flying
DIFF PAY -- Difference in pay
DI/FLC -- Vessels in Forward Areas transferred to State Department (Foreign Liquidation Corporation) for disposition
DI/INT -- Vessels under cognizance of the Commandants Tenth and Fourteenth Naval Districts transferred to the Department of the Interior for disposition
DIIO -- District Industrial Incentive Office(r)
DIM -- District Industrial Manager
DINA -- Direct noise amplifier (airborne radar transmitter)
DINO -- Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance
DIO -- District Intelligence Office(r)
*DIR -- Director
#DIRDET -- When directed by the commanding officer or commander designated, detached from duty indicated and from such other duty as may have been assigned.
DIREC -- Direction
DI/RET -- Vessels returned to their original owners
DirLantDocks -- Director, Atlantic Division, Bureau of Yards and Docks
DirNavHist -- Director of Naval History
DIRO -- District Industrial Relations Officer; changed to District Labor Relations Office (DLRO) in 1943.
DirPacDocks -- Director, Pacific Division, Bureau of Yards and Docks
DIS -- Discharged
*DIS -- Dispatch
DI/SAL -- Vessels disposed of by sale through Navy Material Redistribution Agency
*DISB -- Disbursing
Disc -- Discontinue(d)
DI/SCP -- Vessels disposed of by scraping
DISCREP -- Discrepancy report
Disemb -- Disembark(ed)
DIS GRAT -- Discharge gratuity
Disp -- Dispatch
Disp -- Dispensary
Disp -- Disposal
*DIST -- District
DISTRIB -- Distribution; Redistribution
DI/TES -- Vessels disposed of by using as targets and tests
DI/TRN -- Vessels transferred to other Government Agencies and miscellaneous activities
DIV -- Deep Sea Diving
DIV -- Diver
*DIV -- Division
DivCom -- Division Commander
DI/WSA -- Vessels transferred to War Shipping Administration--Maritime Comission for disposition
DL -- Destroyer Leader
DL -- USNR officer dsignation for Limited General Service, Deck Duties. Formerly (D)L.
DLN -- USNR officer designation. See DL and N. Formerly (DL-N.
DLNC -- Deputy Local Naval Commander
DLO -- District Legal Office(r)
DLR -- USNR officer designation. See DL and R. Formelry (D)L-R.
DLRO -- District Labor Relations Office(r)
DLT -- Deck Landing Training
DLT -- USNR officer designation. See DL and T. Formerly (D)L-T.
DLTS -- Deck Landing Training School
DLX -- USNR officer designation. See DL and X. Formerly (D)L-X.
DM -- Adamsite
DM -- Light Minelayer
DM -- Master Diver
DM -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Deck, Merchant Marine. Formerly (DM).
D-M -- USNR designation for deck officers, Merchant Marine, commissioned and warrant, including boatswains, qualified for deck or appropriate administrative duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by (DM), (DM)L, or S(DM).
DMI -- Directorate of Military Intelligence (British War Office)
D-Minus 1, etc. -- D-day minus 1, 2, etc. days (before attack)
DML -- USNR officer designation for Limited General Service, Deck, Merchant Marine. Formerly (DM)L.
DMLN -- USNR officer designation. See DML and N. Formerly (DM)L-N.
Dml O -- Demolition Officer (Army)
DMLR -- USNR officer designaiton. See DML and R. Formerly (DM)L-R.
DMLT -- USNR officer designation. See DML and T. Formerly (DM)L-T.
DMLX -- USNR officer designation. See DML and X. Formerly (DM)L-X.
DMN -- USNR officer designation. See DM and N. Formerly (DM)-N.
DMO -- Directorate of Military Operations (GB)
DMO -- District marine Officer
DMO -- District Material Officer
DMO -- District Medical Officer
DMP -- Disarmed military personnel
DMR -- USNR officer designation. See DM and R. Formelry (DM)-R.
DMS -- Mine Sweeper (converted DD)
DMT -- USNR officer designation. See DM and T. Formerly (DM)-T.
DMX -- USNR officer designation. See DM and X. Formerly (DM)-X.
DN -- USNR officer designation. See D and N. Formerly (DN)-N.
DNC -- Director of Naval Communications (changed to NC, October 1945)
DNI -- Director of Naval Intelligence
DNI -- Directorate of Naval Intelligence (British Admiralty)
DNI -- Division of Naval Intelligence
DNOP -- Director fo Naval Officer Procurement
DNP -- Reservists in drill non-pay status
DNTS -- Director Naval Transportation Service; now, CNTS.
DO -- Dental Officer
DO -- Disbursing Officer
DO -- Diver, First Class
DO -- Duty Officer
DO(No.) -- Radio controlled glider bomb carrier
*DOCKS -- Bureau of Yards and Docks
DOD -- Died of disease
DofS -- Depot of Supplies (USMC)
DofS (W) -- Director fo Stores (Washington)
Dog -- "D" in the phonetic alphabet
DOL -- Detached Officer's List (Army)
DOL(S) -- Dollar(s)
DOO -- District Operations Office(r)
DOO -- District Ordnance Office(r)
"DOODLE BUG" -- Pilotless Flying Bomb (V-!)
DOT -- Dictionary of Occupational Titles
"Double Wasp" -- Naval Aircraft engine, 18 cylinders, manufactured by Pratt and Whitney
DOV -- Disbursing Officer's Voucher
DP -- Dental Prosthetic Technician
DP -- Department of the Pacific (USMC)
DP -- By Direction of the President
DP -- Displaced Persons
DP -- Double Purpose Gun
DPC -- Defense Plants Corporation
DPD -- Director, Personnel Department (USMC)
DPD -- District Port Director
DPIO -- District Public Information Office(r)
DPLO -- District Postal Liaison Officer
D-plus 1, etc. -- D-Day plus 1, 2, etc. days (after attack)
DPMC -- Director of Personnel Marine Corps
DPO -- District Personnel Office(r)
DPO -- District Postal Office(r)
DPPO -- District Publications and Printing Office
DPRO -- District Public Relations Office(r)
DPT -- Dental Technology Prosthetic
DPTO -- District Property Transportation Office(r)
DPWO -- District public Works Office(r)
DQM -- Depot Quartermaster (USMC)
DQN -- Depot Quartermaster, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk (USMC)
DQP -- Depot Quartermaster, Philadelphia (USMC)
DQPH -- Depot Quartermaster, Pearl Harbor (USMC)
DQQ -- Depot Quartermaster, Quantico (USMC)
DQR -- Depot Quartermaster, Richmond (USMC)
DQSF -- Depot Quartermaster, San Francisco (USMC)
D/R -- Dead Reckoning
DR -- Destroyer (GB)
DR -- Diesel Radial (aircraft engine)
D/R -- Directional Radio
D/R -- Dispatch Rider (USMC)
Dr -- Drill
DR -- USNR officer designation. See D and R. Formerly (D)-R.
DRA -- Dead Reckoning Analyzer
DrewUnit -- Shipping designator for assemblies scheduals to go to Europe for the Normandy invasion
DRM -- Dental Repair Technician
DRMO -- District Records Management Officer
DRMAJ -- Drum Major (USMC)
Drone -- Pilotless F6F "Hellcat"
DRP -- Dead Reckoning Plotter
DRT -- Dead Reckoning Tracer
DRU -- Demolition Research Unit
D/S -- Detached Service (Army)
D/S -- Direct Support Army)
DS -- Diver, Salvage
DSA -- Division Service Area (Army)
DSC -- Defense Supply Corporation
DSC -- Distinguished Service Cross DSM -- Direction de Service de Securite Militaire (France)
DSM -- Distinguished Service Medal
DSO -- District Security Office(r)
DSO -- District Service Office(r)
DSO -- District Supply Office(r)
DSR -- Duty Steam or Power Boat
DSSO -- District Ships Service Office(r)
DST -- Dermatology and Syphilology Technician
DT -- Diver, Second Class
DT -- USNR officer designation. See D and T. Formerly (D)-T.
DTB -- Destroyer Tactical Bulletin
DTG -- Date time group
Dtl -- Detail(ed)
DtlAvr -- Detailed as Aviator (USMC)
DTO -- District Training Office(r)
DTO -- District Transportation Office(r)
#*DU -- Duty
"Duck" -- See J2F-3-5, JF-6
#DUCON -- Duty connection
#DUFLY -- For duty involving flying
#DUFLYTECH -- Duty involving flying as a technical observer
#DUFLYTECHNAV -- Duty involving flying as a technical observer non-pilot navigator
DUKW -- Amphibious truck
DUMBO -- Rescue Plane (usually PB type)
DUPE -- Duplicate
Dur -- During
DUT -- Duplication Technician, Photolithography
DUT -- Physically on board for duty in ship's company
#DUTOUT -- For duty outside the continental limits of the United States
D-V(G) -- USNR designation for deck officers, commissioned and warrant, including boatswains, gunners, and torpedomen, qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by (D) or (D)L.
D-V(S) -- USNR designation for deck officers, commissioned and warrant, including boatswains and ship's clerks, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by (D), (D)l, (S), or S with proper special designator suffix.
DWA -- Died of wounds resulting from action with enemy.
DWBO -- District War Bond Office(r)
DWPO -- District War Plans Officer
DWT -- Deadweight Tons
DX -- USNR officer designation. See D and X. Formerly (D)-X.
--- E ---
E -- Bellanca Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
E -- Edo Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
E -- Electronic night bombing installation (suffix to plane designation)
E -- Gould Aeronautical Division (Pratt, Read & Co.)
E -- Electrical Equipment Division of the Engineering Department aboard a carrier
E -- Office of Engineering (Engineer-in-Chief) (USCG)
E -- Piper Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
E -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Engineering Duties. Formerly (E).
E/A -- Enemy Aircraft
EA -- East Africa
EA -- Engineer Rear Admiral (GB)
EAC -- Eastern Air Command (CBI Theater)
EAC -- European Advisory Commission
EAD -- Extended Active Duty
EAE -- Aeronautical Engineering Division (USCG)
#EARLPRADATE -- Earliest Practical Date
EASTCO -- East Coast
EastCon -- Eastern Sea Frontier Control Local of Shipping in Gulf of Maine
EASTOMP -- East-Ocean Meeting point
EastSeaFron -- Eastern Sea Frontier
Easy -- "E" in the phonetic alphabet
E.B.Co. -- Electric Boat Company
EC -- Electric Coding (Cipher) Machine Repairman
EC -- Engineering Construction
ECAD -- European Civil Affairs Division
ECAR -- European Civil Affairs Regiment
Ech -- Echelon
"Echo" -- Reflected Signal (radar)
ECM -- Electric Coding or Cipher Machine
ECV -- Civil Engineering Division (USCG)
ED -- Eastern District
ED -- Electric Dynamic (Motors)
ED -- Engineering Draftsman
ED -- Extra Duty
ED -- Fingerprint Expert
EDC -- Eastern Defense Command (Army)
EDDC -- East Coast (Naval Publications) Distribution Center
EDO -- USN officer designation for Engineering Duty Only
EEE -- Electronics Engineering Division (USCG)
EEN&T -- Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
EE&RM -- Elementary Electrical and Radio Material (Training School)
Eff -- Effect(ed), Effective
EF & LTC -- Enemy Fuels and Lubricants Technical Committee
EFM -- Expeditionary Force Message
EFTS -- Elementary Flying Training School
EG -- Expert Gunner (Army)
EG -- Escort Group
EIL -- Explosives Investigation laboratory
EL -- USNR officer designation for Limited General Service, Engineering Duty. Formerly (E)L.
ELEC -- Electrician
Elect -- Electric(ian); Electric(al)
EL/G or
ELG -- Emergency Landing Ground
ELN -- USNR officer designation. See EL and N. Formerly (E)L-N.
ELR -- USNR officer designation See EL and R. Formerly (E)L-R.
ELSB -- Edge Lighted Status Board
ELT -- Electrocardiography and Basal Metabolism Technician
ELT -- USNR officer designation. See EL and T. Formerly (E)L-T.
ELTC -- Enlisted loss to commissioned status
ELTW -- Enlisted loss to warrant status
ELX -- USNR officer designation. See EL and X. Formerly (E)L-X.
EM -- Educational Manual
EM -- Electrician's Mate
E.M. -- Electro-Motive Corporation
EM -- Engine Maintenance
EM -- Enlisted man (men)
EM -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Engineering Merchant Marine. Formerly (EM).
E-M -- USNR designation for Engineer Officers, Merchant Marine, commissioned and warrant, including electricians, radio electricians, carpenters and machinists, qualified for engineering or other appropriate duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by (EM), (EM)L or S(EM).
Emb -- Embark(ed) (ation)
EMCB -- Electrician's Mate, Construction Battalion
EMCBC -- Electricians Mate, Construction Battalion, Communications
EMCBD -- Electricians Mate, Construction Battalion, Draftsman
EMCBG -- Electricians Mate, Construction Battalion, General
EMCBL -- Electricians Mate, Construction Battalion, Line and Station
EMERG -- Emergency
EML -- USNR officer designation for Limited General Service, Engineering, Merchant Marine. Formerly (EM)L.
EMLN -- USNR officer designation. See EML and N. Formerly (EM)L-N.
EMLR -- USNR officer designation. See EML and R. Formerly (EM)L-R.
EMLT -- USNR officer designation. See EML and T.
EMLX -- USNR officer designation. See EML and X.
EMN -- USNR officer designation. See EM and N. Formerly (EM)-N.
EMR -- USNR officer designation. See EM and R. Formerly (EM)-R.
EMSR -- Electrician's Mate, Ship Repair
EMSRG -- Electrician's Mate, Ship Repair, General Electrician
EMSRS -- Electrician's Mate, Ship Repair, Shop Electrician
EMSRT -- Electrician's Mate, Ship Repair, I.C. Repairman
EMT -- Electrician's Mate, Telephone (USCG)
EMT -- Embalmer
EMT -- USNR officer designation. See EM and T. Formerly (EM)-T.
EMX -- USNR officer designation. See EM and X. Formerly (EM)-X.
EN -- USNR officer designation. See E and N. Formerly (E)-N.
ENC -- Electroencephalography Technician
ENC -- Enlistment Cancelled
ENDEK -- National Democratic Party (Poland)
ENE -- Naval Engineering Division (USCG)
*ENG -- Engineering
Engr -- Engineer
Enl -- Enlist(ed) (ment)
Ens -- Ensign
EOC -- Enemy Oil Committee (US)
EOD -- Date of Entering Officer
EOSO -- Escort Oilers Supervising Officer
EOU -- Enemy Objective Unit (US) (London)
EP -- Engineer Personnel (USMC)
EPC -- End Products Committee (WPB)
EPCO -- Engine Parts Coordinating Office (BuShips)
EPD -- Eastern Procurement Division
EPD -- Eastern Production District
EPF -- Emergency Plant Facilities
EPLA -- Electronics Precedence List Agency
EPR -- Engineer Photographic and Reproduction (USMC)
EQPT -- Equipment
Equip -- Equipment
E&R -- Engineering and Repair (Department)
ER -- Expert Rifleman (USMC)
ER -- USNR officer designation. See E and R. Formerly (E)-R.
ERC -- Enlisted Reserve Corps (Army)
ERO -- Emergency Repair Overseer
ERSA -- Electronic Research Supply Agency
EsCarFor -- Escort Carrier Force
ESCORON -- Escort Scouting Squadron
EscortDiv -- Escort Division
EscortFightRon -- Escort Fighter Squadron
ESF -- Eastern Sea Frontier
ESHU -- Emergency Ship Handling Unit
ESO -- Educational Services Office(r)
ESS -- Educational Services Section
EST -- Epidemiology and Sanitation Technician
ESTAB -- Establish(ment)
ESTAR -- Estimated Arrival Date
ET -- USNR officer designation. See E and T. Formerly (E)-T.
ETA -- Estimated Time of Arrival
ETD -- Estimated Time of Departure
ETD -- Testing and Development Division (USCG)
ETE -- Estimated Time Enroute
ETF -- Eastern Task Force
ETF -- Estimated Time of Flight
ETI -- Estimated Time of Interception
ETM -- Electronic Technician's Mate
ETMSR -- Electronic Technician's Mate, Ship Repair
ETO -- European Theater of Operations
ETOUSA -- European Theater of Operations, United States Army
ETRA -- Estimated Time to Reach Altitude
ETS -- Expiration Term of Service (Army)
*EU -- Europe
EV -- Escort Vessels (enemy)
EVA -- Escort Vessel Administration
Evac -- Evacuation
Evap -- Evaporator
E-V(G) -- USNR designation for Engineer Officers, commissioned and warrant, including electricians, carpenters, and machinists, qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (E) or (e)L, if general service; (S), S(E), or S(E) with proper numeral indicating specialty within engineering, if special service.
E-V(RS) -- USNR designation for Engineer Officers, commissioned and warrant, including radio electricians, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by the proper aviation or engineering classification with the suffix "T".
E-V(S) -- USNR designation for Engineer Officers, commissioned and warrant, including electricians, radio electricians and machinists, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (E), (E)L, (S), S (E), or S (E) with proper numeral indicating particular specialty within engineering.
EWAS -- Economic Warfare Analysis Section
EWD -- Economic Warfare Division (US) (London)
EWT -- Eastern War Time
EX -- Excess
EX -- Experiment(al)
EX -- Expert
EX -- USNR officer designation. See E and X. Formerly (E)-X.
*EXAM -- Examining board
Exc -- Excellent
"Excalibur" -- See JRS-#
EXCL -- Exclusive
ExDiv -- Experimental Division
EXOS -- Executive Office
Exp -- Experience
Exp -- Express (boiler)
EXP -- Express
ExpDivUnit -- Experimental Diving Unit
*EXPED -- Expedition(ary)
"Expeditor" -- See JRB-1-4
Exp Enl -- Expiration of Enlistment (USMC)
ExSta -- Experimental Station
Ext Enl -- Extension of Enlistment
--- F ---
F -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, incidcating a fighter plane
F -- Columbia Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symnbol)
F1 -- Commander-in-Chief, Plans Division (USN)
F2 -- Commander-in-Chief, Combat Intelligence Division (USN)
F3 -- Commander-in-Chief, Operations Division (USN)
F37 -- Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet
F4 -- Commander-in-Chief, Readiness Division (USN)
F -- Fairchild Aircraft, Ltd. (Canada) (manufacturer's symbol)
2F -- Two-seater Fighter Aircraft (Naval)
F -- Fitted as Flagship (suffix to plane designation); as: PB2Y-5F
F -- Gruman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
F -- Officer designation for Fighter Director (used as suffix)
F -- Fighter Field
F -- Fireman
F -- Fixed (a continuous steady light)
F -- Fleet Reserve
F2 -- Fleet Reserve, 4 or more years
F3 -- Fleet Reserve, 16-20 years
F5 -- Fleet Reserve, 20 or more years
F -- Freight Boats (Army)
F -- French
F -- Frequency
F -- Office of Finance and Supply; Chief, Office of Finance and Supply (USCG)
FA -- Accounting Division (USCG)
FA -- Family Allowance
FA -- Field Artillery (Army)
F2A-# -- "Buffalo"; single-engine Navy fighter (VF), manufactured by Brewster
F3A-# -- "Corsair"; single-engine Navy fighter (VF), manufactured by Brewster
FAA -- Family Allowance Class A
FAA -- Fleet Air Arm (GB)
FAAB -- Family Allowance, Class A and B
FAB -- Family Allowance, Class B
FAB -- Fleet Air Base
FAB -- For'ca Aerea Brasileira
FABU -- Fleet Air Base Unit
*FAC -- Factory
FAC -- Frequency Allocation Committee (CCB)
FAD -- Fleet Air Detachment
"Fade" -- Disappearance of echo from radar screen
FADM -- Fleet Admiiral
FAETUA -- Fleet Airborne Electronics Unit, Atlantic
FEATUP -- Fleet Airborne Electronics Unit, Pacific
#FAGAIRTRANS -- (via) First Available Government Air Transportation
FAGT -- First Available Government Transportation
FAGTrans -- First Available Government Transportation
FAIR -- Fleet Air
FAIR -- Fleet Sir Wing
Fairships -- Fleet Airships
FairshipWing -- Fleet Airship Wing
#FAIRTRANS -- First Available Air Transportation
FAIRWestPac -- Fleet Air Wing, Western Pacific Area
FIARWing -- Fleet Air Wing
"Falcon -- See NSC-#
FAMU -- Fleet Aircraft Maintenance Unit
FANDT -- Fuel and Transportation
FAO -- Fleet Administration Office
FAPG -- Fleet Air Photographic Group
FAPRon -- Fleet Air Photo Squadron
FAS -- Free Alongside
FASA -- Fleet Airships, Atlantic
FASP -- Fleet Airships, Pacific
FASRon -- Fleet Air Service Squadron
FASTULant -- Fleet Ammunition Ship Training Unit, Atlantic
FASTUPac -- Fleet Ammunition Ship Training Unit, Pacific
FATU -- Fleet Air Tactical Unity
FAW -- Fleet Air Wing
FB -- Farrel-Birmingham (ship engines)
FB -- Fighter Bomber Aircraft
F/B -- Flying Boat
FBI -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBP -- Fleet Boat Pool
FC -- Fire Control
FC -- Fire Controlman
F4C -- Fleet Reserve, 16-20 years
FCA -- Farm Credit Administration
FCA -- Fire Control Area (Army)
FCA -- Flight Control Assemblies
FCB -- Facility Clearance Board (WPB)
FCC -- Federal Communication Commission
FCE -- Fleet Civil Engineer
FCNL -- French Committee of National Liberation
FCO -- Fire Controlman, Operation
FCO -- Flag Communications Officer
FCO -- Flying Control Officer
FCP -- Fire Control Personnel (USMC)
FCR -- Fire Controlman, Range-finder Operator
FCS -- Fire Controlman, Submarine
FCST -- Forecast
FCT -- Fire Control Technician
FD-# -- Twin-engine Navy Fighter (VF), manufactured by McDonnell
FD -- Fighter direction
FD -- Finance Department (Army)
F3D -- Fleet Reserve, 20 or more years
F4D -- Fleet Reserve, 20 or more years
FDA -- Food Distribution Administration
FDC -- Fire Direction Center (Army)
FDCS -- Fighter Director Control Schools
FDD -- Floating Drydock
FD Net -- Fighter Direction Net
FDO -- Fighter Director Officer
FDS -- Fighter Director Ship
FDT -- Fighter Director Tender
FE -- Far East
FEA -- Foreign Economic Administration
FEAF -- Far Eastern Air Forces
FEC -- (Office of) Foreign Economic Coordination
FECB -- Far East Combined Bureau (Singapore, 1940)
*FED -- Federal
FEO -- Flag Engineering Officer (GB)
FEPC -- Farm Employment Practices Committee
*FER -- Ferry
#FERON -- If transferred, forward this directive immediately to his commanding officer for compliance or further transmittal as appropriate, notifying originator in each case the activity to which transferred and your action in forwarding
FF -- Force Flagship
F2F-# -- Single-engine Navy fighter (VF), biplane, manufactured by Grumman
F3F-# -- Single-engine Navy fighter (VF), biplane, manufactured by Grumman
F4F-# -- "Wildcat"; single-engine Navy fighter (VF), manufactured by Grumman
F6F-# -- "Hellcat"; single-engine Navy fighter (VF), manufactured by Grumman
F6F-#K -- Navy target training drone (VTD), manufactured by Grumman (converted from F6F)
F7F-# -- "Tigercat"; twin-engine Navy fighter (VF(M)), manufactured by Grumman
F8F-# -- "Bearcat"; single-engine Navy fighter, (VF), manufactured by Grumman
FFA -- For Further Assignment
FFDO -- Force Fighter Director Officer
FFI -- Forces Francaises de l'Interieur
FFI -- Fixed and Flashing
FFP -- Fleet Frequency Plans
FFT -- For Further Transfer
FG-# -- "Corsair"; single-engine Navy fighter (VF), manufactured by Goodyear
FGO -- Flag Gunnery Officer
FGpFl -- Fixed and Group Flashing
FH -- Flag Hoist
FHA -- Federal Housing Administration
FIAT -- Field Information Agency, Technical (under G-2, SHAEF)
FIDO -- Fog, Intensive Dispersal of
FIGHT -- Fighting
FightRon -- Fighting Squadron
FIN -- Finance
Fin O -- Finance Officer (Army)
FinSupScol -- Finance and Supply School (USCG)
FIO -- Fleet Intelligence Officer
"Fireball" -- See FR-#
FirsTaskFlt -- First Task Fleet
Fis -- Fiscal
FIU -- Forward Interpretation Unit (Army)
FJ -- Single-engine Navy fighter (VF), manufactured by North American
Fl -- Flashing
FL -- Florida
FL -- Small Signal Search Light
FLA -- Florida
FlaGrp -- Florida Group
Flak -- German anti-aircraft fire; now applied generally to all anti-aircraft fire
FLC -- Foreign Liquidation Commission
FldCk -- Field Cook (*USMC)
FldCk(B) -- Field Cook (Baker (USMC)
FldCK(C) -- Filed Cook (Commissary) (USMC)
*FLE -- Fleet
FliCon -- Flight Controller
FLO -- Florida
FLO -- Follow(ing)
*FLOT -- Flotilla
FLP -- Fighting Landplane
FLP or Flt -- Fleet
Flt -- Flight
FltAct -- Fleet Activities
FltCert -- Flight Certificate
FltGunSch -- Fleet Gunnery School
FltLOSCAP -- Fleet Liaison Officer, Supreme Commander Allied Powers
FltServScol -- Fleet Service School
FltSoundScol -- Fleet Sound School
FltTraCen -- Fleet Training Center
*FLY -- Flight
"Flying Fortress" -- See PB-1W
F.M. -- Fairbanks, Morse & Company
FM -- Field Music (USMC)
FM -- Field Manual (Army)
FM -- Frequency Modulation
FM -- Titanium Tetrachloride
FM-# -- "Wildcat"; single-engine Navy fighter (VF), manufactured by General Motors
FMAW -- First Marine Aircraft Wing
FMCorp -- Field Music Corporal (USMC)
FMCpl -- Filed Music Corporal (USMC)
FMF -- Fleet Marine Force (USMC)
FMFPac -- Fleet Marine Force, Pacific Ocean Areas
FMO -- Fleet Maintenance Office(r)
FMO -- Fleet Medical Officer
FMR -- Fairbanks Morse Reversible Diesel Drive
FMS -- Field Music School (USMC)
FMSgt -- Field Music Sergeant (USMC)
FNOIO -- Fleet Naval Ordnance Inspecting Officer
FO -- Field Order (Army)
FO -- Flag Officer
FO -- Flight Order
FOB -- Forward Observer Bombardment
FOB -- Free On Board
FOBAA -- Flag Officer British Assault Area (GB)
FOCWA -- Flag Officer Commanding West Africa (GB)
FOIC -- Flag Officer-in-Charge (British controlled port)
FONAP -- Flag Officer, Naval Air, Pacific (GB)
FONF -- Flag Officer Newfoundland (GB)
FOO -- Forward Observation Officer
*FOR -- Force(s)
FORD -- Foreign Office Research Department (GB)
"Forwarder" -- See GK-#
FOTALI -- Flag Officer Taranto and Adriatic and for liaison
FOWABPF -- Flag Officer Western Area, British Pacific Fleet
Fox -- "F" in the phonetic alphabet
Fox -- A broadcast method of communication which does not require an answer from the stations addressed
FP -- Freight and Passenger Vessels (Army)
FPA -- Food Production Administration
FPC -- Federal Power Commission
FPHA -- Federal Public Housing Authority
FPL -- Final Protective Line (Army)
FPO -- Fleet Post Office
FPT -- Full Power Trial
FR -- Fighter Reconnaissance
FR-# -- "Fireball"; single-engine Navy fighter (VF) manufactured by Ryan
FR -- Flash Ranging (Army)
FR -- Fleet Reserve
FR -- Fragmentation
FR -- From
FRAG Bomb -- Fragmentation Bomb
FRB -- Federal Reserve Bank
FRC -- Faculty Review Committee
Frcu -- Fractocumulus
Frd Enl -- Fraudulent Enlistment
FREN -- French
Freq -- Frequency
FrF -- Free French
FRO -- Fleet Records Office
FrOF -- Freight Office
*FRON -- Frontier
Fr P -- Parachute Fragmentation Bomb
FRPS -- Foreign Research and Press Service (GB)
FRRU -- Freight Receiving and Redistribution Unit
FRS -- Federal Reserve System
FRU -- Fleet Requirements Units (Aircraft)
FRUPac -- Fleet Radio Unit, Pacific
FS -- Feet per second (ordnance)
FS -- Final Settlement
Fs -- Fractostratus
FS -- Sulphur Trioxide in Chlorosulfonic Acid
FS -- Supply Division (USCG)
FSA -- Travel chargeable to applicable allotment authority under Finance Service, Army
FSB -- Federal Specifications Board
FSD -- Foreign Sea Duty
FSEC -- Federal Specifications Executive Committee (now FSB)
FSO -- Fleet Supply Officer
F.S.Powder -- Flashless, Smokeless Powder (for ammunition)
FSR -- Field Service Regulations (Army)
FSR -- Fin Stabilized Rockets
FSS -- Fleet Service School
FSS -- Foreign Shore Service (USMC)
FS Ships -- Fire Support Ships
FSU -- Ferry Service Unit
F&T -- Fuel and Transportation
FT-# -- "Black Widow"; two-engine Navy fighter (VF(M)), manufactured by Northrop
FTC -- Federal Trade Commission
FtgDives -- Footage Drives
FTP -- Fleet Training Publication
Ftr -- Fighter
FTT -- Fever Therapy Technician
FTU -- Field Torpedo Unit
F4U -- "Corsair"; single-engine Navy fighter (VF), manufactured by Chance Vought
(FUBAR) -- (Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition)
(FUMTU) -- (Fouled Up More Than Usual)
Fur -- Furlough
#FURAS -- For Further Assignment
#FURASPERS -- For Further Assignment by the Bureau of Naval Personnel
#FURASUB(S) -- For Further Assignment to Duty in Submarine(s)
FURNARSER -- Furnish full names, rates, and service numbers of men transferred in accordance with this directive
FUSA -- First United States Army
FUSAG -- First United States Army Group
FUT -- Fleet Utility
FW -- Foster Wheeler (boilers)
FWA -- Federal Works Agency
FWD -- Forward
FwdArea -- Forward Area
FWI -- French West Indies
FWOP -- Furloughed Without Pay
FX -- Tenth Fleet
FY -- Fiscal Year
--- G ---
G -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a transport plane (single-engine)
G -- Globe Corporation (Aircraft Division (manufacturer's symbol)
G -- Goodyear Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
G -- Great Lakes Engineering Corporation (plane manufacturer's symbol)
G -- Group; e.g.: as, CVG (Aircraft Carrier Group)
G-1 -- Personnel (War Department General Staff or USMC)
G-2 -- Intelligence (War Department and USMC)
G-3 -- Operations (War Department and USMC)
G-4 -- Supply (War Department and USMC)
G-5 -- PWC Branch of SHAEF
G-6 -- CAD Branch of SHAEF
GA -- Gage Man
GA -- Gasoline Stowage and Fuel System Man
GA -- Georgia
GA -- Ground Attacker Aircraft
GAA -- General Account of Advances
GAF -- German Air Force
GAI -- General Accounting Instructions
Gal -- Gallon
GAO -- General Accounting Office
GAO -- General Administrative Order
*GARN -- Garrison
GAS -- Gasoline
GAT -- Guantanamo to Aruba to Trinidad (routing designation)
"Gators" -- "Alligators"; members of beach battalion at Little Creek Amphibious Training Base
GB -- General Board
GB -- Great Britain
GB -- "Traveler"; single-engine Navy utility (VJ), biplane, manufactured by Beech
GC -- Green Cove Springs, Florida
GC -- Gun Captain
GCA -- Ground Control Approach (radar)
GCI -- Ground Control Intercept (radar)
GCM -- General Court Martial
GCMed -- Good Conduct Medal
GCMP -- General Court Martial Prisoner
GCT -- Greenwich Civil Time
Gd -- Guard
GDP -- Gun Director Pointer
GDP(CL) -- Gun Director Pointer (Cross Leveler)
GDP(L) -- Gun Director Pointer (Leveler)
GDP(P) -- Gun Director Pointer (Pointer)
GDP(SS) -- Gun Director Pointer (Sight Setter)
GDP(T) -- Gun Director Pointer (Trainer)
GE -- General Electric Company
GE -- Great Exuma
GED Tests -- General Educational Development Tests
*GEN -- General
GEN -- USNR officer designation for General Service Reserve Pay Clerk
GenBoard -- General Board
GENDET -- General Detail (USCG)
Genl -- General
George -- "G" in the Phonetic alphabet
GER -- Germany
GFE -- Government Furnished Equipment
GH-# -- "Nightingale"; single-engine Navy utility plane (VJ), manufactured by Howard
GHQ -- General Headquarters (Army)
GI -- Government Issue (Army)
GI -- U.S. Government Life Insurance (allotment for)
GI Bill -- Veterans Benefits Act, PL345, 1944
GIRO -- General Instructions for Routing and Reporting Officers
GIU -- General Intelligence Unit (US) (London)
GK-# -- "Forwarder"; single-engine Navy utility plane (VJ), manufactured by Fairchild
GK -- Guantanamo to Key West (routing designation)
Gldr -- Glider
GLO -- Gunnery Liaison Officer
"Glomb" -- Navy glider equipped with "Block"
GM -- Galveston to Mississippi River (routing designation)
GM or (
GMC) General Motors Corporation
GM -- (Pertaining to) Guided Missiles
GM -- Guard Mail
GM -- Gunner's Mate
GMCB -- Gunner's Mate, Construction Battalion
GMCBG -- Gunner's Mate, Construction Battalion, Armorer
GMCBP -- Gunner's Mate, Construction Battalion Powderman
GMCM -- Guided Missile Counter-Measures
GMSR -- Gunner's Mate, Ship Repair
GMSRP -- Gunner's Mate, Ship Repair, Powderman
GMT -- Short Hull, General Motors Tandem Diesel Drive
GMT -- Greenwich Mean Time
GN -- Guantanamo to New York (routing designation)
GO -- General Order
GOC -- General Officer Commanding
"Goose" -- See JRF-#
GOP -- General Operational Plot
*GOV -- Governor
#GOVAIR -- Including government air
#GOVAIRDIR -- In performing the above travel government air is directed where necessary (or between points specified) to expedite completion of this duty
#GOVMERAIR -- Including government or comercial air
#GOVMERAIRAUTH -- In performing the above travel government air and/or commercial air is authorized where necessary to expedite completion of this duty
#GOVMERAIRDIR -- In performing the above travel government air and/or commercial air is directed where necessary to expedite completion of this duty
Govt -- Government
Govt Ins -- Government Insurance (NSI or GI)
GP -- Galveston to Pilottown (routing designation)
GP -- General Purpose
GP -- Gun Pointer
GP Bomb -- General Purpose Bomb
Gp Fl -- Group Flashing
GPO -- Government Printing Office
Gp Occ -- Group Occulting
GQ -- General Quarters
GR -- Geared Radial (aircraft engine)
GR -- General Reconnaissance (USMC)
*GR -- Group, as COMAIRSHIPGR
#GRABADHARV -- Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University
"Grass" -- Noise (as seen on radar scope)
"Grasshopper" -- See AE-#, NE-#
GRB -- Government Reservation Bureau
*GRD -- Guard
*GRE -- Greenland, as COMGREPAT
GrePat -- Greenland Patrol
GRFO -- Gun Range-Finder Operation
GRU -- Group
GruCom -- Group Commander
GS -- General Staff (Army)
G/S -- General Support (Army)
GS -- Greenland to St. Johns, N.F. (routing designation)
GS -- Guardship
GSC -- General Staff Corps (Army)
GSF -- Gulf Sea Frontier
GSGS -- Geographical Section General Staff (GB)
GSk -- General Storekeeper
GSK -- General Stores
GSR -- General Service Recruit
GSS -- General Service Schools (Army)
GSS -- General Supply Schedule
GSU -- General Service Unit (USMC)
GT -- Guantanamo, Cuba
Gtmo -- Guantanamo, Cuba
GU -- Guam (Naval Operating Base)
GulfCoBaseServUnit -- Gulf Coast Base Service Unit
GulfCon -- Gulf Control
GulfSeaFron -- Gulf Sea Frontier
"Gulls" -- Balloon Supported Radar Reflectors to simulate target
*GUN -- Gunboat
Gun -- Gunner
*GUN -- Gunnery
"GUNS" -- Gunner's Mate
GunSgt -- Gunnery Sergeant (USMC)
GW -- General Warning
GY -- Gyro
GySgt -- Gunnery Sergeant (USMC)
GZ -- Guantanamo to Panama Canal Zone (routing designation)
--- H ---
H -- Hall-Aluminum Aircraft Corporation (now Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation) (manufacturer's symbol)
H -- Heavier-than-air rotary wing aircraft (helicopter)
(H) -- Heavy or 4-engine plane
H -- Hospital plane (suffix to plane designation), as PBJ-2H
H -- Howard Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
H -- Medical Department aboard a carrier
H -- Mustard gas
H -- Stearman-Hammond Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
HA -- Headquarters Administration Division (USCG)
HA -- Home Address
HA -- Hospital Apprentice
HAC -- Haitian Air Corps
"Harpoon" -- See PV-2
HAV -- Heavily Armed Vessels
"Havoc" -- See BD-#
*HAW -- Hawaiian, as COMHAWSEAFRON (Commander Hawaiian Sea Frontier)
Haw Dept -- Hawaiian Department
HawSeaFron -- Hawaiian Sea Frontier
"Hayrake" -- Radar beacon and homing device (YE)
HB -- Heavy Bomber
HB -- Horizontal bomber
HBDC -- Home Base Development Committee (OpNav)
HBS -- Harbor Boat Service
HC -- Hexachlorethane Mix
HC -- High Capacity
HC -- Hospital Corpsman
HC -- USN Reserve designation for Hospital Corps, USN
HCA -- Absent by reason of being held by civil authorities
HCCG -- Discharge under honorable conditions, convenience of government
HCCM -- Discharge under honorable conditions, convenience of man
HCDP -- Discharge under honorable conditions, dependency existing prior to enlistment
HCEE -- Discharge under honorable conditions, expiration of enlistment
HCMS -- Discharge under honorable conditions, medical survey
HCMU -- Discharge under honorable conditions, under age of authorized enlistment
HCMW -- Discharge under honorable conditions, minors enlisted without consent, under 18 at time of discharge
HCO -- Hanger Control Officer
HCP -- Hangar Control Position
HCR -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Hospital Corps. Formerly HC.
HCS -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Hospital Corps. Formerly HC(S).
HCUS -- Discharge under honorable conditions, unsuitable
HC-V(G) -- USNR designation for Hospital Corps officers, commissioned and warrant, including pharmacists, qualified for general detail ashore or afloat. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by HC or HC(S).
HC-V(S) -- USNR designation for commissioned and warrant officers, including pharmacists, qualified for specialist duties in connection with the Medical Corps of the Navy. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by HC or HC(S).
HCW -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Hospital Corps. Formerly HC(W).
HD -- Harbor Defense (Army)
HD -- Hydraulics
HDC -- Harbor Defense Command (Army)
HDCG -- Honorable discharge, convenience of government
HDCM -- Honorable discharge, convenience of man
HDDP -- Honorable discharge, dependency existing prior to enlistment
HDDS -- Honorable discharge, dependency arising since enlistment
HDEE -- Honorable discharge, expiration of enlistment
HDMS -- Honorable discharge, medical survey
HDMU -- Honorable discharge, under age of authorized enlistment
HDMW -- Honorable discharge, minors enlisted without consent, under 18 at discharge
HDNPRSGR -- Headquarters Squadron personnel Group
Hdr -- Header type (boiler)
HDR -- Home Dockyard Regulations
HDV -- Horse Drawn Vehicle
HE -- High Explosive
HECP -- Harbor Entrance Control Post
HECPost -- Harbor Entrance Control Post
HED -- Headquarters; as COMHEDRONFAIRWING
HedRon -- Headquarters Squadron
HedRonFairWing -- Headquarters Squadron Fleet Air Wing
HEI -- High Explosive Incendiary
HEIT -- High Explosive Incendiary Traced
"Hellcat" -- See F6F-#
"Helldiver" -- See SB2C-#, SBF-#, SBW-#
HERALDS -- Harbor Echo Ranging and Listening Devices
#HERDESNAVAV -- Hereby designated as student naval aviator
#HERDET -- Hereby detached from duty indicated and from such other duty as may have been assigned
#HERDUFLY -- Hereby detail to duty involving flying upon reporting in obedience to these orders
HESO -- Hospital Educational Service Officer
HET -- High Explosive Traced
HF -- Fighter Aircraft fitted with engine rated for high altitude performances
HF -- High Frequency radio
HF/DF -- High Frequency Direction Finder
H&H -- Harlan E. Hollingsworth (ship engines)
HH -- Hedge Hogs
HHE -- Household Effects
H-Hour -- Hour set for attack or other operation to begin (on D-Day)
HHX -- Halifax Joiner to HX Convoy (routing designation)
*HI -- High
Hiatus Area -- Area outside of zone of communications (where Army not concerned with local population except as factors which in these areas might affect progress of allied armies)
HiCom -- High Command
HJ -- Utility helicopter
HK -- Galveston to Key West (routing designation)
HMAS -- His Majesty's Australian Ship
HMBS -- His Majesty's British Ship
HMCS -- His Majesty's Canadian Ship
HMG -- His Majesty's Government (GB)
H-minus 1, 2, etc. -- 1, 2, etc. hours before hour of attack
HMIS -- His Majesty's Indian Ship
HMNZS -- His Majesty's New Zealand Ship
HMRP -- Hurricane Microseismic Research Problem (aerology)
HMS -- His Majesty's Ship (GB)
HN -- Training Helicopter
HN -- Nitrogen Mustard Gases
HNS-# -- "Hoverfly"; Navy training helicopter (HN), manufactured by Sikorsky Air
HO -- Hydrographic Office
HO -- Observation helicopter
HOMP -- Halifax Ocean Meeting point
Hon -- Honorable
Hono -- Honolulu, T.H.
HOR -- Hoover, Owens, Rentschler Company (ship engines)
Horiz 3-exp -- Horizontal, triple expansion engine
Hornet" -- Naval aircraft engine, 9 cylinders, manufactured by Pratt and Whitney
HOS-# -- Navy observation helicopter (HO), manufactured by Sikorsky Air
*HOSP -- Hospital
HOSP RATS -- Hospital Rations
"Hoverfly" -- See HNS-#
How -- "H" in the phonetic alphabet, replaced the obsolete "Hypo"
How -- Howitzer
HP -- High Pressure
HP -- Horse Power
HP -- USNR officer designation; probationary commissioned, direct from civilian life, for special duties in Medical Corps; formerly H(P)
HPF -- Harbor Patrol Fleet
H-plus 1, 2, etc. -- 1, 2, etc. hours after hour of attack
HPT -- Horizontal Plot Table
Hq or HQ -- Headquarters
HQDP -- Headquarters, Department of the Pacific (USMC)
HQMC -- Headquarters, Marine Corps
Hq&Serv -- Headquarters and Service (USMC)
HqSq -- Headquarters Squadron
HR -- Transport helicopter
HR (number) -- House of Representatives, Bill (number)
H & RP -- Holding and Reconsignment Point (Army)
H&S -- Headquarters and Service (Army)
H(S) -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Duty in Medical COrps, restricted to those formerly H-VS.
HS -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, commissioned direct from civilian life, special duties in medical Corps. Formerly H(S).
HSF -- Hawaiian Sea Frontier
HSL -- High Speed Launch
HS & SS -- Headquarters and Service Squadron
H&S Tr -- Headquarters and Service Troop (Army)
HTA -- Heavier Than Air
HTD -- Hand Target Designator
HTO -- Highway Transportation Officer (Army)
HTS -- High Tensile Steel
"Hudson" -- See PBO-#
Hula Unit -- Shipping designator for Lend-Lease transfer of material and training of personnel in 13th and 17th Naval Districts
Hun -- Hundred
HUSAFICPA -- Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces in Central Pacific Area
HV -- Hihg Voltage
H-V(P) -- USNR designation for medical and dental students, appointed as ensigns, for special duties in connection with the Medical COrps of the Navy. This classificaiton was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by H(P).
H-V(S) -- USNR designation for comissioned and warrant officers qualified for specialist duties in connection with the Medical Corps of the Navy. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by H(S).
HW -- Herewith (enclosures)
H/W -- Highway
HXHW -- USNR officer designation fo rmen commissioned direct from civilian life, special duties in the Medical Corps. Formerly H(W).
HXF -- New York to Liverpool, Fast (routing desgination)
HXM -- New York to Liverpool, Medium (routing designation)
HXS -- New York to Liverpool, Slow (routing designation)
Hydr -- Hydraulic
Hydro -- Hydrographic Office
Hydrog -- Hydrographic
Hypo -- "H" in the phonetic alphabet; now obsolete and replaced by "How"
--- I ---
I -- Incendiary
I -- India
(I) -- To be inactivated
IA -- Inspection Administration
IAD -- Inactive Reservists: USN RET, USNR RET, USNR HON RET, and Fleet Reservists
IADB -- Inter-American Defense Board
IAS -- Indicated Air Speed
IATCB -- Interdepartmental Air Traffic Control Board
IAZ -- Inner Artillery Zone
IB -- Incendiary Bomb
IBH -- Initial Beachhead (Army)
IBM -- International Business Machine
IBS -- Island Base Section
IC -- Information Center
IC -- Interior Communications
ICB -- Interior Control Board
ICD -- Industrial Cooperation Division
ICE -- Iceland
IcePat -- Iceland Patrol
ICG -- Interviewer's Classification Guide
ICIR -- In Commission, In Reserve (vessel status)
ICOC -- Instructions for Commodores of Convoys
ICOMP -- Iceland Ocean Meeting Point
ICPOA -- Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas
IC&RR -- Inventory Control and Requirements Review Board (CNO)
ID -- Identification
ID -- Intelligence Duties
IDA -- Idaho
IDC -- Interdepartmental Committee (also INDEC)
ID Card -- Identification Card
IDFOR -- Idle Waiting Convoy Forward
IDG -- Idle Waiting to Load
IDLOD -- Inspector of Degaussing
Id No -- Identification Number
IDREA -- Idle Other Reasons
IDS -- Instrument Development Section
IDSTO -- Idle Used for Storage
I&E -- Information and Education (Army)
IE -- Initial Equipment (Aircraft)
IF -- Intercept and Broadcast
IFD -- Inter-Fighter Director
IFF -- Identification, Friend or Foe
IFHOM -- Idle Waiting Convoy Homeward
IFIS -- Instrument Flight Instructors School
IFU -- Intelligence Field Unit
IG -- Inspector General (Army)
IGD -- Inspector General's Department (Army)
I/I -- Inventory and Inspection Report (Army)
IL -- Illinois
Illum -- Illuminating
IMNP -- Symbol for thickened gasoline
IMPACT -- Periodical, published monthly by Assistant Chief of Air Staff Intelligence
#IMREP -- Immediately Report
IMS -- Industrial Manpower Section
I & N -- Immigration and Naturalization Service (Naval Intelligence)
IN -- Interpreter
IN -- Journalist
IN -- Key Punch Operator and Supervisor
IN -- Radio Intelligence Specialist
INA -- Inspector of Naval Aircraft
InactFltLant -- Inactive Fleet, Atlantic Fleet
InactFltPac -- Inactive Fleet, Pacific Fleet
INACTLANT -- Inactive Fleet, Atlantic Fleet
INACTPAC -- Inactive Fleet, Pacific Fleet
INA/IC -- Inactive-In Commission, In Reserve (vessel status)
INA/IS -- Inactive-In Service, in Reserve (vessel status)
INA/OC -- Inactive-Out of Commission, In Reserve (vessel status)
INA/OS -- Inactive-Out of Service, in Reserve (vessel status)
INC -- Incorporated
#INCAIR -- Including Air
INC Bomb -- Incendiary Bomb
*INCEP -- Interceptor
Incl -- Include; including; inclusive
IND -- Indiana
Ind -- Induction
*IND -- Industry (ial)
INDAIR -- Identification of Aircraft
INDEC -- Interdepartmental Committee (also IDC)
Indiv -- Individual
IndMan -- Industrial Manager
IndMgr -- Industrial Manager
Inf -- Infantry (Army)
INFO -- Information
#INFOREQ -- Information requested as to
INIT CCA -- Initial Cash Clothing Allowance
INM -- Inspector of Naval Machinery
INM -- Inspector of Naval Material
INS -- Inspection Division (USCG)
*INS -- Inspector (of)
InsAir -- Inspector Naval Aircraft
#INSCRUIT -- Inspector of Navy Recruiting and Induction, Joint Service Induction Area
InsEng -- Inspector Naval Engineering Material
#INSEREC -- Indicate by appropriate entry pages 9-10 service records, and in orders, rating for which men have been trained, to insure assignment to appropriate duty
#INSERECAV -- Indicate by appropriate entry pages 9-10 service record, and in orders, rating for which nonrated men have been trained, to insure assignment to aviation duty
#INSERECSUB -- Indicate by appropriate entry pages 9-10 service record, and in orders, rating for which men have been trained, to insure assignment to submarine duty
InsGen -- Inspector General (Navy)
InsGenPac -- Inspector General, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas
InshorePat -- Inshore Patrol
InsMach -- Inspector of Naval Machinery
InsMat -- Inspector of Naval Material
InsNavMat -- Inspector of Navigational Material
InsOrd -- Inspector of Ordnance (Naval)
Insp -- Inspector
*INSP -- Inspection
INSPAT -- Inshore Patrol
InsPetRes -- Inspector Petroleum Reserves
Insp-Instr -- Inspector-Instruction (USMC)
INST -- Instantaneous
*INST -- Instruction (s)
#INSTFURASPERS -- For course of instruction and further assignment by Bureau of Naval Personnel
Instn -- Instruction
Instr -- Instructor
INSUR -- Allotment for commercial life insurance
InSurv -- Board of Inspection and Survey
INT -- Ad Interim Specification (BuShips)
INT -- Intelligence and Law Enforcement Division (USCG)
INT -- Interest
*INT -- International
INTCO -- International Code of Signals
*INTEL -- Intelligence
IntelCen -- Intelligence Center
IntelCenPac -- Intelligence Center Pacific Ocean Areas
Intell -- Intelligence
*INTERM -- Intermediate
IntermTra -- Intermediate Training (Air)
#INTERP -- Interpretation
InterpRon -- Photo Interpretation Squadron
Int O -- Intelligence Officer (Army)
"Invader" -- See JD-#
*INVEST -- Investigation
IO -- Intelligence Officer
IO -- Intercept Officer
IO -- Issuing Office
IOL -- Initial Outfitting List (for Advanced Bases)
IP -- Initial Point (Army)
IPRB -- Inter-Allied Post-War Requirements Bureau
IR -- Infra-Red Equipment
IRAA&A -- Increase and Replacement of Armor, Armament and Ammunition (appropriation title)
IRAC -- Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee
IRB -- Industrial Readjustment Branch
IRB -- Industrial Relations Board
IRC -- Industrial Relations Counselors
IRC&M -- Increase and Replacement of Construction and Machinery (appropriation title)
IREC -- Increase and Replacement of Emergency Construction (ships) (appropriation title)
IRNV -- Increase and Replacement of Naval Vessels (appropriation title)
IRS -- Induction and Recruiting Station (USMC)
I&S -- (Board of) Inspection and Survey)
IS -- Invalided from Service (Medical)
IS -- Island
ISA -- Inductee Special Assignment
ISBIC -- Interservice Balkan Intelligence Committee
ISCB -- Inter-Allied Staff Communications Board
IsCom -- Island Commander
ISD -- Industrial Survey Division; now, OIS
ISIC -- Immediate Superior-in-Command
ISinC -- Immediate Superior-in-Command
ISIR -- In Service, In Reserve (vessel status)
ISIS> -- Inter-Service Information Series (GB)
ISLD -- Inter-Service Liaison Department (GB)
ISN -- Indefinite SecNav Allotments
ISRB -- Inter-Service Research Bureau (GB)
ISTD -- Inter-Service Topographical Department (British Admiralty)
ITANDT -- International Telephone and Telegraph
ITEM -- "I" in the phonetic alphabet
ITM -- Inspector of Torpedoes and Mines
ITO -- Inspecting Torpedo Officer
IV -- Initial Velocity
IV -- Inverted Vertical (aircraft engine)
I-V(S) -- USNR designation for commissioned intelligence officers qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by S(I).
IX -- Miscellaneous Unclassified (for any unclassified ships in the Navy)
--- J ---
J -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a utility plane
J -- North American Aviation Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
J -- Converted to a utility airplane (suffix to plane designation)
JA -- Judge Advocate
JA-# -- "Norseman"; single-engine Navy utility plane (VJ), manufactured by Noorduyn
JAAF -- Japanese Army Air Force
JACCI -- Joint Allocation Committee Civil Intelligence (US & GB)
"Jackal" -- Barrage jammer (radar and radar countermeasure)
JACSPAC -- Joint Air Communications of the Pacific
JAG -- Judge Advocate General
JAGD -- Judge Advocate General's Department (Army)
*JAN -- Joint Army-Navy
JANCOM -- Joint Army-Navy Communications
JANET -- Joint Army-Navy Experimental and Testing Board
JAN Grid -- Joint Army-Navy Grid
JANIC -- Joint Army-Navy Information Center
JANIS -- Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Studies
JANP -- Joint Army-Navy Publication
JANWSA -- Joint Army-Navy-War Shipping Administration
JAP -- Japanese
JAPA -- Japan Area
JASASA -- Joint Air-Surface Anti-Submarine Action
#JASCO -- Joint Assault Signal Company
JATO -- Jet Assisted Take-Off
JB -- Joint Army-Navy Board
JB-2 -- American version of German V-1 flying bomb
JB-2 -- Twin-engine Navy, special plane
JCA -- Joint Communications Activity
JCAC -- Joint Civil Affairs Committee
JCB -- Joint Communications Board
*JCC -- Joint Communications Center
JCS -- Joint Chiefs of Staff (US-GB) [sic: should be US? CCS (Combined Chiefs of Staff) for US-GB group?]
JD -- "Invader"; twin-engine Navy utility plane (VJ(M)), manufactured by Douglas
Jd -- Joined (USMC)
JDCS -- Joint Deputy Chiefs of Staff
Jdenl -- Joined by enlistment (USMC)
Jdfr -- Joined from (USMC)
Jdind -- Joined by induction (USMC)
JDPC -- Joint Defense Production Committee (later changed to Joint War Production Committee)
Jdreenl -- Joined by reenlistment (USMC)
Jds/RS -- Joined by Staff Returns (USMC)
JEEP -- Small open Army motor car
JEIA -- Joint Electronics Information Agency
J2F-3-5 -- "Duck"; single-engine Navy utility (VJ), biplane, manufactured by Gruman
J2F-6 -- "Duck"; single-engine Navy utility (VJ), biplane, manufactured by Columbia
J4F-# -- "Widgeon"; twin-engine Gruman, Navy utility plane (VJ(M)), manufactured by Gruman
*JIC -- Joint Intelligence Center
JIC -- Joint Intelligence Committee
JICA -- Joint Intelligence Center, Africa
JICA -- Joint Intelligence Collecting Agency (USMC)
JICACBI -- Joint Intelligence Collecting Agency, China, Burma, India
JICAME -- Joint Intelligence Collecting Agency, Middle East
JICANA -- Joint Intelligence Collecting Agency, North Africa
JICARC -- Joint Intelligence Collecting Agency, Reception Committee (Navy Department)
#JICPOA -- Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas
Jig -- "J" in the phonetic alphabet
JIS -- Joint Intelligence Staff
JISPB -- Joint Intelligence Studies Publishing Board
JLC -- Joint Logistics Committee
JLPC -- Joint Logistics Plans Committee
JM-# -- "Marauder"; twin-engine Navy utility plane (VJ(M)), manufactured by Martin
JMAC -- Joint Munitions Allocation Committee
JMC -- Joint Meteorological Committee
JMTC -- Joint Military Transportation Committee
JMVB -- Joint Merchant Vessels Board
JNW -- Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment
JOC -- Joint Operations Center
JOC Squadron -- Observation plane squadron (obsolete)
JOSCO -- Joint Overseas Shipping Control Office
JP -- Type of sonar
JPB -- Joint Planning Board
JPB -- Joint Purchasing Board
JPC -- Joint Planning Committee
JPPL -- Joint Personnel Priority List
JPS -- Joint Planing Staff (US & GB)
JPSC -- Joint Production Survey Committee
JPWC -- Joint Post-War Committee
JR -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a utility-transport plane
JRB-1-4 -- "Expeditor"; twin-engine Navy utility plane (VJ(M)), manufactured by Beech
JRB-2-3-4 -- "Voyager"; twin-engine Navy utility plane (VJ(M)), manufactured by Beech
JRC-# -- "Bobcat"; twin-engine Navy utility (VJ(M)), manufactured by Cessna
JRF-# -- "Goose"; twin-engine Navy utility (VJ(M)), manufactured by Gruman
JRM-# -- "Mars"; four-engine Navy transport (VR(HS)), seaplane, manufactured by Martin
JRPM -- Joint Registered Publications Memorandum
JRS-# -- "Excalibur"; four-engine Navy transport (VR(HS)), manufactured by Sikorsky
JSC -- Joint Security Control
JSC -- Joint Strategic Committee
JSIA -- Joint Service Induction Area
JSM -- Joint Staff Mission (GB)
JSOC -- Joint Ship Operations Committee
JSP -- Joint Staff Planners (Joint Chiefs of Staff)
JSRC -- Joint Ship Repair Committee
JSSC -- Joint Strategic Survey Committee
JT -- Rio de Janeiro to Trinidad (routing designation)
JT -- Type of sonar
JTF -- Joint Task Force
JTR -- Joint Termination Regulation
JUSSC -- Joint U.S. Strategic Committee
JWPC -- Joint War Plans Committee
JWPC -- Joint War Production Committee
--- K ---
K -- Communications Division aboard a carrier
K -- Fairchild Aviation Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
K -- Kaiser Cargo, Inc. (Fleetwings Division) (manufacturer's symbol)
K -- Kinner Airplane and Motor Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
K -- Nash-Kelvinator Company (manufacturer's symbol)
K -- Modified for use as target aircraft (suffix to plane designation)
K -- Pilotless Aircraft
KA -- Contraction of AKA (attack cargo ship)
KA -- Pilotless aircraft for attack on aircraft
KANS -- Kansas
"Kansan" -- See SNB-1
"Kaydet" -- See N2S
KBO -- Kite and Balloon Officer
KC -- Kilocycle(s)
KD -- Pilotless aircraft for use as target aircraft
K-Day -- Day set for strike or assault by a carrier's aircraft; corresponds to land forces' designation of D-Day with which it may or may not coincide
KDD-# -- Navy pilotless aircraft, target, manufactured by McDonnell
KEN -- Kentucky
KG -- Key West to Guantanamo (routing designation)
KG -- Pilotless aircraft for attack on ground targets
KGW-# -- Navy pilotless aircraft for attack on ground targets, manufactured by Willys-Overland
KH -- Key West to Galveston (routing designation)
Ki -- Kilocycle(s)
KIA -- Killed In Action
King -- "K" in the phonetic alphabet
"Kingfisher" -- See OS2N-#, OS2U-#
"Kites" -- Radar countermeasures; previously called "Angels"
KJ -- Pilotless aircraft for utility purposes
KM -- United Kingdom to Mediterranean (routing designation)
KN -- Key West to New York of Key West to Norfolk (routing designation)
KNA -- Killed; not enemy action
Kn(s) -- Knot(s)
KO -- Kodiak, Alaska
KPO -- Keypunch Operator
KS -- Norfolk to Key West (routing designation)
KS -- Pilotless aircraft for attack on ship targets
KT -- Knots
KV(s) -- Kilovolt(s)
KW -- Key West, Florida
KW(s) -- kilowatt(s)
KY -- Kentucky
--- L ---
L -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a glider
L -- Bell Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
L -- Columbia Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
L -- First letter of plane model designation signifying glider
L -- Landplane
L -- Langley Aviation Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
L -- legal Division (USCG)
L -- Lewisite
L -- Equipped with search light (suffix to plane designation)
L -- Single Bank Vertical (aircraft engine)
L -- Suffix to USNR line officer classification symbol denoting Limited General Service; As, (A)L is Limited General Service, Aviation Non-flying
LA -- Lighter than Air
LA -- Louisiana
Lab -- Laboratory
LAC -- Liberated Areas Committee
*LAIS -- Liaison
*LAN -- Landing
LANCRA -- Landing Craft
*LANCRAB -- Landing Craft and Bases
LanCraBNAW -- Northwest African Waters
LanForASCU -- Landing Force Air Support Control Unit
LANT -- Atlantic
LantFlt -- Atlantic Fleet
LantResFlt -- Atlantic Reserve Fleet
LAT -- Latitude
LAW -- Local Air Warning
LB -- Landing Barge(s)
L/B -- Light Bomber
LB -- Photographic Laboratory Specialist(s)
LB -- Pound
LBD -- Twin-engine McDonnell, Navy Special plane
LBE -- Landing Barge, Emergency Repair
LBE -- Landing Barge, Oiler
LBE -- Navy transport glider (VLR) known as "Glomb"; manufactured by Gould
LBK -- Landing Barge, Kitchen
LBP-1 -- Twin-engine Piper, Navy glider
LBS -- Landing Barge, Support
LBT -- Chemical Laboratory Technician
LBT -- Clinical Laboratory Technology
LBT -- Navy transport glider (VLR), known as "Glomb"; manufactured by Taylorcraft
LBV -- Landing Barge, Vehicle
LC or L/C -- Landing Craft
LC -- Lines of Communications (Army)
LCA -- Landing Craft, Assault
LCC -- Landing Craft, Control
LCC (1) -- Landing Craft, Control (Mark I)
LCC (2) -- Landing Craft, Control (Mark II)
LCC -- London Communications Committee
LCDR -- Lieutenant Commander
LCE -- Landing Craft, Emergency Repair
LCEOP -- Landing Craft, Engine Overhaul Parties
LCF -- Landing Craft, Flak
LC(FF) -- Landing Craft, Flotilla Flagship
LCFlotsPac -- Landing Craft, Flotilla, Pacific Fleet
LCG(L) -- Landing Craft, Gun, (Large)
LCGM -- Landing Craft, Gunboat
LCGP -- Landing Craft, Group
LCI -- Landing Craft, Infantry
LCIDiv -- LCI Division
LCIFlot -- LCI Flotilla
LCI(G) -- Landing Craft, Infantry Gunboat
LCIGrp -- LCI Group
LCI(L) -- Landing Craft, Infantry, Large
LCILFlot -- LCI(L) Flotilla
LCI(M) -- Landing Craft, Infantry (Mortar Ship)
LCI(R) -- Landing Craft, Infantry (Rocket Ship)
LCM -- Landing Craft, Mechanized
LCM(1) -- Landing Craft, Mechanized, Mark I
LCM(2) -- Landing Craft, Mechanized, Mark II
LCM(3) -- Landing Craft, Mechanized, Mark III
LCM(6) -- Landing Craft, Mechanized, Mark VI
LCMSO -- Landing Craft Material Supply Officer
LCN -- Landing Craft, Navigation
LCNT -- Link Celestial Navigation Trainer
LCOCU -- Landing Craft, Obstruction Clearance Unit
LCP -- Landing Craft, Personnel
LCP(L) -- Landing Craft, Personnel (Large)
LCP(M) -- Landing Craft, Personnel (Medium)
LCP(N) -- Landing Craft, Personnel (Nested)
LCP(P) -- Landing Craft, Personnel (Plastic)
LCP(R) -- Landing Craft, Personnel (Ramp)
LCP(Sy) -- Landing Craft, Personnel(Survey)
LCR(L) -- Landing Craft, Rubber (Large)
LCR(R) -- Landing Craft, Rubber (Rocket)
LCR(S) -- Landing Craft, Rubber (Small)
LCRU -- Landing Craft, Recovery Unit
LCS(L)(3) -- Landing Craft, Support (Large) (Mark III)
LCS(M) -- Landing Craft, Support (Medium)
LCS(R) -- Landing Craft, Support (Rocket)
LCS(S) -- Landing Craft, Support (Small)
LCS(S)(1) -- Landing Craft, Support (Small) (Mark I)
LCS(S)(2) -- Landing Craft, Support (Small) (Mark II)
LCT -- Landing Craft, Tank
LCT(5) -- Landing Craft, Tank (Mark V)
LCT(6) -- Landing Craft, Tank (Mark VI)
LCT(A) -- Landing Craft, Tank (Armored)
LCV -- Landing Craft, Vehicle
LCVP -- Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel
LD -- Line of Departure (Army)
LD -- Line of Duty (Army)
LDD -- Letter of Determination of Dependency
LDF -- Local Defense Forces
LE -- Low Explosive (Army)
LEA/BZ -- Vessel leased to Brazil
LEA/CH -- Vessel leased to China
LEA/EC -- Vessel leased to Ecuador
LEA/FR -- Vessel leased to France
LEA/GR -- Vessel leased to Greece
LEA/MX -- Vessel leased to Mexico
LEA/NE -- Vessel leased to Netherlands
LEA/NO -- Vessel leased to Norway
LEA/PA -- Vessel leased to Panama
LEA/PE -- Vessel leased to Peru
LEA/PG -- Vessel leased to Paraguay
LEA/RU -- Vessel leased to Russia
LEA/UK -- Vessel leased to United Kingdom
LEA/UR -- Vessel leased to Uruguay
LEAVE RATS -- Leave Rations
LF -- Fighter aircraft fitted with engine rated for low altitude performance
LF -- Low Frequency
LFM -- Landing Force Manual
LG -- Landing Ground
Lg Comb -- Large Combatant
"Liberator" -- See PB4Y-1, 1P-12RY-1-2-3
Lifesta -- Lifeboat Station (USCG)
LINE -- Line Officer, USN
"Lion" -- A large advanced base unit consisting of all the personnel and material necessary for the establishment of a major, all-purpose naval base. It is made up of a large number of functional components which enables the base to perform voyage repairs and repair minor battle damage to a major portion of a fleet.
LLI -- Latitude and Longitude Indicator
LLLO -- Lend-Lease Liaison Office
LM -- Land Mine
LM -- Legion of Merit
LMG -- Light Machine Gun (Army)
LNC -- Local Naval Commander
LNE-# -- Navy training glider (VLN), manufactured by Gould
LNS-# -- Navy training glider (VLN), manufactured by Schwiezer
LNT-# -- Navy training glider (VLN), manufactured by Taylorcraft
LO -- Liaison Office(r)
*LO -- Local
LOAN/A -- Vessels loaned to Army
LOAN/C -- Vessels loaned to Coast Guard
LOAN/M -- Vessels loaned to miscellaneous activities (U.S. Maritime Academy, etc.)
LOAN/S -- Vessels loaned to States
LOAN/W -- Vessels loaned to War Shipping Administration
LOCAL -- Permanent local fleet
LODC -- Local Defense District Craft
"Lodestar" -- See R50-#
LODIG -- Loading
LODOR -- Loaded, Waiting Orders or Assignment
LofC -- Lines of Communications
LONG -- Longevity
LONG -- Longitude
LOP -- Local Operational Plot
LOPU -- Logistics Organization Planning Unit
LORAN -- Long-Range Radio Aid to Navigation
LOST/A -- Vessels lost by accident, collision or similar methods
LOST/E -- Vessels lost through enemy action
LOST/P -- Vessels lost due to weather, perils of the sea or similar reasons
LOTON -- Long tons discharged or loaded
LOTS -- LORAN Operational Training School (Pearl Harbor)
LOU -- Louisiana
Love -- "L" in the phonetic alphabet
LP -- Landplane
LP -- Loss pay/loss of pay
LP -- Low Pressure
LPC -- Low Pressure Chamber Technician
LR -- Long Range Plane(s)
LRNA -- Laws Relating to the Navy Annotated
LRW-# -- Navy transport glider (VLR), manufactured by WACO
LSB -- Landing Ship, Bombardment
LSD -- Landing Ship, Dock
LSH(L) -- Landing Ship, Headquarters (Large)
LSH(S) -- Landing Ship, Headquarters (Small)
LSM -- Landing Ship, Medium
LSM(R) -- Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket)
LSMSO -- Landing Ship Material Supply Officer
LSO -- Landing Signal Officer
LST -- Landing Ship, Tank
LST(H) -- Landing Ship, Tank (Casualty Evacuation)
LSV -- Landing Ship, Vehicle
LSX -- Landing Ship Planned
LT -- Large Tug (Army)
LT or Lt -- Lieutenant
L/T -- Line Telecommunications
LT -- Link Trainer Instructor
LTA -- Lighter Than Air
LtCol -- Lieutenant Colonel
LtCom -- Lieutenant Commander
LtComdr -- Lieutenant Commander
LTD -- Limited
LtGen -- Lieutenant General
Lt (jg) -- Lieutenant (Junior Grade)
Ltr -- Letter
Ltr -- Lighter than air
LTS -- Landfall Technique School, New York
Lv -- Leave
LV -- Light Vessel
LVD -- Absent on leave from ship's company duty
LVN -- Absent on leave not from ship's company
L-V(S) -- USNR designation for commissioned legal officers qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by S(L).
LVT -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked
LVT(1) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Unarmored (Mark I) ("Alligator")
LVT(2) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Unarmored (Mark II) ("Water Buffalo")
LVT(3) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Unarmored (Mark III)
LVT(4) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Unarmored (Mark IV)
LCT(A) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked (Armored) (Turret Type)
LVT(A)(1) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked (Armored) (Mark I) ("Water Buffalo," Turret Type)
LVT(A)(2) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked (Armored) (Mark II) ("Water Buffalo," Canopy Type)
LVT(A)(4) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked (Armored) (Mark IV)
LVT(A)(5) -- Landing Vehicle, Tracked (Armored) (Mark V)
LW -- U.S. East Coast to Southwest Pacific (routing designation)
LWT -- Light Weight Type (anchor gear)
--- M ---
M -- General Motors Corporation (Eastern Aircraft Division) (manufacturer's symbol)
M -- Glenn L. Martin Co. (manufacturer's symbol)
M -- Marine Corps; used as prefix with plane designation
M -- Medium or 2-engine plane
M -- Monoplane
M -- Merchant Marine Reserve
M1 -- Merchant Marine Reserve Seagoing
M2 -- Merchant Marine Reserve Coastal Defense
M -- Metalsmith
M -- Model
M -- Office of merchant Marine Safety (USCG)
MA -- Manila, P.I.
MA -- Mediterranean Area
MA -- Military Attache
MAA -- Master-At-Arms
MAAF -- Mediterranean Allied Air Force
MAATC -- Mobile Anti-Aircraft Training Center
MAB -- Marine Air Base
MAB -- Munitions Assignment Board
MABDG -- Marine Aircraft Base Defense Group
MABDW -- Marine Air Base Defense Wing
MABO -- Marianas-Bonins Group
MABS -- Marine Air Base Squadron
MAC -- Marine Amphibious Corps
MAC(Air) -- Munitions Assignment Committee (Air) (Washington)
MACAF -- Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Forces
*MACH -- Machinery
MACH -- Machinist
MachGr -- Machine Group
MACRI -- Mercantile Atlantic Coastal Routing Instructions
MACTU -- Mine and Countermeasures Technical Unit
MAD -- Magnetic Airborne Detector
MAD -- Marine Aviation Detachment
MAD -- Mine Assembly Depot
MADepSq -- Marine Air Depot Squadron
MADP -- Main Air Display Plot
MAEE -- Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment
MAF or MAFac -- Marine Air Facility
MAFOG -- Mediterranean Area Fighter Operations Grid
*MAG -- Magazine
MAG -- Marine Aircraft Group
MairMar -- Marine Air Depot Miramar
MAIRU -- Mobile Aircraft Instrument Repair Unit
Maj -- Major
MajGen -- Major General
MAL -- Malariology
MAL -- Malariology Technician
MaM -- Mailman
*MAN -- Manager
Man -- Manual
MAN or MN -- Very high frequency voice radio (FM)
MANDREL -- Electric Jammer (radar)
ManMedDept -- Manual of the Medical Department
MAP -- Ministry of Aircraft Production (GB)
MAPRC -- Mediterranean Allied Photographic reconnaissance Command
MAPUC -- Modified Area Production Urgency Committee
MAQ -- Money allowance for quarters for dependents (W for wife; M, mother; F, father; LC, legitimate child; AC, adopted child)
*MAR -- Marine
MarAirWing -- Marine Aircraft Wing
"Marauder" -- See JM-#
MarBasScol -- Marine Corps Basic School
MarBks -- Marine Barracks
MarBrig -- Marine Brigade
MARCOR -- marine Corps
MarCorps -- Marine Corps
MarDiv -- Marine Division
MARE -- Mare Island
MARegSq -- Marine Air Regulating Squadron
MarFair -- Marine Fleet Air
MarFAIRWest -- marine Fleet Air, West Coast
MarGarFor -- marine Garrison Force
MarGilsArea -- Marshalls-Gilberts Area
MARI -- Mercantile Atlantic Routing Instructions
"Mariner" -- See PMB-1, PBM-3-5, PBM-3R
Mark or Mk -- Symbol used to distinguish different types of ordnance and certain other equipment. A newly developed type would be designated Mark (Mk) I; with the first minor change it would be MkI Mod (modification) I. Eventually these changes would become sufficient to start with MkII. On 17 April 1944, BuShips changed the numerals from Roman to Arabic; Mark II became Mk 2, etc.
MarPac -- Headquarters, Department of the Pacific (USMC)
"Mars" -- See JRM-#, PB2M-1R
MarTra&ReplComs -- Marine Training and Replacement Commands
MAS -- German and Italian craft corresponding to United States MTB
MAS -- Low-powered guided missile jammer (radar)
MASAF -- Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force
MA/SB -- Motor Anti-Submarine Boat
MASCU -- Marine Air Support Control Unit
MASG -- Marine Air Support Group
MASS -- Massachusetts
MAT -- Material
MAT -- mechanical Aptitude Test
MATAF -- Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force
MATD -- Mine and Torpedo Detector (sonar)
MATMU -- Mobile Aircraft Torpedo Maintenance Unit
MATS -- Mediterranean Air Transport Service
MAW -- Marine Aircraft Wing
MAWC -- Marine Air, West Coast
MAWP -- Marine Air Wing, Pacific
MAWS -- Marine Air Warning Squadron
MB -- Main Battery
MB -- Marine Barracks
M/B -- Medium Bomber
MB -- Motorboat (USCG)
MBC -- Mediterranean Bombardment Code
MBDG -- Marine Base Defense Group
MBMU -- Mobile Base Maintenance Unit
MDNAD -- Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition Depot
MBNAS -- Marine Barracks, Naval Air Station
MBNMD -- Marine Barracks, Naval Mine Depot
MBNOB -- Marine Barracks, Naval Operating Base
MBNS -- Marine Barracks, Naval Station
MBNYd -- Marine Barracks, Navy Yard
MBSB -- marine Barracks, Submarine Base
MSW -- Munitions Assignment Board (Washington)
MBY&D -- Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks (appropriation title)
MC -- Marine Corps
MC -- Maritime Commission
MC -- Megacycles
MC -- USN officer designation for Medical Corps
MCA -- Maritime Control Area
MCA -- Material Coordinating Agency
MCAAF -- Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Facility
MCAAS -- Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station
MCAB -- Marine Corps Air Base
MBAD -- Marine Corps Air Depot
MCAF -- Marine Corps Air Facility
MCAF -- Mediterranean Coastal Air Force Headquarters
MCAS -- Marine Corps Air Station
MCB -- Marine Corps Base
MCk -- Master Cook
MCM -- Manual for Court Martial (Army)
MCM -- Marine Corps Manual
MC-M -- USNR designation for Merchant Marine officers qualified for General Service in the Medical Corps; this classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by MCM.
MCM -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Medical Corps, Merchant Marine
MCMR -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Medical Corps, Merchant Marine. Formerly MCM.
MCMS -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Medical Corps, Merchant Marine. Formerly MCM(S).
MCO -- Marine Corps Order
MCPD -- Marine Corps Procurement District
MCR -- Marine Corps Reserve
MCR -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Medical Corps. Formerly MC.
MCS -- Marine Corps Schools
MCS -- Megacycles
MCS -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Medical Corps. Formerly MC(S).
MCT -- Mechanical Comprehension Test
MCV -- Maritime Commission, Victory hip
MCVG -- Marine Carrier Group
MC-V(G) -- USNR designation for medical officers, qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by MC or MC(S).
MC-V(S) -- USNR designation for medical officers qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by MC or MC(S).
MCW -- Modulated Continuous Wave
MCW -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Medical Corps. Formerly MC(W).
MCWR -- Marine Corps Women's Reserve
MD -- Marine Detachment
MD -- Maryland
MD -- Medical Department
MD -- Methldichlorarsine
MD -- Mine Disposal
MDW -- Military District of Washington (Army)
ME -- Maine
ME -- Middle East
MEBD -- Medical Examining Board
Mech -- Mechanical
*MECZ -- Mechanized
MED -- Medical
Med -- Mediterranean
MEDICOS -- Mediterranean Instructions to Convoys
#MEDOFCOMD -- Medical Officer-in-Command
MedSupDep -- Medical Supply Depot
MEF -- Forces in the Middle East (GB)
MEI -- Manual of Engineering Instructions
MEIU -- Middle East Interpretation Unit (GB)
MEIU -- Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit
MEMO -- Memorandum
MEO -- Major Engine Overhaul
*MER -- Merchant
MER -- Merchant Shipping Control Plan
MER-1 -- Merchant Shipping Control Operating Plan for the United States
#MERAIR -- Including commercial air
#MERAIRDIR -- In performing the above travel, commercial air is directed where necessary (or between points specified) to expedite completion of this duty
MERCO -- Mercantile Communications
MERCO -- Merchant Ship Movement Reports
MERCOS -- Merchant Codes
MERSIGS -- Merchant Ships' Signal Books
MERSIGS -- Merchant Signals
#MERTRANSUB -- Commercial transportation and subsistence authorized
MESC -- Middle East Supply Center
MesCpl -- Mess Corporal (USMC)
MESS -- Messman
MessSgt -- Mess Sergeant (USMC)
*MET -- Meteorological
Metal -- Metallurgical
METON -- Measured tons discharged or loaded
MEW -- Microwave Early Warning (radar)
MEW -- Ministry of Economic Warfare (GB)
MEX -- Mexico, Mexican
MF -- Medium Frequency
MF -- Midget peeper radar jam
MFA&A -- Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (SHAEF)
MFairWest -- Marine Fleet Air, West Coast
MFT -- Medical Field Service
MFT -- Medical Field Service Technician
MFWC -- Marine Fleet Air, West Coast
MG -- Machine Gun
MG -- Machine Gunner
MG -- Mark I Machine Gun Trainer
MG -- Military Government
MG -- Mississippi Rover to Galveston (routing designation)
Mgas -- Motor gasoline
MGB -- Motor Gunboat (GB)
MGDA -- Multiple Degaussing Cable
MDM -- Mailgram
MDU -- Military Government Unit
MGUN -- Marine Gunner
MGunSgt -- Master Gunnery Sergeant (USMC)
MGYSGT -- Master Gunnery Sergeant (USMC)
MH -- Congressional Medal of Honor
MHB -- Master Horizontal Bomber
MI -- mare Island
MI -- Medical Illustrator
MI -- Mile(s)
MI -- Military Intelligence (Army)
MIA -- Missing In Action
MICH -- Michigan
"Mickey Mouse" -- Chartlet showing estimated positions at specific times during invasions
Mid -- Middle
Mid -- Midshipman
MID -- Military Intelligence Division (War Department)
MIDN -- Midshipman
MidPac -- Middle Pacific (Army)
MIDS -- Movement Information Distribution Station
Mike -- "M" in the phonetic alphabet
*MIL -- Military
MIME -- Ministry of Information middle East (GB)
*MIN -- Mine; Minecraft
MIN -- Minute
MinBatFor -- Minecraft Battle Force, Pacific Fleet
MinDiv -- Mine Division
MineCtrMeasSta -- Mine Counter-Measure Station
MINN -- Minnesota
MinRon -- Mine Squadron
MINSY -- Mare Island Naval Shipyard
MINU -- Mobile Instrument Investigation unit
MINY -- Mare Island Navy Yard
MIO -- Mobile Issuing Office
MIRS -- Military Intelligence Research Section
MIS -- Material Inspection Service
MIS -- Military Intelligence Services (Army)
MIS -- Mine Issuing Ship
*MIS -- Mission
MISC -- Allotments for miscellaneous purposes
MISS -- Mississippi
MIT -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit -- Mitigate(d)
"Mitchell" -- See PBJ-#
#MITRE -- Authorized to omit or revisit any of the above mentioned places as may be deemed necessary
#MITREVAR -- Authorized to omit or revisit any of the above mentioned places and to vary the above itinerary as may be deemed necessary
#MITVAR -- Authorized to omit any of the above mentioned places and to vary the above itinerary as may be deemed necessary
MJAO -- Mediterranean Joint Air Orders
Mk -- Mark; see Mark
Mks -- Marksman (USMC)
MKUD -- People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (USSR)
M/L -- Minelayer (GB)
ML -- Molder
ML -- Money List
ML -- Motor Launch
ML -- Small Mine Sweeper
MLC -- Major Landing Craft
MLC -- Military Landing Craft
Mldr -- Molder
MLR -- Mail Line of Resistance (Army)
MLSR -- Molder, Ship Repair
MLSRC -- Molder, Ship Repair, Cupola Tender
MLSRF -- Molder, Ship Repair, Foundryman
MLSRM -- Molder, Ship Repair, Molder
MM -- Machinist's Mate
MM -- Millimeters
MMCBE -- Machinist's Mate, Construction Battalion, Equipment Operator
MMD -- Manual of the Medical Department
MME -- Machinist's Mate, Engineman
MG -- Machinist's Mate, Industrial Gas Generating Mechanic
MMNIC -- Main Mediterranean Naval Intelligence Center
MMP -- Merchant Marine Personnel Division (USCG)
MR -- Machinist's Mate, Refrigeration
MMS -- British vessel corresponding to U.S. YMS [Motor Minesweeper]
MMS -- Machinist's Mate, Shop Mechanic
MMS -- Motor Minesweeper
MMSR -- Machinist's Mate, Ship Repair
MMSRE -- Machinist's Mater, Ship Repair, Engine Operator
MMSRO -- Machinist's Mater, Ship Repair, Instrument Maker
MMSRS -- Machinist's Mater, Ship Repair, Outside Machinist
MMT -- Merchant Marine Technical Division (USCG)
MN -- Mineman
MN or MAN -- Very high frequency voice radio (FM)
MNA -- Missing, not enemy action
MNAO -- Mobile Naval Airfield Organization
MNAU -- Mobile Naval Airfield Unit
Mngr -- Manager
MO -- Medical Officer
MO -- Missouri
*MO -- Mobile
MO -- Monthly Order
Mob -- Mobile
"Moby Dick" -- Experimental Navy rocket engine
Mod -- Modification; used especially to distinguish successive modifications of a type of ordnance equipment. See Mark.
*MOD -- Modify (ied) (ing)
MOF -- Ministry of Food (GB)
MoGas -- Motor Gasoline
MOI -- Ministry of Information (GB)
MOIC -- Medical Officer-in-Charge
MOINC -- Medical Officer-in-Charge
MoMM -- Motor Machinist's Mate
MoMMSR -- Motor Machinist's Mate, Ship Repair
MOMP -- Mid-Ocean Meeting Point
MONAB -- Mobile Naval Air Base
MONT -- Montana
"Moonshine" -- RCM countermeasure device
MOP -- Mustering Out Pay
*MOR -- Moroccan
Morest -- Mobile Arresting Gear
MoroccanSeaFron -- Moroccan Sea Frontier
MorSeaFron -- Moroccan Sea Frontier
MOS -- Marking of Overseas Shipments
MOS -- Ministry of State (GB)
Mo(s) -- Month(s)
MOSC -- Military Oil Sub-Committee (of North African Economic Board)
MOSRD -- Motor Machinist's Mate Ship Repair, Diesel Engineering Mechanic
MOSRG -- Motor Machinist's Mate, Ship Repair, Gasoline Engine Mechanic
*MOT -- Motor
MoTarDiv -- Mobile Target Division
MOTG -- Marine Operational Training Group
"MOTHER" -- Land-based radio homing beacon (YG)
MotoGas -- Motor Gasoline
MotPict -- Motion Picture
Mov -- Movement
MOWT -- Ministry of War Transport (GB)
MP -- Military Police
MP -- Motion Picture Production
MPC -- Manpower Priorities Committee
MPCo -- Military Police Company (USMC)
MPCRI -- Mercantile Pacific Coastal Routing Instructions
MPH -- Miles Per Hour
MPO -- Motion Picture Operator
MPRI -- Merchant Pacific Routing Instructions
MPSC -- Material Planing Schedule and Control (Division of Inspection Offices, Navy)
MQO -- Marksmanship Qualification Order (USMC)
MR -- Medium Range Planes
MR -- Mobilization Regulation (Army)
M/R -- Morning Report (Army)
MRC -- Material Redistribution Center
MRC -- Movement Report Center
MR&D -- Material Redistribution & Disposal
MRI -- Machine Records Installation
MRM -- Medical Repair Technician
MRO -- Maintenance, Repair and Operating Supplies
MRO -- Management Review Officer
MRO -- Movement Report Office
MRS -- Military Railway Service
MRS -- Movement Report Sheet
MRU -- Machine Records Unit (Army)
MRU -- Material Recovery Unit
MS -- Medical Survey
M&S -- Bureau of Medicine & Survey
MS -- Medium Steel
MS -- Minesweeper
M/S -- Minesweeper (GB)
MS -- Mine Sweeping
MS -- MotorShip
MSCI -- Mediterranean Secret Convoy instructions
MSCS -- Merchant Ship Control Service
Msg -- Message
MsgCen -- Message Center
MSGO -- Mediterranean Secret General Orders
Msgr -- Messenger
Msm -- Messman (USMC)
MSmth -- Metalsmith
MSR -- Metalsmith, Ship Repair
MSR -- Monthly Status Report
MSRB -- Metalsmith, Ship Repair, Blacksmith
MSRC -- Metalsmith, Ship Repair, Coppersmith
MSRF -- Metalsmith, Ship Repair, Forger-Anglesmith
MSRS -- Metalsmith, Ship Repair, Sheet Metal Worker
MStd -- Master Steward (USMC)
MSU -- Material Salvage Unit
M/T -- Measurement Tons
MT -- Military Transport
MT -- Motor Transport(ation)
MTAF -- Mediterranean Tactical Air Force Headquarters
MTB -- Maintenance of True Bearing
MTB -- Motor Torpedo Boat
MTBRon -- Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron
MTVSTC -- Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center (Melville, R.I.)
Mtcl -- Motorcycle
MTD -- Mobile Target Division (Mine Forces)
MTF -- Mechanical Time Fuse
MTk -- Medium Tank
MTO -- Medical Transport Officer
MTO -- Mediterranean Theater of Operations
MTO -- Mission, Task, Objective
MTP -- Mobilization Training Program (Army)
MTSgt -- Master Technical Sergeant (USMC)
MTSgt(C) -- Master Technical Sergeant (Commissary) (USMC)
MunBg -- Munitions Building (War Department)
Mus -- Musician
MV -- Cargo Ship (GB)
M/V -- Merchant Vessel
MVI -- Merchant Vessel Inspection Division (USCG)
MVSS -- Marine Wing Service Squadron
MWB -- Marine whaleboat
MWT -- Ministry of War Transport (GB)
MWTR -- Ministry of War Transport Representative (GB)
MYDIS -- My dispatch
MYLTR -- My letter
MYMGM -- My mailgram
MYMSG -- May message
MYRAD -- My radio
MYSER -- My serial
MYTEL -- My telegram
--- N ---
N -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, including a training plane
N -- A suffix which, when appended to a basic USNR officer classification, indicates special qualifications in electronics: officers who are qualified CIO Watch Officers and who are also qualified in aircraft control under all conditions.
N -- Naval Aircraft Factory (manufacturer's symbol)
N -- Navigation Department of a carrier
N -- Night Fighter (suffix to plane designation); see F6F-5N
N -- North
NA -- Canada to United Kingdom (routing designation)
NA -- National Archives
NA -- Naval Academy
*NA -- Naval Air
NA -- Naval Attache
NA -- Naval Aviator
NA -- Not Appropriated
NAA -- Naval Attache for Air
NAA -- Northern Attack Area
NAAF -- Naval Auxiliary Air Facility
NAAF -- Northwest African Air Force
NAAS -- Naval Auxiliary Air Station
NAB -- Naval Advanced Base
NAB -- Naval Air Base
NABA -- Naval Amphibious Base Annex
NABU -- Naval Advanced Base Unit
NAC -- Naval Academy
NAC -- Naval Air Center
NACA -- National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
NACAF -- Northwest African Coastal Air Force
NACIO -- Naval Air Combat Information Office(r)
NACIS -- Naval Air Combat Information School
NACSB -- Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board
NACTU -- Night Attack Combat Training Unit
NACU -- National Association of Colleges and Universities
NAD -- Naval Air Depot
NAD -- Naval Air Detail
NAD -- Naval Ammunition Depot
NADM -- Naval Administration
NADU -- Naval Aircraft Delivery Unit
NAEB -- North African Economic Board
NAer -- Bureau of Aeronautics Publications; later, NAVAER
NAES -- Naval Air Experimental Station
NAF -- Naval Aircraft Facility
NAF -- Naval Aircraft Factory
NAF -- Northern Attack Force
NAFC -- Naval Air Ferry Command
NAFC -- Northern Attack Force Commander
NAFI -- Naval Air Fighting Instructions
NAFS -- Naval Air Fighter School
NAGC -- Naval Armed Guard Center
NAGCO -- Naval Air Ground Center
NAGS -- Naval Air Gunners School
NAIT -- Naval Air Intermediate Training
NAIT(C) -- Naval Air Intermediate Training (Command)
NALO -- Naval Air Liaison Officer
NAM -- Naval Aircraft modification
NAMB -- Naval Amphibious Base
NAMC -- Naval Aircraft Material Center
NAMD -- Naval Ammunition Depot
NAMO -- Naval Aircraft Maintenance Orders
NAMT -- naval Aircraft Mobile Trainer
NAMU -- Naval Aircraft Material (Utility)
NAMU -- Naval Aircraft Modification Unit
"NAN" -- Infra-red signalling system
Nan -- "N" in the phonetic alphabet
NANCF -- North Atlantic Naval Coastal Frontier
"NANCY" Gear -- Infra-red gear for night signalling; formerly, NAN Gear
NANews -- Naval Aviation News
NANFAC -- Naval Air Navigation Facility Advisory Committee
NANS -- Naval Air Navigation School
NAOT -- Naval Air Operational Training
NAOTC -- Naval Air Operations Traiing Command
NAP -- Naval Air Priorities
NAP -- Naval Aviation Pilot
"Napalm" -- Fire bomb used in pre-invasion assaults
NAP(G) -- Naval Aviation Pilot (Glider)
NAPC -- Naval Air Priorities Office
NAPP -- Naval Aviation Preparatory Program
NAPRW -- Northwest African Photographic Reconnaissance Wing
NAPT -- Naval Air Primary Training
NAPT(C) -- Naval Air Primary Training (Command)
NAPTCRO -- Naval Air Primary Training Command Regional Office
NAR -- Naval Air Representative (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington)
NARSTC -- Naval Air Rescue Training Command
NARTC -- Naval Air Research Training Command
NARTU -- naval Air Reserve Training Unit
NAS -- Naval Air Station
NASBERM -- Naval Air Station Bermuda
NASCRIST -- Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
NASD -- Naval Avaition Supply Depot (Philadelphia)
NASDIEGO -- Naval Air Station San Diego
NASGTMO -- Naval Air Station Guantanamo
NASJAX -- Naval Air Station Jacksonville
NASLAKE -- Naval Air Station Lakejurst
LASPENSA -- Naval Air Station Pensacola
NASQUON -- Naval Air Station Quonset Point
NASS -- Naval Air Signal School
NAT -- Naval Air Training
NAT -- North African Theater
NATAF -- Northewest African Tactical Air Force
NATB -- Naval Aier Training Base
#NATBASES -- Naval Air Training Bases
NATC -- Naval Air Testing Center
NATC -- Naval Air Training Center
NATEC -- Naval Air Training and Experimental Command (LTA, Lakehurst)
NATechTraCen -- Naval Air Technical Training Center
#NATNAVMEDCEN -- National Naval Medical Center (Methesda, Maryland)
NATOUSA -- North African Tehater of Operations United States Army
NATS -- Naval Air Transport Service
NATSFerry -- Naval Air Transport Service, Ferry Command
NATSLant -- Naval Air Transport Service, Atlantic Wing
NATSPac -- Naval Air Transport Service, Pacific Wing
NatSup -- National Supply Company
NATT -- Naval Air Technical Training
NATTC -- Naval Air Technical Training Center
*NAV -- Naval; Navy; Navigation(al)
NAVACT -- Communication directed to all Navy activities
NAVAER -- Bureau of Aeronautics Publications
NavAirFac -- Naval Air Facility
NavAirTraCen -- Naval Air Training Center
NAVALOT -- Allotment Division (BuSandA)
NavAmDep -- Naval Ammunition Depot
NAVAUTH -- Naval Authority
NavBase -- Naval Base
NAVBOILAB -- Navy Boiler Laboratory
NAVC -- Naval Aviation Cadet
NAVCG -- Cost Guard Publications
NavCloDep -- Naval Clothing Depot
NACVM -- Navigation countermeasures and deception
NAVCOM -- Naval Communications
#NAVCONTRACEN -- Naval Construction Training Center
#NAVCONVHOSP -- Naval Convalescent Hospital
NavDet -- Naval Detachment
NavDis -- Naval District
NavDiscBar -- Naval Disciplonary Barracks
NavDisp -- Naval Dispensary
NAVDIST -- Naval District
NAVDOCKS -- Bureau of Yards and Docks Publications
NavEu -- U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters
NAVEXAM -- Naval Easmining Board
NAVEXOS -- Executive Office of the Secretary Publications
NavFac -- Naval Facility
NavFlightPrepSchol -- Naval Flight Preparatory School
NavFor -- U.S. Naval Forces
NavForces -- Naval Forces
NavForEu -- U.S. Naval Forces Europe; later, NavEu
NavForGer -- U.S. Naval Forces Germany
NavFrOf -- Navy Freight Office
NavFuelDep -- Naval Fuel Depot
NAVGEN -- Navy General Publications
NavGun -- Naval Gun Factory
NavHome -- U.S. Naval Home (Philadelphia)
NavHosp -- U.S. Naval Hospital
Navig -- Navigation; Navigator
"Navigator" -- See SNB-2-2C
NAVINGSEN -- Naval Inspector General
NAVINTEL -- Naval Intelligence
NAVJAG -- Judge Advocate General's Office Publications
NavJap -- U.S. Naval Forces, Japan
NavMag -- U.S. Naval Magazine
NAVMC -- Marine Corps Publications
NAVMED -- Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Publications
NavMed -- U.S. Naval Forces, Mediterranean
NavMinDep -- Naval Mine Depot
NAVMIS -- Naval Mission
NAVMUT -- Navy Mutual Aid Insurace (allotment for)
NavNAW -- U.S. Naval Forces, Northwest African Waters; later, NavMed
NavNetDep -- Naval Net Depot
NavNorSols -- Naval Forces, Northern Solomons
NavNZ -- NavalForces, New Zealand
NAVOBSY -- Naval Observatory
NavOpFac -- Naval Operation Facility
NAVORD -- Naval Ordnance Publications
NavPhil -- U.S. Naval Forces Philippines
NavPowFac -- Naval Powder Factory
NavPreFlightScol -- Naval PreFlight School
NavPris -- Naval Prison
NavProv -- Naval Proving Ground (Dahlgren, Va.)
NAVPUBSConBd -- Navy Department Publications Control Board
NavPur -- Navy Purchasing Office
NavRadSta -- Naval Radio Station
NavRes -- Naval Reserve
NavResLab -- Naval Research Laboratory
#NAVRESMIDSCOL -- Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School
NavRetrainCom -- Naval Retraining Command
NavRoute -- Navy Routing Office
NavRyukyus -- Naval Forces, Ryukyus
NAVSANDA -- Bureau of Supplies and Accounts Publications; formerly, NSA
NAVSHIPS -- Bureau of Ships Publications
NavShipYd -- Naval Ship Yard
NavSta -- Naval Station
NavTechJap -- Naval Technical Mission to Japan (US)
NavTechTraCen -- Naval Air Technical Training Center
NavTecMisEu -- naval Technical Mission in Europe (US)
NavTorpSta -- Naval Torpedo Station
#NAVTRADISTCEN -- Naval Training and Distribution Center
NAVTRANSAIR -- For travel by Naval Transport Aircraft Class priority is hereby certified
NavTraScol -- Naval Training School
NavTraSta -- Naval Training Station
#NAVWARCOL -- Naval War College
NavWesPac -- U.S. Naval Forces Western Pacific
Navy No.--- -- Navy Number (mail address, disguised) [click for full list]
Navy Regs -- U.S. Navy Regulations
NB -- Naval Base
NBAD -- Naval Bases Air Defense
NBC -- Navy Beach Commando
NBPA -- Navy Board for production Awards
NBS -- Bureau of Ships Publications; later, NAVSHIPS
NBSS -- Naval Beach Signal Section
NC -- Naval Correspondence
NC -- navy Cross
NC -- North Carolina
NC -- Petroleum Technician
NC -- Special Projects
NC -- USN officer designation for Nurse Corps USN
NCA -- Naval Communications Annex
NCAP -- Naval Air Combat Patrol
NCAR -- North Carolina
NCB -- Naval Communications Board
NC&B -- Naval Courts & Boards
NCD -- Notice of Credit Due
NCDC -- Naval Contract Distribution Center
NCDT&E Base -- Naval Combat Demolition Training and Experimental Base (Maui, T.H.)
NCDU -- Naval Combat Demolition Unit
NCG -- Coast Guard Publications; later, NAVCG
NCI -- Naval Coast Inspector
NCO -- Non-Commissioned Officer
NCOinC -- Non-Commissioned Officer-in-Charge
NCPI -- Navy Civilian Personnel Instructions
NCSL -- Naval Code and Signal Laboratory
NCSC -- Naval Control Service Office (World War II British Routing Service)
NCTC -- Naval Construction Training Center
NCUSA -- Navy Club of the United States of America
NCWTF -- Naval Commander Western Task Force
ND -- Naval District
ND -- Navy Department
NDAC -- National Defense Advisory Commission
NDAK -- North Dakota
NDB -- Naval Disciplinary Barracks
NDB -- Navy Department Bulletin
NDBS -- Naval Despatch Boat Service
NDBulCumEd -- Navy Department Bulletins, Cumulative Editions
NDD&RF -- Naval Dry Dock and Repair Facility
NDF -- Naval Dairy Farm
NDGO -- Navy Department General Order
NDO -- Navy Disbursing Officer
NDOS -- National Defense Operations Section (FCC)
NDP -- Navy Department Personnel
NDRC -- National Defense Research Council
NE-# -- "Grasshopper"; single-engine Navy utility plane (VJ), manufactured by Piper
NE -- Northeast
#NEARNAVDIST -- Commandant of the nearest Naval District
NEBR -- Nebraska
NEF -- Naval Emergency Fund (appropriation title)
NEGAT -- Negative
NEI -- Netherlands East Indies
NEL -- naval Electronics Laboratory
NEL -- Naval Explosive Laboratory
"Neptune" -- See P2V-2
NES -- Naval Experimenting Station
NEV -- Nevada
*NEWFO -- Newfoundland
NEWLON -- New London, Connecticut
NF or N/F -- Night Fighter aircraft
NF -- Norfolk
NF -- Norfolk, Virginia (Navy Yard)
NF -- Nose Fuse
NFA -- Naval Fuel Annex
NFB -- Naval Frontier Base
NFD -- Naval Fuel Depot
NFIS -- Naval Fighting Instruction School
NFPS -- Naval Flight Preparatory School
NFTB -- Naval Fleet Training Base
NFTS -- Naval Flight Training School
NG -- New York to Guantanamo (routing designation)
NGA -- A two frequency supersonic sounding gear for use with WFA (sonar)
NGF -- Naval Gun Factory
NGF -- Naval Gunfire
NGLO -- Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer
NGS -- Naval Gunfire Support
NH -- Naval Home
NH-# -- "Nightingale"; single-engine Navy trainer (VN), manufactured by Howard
NH -- Naval Hospital
NH -- New Hampshire
NHA -- National Housing Administration
NHAMP -- New Hampshire
NHO -- Hydrographic Office Publications
NHOS -- Naval Hospital
NI -- Naval Intelligence
NIA -- Navy Industrial Association
NICO -- Navy Inventory Control Office
NID -- Naval Intelligence Division(British Admiralty)
NID -- U.S. Naval Intelligence Division; usually, ONI
NIDS -- Navigation Instrument Development Unit
NIG -- Naval Inspector General
"Nightingale" -- See GH-#, NH-#
NIM -- Naval Inspector of Machinery
NInst -- Nose Instantaneous
NIO -- Naval Inspector Ordnance
NIO -- Navigational Information Office
NIP -- Nipponese
NIS -- Naval Inspection Service
NITE -- Night
NiteDevRon -- Night Development Squadron
NIU -- Naval Intelligence Unit
NJ -- New Jersey
NJC -- Navy Job Classification manual
NJPMB -- Navy Jet Propelled Missile Board
NK -- New York to Key West (routing designation)
NL -- Naval Lighter (5x5x7 welded steel pontoons)
NL -- New London, Connecticut
NLD -- Navy Lighter (Pontoon) Dock
NLDF -- Naval Local Defense Forces
NLFED -- Naval Landing Force Equipment Depot
NLFM -- Noise Level Monitor (sonar)
NLO -- Naval Liaison Officer
NLRB -- National Labor Relations Board
NLSC -- Navy Lockheed Service Center
NLT -- Night Letter
NM -- Nautical Miles
NM -- Naval magazine
NM -- New Mexico
NM -- Sounding gear (fathometers); for use with WCA and WDA installations for sonar
NMAA -- Navy Mutual Air Association
NMAG -- Naval Magazine
NMB -- Naval Model Basin
NMC -- Marine Corps Publications; later, NAVMC
NMC -- Naval Medical Center
NMC -- Navy Mail Clerk
NMCJS -- Naval Member Canadian Joint Staff
NMCLK -- Navy Mail Clerk
N&MCM -- Navy and Marine Corps Medal
NMD -- Naval Mine Depot
NMDS -- Naval Mine Disposal School
NMEX -- New Mexico
NMG -- Navy Military Government
NMP -- Naval Management Program
NMRC -- Navy Material Redistribution Center
NMR&DA -- Navy material Redistribution and Disposition Administration (BuSandA)
NMR&DO -- Naval Material Redistribution and Disposal Office(r)
NM&S -- Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Publications
NMS -- Naval Meteorological Service
NMSB -- Navy manpower Survey Board
NMSD -- Naval Medical Supply Depot
NMSHC -- Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Hospital Corps Publications; later, NAVMED
NMTS -- Naval mine Testing Center
NMWS -- Naval Mine Warfare School
NMWTS -- Naval Mine Warfare Test Station
N3N -- Navy training plane (CV), manufactured by Naval Aircraft Factory
NN -- Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
NNAV -- Bureau of Navigation Publications; later, BPN; the, NAVPERS
NNC or NC -- Navy Nurse Corps
NND -- Naval Net Depot
NNI -- Office of Naval Intelligence Publications
NNMC -- National Naval Medical Center (Bethesda, Maryland)
NNSB&DDCo -- Newport news Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
NNYd -- Norfolk Navy Yard
NO -- Naval Observatory
NO -- New Orleans, Louisiana
No -- Number
NO -- Civil Works Contracts (BuSandA symbol)
NOa -- Miscellaneous contract, written by BuAer (BuSandA symbol)
NOa(F) -- Purchases by Bureau of Aeronautics (Facilities) (BuSandA symbol)
NOa(S) -- Purchases by Bureau of Aeronautics (Supplies); contracts written by BuAer (BuSandA symbol)
NObs -- Contract for BuShips; written by BuShips (BuSandA symbol)
NObs(F) -- Purchases by Bureau of Ships (Facilities) (BuSandA symbol)
NOd -- Contract for Adjutant-General (BuSandA symbol)
NOd -- Contract written by Secretary of Navy's Office (BuSandA symbol)
NOIC -- Naval Officer-in-Charge (British controlled port)
NOm -- Contract for U.S> Marine Corps (BuSandA symbol)
NOm -- Purchases by the Quartermaster, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps (BuSandA symbol)
Non -- Nonclassified
NOp -- Purchases by Bureau of Naval Personnel; contract written by BuPers (BuSandA symbol)
NOrd -- Purchases by Bureau of Ordnance; contract written by BuOrd (BuSandA symbol)
NOrd(F) -- Purchases by Bureau of Ordnance (Facilities) (BuSandA symbol)
NOs -- Contract for Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (BuSandA symbol)
NOy -- Contract for Bureau of Yards and Docks (BuSandA symbol)
NOy -- Purchases by Bureau of Yards and Docks; contract written by BuDocks (BuSandA symbol)
NOyr -- Contract for real estate (BuSandA symbol)
Nps -- Payments by Office of the Under Secretary of the Navy for personal services (BuSandA symbol)
N5sa -- Purchases by Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for Bureau of Aeronautics (BuSandA symbol)
N5sd -- Purchases by Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the Office of the Secretary (BuSandA symbol)
N5sm -- Purchases by Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BuSandA symbol)
N5so -- Purchases by Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the Bureau of Ordnance (BuSandA symbol)
Ntsp -- Purchases by Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BuSandA symbol)
N5sr -- Purchases by Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the Bureau of Ships (Radio) (BuSandA symbol)
N5ss -- Purchases by Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the Bureau of Ships (BuSandA symbol)
N5sx -- Purchases by the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (BuSandA symbol)
N5sy -- Purchases by the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for the Bureau of Yards and Docks (BuSandA symbol)
NOB -- Naval Operating Base
NOBDUCHAR -- Naval Operating Base, Dutch Harbor
NOBFRAN -- Naval Operating Base, San Francisco
NOBNEWT -- Naval Operating Base, Newport
NOBSOLO -- Naval Operating Base, Coco Solo
NOBSY -- Naval Observatory
NOBTRIN -- Naval Operating Base, Trinidad
NOCT -- Navy Overseas Cargo Terminals
NODC -- Naval Operating Development Center
NodE -- Netherlands Forces in the East
NO EFF -- No effects
NOF -- Naval Operating Facility
NOFT -- Naval Overseas Freight Terminal
NOI -- Non-Operational Intelligence
NOIC -- Naval Officer-in-Charge
NOIO -- Naval Ordnance Inspecting Officer
NOL -- Naval Ordnance Laboratory
NOLa -- New Orleans, Louisiana
"Nomad" -- See PBN-#
NOP -- Naval Officer Procurement
NOP -- Naval Ordnance Plant
NOPCL -- Naval Officer Personnel Circular Letter
Nor -- Normand (boiler)
*NOR -- North(ern)
NORBS -- Northern Base Section (Corsica)
NorCalSec -- Northern California Section, Western Sea Frontier
NOrd -- Bureau of Ordnance Publication; later, NAVORD
NorPac -- North Pacific Area; North Pacific Force
"Norseman" -- See JA-#
NorSols -- Northern Solomons Area
NorVa -- Norfolk, Virginia
NorVaGrp -- Norfolk, Virginia Group
NorWesSeaFron -- Northwestern Sea Frontier
NorWesSec -- Northwestern Sector, Western Sea Frontier
NOTAL -- Not at all
NOTS -- Naval Ordnance Test Station
NOTU -- Naval Operational Training Unit
NP -- Naval Prison
NP -- Newport, Rhode Island
NPA -- naval Procurement Account
NPA -- Postal Affairs Section Publications
NPAB -- Navy Price Adjustment Board
NPANX -- Naval Potomac Annex
NPC -- Neuropsychiatry Clerical Procedure
NPC -- Neuropsychiatry Clerical Technician
NP-CLT -- Neuropsychiatry Clerical Procedure Technician
NPDI -- Non-performance of duty because imprisoned
NPF -- naval Powder Factory
NPF -- Naval Procurement Fund (appropriation title)
NPF&PP -- Naval Prison Farms and Prison Personnel (appropriation title)
NPFS -- Naval Pre-Flight School
NPG -- Naval Proving Grounds
NPO -- Naval Port Officer
NPR -- Naval Petroleum Reserve
NPSC -- Naval Personnel Separation Center
NPSD -- naval Photographic Services Depot (Hollywood)
NPT -- Neuropsychiatry
NPT -- Neuropsychiatry Technician
NR -- U.S. Naval Reserve
NR -- U.S. Naval Regulations
NR -- Number
NRA -- Naval Radio Activity
NRAB -- Naval Reserve Aviation Base
NRAF -- Naval Reserve Auxiliary Field
NRB -- Naval Repair Base
NRB -- Navy Reservation Bureau
NRD -- Office of Naval Research and Development
NRDFS -- Naval Radio Direction Finder Service
NRES -- Naval Receiving Station
NRL -- naval Research laboratory
NRLO -- Royal Naval Liaison Officer
NRMC -- Naval Records Management Center
NRMS -- Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School
NROTC -- Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps
NRPB -- National Research Planning Board
NRPB -- National Resources Planning Board
NRPIO -- Naval Registered Publications Issuing Office
NRPM -- Non-Register Publications Memoranda
NRS -- Naval Radio Station
NRS -- Navy Recruiting Station
NRS -- Navy Relief Society
NRT -- Vessels assigned Naval Districts for training Naval Reserves
N2S -- "Kaydet"; Navy training plane (VN), manufactured by Stearman
NS -- Naval Station
NS -- Nimbostratus
NSA -- Navy Stock Account
NSA -- Naval Supply Account
NSB -- Naval Submarine Base
NSC -- Naval Supply Center
NSCF -- Naval Small Craft Facilities
NSD -- Naval Supply Depot
NSDA -- Naval Supply Depot Annex
NSF -- Naval Stock Fund
NSHO -- Naval Service Headquarters, Ottawa
NSI -- National Service Life Insurance
NSMG -- Naval School of Military Government
NSMG&A -- Naval School of Military Government and Administration
NSPD -- Naval Shore Patrol Detachment
NSRS -- Naval Supply Radio Station
NS&T -- Naval Science and tactics
NSU -- Naval Scout Unit
NSY -- Naval Shipyard
NSYd -- Naval Shipyard
NT -- Naval Training
N2T -- "Tutor"; single-engine Navy training plane (VN), manufactured by Timm
NTC -- Naval Training Center
NT&DC -- Naval Training and Distribution Center
NTE -- Navy Teletypewriter Exchange (now NTX)
NTI -- Naval Travel Instructions
NTORS -- Naval Torpedo Station
NTTC -- Naval Technical Training Center
NTTR -- Naval Torpedo Testing Range
NTS -- Naval Target Sub-division (G-2, SHAEF)
NTS -- Naval Torpedo Station
NTS -- Naval Training School
NTS -- Naval Training Station
NTS -- Naval Transportation Service
NTSch -- Naval Training School
NTU -- Naval Training Unit
NTX -- Navy Teletypewriter System (previously NTE)
NUSL -- Naval Underwater Sound Laboratory
NW -- Northwest
NWB -- New War Department Building
NWC -- Naval War College
NWF -- Naval Working Fund
NWI -- Netherlands West Indies
NWLB -- National War Labor Board
NWSF -- Northwest Sea Frontier
Nxs -- Contract for BuSandA; written by BuSandA (BuSandA symbol)
Nxss -- Contract for BuShips; written by BuSandA (BuSandA symbol)
NY -- Navy Yard
NY -- New York
NY -- New York (Navy Yard)
NYA -- National Youth Administration
NYAL -- National Yugoslav Army of Liberation
NYBos -- Navy Yard Boston
NYCharl -- Navy Yard Charleston
NYD, NYd or NY -- Navy Yard
NYK or Nyk -- New York, New York
NykGrp -- New York Group
NYMI -- Navy Yard Mare Island
NYNor -- Navy Yard Norfolk
NYNyk -- Navy Yard New York
NYPE -- New York Port of Embarkation
NYPH -- Navy Yard Pearl Harbor
NYPhil -- Navy Yard Philadelphia
NYPort -- Navy Yard Portsmouth, New Hampshire
NYPS -- Navy Yard Puget Sound (Bremerton)
NYS -- New York Shipbuilding Company
NYWash -- Navy Yard Washington (D.C.)
NZ -- New Zealand
NZLO -- New Zealand Liaison Officer
NZNB -- New Zealand Naval Board (Wellington)
NZSeaFron -- New Zealand Sea Frontier
--- O ---
O -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating an observation plane
O -- Horizontal Opposed (aircraft engine)
O -- Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
O -- Officer of Operations (USCG)
O -- Organized Naval reserve
O1 -- Organized Naval Reserve Seagoing
O2 -- Organized Naval Reserve Aviation
OAA -- Radar Test Equipment
OAD -- Officers' Accounts Division
O&A Date -- Oath and Acceptance Date
OAM -- Orthopedic Appliance Mechanic
OAN -- Aids to Navigation Division (USCG)
OANDOS -- Ordnance and Ordnance Stores (USCG)
OAP -- Observation amphibian plane (USCG)
OAS -- Occupied Areas Section (Military Government)
OATC -- Oceanic Air Traffic Center
OATC -- Overseas Air Traffic Control
OAV -- Aviation Division (USCG)
OB -- Operating Base
OB -- Operational Base
OB -- Ordnance Battalion
OB -- Ordnance Board
OBB -- Old Battleship
OBJ -- Radar training device
Oboe -- "O" in the phonetic alphabet
OBR -- Office of Budget and Reports
*OBS -- Observatory
ObsRon -- Observation Squadron
OBSY -- Observatory
OC -- Communications Division (USCG)
OC -- Office of Censorship
OC -- Officer Candidate (Army)
OC -- Officer Commanding (USMC)
O/C -- Officer-in-Charge (Army)
OCAS -- Officer-in-Charge of Armament Supply
Occ -- Occulting
OCD -- Officer of Civilian Defense
OCE -- Officer Conducting the Exercise
OCJ -- Radar Training Device
OCL -- Old Light Cruiser
OCL -- Ordnance Circular Letters
OCNPR -- Operation and Conservation of Naval Petroleum Reserves (appropriation title)
OCR -- Office of Civilian Requirements (WPB)
OCS -- Office of Contract Settlement
OCS -- Officer Candidate School (Army)
OCSigO -- Office of the Chief Signal Officer (Army)
OCT -- Office of the Chief of Transportation (Army)
OCV -- Old Aircraft Carrier
OD -- Officer-of-the-Day
OD -- Ordnance Data (inspection and test data)
ODD -- Old Destroyer
ODP -- Organized Reservists in drill pay status
ODT -- Office of Defense Transportation
OEG -- Operations Evaluation Group
OEM -- Officer of Emergency management
OEW -- Office of Economic Warfare
*OF -- Office(r)
OFEA -- Office of Foreign Economic (Lend-Lease) Administration
OFEC -- Office of Foreign Economic Coordination
OFERRA -- Office of Foreign Economic Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Off -- Office(r)
OffNavHist -- Office of Naval History
OFLC -- Office of Foreign liquidation Commission
LCP -- Operating Force Plan
OFRR -- Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
OFRRO -- Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations
OFS -- Office of Field Service (OSRD)
OFT -- Operational Flight Trainer
OFU -- Floating Units Division (USCG)
OG -- Officer of the Guard (Army)
OGC -- Office of General Counsel
OGR -- Ordnance, Gunnery and Readiness Division (USCG)
OGU -- Outgoing Unit
OHI -- Ordnance Handling Instructions
OIAA -- Office of Inter-American Affairs
OIC -- Officer-in-Charge
OIL -- Ordnance Investigation Laboratory
OinC or OINC -- Officer-in-Charge
OinCABCCTC -- Officer-in-Charge, Advanced Base Combat Communication Training Center (Pearl Harbor)
OIR -- Office of Industrial Relations (previously SECP)
"Oka" -- Japanese rocket-propelled one man guided missile; also called "Cherry Blossom"
OKLA -- Oklahoma
OLLA -- )Office of Lend-Lease Administration
OLP -- Observation landplane (USCG)
OLP -- Office of Labor Production (WPB)
O&LS -- Ocean and Lake Surveys (Navy) (appropriation title)
OM -- Officer Messenger
OM -- Order of Merit
OME -- Office of management Engineer
OMGUS -- Office of Military Government United States
OMI -- Ordnance Modifications Instructions
OMM -- Officer Messenger Mail
OMMC -- Officer Messenger Mail Center
OMM(S)C -- Officer Messenger Mail (Sub) Center
OMPUS -- Official Munitions Production United States
ON -- Liverpool to New York, fast (routing designation)
#ONBOSUB -- And on board a submarine of that (fleet, force, squadron, or division, as appropriate)
#ONBOWOOM -- For duty on board that vessel when placed in commission
#ONBOWSERV -- For duty on board that vessel when placed in service
ONH -- Office of Naval History
ONI -- Office of Naval Intelligence
ONM -- Liverpool to New York, medium (routing designation)
ONOP -- Office of Naval Officer Procurement
*ONOP -- Officer-in-Charge, Branch Office of naval Officer Procurement
ONR -- Office of naval Research (formerly Office of Research and Inventions) (ORI))
ONS -- Liverpool to Halifax, slow (routing designation)
OOD -- Officer-of-the-Deck
O&OS -- Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Navy (appropriation title)
OP -- Observation post (USMC)
OP -- Office of Chief of Naval Operations
Op 1 (2, etc.) -- Division 1 (2, etc.) of Office of CNO
*OP -- Operating; Operator; Operation(al)
OP -- Operational Priority
OP -- Ordnance Pamphlets
OP -- Ordnance Personnel
OPA -- Office of Price Administration
OpAttyGen -- Opinion of the Attorney General
OPC -- Optician
Op-Com -- Operations-Communications
OPD -- Operations Division (War Department, General Staff)
OpDevFor -- Operations Development Forces
Oper -- Operator
Opers -- Operations
OPET -- Organization, Personnel Equipment and Training (Group)
OP&I -- Office of Patents and Inventions
OpIntel -- Operational Intelligence
OPL -- Outpost Line (Army)
OPLR -- Outpost Line of Resistance (Army)
OP&M -- Office of Procurement and Material
OPM -- Office of Production Management
OPM -- Optometrist
OPMG -- Office of Provost Marshal General (also PMGO)
OpNav -- Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; short title: CNO
OP Plan -- Operating Plan
OPR -- Office of Public Relations
Opr -- Operator
OPS -- Operations
Op(s)ArmyJAG -- Opinion(s) of the Army Judge Advocate General
OPT -- Optician
OpTra -- Air Operational Training
OPU -- Overseas Plexiglass Unit
OQMG -- Office of the Quartermaster General (Army)
OR -- Operations Room
OR -- Orange, Texas
ORA -- Organization de Resistance de L'Armee (France)
Orange -- War plans for use in war against Japan
ORC -- Officers' Reserve Corps (Army)
ORD -- Office of Rubber Director (WPB)
Ord -- Orderly
*ORD -- Ordnance
ORDALT -- Ordnance Alterations
ORDC -- Ordnance Research and Development Center (Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland)
#ORDCAN -- Orders (identified by date or dispatch reference numbers following) are hereby cancelled
#ORDCOR -- Orders (identified by date or dispatch reference numbers following) are hereby corrected
ORD DIS -- Ordinary Discharge
Ord Eng -- Ordnance Engineering
#ORDMOD -- Orders (identified by date or dispatch reference numbers following) are hereby modified
ORE -- Oregon
ORG -- Operations Research Group
ORI -- Office of Research and Inventions; now, Office of Naval Research ONR
Orig -- Original
ORIG -- Originator
ORT -- Operating Room Technician
OS -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating an observation-scouting plane
OS -- Ordnance Specifications
Osc -- Oscillator
OSC -- Own ship's course
OS&D or OS/D -- Over, Short, and Damaged (Report) (Army)
OSFCW -- Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator
OSigO -- Office of Chief Signal Officer
OS2N -- "Kingfisher"; single-engine Navy scout-observation (VSO), seaplane, manufactured by Naval Aircraft Factory
OSRD -- Office of Scientific Research and Development
OSS -- Office of Strategic Services; now, SSU
OSS -- Old Submarine
OSTD -- Ordnance Standards
OSU -- Shore Units Division (USCG)
OS2U -- "Kingfisher"; single-engine Navy scout-observation (VSO), landplane and seaplane, manufactured by Vought-Sikorsky
OSW -- Office of Secretary of War
OT -- Aruba or Curacoa to Northwest Africa (routing designation)
OT -- Curacoa to Trinidad (routing designation)
OT -- New York to Netherlands West Indies (routing designation)
OT -- Occupational Therapy Technician
OTC -- Officer-in-Tactical Command
OTC -- Officers' Training School
OTCLant -- Fleet Operational Training Command, Atlantic (usually COTCLant)
OTCPac -- Fleet Operational Training Command, Pacific (usually COTCPac)
OTI -- Ordnance Technical Instructions
OTU -- Operational Training Unit
OUSW -- Office of the Under Secretary of War
OVPD -- Overpaid
O-V(RS) -- USNR designation for ordnance officers, commissioned and warrant, including radio electricians, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by the proper aviation or engineering classification with the suffix "T".
O-V(S) -- USNR designation for ordnance officers, commissioned and warrant, including gunners and torpedomen, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by one of the following: (D), (D)L, (S), S(O), or S(O) with proper numeral indicating particular specialty within ordnance.
OWI -- Office of War Information
OWM -- Office of War Mobilization
OWM&R -- Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion
OWU -- Office of War Utilities (WPB)
OY-# -- "Sentinel"; observation-scout (VOS), manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
--- P ---
P -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a patrol plane
P -- Office of Personnel (USCG)
P -- Fixed provision for photographic reconnaissance missions (suffix to plane designation); as, F6F-5P
P -- Pilot
P -- Piper Aircraft corporation (Glider) (manufacturer's symbol)
P -- Professional (Civil Service employees designation)
P -- P-V Engineering Forum, Inc. (Helicopter) (Manufacturer's symbol)
P -- Spartan Aircraft Co. (manufacturer's symbol)
PA -- Attack Transport (contraction of APA)
*PA -- Panama
PA -- Pennsylvania
PA -- Permanent Appointment
PA -- Philadelphia (Navy Yard)
P/A -- Pilotless Aircraft
PA -- Port Agency (Army)
P&A -- Procurement and Assignment
PA -- Public Address
PAA -- Pan-American Airways
PAB -- Price Adjustment Board
PAB -- Priorities Allotment Board
*PAC -- Pacific
PAC -- Political Action Committee
PAC -- Program Adjustment Committee
PacAdv -- Pacific Fleet Advance Headquarters (Guam)
PacCall -- Pacific Fleet Calls (radio call signs)
PacCom -- Pacific Fleet Communications Instructions
PacFleet -- Pacific Fleet
PacFlt -- Pacific Fleet
PacHedPearl -- Pacific Headquarters, pearl Harbor, T.H.
PaCorNaLog -- Pacific Coast Coordinator of Naval Logistics
PACREP -- Port Activities Report
PacResFlt -- Pacific Reserve Fleet
PAct -- Acting Pay Clerk
PACUSA -- Pacific Air Command, U.S. Army
PAD -- Pilotless Aircraft Division
PAD -- Pontoon Assembly Detachment
PAGTU -- Pan-American Ground Training Unit
PAL -- Prisoner-at-Large
PANAIR -- Panama Air Lines
PANDS -- Pay and Supply (USCG)
PanSeaFron -- Panama Sea Frontier
PAP -- Patrol Amphibian Plane
Par -- Parsons design (ship engines)
Para -- Parachute; Parachutist
Para -- Paragraph
PAREC -- Pay Record
PAREN -- Parenthesis
PARU -- Photographic and Reproduction unit
*PAS -- Passage(nger)
PAS -- Physically on board as a prisoner
PA/SO -- Port Anti-Submarine Officer
PASU -- Patrol Aircraft Service Unit
*PAT -- Patrol
PAT -- Physically on board for treatment; sot ship's company
PAT -- Property and Accounting Technician (Medical)
PatBomRon -- Patrol Bombing Squadron
PatFor -- patrol Force
PatRon -- Patrol Squadron
PatSU or Patsu -- Patrol Aircraft Service Unit
PatWing -- Patrol Wing; now, Fleet Air Wing
PatWingLantFlt -- Patrol Wing Atlantic Fleet
PatWingLantFleet -- Patrol Wing Atlantic Fleet
PatWingScoFor -- Patrol Wings Scouting Force
Patx -- Patuxent River
PAU -- Pilotless Aircraft Unit
PAV -- Pay Adjustment Voucher
PAW -- Petroleum Administration for War
*PAY -- Paymaster
PAY -- Payment
PayMarCorps -- Paymaster, Marine Corps
PB -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a patrol-bombing plane
PB2B-# -- "Catalina"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB(MS)), seaplane, manufactured by Boeing (Canada)
PBJ-# -- "Mitchell"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB(MS)), manufactured by North American
PBM-1 -- "Mariner"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB), manufactured by Martin
PBM-3-5 -- "Mariner"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB(MS)), seaplane, manufactured by Martin
PBM-3R -- "Mariner"; twin-engine Navy transport (VR(MS)), seaplane, manufactured by Martin
PB2M-1R -- "Mars"; four-engine Navy transport (VR(HS)), seaplane, manufactured by Martin
PBN-# -- "Nomad"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB(MS)), seaplane, manufactured by Naval Aircraft Factory
PBO-# -- "Hudson"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB), landplane, manufactured by Lockheed
P Boat -- Patrol Bomber (PBY)
PBS -- Peninsular Base Section
PB-1W -- "Flying Fortress"; four-engine Navy patrol plane, manufactured by Boeing
PBY-# -- "Catalina"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB), manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
PB2Y-2-3 -- "Coronado"; four-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB), manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
PB2Y-3R -- Four-engine Navy transport (VR(HS)), manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
PB2Y-5 -- "Coronado"; four-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB(HS)), seaplane, manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
PB2Y-5R -- "Coronado"; four-engine Navy transport (VR(HS)), seaplane, manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
PB4Y-1-1P -- "Liberator"; four-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB), landplane, manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
PB4Y-12 -- "Liberator"; four-engine Navy transport (VR(HL)), landplane, manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
PB4Y-2-2C -- "Privateer"; four-engine Navy patrol-bombers (VPB(HL)), landplane, manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
PBX -- Private Branch Exchange (telephone switchboard)
PC -- Civilian Personnel Division (USCG)
PC -- Patrol Vessel, Submarine Chaser (173')
PC -- Pay Clerk
PC -- Pharmacy Corps (Army)
PCA -- Personal Cash Allowance
PCC -- Postal Concentration Center
PC(C) -- Submarine Chaser (173') (Control)
PCCNL -- Pacific Coast Coordinator of Naval Logistics
PCE -- Patrol Vessel, Escort (180')
PCE(C) -- Patrol Vessel, Escort (180') (Control)
PCE(R) -- Patrol Craft, Escort (Rescue) (180')
PCFO -- Position Classification Field Office
PClk -- Pay Clerk
PCmdr -- Post Commander (USMC)
PCO -- Prospective Commanding Officer
PCS -- Patrol Vessel, Submarine Chaser (136') (Control)
PCS -- Position, Course, and Speed
PCT -- Pharmacy and Chemistry Technician
PD -- Demobilization Division (USCG)
PD -- Port Director
PD -- Port of Debarkation
PD -- Priority Directive
PDD -- Physical Damage Division
Pdr -- Pounder (armament)
P≈D Sec -- Pioneer and Demolition Section (Army)
PE -- Ensiled Personnel Division (USCG)
PE -- Patrol Vessel, Eagle (Eagle Boat)
PE -- Pensacola, Florida
PE -- Pistol Expert
PE -- Port of Embarkation
PE -- Post Exchange (USMC)
P&E -- Procurement & Expedition
P&E -- Progress & Expedity
Pearl -- Pearl Harbor, T.H.
PEC -- Production Executive Committee
PEDC -- Personal Effects Distribution Center
PENN -- Pennsylvania
PEO -- Prospective Engineer Officer
#PERGRA -- Permission granted
#PERNOGRA -- Permission not granted
*PERS -- Personnel
PersClfn -- Personnel Classification
PersD -- personnel Department (USMC)
PERSOF -- Personnel Officer
PersSepCent -- Personnel Separation Center
Pers&TraComd -- Personnel and Training Command
PERS TRAN -- Personal Transportation
*PET -- Petroleum
Peter -- "P" in the phonetic alphabet
PetRes -- Petroleum Reserves
PetSec -- Petroleum Section (Allied Force Headquarters)
PF -- Patrol Vessel, Frigate
PFC -- Private First Class
PFCO -- Position Field Classification officer
PG -- Patrol Vessel, Gunboat
PG -- Pay Group
PG -- Photogrammetry
PG -- Pilottown to Galveston (routing designation)
PG -- Post Graduate
PGC -- Persian Gulf Command (US Army)
PGM -- Patrol Vessel, Motor Gunboat
PH -- Pearl Harbor, T.H.
PH -- Plane Handler
PH -- Purple Heart
PH-2-3 -- Twin-engine Coast Guard patrol (VP), biplane, manufactured by Hall
"Phantom" -- Radar decoy
Phar -- Pharmacist
Pharm -- Pharmacist
PHB -- Public Health Service Building
PHIB -- Amphibian; Amphibious
PhibCorPac -- Amphibious Corps Pacific Fleet
PhibCorps -- Amphibious Corps
PhibDet -- Amphibious Detachment
PhibdetInd -- Amphibious Detachment India
PhibEu -- Amphibious Forces Europe
PhibFor -- Amphibious Force
PhibGroup -- Amphibious Group
PhibLant -- Amphibious Forces Atlantic Fleet
PhibNAW -- Amphibious Forces Northwest African Waters
#PHIBOBS -- Amphibious Operations
PhibPac -- Amphibious Forces Pacific Fleet
PhibsEu -- Amphibious Forces Europe
PhibsForPac -- Amphibious Forces Pacific Fleet
PhibsLant -- Amphibious Forces Atlantic Fleet
PhibsPac -- Amphibious Forces Pacific Fleet
PhibsUKay -- Amphibious Bases United Kingdom
PhibTra -- Training Command Amphibious Forces
PhibTraBase -- Amphibious Training Base
PhibTrainLant -- Training Command Amphibious Forces, Atlantic Fleet
PhibTraLant -- Training Command Amphibious Forces, U.S. Atlantic Fleet
#PHIBTRANS -- Amphibious Transport
PhibTraPac -- Training Command Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet
PhibsTraPac -- Training Command Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet
PhibTrainPac -- Training Command Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet
PhibTrBase -- Amphibious Training Base
PhibWarTraCen -- Amphibious Warfare Training Center
Phil -- Navy Yard, Philadelphia
*PHIL -- Philippine
Phila -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PhilaGrp -- Philadelphia Group
PhilSeaFron -- Philippine Sea Frontier
PhM -- Pharmacist's Mate
PhMDP -- Pharmacist's Mate, Dental Prosthetic Technician
PHNY -- Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
PHO -- Photographer
PHOAC -- Photographer's Mate, Combat Aircrewman
PhoM -- Photographer's Mate
PHONE -- Telephone
Phot -- Photographer
Photo -- Photograph(ic)
PHPC -- Post Hostilities Planning Committee
PHS -- Public Health Service
PHT -- Physical Therapy Technician
PHTH -- Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii
Phys -- Physical
PI -- Philippine Islands
PI -- Pigeon Trainer
PIBALS -- Pilot Balloon Reports
PICAO -- Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization
"Picket" -- Advanced or distant radar guard ship
PICME -- Political Intelligence Center Middle East (GB)
Pict -- Picture
PID -- Political Intelligence Department (GB)
PIO -- Public Information Officer
"Pip" -- Displacement of radar trace caused by echo
PIU -- Photographic Interpretation Unit (USMC)
PkHow -- Pack Howitzer (USMC)
PL -- Plain Language
PL -- Plastic Expert
PL -- Post Laundry (Army)
PL -- Public Information man
PL -- Public Law
Plat -- Platoon
PLC -- Platoon Leaders Class (USMC)
PLD -- Procurement Legal Division; later, Office of General Counsel (USCG)
PlLdr -- Platoon Leader (USMC)
PLS -- Please
PlSgt -- Platoon Sergeant
PLU -- Platoon Leaders Unit (USMC)
PLY -- Plymouth, England
PM -- Medical Division (USCG)
PM -- Patternmaker
PM -- Paymaster (USCG)
PM -- Portland, Maine
PM -- Postmaster
PM -- Post-Meridian
PM -- Prime Minister
PM -- Procurement and Material
PM -- Provost Marshal (Army)
PMG -- Paymaster General
PMG -- Provost Marshal General (Army)
PMGO -- Office of Provost Marshal General
PMKr -- Patternmaker
PMLO -- Principal Military Landing Offices (GB)
PMM -- Military morale Division (USCG)
PMSGT -- Paymaster Sergeant (USMC)
PMSR -- Patternmaker, Ship Repair
PMSRP -- Patternmaker, Ship Repair, Patternmaker
PMS&T -- Professor of Military Science and Tactics (Army)
PMT -- Medical Photography Technician
PNNCF -- Pacific Northern Naval Coastal Frontier
PNR -- Preliminary Negotiation Reports
PNS&T -- Professor of Naval Science and Tactics
PO -- Officer Personnel Division(USCG)
PO -- Petty Officer
PO -- Port Officer
PO -- Portsmouth, England
PO -- Post Office
POA -- Pacific Ocean Areas
POAHedPearl -- Pacific Ocean Areas Headquarters Pearl Harbor
POATSC -- Pacific Overseas Air Technical Service Command
POD -- Podiatrist
POE -- Port of Embarkation
POL -- Petrol Oil and Lubricants (GB)
POM -- Preparation for Overseas Movements (Army)
POOD -- Permanent Officer of the Deck (Day)
#PORICH -- To the port in which activity designated may be
Posit -- Position
Pot -- Potential
POT -- Potomac
PotAnn -- Potomac Annex (Navy Department)
PoTelCo -- Postal Telegraph Company
*POW -- Powder
POW -- Prisoner of War
PP -- Public Property
PPC -- Partial Pay Card
PPC -- Patrol Pane Commander
PPF -- Parti Populaire Francais
PPI -- Plan Position indicator (radar scope)
PP&NA -- Private Plants and Naval Activities
PPPC -- Petroleum Pool Pacific Coast
PPPI -- Precision Plan Position Indicator
PPPI -- Projection Plan Position Indicator
PPS -- Polish Socialist Party
PPSMEC -- Procurement, Precedence of Supplies, Material and Equipment Committee (JCB)
P&PW -- Publicity and Psychological Warfare
PQM -- Post Quartermaster (USMC)
PR -- Parachute Rigger
PR -- Patrol Vessel, River Gunboat
PR -- Pay Roll
PR -- Photographic Reconnaissance Aircraft
PR -- Priority Regulation
PR -- Public Relations
PR -- Puerto Rico
PRA -- Pay Readjustment Act (1942)
PRA -- Reserve and Auxiliary Division (USCG)
Prac -- Practice
PRC -- Production Readjustments Committee (WPB)
PR/COM -- Vessels delivered in a partially completed status
Prd -- Period
PRD -- Public Relations Division
#PRECOMMDET -- Pre-Commissioning Detail
#PRECOMMSCOL -- Pre-Commissioning School
*PRER -- Preparatory
PREP -- Unique method of pulse communications developed by Federal Telegraph and Radio Laboratories
Pres -- President
PreSign -- Procedure Sign
PresProc -- Presidential Proclamation
Prev -- Previous
PRF -- Pulse Repetition Frequency
*PRI -- Prison
Prim -- Primary
PrimTra -- Air Primary Training
PrinMus -- Principle Musician (USMC)
PRISIC -- Photographic Reconnaissance Interpretation Section (Squadron) Intelligence Center (JICPOA)
"Privateer" -- See PB4Y-2-2C
PRLTRL&M -- Printer, Lithographer and Multilith Operator
PRNC -- Potomac River Naval Command, Washington, D.C.
PRO -- Personnel Relations Officer (for Shore Stations)
*PRO -- Promote(d); Promotion
PRO -- Public Relations officer
Prob -- Probation(ary)
Proc -- Procurement
#PROFAGTRANS -- Proceed by first available Government transportation (not including air)
PROIMREP -- Proceed immediately to (location of ship, commander, or station designated b group(s) immediately following) and upon arrival report for duty or purposes indicated
Proj -- Projected
*PROJ -- Projectile
Prom -- Promoted
Prop -- Propeller
*PROP -- Property
Propul -- Propulsion
#PROREP -- Proceed to (location of ship, commander, or station designated by group(s) immediately following) and upon arrival report for duty or purpose indicated
ProSig -- Procedure Signal
*PROV -- Proving Grounds
Prov -- Provisional
ProvGr -- Proving Ground
#PROWDELREP -- Proceed without delay to (location of ship, commander, or station designated by group(s) immediately following) and upon arrival report for duty or purpose indicated
PRP -- Production Requirements Plan
PRP -- Public Relations Personnel
PRR -- Pulse Repetition Rate
PRSec -- Pay Roll Section
PRTR -- Printer
PRTRL -- Printer, Lithographer
PRTRM -- Printer, Offset Process
PRU -- Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (Aircraft) (USMC)
PS -- Chlorpicrin
PS -- Motion Picture Service Bookers
PS -- Philippines Scouts (Army)
PS -- Pistol Sharpshooter (Army)
PS -- Puget Sound
PS -- Navy Yard Puget Sound
PSandT -- Pay, Subsistence and Transportation
PSCLA -- Petroleum Supply Committee for Latin America
PSF -- Panama Sea Frontier
PSF -- Parti Social Francais
PSF -- Philippine Sea Frontier
P&SI -- Pay and Supply Instructions (USCG)
PSL -- Photographic Science Laboratory
PS&M -- Division of Personnel Supervision and Management of AstSecNav's Office; absorbed into SECP, 1944
PSNCF -- Pacific Southern Naval Coastal Frontier
P&SNP -- Pay and Subsistence of Naval personnel (appropriation title)
PSNSY -- Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
PSNYd -- Puget Sound Navy Yard
PSO -- Political Survey Officers
PSO -- Publicity Security Officer
PSP -- Patrol Seaplane
PS&T -- Pay, Subsistence and Transportation
PS&TN -- Pay, Subsistence and Transportation, Navy
PSTO -- Principal Sea Transport Offices
PT -- Patrol Vessel, Motor Torpedo Boat
PT -- Portsmouth Navy Yard
PT -- Postal Telegraph Company
PT -- Primary Target (Army)
PTC -- Patrol Vessel, Motor Torpedo Boat, Submarine Chaser
PTCAD -- Provisional Troop Carrier Airborne Division
PTO -- Port Transportation Officer (Army)
PRP -- Training and Procurement Division (USCG)
PTR -- Painter
PTR -- Patuxent River
PtrV -- Painter, Aircraft
PTSNH -- Portsmouth, New Hampshire
PubInfo -- Office of Public Information; formerly, Office of Public Relations
Publ -- Publications
Pub Wks -- Public Works
PUC -- Port Utilization Committee
PUC -- Production Urgency Committee (WPB)
PUG -- Puget Sound
*PUR -- Purchase(ing)
Pur -- Pursuant
*PUR -- Pursuit
Purif -- Purification
PURS -- Pursuit
PV -- Public voucher
PV-1 -- "Ventura"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber(VPB(HL)), landplane, manufactured by Vega
PV-2 -- "Harpoon"; twin-engine Navy Patrol-bomber (VPB(ML)), landplane, manufactured by Lockheed
PV-3 -- "Ventura"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB(ML)), manufactured by Lockheed
P2V-2 -- "Neptune"; twin-engine Navy patrol-bomber (VPB(HL)), landplane, manufactured by Lockheed
Pvt -- Private
P&W -- Pratt and Whitney (airplane engine)
PW -- Prisoner of War
PW -- Public Works
PWA -- Public Works Administration
PWB -- Psychological Warfare Branch (AFHQ)
PWB -- Pulling Whaleboat
PWC -- Pacific War Council
PWD -- Psychological Warfare Division
PWD -- Public Works Department
#PWDEPT -- Public Works Department
P2Y-2-3 -- Twin-engine Navy patrol, sesquiplane (VF), manufactured by Consolidated
P4Y-1 -- Twin-engine Navy patrol plane (VP), monoplane, manufactured by Consolidated
PWE -- Political Warfare Executive (GB)
PWE -- Political Warfare Executive Middle East (GB)
PWO -- Public Works Office(r)
#PWOF -- Public Works Officer
PK -- Press
PX -- Post Exchange (USMC) (Army)
PXO -- Prospective Executive Officer
PY -- Patrol Vessel, Yacht
PYc -- Patrol Vessel, Yacht, Coastal
--- Q ---
Q -- Bristol Aeronautical Corporation (glider) (manufacturer's symbol)
Q -- Electronic countermeasures missions (suffix to plane designation)
Q -- Fairchild Aircraft Division (Fairchild Corporation)
Q -- Ranger-Lark Division (Fairchild Corporation) (manufacturer's symbol)
Q -- Stinson Aircraft Corporation (now Consolidated-Vultee (manufacturer's symbol)
Q Card -- Qualifications Card
QCJ -- Underwater sound gear
QCL -- Underwater sound gear
Q-Day -- Day for dress rehearsal of atom bomb test (23 June 1946)
QLA -- Frequency Modulated (sonar)
QM -- British Long Range Radio Aid to Navigation (Decca)
QM -- Plotting & Chart Work (Operations)
QM -- Quartermaster
QM -- Research Laboratory
QMAO -- Qualified for mobilization ashore only
QMC -- Quartermaster Clerk (USMC)
QMC -- Quartermaster Corps (Army)
QMMClk -- Quartermaster Clerk (USMC)
QMG -- Quartermaster General
QMSgt -- Quartermaster Sergeant (USMC)
QMSO -- Quartermaster Supply Officer (Army)
QPE -- Physical Education Specialist, Medical
QRPAO -- Qualified Radium Plaque Adaptometer Operator
Qtr(s) -- Quarter(s)
QTRS -- Quarters allowance
Quad -- Quadruple (gun mounts)
Qual -- Qualified for all types of duty
Quart -- Quartermaster (USCG)
Queen -- "Q" in the phonetic alphabet
QUES -- Question mark
--- R ---
R -- Aeronca Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
R -- American Aviation Corporation (Glider)
R -- Brunswick-Balke-Callender (aircraft company) (manufacturer's symbol)
R -- Damage Control, Construction and Repair Division of a carrier
R -- Interstate Aircraft and Engineering Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
R -- Maxson-Brewster (W.L. Maxson Corporation) (aircraft) (manufacturer's symbol)
R -- Radial (aircraft engine)
R -- Radio Phone Company
(R) -- Reduced Operation
R -- Resister; Resistance
R -- Ryan Aeronautical Company (manufacturer's symbol)
R -- Converted to a transport (suffix to plane designation); as, PBM-3R
R -- A suffix which, when appended to a basic USNR officer classification, indicates special qualifications in Electronics
R30-2 -- Twin-engine Navy Transport (VR(ML)), manufactured by Lockheed
R50-# -- "Lodestar"; two-engine Navy transport (VR(ML)), manufactured by Lockheed
RA -- Regular Army
RA -- Rental Agreement
RAACEF -- Rear Admiral Aircraft Carriers, Eastern Fleet (GB)
RA(A)EF -- Rear Admiral (Administration) Eastern Fleet (GB)
RAAF -- Royal Australian Air Force
RAB -- Radio Receiver (HF)
RAC -- Rear Admiral Commanding (GB)
RAC -- Rubber Allocation Committee
RACOB(WA) -- Rear Admiral Commanding Combined Operational Bases (Western Approaches) (GB)
RACON -- Radar Beacon
RAD(NO.) -- Radar Bulletin; as, RADSIX (Radio Bulletin, No. 6)
*RAD -- Radio
RAD -- Released from Active Duty
RAD -- Reported for Active Duty
RAD -- Reservists on Active Duty under "Appropriation Chargeable Naval Reserve" (Does not include Reservists on annual training duty)
Radar -- Radio detection and ranging
RAD (BPF) -- Rear Admiral Commanding Destroyers (British Pacific Fleet)
RadCM -- Radar Countermeasures and Deception
Radex -- Radar countermeasures training
RADM -- Rear Admiral
RadOp -- Radio Operator
RadPlanBd -- Radio Planning Board
RAF -- Royal Air Force (GB)
RAFT -- Rear Admiral Fleet Train (British Pacific Fleet)
Rainbow -- War plans for use in war against a coalition of enemies
RAK -- Radio Receiver (HF)
RAL -- Radio Receiver (HF)
RAL -- Rear Admiral Alexandria (GB)
RAN -- Royal Australian Navy
RAN(V)R -- Royal Australian Naval (Volunteer) Reserve
RAO -- Radio Receiver (HF)
RAO -- Received for record purposes only. Individual not received physically.
RAOB -- Radio Meteorograph Sounding
RARC -- Revoked appointment and returned to civilian status
RAS -- Radio Receiver (MF to HF)
RASC -- Royal Army Service Corps (GB)
Rasta -- Radio Station (USCG)
Rat(s) -- Ration(s)
RATT -- Radio Teletypewriter
RAWA -- Rear Admiral West Africa (GB)
RAWIND -- Radio Wind (USCG)
R/B -- Radio Beacon
RB-# -- "Conestoga"; twin-engine Navy Transport (VR(ML)), manufactured by Budd
RBB -- Radio Receiver (MF)
RBC -- Radio Receiver (HF)
RBH -- Radio Receiver (HF)
RBH -- Regimental Beachhead (Army)
RBK -- Radio Receiver (VHF)
RBO -- Radio Receiver (HF)
R5C-# -- "Commando"; twin-engine Navy transport (VR(ML)), manufactured by Curtiss
RC -- Reception Center (Army)
R/C -- Request for checkage
RCA -- Radio Corporation of America
RCAF -- Royal Canadian Air Force
RCL -- Ramped Cargo Lighter
RCM -- Aviation Radio and Radar Countermeasures Technician
RCM -- Radio and Radar Countermeasures
RCN -- Reconnaissance
RCN -- Royal Canadian Navy
RcnLR -- Reconnaissance Long Range (Army)
RCN(V)R -- Royal Canadian Naval (Volunteer) Reserve
RCO -- Radar Control Officer
RCO -- Radio Receiver (VHF)
RCO -- Remote Control Office
RCo -- Rifle Company (Army)
RCRC -- Revoked commission, returned to civilian status
RCS -- Radar Control Ship
RCT -- Regimental Combat Team
Rctg -- Recruiting
RCU -- Requisition Control Unit
R3D-# -- Twin-engine Navy transport (VR(ML)), landplane, manufactured by Douglas (El Segundo)
R4D-1-5-6-7 -- "Skytrain"; twin-engine Navy transport (VR(ML)), landplane, manufactured by Douglas
R4D-2-3-4 -- "Skytrooper"; twin-engine Navy transport (VR(ML)), manufactured by Douglas
R5D-4 -- "Skymaster"; four-engine Navy transport (VR(HL)), manufactured by Douglas
RDB -- Ramped Dump Barge
RDEM -- Released from active duty result demobilization
RDep -- Recruit Depot
RDF -- Radio Direction Finder
RDFSta -- Radio Direction Finder Station
RDM -- Radarman
RDM -- Ramped Dumped Barge
RDO -- Radio; Wireless
RD OPR -- Radar Operator
Rdr -- Raider (USMC)
Rds -- Rounds of ammunition
RDU -- Receipt and Despatch Unit (Aircraft)
RE -- Radio Electrician
Rear Adm -- Rear Admiral
*REC -- Receive(ing)
RecBaks -- Receiving Barracks
Recce -- Reconnaissance
RECD -- Received
Recg -- Receiving
Recipro -- Reciprocating
Recl -- Reclamation
*RECOG -- Recognition
Recom -- Recommend(ed); Recommendation
*RECON -- Reconnaissance
ReconCo -- Reconnaissance Company (USMC)
RecruitSta -- Recruiting Station
RecShip -- Receiving Ship
RecSta -- Receiving Station
RedAS -- Reduced to Apprentice Seaman
Reefer -- Refrigeration; Cold Storage locker
REEN ALLOW -- Reenlistment Allowance
Reenl -- Reenlist(ed); Reenlistment
*REF -- Refer(ence)
Regrig -- Refrigeration
REFURDIS -- Reference your dispatch
REFURLTR -- Reference your letter
Reg -- Registered
REGS -- Regulations
Regt -- Regiment
Rehab -- Rehabilitation
Rein -- Reinforced
Reinf -- Reinforced
*REL -- Relief
Rel -- Relieve(d)
#RELBY-- -- When relieved by--
#RELDET -- When relieved detached from duty indicated and from such other duty as may have been assigned
#RELDIRDET -- When relieved and when directed by the commanding officer or commander designated detached from duty indicated and from such other duty as may have been assigned
RELE -- Radio Electrician
RELES -- Released to War Shipping Administration
Rem -- Remit(ed)
Rem-Rand -- Remington-Rand
Ren MR -- Reconnaissance medium Range (Army)
RENT -- Allotment for payment of rent when specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Navy
*REP -- repair
Rep -- Repairman
REPAR -- repairing
RepComDesPac -- Representative of Commander Destroyers, Pacific Fleet
RepForMaint -- Representative of maintenance Force
#REPISC -- Report to immediate superior in command if present, otherwise by dispatch, for duty indicated
REPL -- Replacement
Repln -- Replacement
#REPLTR -- Report(ing) by letter to--
RepO -- Reporting Officer
*REPT -- Report(ing)
#REPTRANS -- Report for transportation to the port in which ship or commander designated may be, or to location designated. Upon arrival report for duty or purpose indicated.
Req -- Request; Requisition
REQN -- Requisition
#REQNOM -- Request nomination
REQREC -- Request recommendation
Requal -- Requalify; Requalified
RER -- Rubberized Equipment Repair
*RES -- Reserve
*RESC -- Rescue
ResDist -- Reserve District
Resgd -- Resigned
RES/IC -- Reserve-In Commission (vessel status)
RES/IS -- Reserve-In Service (vessel status)
ResLab -- Research Laboratory
RES/OC -- Reserve-Out of Commission (vessel status)
RES/OS -- Reserve-Out of Service (vessel status)
Rest -- Restricted
Restd -- Restricted
Rest ltr -- Restricted letter
RESTR -- Restricted
Ret -- Retain(ed)
RET -- Retired
RETAN -- Retained
Retd -- Retired
RETRO FA -- Retroactive Family Allowance checkage
Ret ser -- Retained in the service
Reurad -- Refer to (Regarding) your message
#REVAR -- Authorized to revisit any of the above mentioned placed and to vary the above itinerary as may be deemed necessary
RF -- Radio Frequency
RFA -- Royal Fleet Auxiliary (GB)
RFAD -- Released from active duty not result of demobilization
RFC -- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFD -- Rural Free Delivery
RFP -- Radio Finger Printing
RFS -- Ready for sea
RgPh -- Registered Pharmacist
RHO -- Railhead Officer
RHQ -- Regimental Headquarters
RI -- Recruit Instruction
RI -- Rhode Island
Rig -- Rigger
RIIA -- Royal Institute of International Affairs (GB)
RIN -- Royal Indian Navy (GB)
RINA -- Resident Inspector of Naval Aircraft
Ring -- Airborne television system
RINM -- Resident Inspector of Naval Material
RInsMat -- Resident Inspector of Naval Material
RInsOrd -- Resident Naval Inspector of Ordnance
RKO -- Range Keeper Operator
RL -- Rocket Launcher
RLO -- Repairs Liaison Officer (Landing Craft and Barges)
RM -- Radioman
RM Armd Sp Gp -- Royal Marine Armored Support Group (GB)
RME -- Royal Marine Engineers (GB)
RML -- Rescue Motor Launch (Air/Sea Rescue)
RMN -- Reserve Material (Account) Navy
RMO -- Radio (Radar) Material Officer
RN -- Royal Navy (GB)
RNAMY -- Royal Naval Aircraft Maintenance Yard (GB)
RNATE -- Royal Naval Air Training Establishment (GB)
RNBC -- Royal Naval Beach Commando (GB)
RNGHQ -- Royal Navy General Headquarters (Cairo) (GB)
RNIO -- Resident Naval Inspector of Ordnance
RNLO -- Royal Naval Liaison Officer
RNN -- Royal Netherlands Navy
RN(V)R -- Royal Naval (Volunteer) Reserve (GB)
RNZAF -- Royal New Zealand Air Force
RNZN -- Royal New Zealand Navy
RNZN(V)R -- Royal New Zealand Naval (Volunteer) Reserve
RO -- Recruiting Officer
RO -- Regimental Orders (Army)
RO -- Routing Office(r)
ROB -- Reserve on Board
"Roc" -- Television system for guiding bombs
ROCCM -- Guided Missile Countermeasures
"Roger" -- "I understand"
"Roger" -- "R" in the phonetic alphabet
ROinC -- Resident Officer-in-Charge
*RON -- Squadron
RONLY -- Receiver only
RONS -- Reserve Officers of the Naval Service
RORET -- Authorized Rotational Retention
ROTATE -- Return to
ROTC -- Reserve Officers Training Corps (usually NROTC)
ROVNITE -- Remaining overnight
RP -- Raid Plotter
RP -- Rocket Projectile
RPA -- Radium Plaque Adaptometer
RPAO -- Radium Plaque Adaptometer Operator
RPC -- Registered Publication Clerk
RPD -- Radar Planning Device
RPH -- Registered Pharmacist
RPIO -- Registered Publications Issuing Office
RPM -- Registered Publication Manual
RPM -- Registered Publication Memorandum
RPM -- Revolutions Per Minute
RPPI -- Remote Plan Position Indicator
RPS -- Registered Publications Section
RPS-DL -- Registers Publications Section--District Library
R&PSec -- Radio and Panel Section
RPSM -- Registered Publication Shipment Memorandum
RPS-PL -- Registered Publications Section--Personnel Library
R&PT -- Rifle and Pistol Team
RPU -- Radio Phone Unit
RPU -- Registered Publication Unit
RR -- Railroad
RR -- Recruit Roll
RR -- Rifle Range
RRC -- Requirements Review Committee (AstSecNav)
RRC -- Rubber Reserve Committee
RS -- Passenger Transportation Specialist
RS -- Radio Duties--Special
RS -- Receiving Ship or Station
RS -- Recruiting Station
R/S -- Report of Survey (Army)
RS -- Revised Statutes
RSC -- Reserve Service Control
RSO -- Regimental Supply Officer (Army)
R&SSq -- Repair and Salvage Squadron
RT -- Radio Technician
RT or R/T -- Radio Telephony
RTC -- Replacement Training Center (Army)
RTL -- Regimental Training Line (Army)
RTO -- Railroad Transportation officer (Army)
RTTY -- Radio Teletype
RUDAOE -- Report of Unsatisfactory or Defective Aviation Ordnance Equipment
RUDM -- Report of Unsatisfactory or Defective Material (aircraft)
RUG -- Electronic Jammer (radar)
RUSNO(Location) -- Resident United States Naval Officer (Location)
RVA -- Retailer's Uniform Agency
RW -- Recreation and Welfare
RW -- Recruiting Warrant
RY-# -- "Liberator"; four-engine Navy transport (VR(HL)), manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
--- S ---
S -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indication a scouting plane
S -- Anti-Submarine Patrol (suffix to plane designation); as, PBM-3S
S -- Boeing Aircraft Co. (formerly Stearman) (manufacturer's symbol)
S -- School(s)
S -- Schweizer Aircraft Co. (manufacturer's symbol)
S -- Seaman; as S1 (Seaman 1st class)
S -- Seaplane
S -- Secret dispatch
S (No.) -- Senate Bill (Number)
S -- Sesquiplane
S -- Sikorsky Aircraft (United Aircraft Corporation) (manufacturer's symbol)
S -- South
S3 -- Squadron Operations Officer (USMC)
S -- Stearman Aircraft Co. (now Boeing) (manufacturer's symbol)
S (number) -- Commanding Officer (number) Submarine Flotilla
S -- Supply Department aboard a carrier
S -- USNR officer designation of Special Service, Unlimited. Formerly (S).
S -- Vought-Sikorsky (United Aircraft Corporation) (manufacturer's symbol)
SA -- Air Search Radar (shipborne)
SA -- Arsine
S&A -- Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
SA -- Limited duty
SA -- Semiautomatic
SA -- South America
SA -- Special Artificer
SA -- Special Assignment
SA -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Aviation Non-flying. Formerly S(A).
SA1 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Heavier-than-Air Pilot. Formerly S(A2) and A-VN.
SA2 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Lighter-than-Air Pilot. Formerly S(A2) and A-VN.
SA3 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Heavier-than-Air Pilot. Formerly S(A3) and A-VG.
SA4 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Lighter-than-Air Pilot. Formerly S(A4) and A-VG.
SA5 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Heavier-than-Air Pilot. Formerly S(A5).
SA6 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Lighter-than-Air Pilot. Formerly S(A6) and A-VT.
SAA -- Small Arms Ammunition
SAC -- Supreme Allied Command
SAC -- Supreme Allied Commander
SACMED -- Supreme Allied Command(er), Mediterranean
SACO -- Sino-American Cooperative Organization
SACSEA -- Supreme Allied Command(er), Southeast Asia
SAD -- Special Artificer, Special Synthetic Training Devices
SAD -- Support Air Direction
SADMG -- Special Artificer, Special Devices, Machine Gun Trainer
SAF -- Southern Attack Force
SAF -- Strategic Air Force
SAFPlan -- Submarine Area Frequency Plan
SAI -- Special Artificer, Instruments
SAIC -- Small Arms Interpost Competition
Sail -- "S" in the phonetic alphabet; now obsolete and replaced by "Sugar"
SAITR -- Special Artificer, Instruments, Typewriter and Office Equipment Repairman
SAIWR -- Special Artificer, Instruments, Watch Repairman
*SAL -- Salvage
SAL DIVES -- Salvage Dives
SALED -- Sailed
SAN -- USNR officer designation. See SA and N. Formerly S(A)-N.
SA1N -- USNR officer designation. See SA1 and N. Formerly S(A1)-N.
SA2N -- USNR officer designation. See SA2 and N. Formerly S(A2)-N.
SA3N -- USNR officer designation. See SA3 and N. Formerly S(A3)-N.
SA4N -- USNR officer designation. See SA4 and N. Formerly S(A4)-N.
SA5N -- USNR officer designation. See SA5 and N. Formerly S(A5)-N.
SA6N -- USNR officer designation. See SA6 and N. Formerly S(A6)-N.
SandA -- Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
SandFSD -- Sea and Foreign Service Duty
SandFran -- San Francisco, California
SAO -- Special Artificer, Optical
SAO -- Support Air Observation
SAP -- Scouting Amphibian Plan (USCG)
SAP -- Semi-Armor Piercing
SAP -- Spot Authorization Plan (WPB)
SAPC -- Small Arms Post Competition
SAR -- Semi-Automatic Rifle (Army)
SAR -- USNR officer designation. See SA and R. Formerly S(A)-R.
SA1R -- USNR officer designation. See SA1 and R. Formerly S(A1)-R.
SA2R -- USNR officer designation. See SA2 and R. Formerly S(A2)-R.
SA3R -- USNR officer designation. See SA3 and R. Formerly S(A3)-R.
SA4R -- USNR officer designation. See SA4 and R. Formerly S(A4)-R.
SA5R -- USNR officer designation. See SA5 and R. Formerly S(A5)-R.
SA6R -- USNR officer designation. See SA6 and R. Formerly S(A6)-R.
SAR Net -- Support Air Request Net (Communications)
SASAT -- Shipboard Anti-Submarine Attack Teacher
Sat -- Saturated
SAT -- USNR officer designation. See SA and T. Formerly S(A)-T.
SA1T -- USNR officer designation. See SA1 and T. Formerly S(A1)-T.
SA2T -- USNR officer designation. See SA2 and T. Formerly S(A2)-T.
SA3T -- USNR officer designation. See SA3 and T. Formerly S(A3)-T.
SA4T -- USNR officer designation. See SA4 and T. Formerly S(A4)-T.
SA5T -- USNR officer designation. See SA5 and T. Formerly S(A5)-T.
SA6T -- USNR officer designation. See SA6 and T. Formerly S(A6)-T.
SATFor -- Special Air Task Force
SATP -- Small arms Target Practice
SAV -- Allotment for Savings
SAVBOND -- Allotment for purchase of War Savings Bonds
SAX -- USNR officer designation. See SA and X. Formerly S(A)-X.
SA1X -- USNR officer designation. See SA1 and X. Formerly S(A1)-X.
SA2X -- USNR officer designation. See SA2 and X. Formerly S(A2)-X.
SA3X -- USNR officer designation. See SA3 and X. Formerly S(A3)-X.
SA4X -- USNR officer designation. See SA4 and X. Formerly S(A4)-X.
SA5X -- USNR officer designation. See SA5 and X. Formerly S(A5)-X.
SA6X -- USNR officer designation. See SA6 and X. Formerly S(A6)-X.
SB -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a scouting-bombing plane
SB -- Secondary Battery
#SB -- Shipbuilding
SB -- Submarine Base
Sb -- Switchboard
SB -- Switchboard Operator
SB2A-# -- "Bermuda"; single-engine Navy scout-bomber (VSB), manufactured by Brewster
SBAE -- Stabilized Bombing Approach Equipment
SBC-# -- Single-engine Navy scout-bomber (VSB), biplane, manufactured by Curtiss
SB2C-# -- "Helldiver"; single-engine Navy scout-bombers (VSB), manufactured by Curtiss
SBCo -- Shipbuilding Company
SBCorp -- Shipbuilding Corporation
SBD-# -- "Dauntless"; single-engine Navy scout-bomber (VSB), manufactured by Douglas
#SBDC -- Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
#SB&DDCo -- Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Federal, Newport News, Sun)
SBF-# -- "Helldiver"; single-engine Navy scout-bomber (VSB), manufactured by Fairchild (Canada)
SBN-# -- Single-engine Navy scout-bomber (VSB), manufactured by Naval Aircraft Factory
SBNO -- Senior British Naval Officer (U.S. controlled port)
SBNOWA -- Senior British Naval Officer, Western Atlantic
SBP -- Summary Plot Board
SBS -- Strategic Balkan Services
SBU-# -- Single-engine Navy scout-bomber (VSB), biplane, manufactured by Chance-Vought
SB2U-# -- "Vindicator"; single-engine Navy scout-bomber (VSB), manufactured by Vought-Sikorsky
SBW-# -- "Helldiver"; single-engine Navy scout-bomber (VSB), manufactured by Canadian Car and Foundry
SC -- Halifax Slow to United Kingdom (routing designation)
SC -- Radar type designation for shipborne equipment used in air search
SC-# -- "Seahawk"; single-engine Navy observation-scout (VOS), manufactured by Curtiss
S-C -- Secret and Confidential Files
SC -- Ship's Cook
SC -- Signal Corps (Army)
S/C -- Statement of Charges (Army)
SC -- Strato-cumulus
SC -- Submarine Chaser (110')
SC -- Summary Court
SC -- Supply Corps
SC -- USN officer designation for Supply Corps
SC1 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Communications Duties. Formerly S(C1) and C-VL.
SC2 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Communications Duties. Formerly S(C2) and C-VX.
SCAEF -- Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force
SCAJAP -- Shipping Control Administrator Japan
SCAO -- Senior Civil Affairs Officer
SCAP -- Supreme Commander Allied Powers (Japan)
SCAR -- South Carolina
SCAT -- Service Command Air Transportation
SCAT -- South Pacific Combat Air Transport (USMC)
SCB -- Ship's Cook, Butcher
SC(C) -- Submarine Chaser (110') (Control)
SCD -- Supply, Commissary and Disbursing
SCE -- Superintending Civil Engineer (GB)
SCF -- Support Carrier Force
Sch -- School
SCI -- Ship Controlled Intercept (radar)
SCI -- Supervisory Cost Inspector
SClk -- Ship's Clerk
SCM -- Sender's Composition Message
SCM -- Summary Court Martial
SCM -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Supply Corps, Merchant Marine. Formerly SC-M.
SCMR -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Supply Corps, Merchant Marine. Formerly SCM.
SC1N -- USNR officer designation. See SC1 and N. Formerly S(C1)-N.
SC2N -- USNR officer designation. See SC2 and N. Formerly S(C2)-N.
*SCO -- Scouting
SCOFA -- Shipping Control Office, Forward Area
ScoFor -- Scouting Force
*SCOL -- School
SCOM -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Communications Duties. Formerly S(C).
SCOMA -- Shipping Control Office, Marianas
SCON -- USNR officer designation. See SCOM and N. Formerly S(C)-N.
SCOR -- USNR officer designation. See SCOM and R. Formerly S(C)-R.
ScoRon -- Scouting Squadron
SCOROR -- Secretary's Committee on Research on Reorganization (Navy)
SCOT -- USNR officer designation. See SCOM and T. Formerly S(C)-T.
Scotch -- Firetube boiler
#SCOTRACEN -- Scouting Training Center
SCOX -- USNR officer designation. See SCOM and X. Formerly S(C)-X.
SCR(number) -- Signal Corps Radio (number) (Army)
SCR -- Summary Control Report (Planning and Production)
SCR -- USNR officer designation for General Service, Supply Corps. Formerly SC.
SC1R -- USNR officer designation. See SC1 and R. Formerly S(C1)-R.
SC2R -- USNR officer designation. See SC2 and R. Formerly S(C2)-R.
SCS -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Supply Corps. Formerly SC(S).
SC1T -- USNR officer designation. See SC1 and T. Formerly S(C1)-T.
SC2T -- USNR officer designation. See SC2 and T. Formerly S(C2)-T.
SCTC -- Submarine Chaser Training Center
SCTD -- Scattered
SCTraCen -- Submarine Chaser Training Center
SC-V(G) -- USNR officer designation for supply officers, commissioned and warrant, including pay clerks, qualified for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by SC or SC(S).
SC-V(P) -- USNR officer designation for supply officers (General Service), commissioned in probationary status, and, after qualification and transfer to SC-V(G), available for general detail afloat or ashore. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by SC(S).
SC-V(S) -- USNR officer designation for supply officers, commissioned and warrant, qualified for specialist duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and replaced by SC or SC(S).
SCW -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Supply Corps. Formerly SC(W).
SC1X -- USNR officer designation. See SC1 and X. Formerly S(C1)-X.
SC2X -- USNR officer designation. See SC2 and X. Formerly S(C2)-X.
SD -- Aircraft detection radar for submarines
S&D -- Single and Double Reduction Gears
SD -- Special Duty
SD -- Spectacle Dispenser
SD -- Supply Department
SDA -- San Diego, California
SDAK -- South Dakota
SDC -- Southern Defense Command (Army)
SDEM -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Deck and Engineering Duties, Merchant Marine. Formerly S(DEM).
SDEN -- USNR officer designation. See SDEM and N. Formerly S(DEM)-N.
SDER -- USNR officer designation. See SDEM and R. Formerly S(DEM)-R.
SDET -- USNR officer designation. See SDEM and T. Formerly S(DEM)-T.
SDEX -- USNR officer designation. See SDEM and X. Formerly S(DEM)-X.
SDGA -- Single Degaussing Cable
SDHIRS -- Sub-District Headquarters Induction and Recruiting Station
SDM -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Deck Duties, Merchant Marine. Formerly S(DM).
SDMN -- USNR officer designation. See SDM and N. Formerly S(DM)-N.
SDMR -- USNR officer designation. See SDM and R. Formerly S(DM)-R.
SDMT -- USNR officer designation. See SDM and T. Formerly S(DM)-T.
SDMX -- USNR officer designation. See SDM and X. Formerly S(DM)-S.
SDO -- Specialist Duty Only
SDO -- Staff Duty Officer
SDO -- Station Duty Officer
SdOpr -- Sound Operator
SE -- Single-ended, cylindrical boiler
SE -- Single Engine
SE -- Southeast
SE -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Engineering Duties. Formerly S(E).
SE1 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Engineering Duties, equivalent to EDO Hull. Formerly S(E1)
SE2 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Engineering Duties, equivalent to EDO Machinery. Formerly S(E2)
SE3 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Engineering Duties, equivalent to EDO Electrical. Formerly S(E3)
SE4 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Engineering Duties, equivalent to EDO Diesel. Formerly S(E4)
SEA -- Ships Editorial Association
SEA -- Southeast Asia (Theater)
"Seabee" -- Member of a Construction Battalion (CB)
SeaC -- Seacoast
SEAC -- Southeast Asia Command
"Sea Clutter" -- Echo from surface of sea (sea return) (radar)
SEAFRON -- Sea Frontier
"Seagull" -- See SOC-#, SO3C-#, SON-#
"Seahawk" -- See SC-#
SeaS -- Sea School (USMC)
SEATIC -- Southeast Asia Translation and Interrogation Center
SEATL -- Seattle, Washington
"Seawolf" -- See TBY-#
Sec -- Second
*SEC -- Secretary (to the) (of)
*SEC -- Sector
SecNav -- Secretary of the Navy
SECP -- Division of Shore Establishments and Civilian Personnel (formed by merger of SOSED and PS&M in 1944; renamed OIR in 1945)
Secr -- Secret
*SECT -- Section
SecTaskFlt -- Second Task Fleet
SectBase -- Section Base
SecWar -- Secretary of War
SED -- Shore Establishments Division
SEFIC -- Seventh Fleet Intelligence Center
SEM -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Engineering Duties, Merchant Marine. Formerly S(EM).
Sema -- Semaphore
SEMN -- USNR officer designation. See SEM and N. Formerly S(EM)-N.
SEMR -- USNR officer designation. See SEM and R. Formerly S(EM)-R.
SEMT -- USNR officer designation. See SEM and T. Formerly S(EM)-T.
SEMX -- USNR officer designation. See SEM and X. Formerly S(EM)-X.
Sen -- Senator
*SEN -- Senior
SEN -- USNR officer designation. See SE and N. Formerly S(E)-N.
SE1N -- USNR officer designation. See SE1 and N. Formerly S(E1)-N.
SE2N -- USNR officer designation. See SE2 and N. Formerly S(E2)-N.
SE3N -- USNR officer designation. See SE3 and N. Formerly S(E3)-N.
SEN4 -- USNR officer designation. See SE4 and N. Formerly S(E4)-N.
SENAVAV -- Senior Naval Aviator
Sent -- Sentence
Sent conf -- Sentence to be confined
"Sentinel" -- See OY-#
Sent LP -- Sentenced to lose pay
Sep -- Separate
SEPacFor -- Southeast Pacific Force
SepCen -- Separation Center
*SER -- Serial
Ser -- Serve; service; serving
SER -- USNR officer designation. See SE and R. Formerly S(E)-R.
SE1R -- USNR officer designation. See SE1 and R. Formerly S(E1)-R.
SE2R -- USNR officer designation. See SE2 and R. Formerly S(E2)-R.
SE3R -- USNR officer designation. See SE3 and R. Formerly S(E3)-R.
SE4R -- USNR officer designation. See SE4 and R. Formerly S(E4)-R.
SerForSoPacSubCom -- Service Force South Pacific Subordinate Command
Seron -- Service Squadron
SERRON -- Service Squadron
*SERV -- Service
ServComFMFPac -- Service Command, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific
ServDiv -- Service Division
ServFor -- Service Force
ServLant -- Service Force, Atlantic Fleet
ServLantSubOrdComd -- Service Force, Atlantic Fleet, Subordinate Command
SERV NO -- Service Number
Servon -- Service Squadron
ServPac -- Service Force, Pacific Fleet
Servron -- Service Squadron
ServSoWesPac -- Service Force, Southwest Pacific Fleet
SES -- Physically on board serving sentence of court martial, not ship's company
SES -- Strategic Engineering Survey
SESE -- Secure Echo-Sounding Equipment (sonar)
SET -- USNR officer designation. See SE and T. Formerly S(E)-T.
SE1T -- USNR officer designation. See SE1 and T. Formerly S(E1)-T.
SE2T -- USNR officer designation. See SE2 and T. Formerly S(E2)-T.
SE3T -- USNR officer designation. See SE3 and T. Formerly S(E3)-T.
SE4T -- USNR officer designation. See SE4 and T. Formerly S(E4)-T.
Sett -- Settlement
SETT -- Submarine Escape Training Tank
SEV -- Severn
#SEVENPERDAIR -- A per diem of seven dollars in lieu of subsistence will be allowed while in an air travel status
SEX -- USNR officer designation. See SE and X. Formerly S(E)-X.
SE1X -- USNR officer designation. See SE1 and X. Formerly S(E1)-X.
SE2X -- USNR officer designation. See SE2 and X. Formerly S(E2)-X.
SE3X -- USNR officer designation. See SE3 and X. Formerly S(E3)-X.
SE4X -- USNR officer designation. See SE4 and X. Formerly S(E4)-X.
SF -- San Francisco, California
SF -- Scouting Force
SF -- Shipfitter
S&F -- Sound and Flash
SF -- Surface Search Radar
SFCB -- Shipfitter, Construction Battalion
SFCBB -- Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Blacksmith
SFCMB -- Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Mechanical Draftsman
SFCBP -- Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Pipe Fitter and Plumber
SFCBR -- Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Rigger
SFCBS -- Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Steelworker
SFCBW -- Shipfitter, Construction Battalion, Welder
SFCP -- Shore Fire Control Party
SFDS -- Standby Fighter Director Ship
SFIC -- San Francisco Information Center (Army Air Warning Service)
SFNSY -- San Francisco naval Shipyard
SFPOE -- San Francisco Port of Embarkation
S&FSD -- Sea and Foreign Service Duty (pay status)
S&FSD(A) -- Sea and Foreign Service Duty (on aviation pay)
S&FSD(S) -- Sea and Foreign Duty (on submarine pay)
SFSR -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair
SFSRC -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Chipper-Caulker
SFSRD -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Diver
SFSRF -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Steelworker-Anglesmith
SFSRL -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Driller-Reamer
SFSRP -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Pipe Fitter-Plumber
SFSRR -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Riveter
SFSRS -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Shipfitter
SFSRW -- Shipfitter, Ship Repair, Welder
SG -- Qualified in Submarines (limited)
SG -- Surface Search Radar
SG -- Surgeon General (Army)
SG -- Sydney or St. Johns, Newfoundland to Greenland (routing designation)
Sgl -- Single Reduction Gears
SGP -- Secondary Gun Pointer
Sgt -- Sergeant
SgtMaj -- Sergeant Major
SHAEF -- Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
SHC -- Superheat Control (boilers)
SHF -- Super High Frequency
Ship -- Shipboard
*SHO -- Shore
#SHOROUTFUBINT -- The Secretary of the Navy has determined that this employment on shore duty beyond the seas in required by the public interests
#SHORPUNINT -- The Secretary of the Navy has determined that this employment on shore duty is required by the public interests
"Shots" -- A Gunner's Mate in charge of a small AA gun (20MM, 50cal)
SHP -- Shaft horsepower
SI -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Intelligence Duties. Formerly S(I).
SIA -- Air Intelligence Service (Italy)
SID -- Security and Intelligence Service (Army)
*SIG -- Signal
SIGCUM -- Communications Security Publication-151- (Army)
SIGSALY -- Scrambled voice transmission (Army)
Sigtot -- Signal Corps One-Time Tape
SILO -- Security Intelligence Liaison office (Central Mediterranean Forces)
SIM -- Servizio Informazioni Militaire (Italy)
SIME -- Security Intelligence, middle East
SIN -- USNR officer designation. See SI and N. Formerly S(I)-N.
SINO -- Chines
SIO -- Ship's Information Officer
SIR -- USNR officer designation. See SI and R. Formerly S(I)-R.
SIS -- Secret Intelligence Service (GB)
SIS -- Naval Intelligence Service (Italy)
*SIT -- Situation
SIT -- USNR officer designation. See SI and T. Formerly S(I)-T.
SIW -- Self-inflicted wound
SIX -- USNR officer designation. See SI and X. Formerly S(I)-X.
SJ -- San Juan, Puerto Rico
SJ -- Surface search radar for submarines
SK -- Air search radar (shipborne)
Sk -- Sketch
S&K -- Snow and Knobstedt (ship engines)
SK -- Storekeeper
SKCB -- Storekeeper, Construction Battalion, Stevedore
SKD -- Storekeeper, Disbursing
Sked -- Schedule
Skiatron -- British term for Projection Plan Position Indicator (PPPI)
SKT -- Storekeeper, Technical
SKV -- Storekeeper, Aviation
"Skymaster" -- See R5D-4
"Skytrain" -- See R4D-1-5-6-7
"Skytrooper"-- See R4D-2-3-4
SL -- Large signal search light
S-L -- Sound locator
SL -- Submarine Qualification Lapsed
SL -- Support line
SL -- Surface search radar
SL -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, legal Specialist. Formerly S(L).
SLCU -- Standard Landing Craft Unit
SLN -- USNR officer designation. See SL and N. Formerly S(L)-N.
SLOE -- Special List of Equipment
SLP -- Scouting landplane
SLR -- USNR officer designation. See SL and R. Formerly S(L)-R.
SLT -- USNR officer designation. See SL and T. Formerly S(L)-T.
SLt&SdL -- Searchlight and Sound Locator
SLX -- USNR officer designation. See SL and X. Formerly S(L)-X.
SM -- Air and surface search radar
SM -- Salvage Mechanic
SM -- Shipment Memorandum
SM -- Signalman
SM -- Soldier's medal
Sm -- Steamotive
S/M -- Submarine (GB)
SM -- Submarine, Mine Laying
S/M -- Submarine pay
SMA -- Ship's Material Account
#SMACRATRACEN -- Small Craft Training Center
SMAW -- Second Marine Aircraft Wing
SMG -- Sub-Machine Gun
SMO -- Senior Medical Officer
SMP -- Sound Motion Picture Technician
SMPO -- Sound Motion Picture Operator
S-MPR -- Semi-Monthly Progress Reports
SMR -- Special money Requisition
SMS -- Marine Service Squadron
SMSD -- Submarine Detector Ship's Magnet
SN -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a scout-training plane
SN -- Portable surface search radar
SN -- USNR officer designation. See S and N. Formerly (S)-N.
SNA -- Student Naval Aviator
SNAFU -- Situation Normal, All Fouled Up
SNAP -- Senior Naval Aviator Present
SNAP -- Student Naval Aviation Pilot
SNAP(G) -- Student Naval Aviation Pilot (Glider)
SNB-1 -- "Kansan"; twin-engine Navy training plane (VSN(M)), manufactured by Beech
SNB-2-2C-2H -- "Navigator"; twin-engine Navy training plane (VSN), manufactured by Curtiss
SNC-# -- "Falcon"; Navy single-engine training plane (VN), manufactured by North American
SNJ-# -- "Texan"; Navy training plane (VN), manufactured by North American
SNL -- Standard Nomenclature List (Army)
SNM -- Senior Naval Member
SNOL -- Senior Naval Officer, Landings (GB)
SNOP -- Senior Naval Officer Present
SNOPG -- Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf (GB)
SNORSCA -- Senior Naval Officer, Red Sea and Canal Area (GB)
SNOT -- Senior Naval Officer, Transport (GB)
Snow -- Receiver noise seen on PPI scope (amplitude indication)
SNTFC -- Senior Naval Task Force Commander
SNV-# -- "Valiant"; Navy training plane (VN), manufactured by Vultee
SO -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a scouting-observation plane
SO -- Radar type designation for shipborne equipment used in surface search
SO -- Secretary's Office
*SO -- South(ern)
SO -- Special Orders (Army)
SO -- Supply Officer
SO -- Surface search radar
SO -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Ordnance Duties. Formerly S(O).
SO1 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Ordnance Duties in Aviation Ordnance. Formerly S(C1).
SO2 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Ordnance Duties in Aviation Ordnance. Formerly S(O2)
SO3 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Ordnance Duties in Fire Control and Guns. Formerly S(O3).
SO4 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Ordnance Duties in Ammunition and Explosives. Formerly S(O4).
SO5 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Ordnance Duties in Torpedoes. Formerly S(O5).
S06 -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Special Ordnance Duties in Under Water Ordnance. Formerly S(O6).
SOA -- Speed of Approach
SOAG -- Senior Officer Assault Group (GB)
SOASC (I) -- Senior Officer Assault Ships and Craft (India) (GB)
SOC-# -- "Seagull"; single-engine Navy scout-observation (VSO) landplane or seaplane, biplane, manufactured by Curtiss
SO3C-# -- "Seagull"; single-engine Navy scout-observation (VS) landplane and seaplane, manufactured by Curtiss
SoCalSec -- Southern California Sector, Western Sea Frontier
SoChinaFor -- South China Force
SOCMC -- Special Order of the Commandant of the Marine Corps (USMC)
SOD -- Small Object Detector
SOE -- Secret Operations Executive (British research unit corresponding to OSS)
SOE -- Special Operation Executive (GB)
SoEastPac -- Southeast Pacific Force (later, Command)
SOEF Kandy -- Senior Officer, Eastern Fleet, Kandy (GB)
Sofar -- Sound Fixing and Ranging
SOG -- Special Operations Group
SOI -- Signal Operations Instructions (Army)
SOIC -- Supply Officer-in-Charge
SOINC -- Supply Officer-in-Charge
SOIS -- Senior Officer, Inshore Squadron (GB)
SoLant -- South Atlantic Force (later, Command)
SoLantFor -- South Atlantic Force
SOLS -- Solomon Islands
SOM -- Sonarman; Soundman
SOMD -- Secretary's Office, General Counsel
SOME -- Secretary's Office, Management Engineer
SOMH -- Sonarman, Harbor Defense
SOMP -- Sydney Ocean Meeting Point
SON-# -- "Seagull"; single-engine Navy scout-observation (VSO) seaplane, biplane, manufactured by Naval Aircraft Factory
SON -- USNR officer designation. See SO and N. Formerly S(O)-N.
SO1N -- USNR officer designation. See SO1 and N. Formerly S(O1)-N.
SO2N -- USNR officer designation. See SO2 and N. Formerly S(O2)-N.
SO3N -- USNR officer designation. See SO3 and N. Formerly S(O3)-N.
SO4N -- USNR officer designation. See SO4 and N. Formerly S(O4)-N.
SO5N -- USNR officer designation. See SO5 and N. Formerly S(O5)-N.
SO6N -- USNR officer designation. See SO6 and N. Formerly S(O6)-N.
SONA -- School of Naval Administration, Leland Stanford University
Sonar -- Sound, Navigation and Ranging
SOND -- Secretary's Office, Navy Department
SONOM -- Sonar countermeasures and deception
SONRD -- Secretary's Office, Office of Research and Development
SOP -- Senior Officer Present
SOP -- Standard Operating Procedure
SOPA -- Senior Officer Present Afloat
SOP(A) -- Senior Officer Present (Ashore)
SoPac -- South Pacific Area and Force (later, South Pacific Command)
SoPacBaCom -- South Pacific Base Command
SoPacComs -- South Pacific Communications
SoPat -- South China Patrol
SOPUS -- Senior (US) Officer Present
SOR -- USNR officer designation. See SO and R. Formerly S(O)-R.
SO1R -- USNR officer designation. See SO1 and R. Formerly S(O1)-R.
SO2R -- USNR officer designation. See SO2 and R. Formerly S(O2)-R.
SO3R -- USNR officer designation. See SO3 and R. Formerly S(O3)-R.
SO4R -- USNR officer designation. See SO4 and R. Formerly S(O4)-R.
SO5R -- USNR officer designation. See SO5 and R. Formerly S(O5)-R.
SO6R -- USNR officer designation. See SO6 and R. Formerly S(O6)-R.
SORA -- Secretary's Office, Records Administration
SORG -- Submarine Operations Research Group
SORNE (I) -- Senior Officer, Royal Naval Establishment (India) (GB)
SORR -- Submarine Operations Research Report (by SORG)
SOS -- Radio Distress Call
SOS -- Services of Supply (Army)
SOSED -- Secretary's Office, Shore Establishments Division (incorporated into SECP, 1944)
SOSSPA -- Service of Supply, South Pacific Area
SOSU -- Scout Observation Service Unit
SOT -- USNR officer designation. See SO and T. Formerly S(O)-T.
SO1T -- USNR officer designation. See SO1 and T. Formerly S(O1)-T.
SO2T -- USNR officer designation. See SO2 and T. Formerly S(O2)-T.
SO3T -- USNR officer designation. See SO3 and T. Formerly S(O3)-T.
SO4T -- USNR officer designation. See SO4 and T. Formerly S(O4)-T.
SO5T -- USNR officer designation. See SO5 and T. Formerly S(O5)-T.
SO6T -- USNR officer designation. See SO6 and T. Formerly S(O6)-T.
SOTB -- Secretary's Office, Transportation Branch
SoWesPac -- Southwest Pacific Command
SoWesSeaFron -- Southwest Sea Frontier
SOX -- USNR officer designation. See SO and X. Formerly S(O)-X.
SO1X -- USNR officer designation. See SO1 and X. Formerly S(O1)-X.
SO2X -- USNR officer designation. See SO2 and X. Formerly S(O2)-X.
SO3X -- USNR officer designation. See SO3 and X. Formerly S(O3)-X.
SO4X -- USNR officer designation. See SO4 and X. Formerly S(O4)-X.
SO5X -- USNR officer designation. See SO5 and X. Formerly S(O5)-X.
S06X -- USNR officer designation. See SO6 and X. Formerly S(O6)-X.
SP -- San Pedro, California
S/P or SP -- Seaplane
SP -- Section Patrol
SP -- Security Publication
SP -- Shore Patrol
SP -- Single Purpose Gun
SP -- Smokeless Powder
SP -- Specialist
SP -- Qualified in Submarine Training
SP -- Sub-Professional (Civil Service employees designation)
SP -- Summary Plotter (radar)
SPA -- South Pacific Area
SpA -- Specialist, Physical Training Instructor
SPAB -- Supply, Priorities and Allocations Board
SPARS -- Women's Reserve U.S. Coast Guard. The word SPAR was coined from the initials of the Coast Guard motto: "Semper Paratus" (Always Ready).
SpAst -- Special Assistant
SPATS -- South Pacific Air Transportation Service
SpC -- Specialist, Classification Interviewer
SPC -- Standard Products Committee
SpCW -- Specialist, Chemical Warfare
SPD -- Southern Procurement Division
SpD -- Specialist, Animal Handler
Spd -- Speed
SPDC -- Spare Parts Distributing Center
Spdltr -- Speed letter
Spec -- Special
Spec -- Specialist
Spec -- Specification
SPEC -- USNR officer designation for Special Service, Reserve Pay Clerk
SpeNavO -- Special Naval Observer
SpEPS -- Specialist, Motion Picture Server-Booker
SpERW -- Specialist, Recreation and Welfare Assistant
SpF -- Specialist, Firefighter
SpG -- Specialist, Gunnery
SpGM -- Specialist, Gunnery, Aviation Free Gunnery Instructor
SpGN -- Specialist, Gunnery, Anti-Aircraft Gunnery Instructor
SpI -- Specialist, Punched Card Accounting Machine Operator
Spl -- Special; Specialist
SpLT -- Specialist, Link Trainer Instructor
SplW -- Special Warrant
SpM -- Mail Clerk
SPM -- Self-propelled mount
SPO -- Shore Patrol Officer
SpO -- Specialist, Inspector of Naval Material
SpOAV -- Specialist, Inspector of Aviation material
SpOEN -- Specialist, Engineering Inspector
SpOOR -- Specialist, Ordnance Inspector
SpOPE -- Specialist, Petroleum Technician
SPORT -- Support
SportFor -- Support Force
SPOT -- Spotter
SpP -- Specialist, Photographic Specialist
SpPLB -- Specialist, Photographer, Laboratory
SpPMP -- Specialist, Motion Picture Production
SpPPG -- Specialist, Photogrammetry
SpPR -- Specialist, Public Relations (USCG)
SPPS -- Specialist, Port Security (USCG)
SpPVM -- Specialist, V-Mail
SpQ -- Specialist, Communications Specialist
SpQCR -- Specialist, Specialist, Communications Specialist, Cryptographer
SpQIN -- Specialist, Communications Specialist, Radio Intelligence
SpQRP -- Specialist, Communications Specialist, Registered Publication Clerk
SpQTE -- Specialist, Communications Specialist, Technician
SpR -- Specialist, Recruiter
S&PResDis -- Severn and Potomac Reserve District (USMC)
SpS -- Specialist, Personnel Supervisor (Women's Reserve)
SpS -- Specialist, Shore Patrol and Security
SPSA -- Special Projects School for Air
SpSPS -- Specialist, Personnel Supervisor, V-10
SpT -- Specialist, Teacher
SpTLT -- Specialist, Link Trainer Instructor
SP(TR) -- Specialist, (Transportation) (USCG)
SPU -- Special Projects Unit
SpU -- Specialist, Utility (Women's Reserve)
SpV -- Specialist, Transport Airman
SpW -- Specialist, Chaplain's Assistant
SpX -- Specialist, not elsewhere classified
SpXAC -- Specialist, Archivist
SpXAR -- Specialist, Artist
SpXBL -- Specialist, Ballistics
SpXCC -- Specialist, Cable Censor
SpXCG -- Specialist, Crystal Grinder
SpXCT -- Specialist, Cartographer
SpXDI -- Specialist, Discharge Interviewer
SpXED -- Specialist, Engineering Draftsman
SpXFP -- Specialist, Fingerprint Expert
SpXGU -- Specialist, Gage Specialist
SpXID -- Specialist, Intelligence Duties
SpXIR -- Specialist, Interpreter
SpXJO -- Specialist, Journalist
SpXKP -- Specialist, Key Punch Operator and Supervisor
SpXNC -- Specialist, Naval Correspondent
SpXOP -- Specialist, Special Project
SpXPC -- Specialist, Position Classifier
SpXPI -- Specialist, Pigeon Trainer
SpXPL -- Specialist, Plastic Expert
SpXPR -- Specialist, Public Information
SpXQM -- Specialist, Operations--Plotting and Chart Work
SpXRL -- Specialist, Research Laboratory
SpXRS -- Specialist, Armed Forces Radio Service and Special Naval Radio Units
SpXRT -- Specialist, Passenger Transportation
SpXSB -- Specialist, Telephone Switchboard Operator and Supervisor
SpXST -- Specialist, Strategic Services
SpXTD -- Specialist, Topographic Draftsman
SpXTS -- Specialist, Air Stations Operations Desk--Time Shack
SpXVA -- Specialist, Visual Training Aids
SpY -- Specialist, Control Tower Operator
Sq -- Squadron
Sqdn -- Squadron
Sqn -- Squadron
SR -- Air Search Radar Receiver (shipborne)
SR -- Seaplane Reconnaissance Aircraft
S/R -- Service Record (Army)
SR -- Shipment Request
SR -- Ship Repair Ratings
SR -- Sound Rating (Army)
3SR -- Internal Delivery Teletype (intra-ship)
SR -- USNR officer designation. See S and R. Formerly (S)-R.
SRB -- Seaplane Repair Base
SRB -- Service Record Book (USMC)
SRF -- Submarine Repair Facility
SRL -- Serial
SrMbr -- Senior Member
SRNC -- Severn River Naval Command
S/RS -- Staff Returns (USMC)
SRTU -- Ship Repair Training Unit
SRU -- Seaplane Reconnaissance Unit
SRU -- Ship Repair Unit
SRU -- Submarine Repair Unit
SS -- High frequency radar, directional
SS -- Selectee (USMC)
SS -- Selective Service
SS -- Sharpshooter (USMC)
SS -- Single-seated
SS -- Steamship
SS -- Submarine
SS -- Submarine Qualification
SS -- Submarine Studies (by SORG)
SS -- Sworn Statement
SSA -- Ship's Stores Ashore
SSA -- Signal Security Agency
SSC -- Submarine Supply Center
SS&CS -- Ship's Stores and Commissary Stores
SSD -- Scrap Salvage Division (BuS&A)
SSD -- Stabilized Ship Detector
SSDB -- Shore Station Development Board
SSF -- Single-seated fighter
SSF -- Special Service Force
SSF -- Ship's Service Force
SSM -- Silver Star Medal
SSMB -- Ships' Service Man, Barber
SSMC -- Ship's Service Man, Cobbler
SSML -- Ship's Service Man, Laundryman
SSMT -- Ship's Service Man, Tailor
SSP -- Scouting seaplane
SSP -- Ship's Stores Profit
SSPN -- Ship's Stores and Profit, Navy
SSR -- Spin Stabilized Rockets
SSU -- Special Service Unit
SSU -- Squadron Service Unit (Aircraft)
SSU -- Strategic Services Unit; formerly, Office of Strategic Service (OSS)
S/T -- Shipping Ticket (Army)
S/T -- Sonic Telegraphy
ST -- Steward
ST -- Stockton
ST -- Stratus
ST -- Type of submarine radar used for surface search and ranging while submerged
ST -- USNR officer designation. See S and T. Formerly (S)-T.
*STA -- Station
Sta -- Stationary
STAD -- Special Temporary Aviation Duty (USMC)
STAG -- Special Task Air Group
*STAN -- Standard
#STANLANCRU -- Standard Landing Craft Unit
STAR -- Specialized Training and Reassignment (Army)
Stat -- Statues-at-Large of the United States
Stbd -- Starboard
STD -- Physically on board under instruction; not ship's company
Std -- Steward
StdA -- Steward's Assistant
StdB -- Steward's Branch (USMC)
Ste -- Steward (Officer's) (USMC)
Steno -- Stenographer
Stereo -- Stereoscopic
SteT -- Steward, technical (USMC)
StfSgt -- Staff Sergeant (USMC)
STG -- Absent in straggler status
Stinger Dog Project -- A drone boat project
StM -- Steward's Mate
STO -- Storekeeper (USCG)
STOCK -- Stockton, California
STP -- Stop
StrAFPOA -- Strategic Air Force, Pacific Ocean Area
Strag -- Straggler
StrAirPoa -- Strategic Air Force, Pacific Ocean Areas
STRG -- Straggler
STIK -- Striking
STT -- Stenographer, Medical
STU -- Service Trials Unit
Stud -- Student
STV -- Steam Tank Vessel
SU -- Service Unit (Army)
SUB -- Submarine Service
SubAd -- Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet Administration
SubAdMI -- Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet Administration, Mare Island
SuBase -- Submarine Base
SubBase -- Submarine Base
SubCom -- Subordinate Command, Service Force, Pacific Fleet
SubDiv -- Submarine Division
SubLant -- Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet
Subm -- Submerged
SUBOR -- Subordinate
SuborCom -- Subordinate Command
SuborComd -- Subordinate Command
SuborComdServLant -- Subordinate Command, Service Force, Atlantic Fleet
SuborComdServPac -- Subordinate Command, Service Force, Pacific Fleet
SubPac -- Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet
SubPacAd -- Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, Administrative Command
SubPacSubordCom -- Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, Subordinate Command
SubRon -- Submarine Squadron
SUBRU -- Submarine Repair Unit
SUBS -- Subsistence Allowances
SubScoFor -- Submarine Scouting Force (Pacific Fleet)
SubsLant -- Submarines, Atlantic Fleet
SubsPac-- Submarines, Pacific Fleet
SubsSoWesPac -- Submarines, Southwest Pacific Force
#SUCHTRANS -- For such transportation as he may designate
#SUCHTRANSVAIL -- (via) Such transportation as may be available
SUDAM -- Sunk or Damaged
Sugar -- "S" in the phonetic alphabet, replacing the obsolete "Sail"
SumCM -- Summary Court Martial (Army)
Su or Du -- Single or double uptake (boilers)
*SUP -- Supply
SupCom -- Supreme Command
SupCon -- Superintending Constructor
Super Sniffer -- A racon
Super Scarab -- naval aircraft engine, 7 cylinders, manufactured by Warner
SuPier -- Naval Supply Pier
SupInsMat -- Supervising Inspector of Naval Material
#SUUPOFCOMD -- Supply Officer-in-Command
SupSgt -- Supply Sergeant (USMC)
SupShip -- Supervisor of Shipbuilding
*SUPT -- Superintendent (ing)
SuptNavObsy -- Superintendent, Naval Observatory
Supv -- Supervisor
SUR -- Physically on board as a "Survivor"
Sur -- Surrender(ed)
SurGen -- Surgeon General
*SURV -- Survey
SUS -- Suspended (aviation)
SUSNO -- Senior U.S. Naval Officer
SUSP -- Vessels which will have construction terminated upon the completion of specified items
SV -- Selective Volunteer (U.S> Navy)
SV -- Type of submarine radar for aircraft warning
S/V -- Surface Vessel
SVC -- Service
SvC -- Service Command (Army)
SW -- Secretary of War
SW -- Security Watch
SW -- Ship's Warrant (USMC)
SW -- Southwest
SWA -- Southwest Approaches (to GB)
SWETTU -- Special Weapons Experimental Tactical Test Unit
SWNCC -- State, War, Navy Coordinating Committee
SWOD -- Special Weapons Ordnance Devices
SWPA -- Southwest Pacific Area
SWPA -- Surplus War Property Administration
SWPC -- Smaller War Plants Corporation
SWPF -- Southwest Pacific Force
SWTTEU -- Special Weapons Test and Tactical Evaluation Unit
SX -- Search and altitude determining radar with constant sweep
SX -- Sectional Express (boiler)
SX -- USNR officer designation. See S and X. Formerly (S)-X.
--- T ---
T -- First letter in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a torpedo plane
T -- Northrop Aircraft, Inc. (El Segundo Division, Douglas Aircraft, Inc.) (manufacturer's symbol)
T -- Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation (Manufacturer's symbol)
T -- Telegrapher
T -- Temporary (personnel status)
T -- Timm Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
T -- Tons
T -- Trainer Aircraft
T -- Transferred
T -- Tug
T -- A suffix which, when appended to a basic USNR line officer classification, indicates special qualifications in electronics: officers who are trained in the technical and material details of radio, radar, and underwater sound.
T/A -- Table of Allowances (Army)
TA -- Tacoma
TA -- Tax Amortization (Plan)
TA -- Travel Allowance
TA -- United Kingdom to United States (military) (routing designation)
TAC -- Tactical Air Force
Tac/R -- Tactical Reconnaissance
TAD -- Temporary Additional Duty
TAD -- Physically on board for temporary additional duty from another ship or activity
TAD -- Training Aids Division
TADC -- Training and Distribution Center
TAG -- The Adjutant General (Army)
TAG -- Training Aids Guide
TAG -- Transport Air Group (Joint Army, Navy and Marine Corps)
TAG -- Trinidad to Aruba to Guantanamo (routing designation)
TAIU -- Technical Aircraft Instrument Unit
TAJ -- Radio transmitter
TAL -- Training Aids Library
TANKSEC -- Petroleum and Tanker Division, Assistant CNO
TAR -- Target
Tare -- "T" in the phonetic alphabet
TARFU -- "Things are really fouled up"
TAS -- Training Aids Section
TAS -- True Air Speed
TaskFlot -- Task Flotilla
TASSO -- Transatlantic Air Safety Service Organization
TAT -- Torpedo Attack Teacher
TAW -- Trinidad to Aruba to Key West (routing designation)
TB -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating a torpedo-bombing plane
TB -- Torpedo Boat (German); corresponds to US DE
TB -- Tractor Biplane
TB -- Trinidad to Bahia (routing designation)
TBA -- Tables of Basic Allowances; previously, Basic Tables of Commissioning Allowances (BTCA)
TBD-# -- "Devastator"; single-engine Navy torpedo-bomber (VTB), manufactured by Douglas
TBD -- Target Bearing Designator
TBF-# -- "Avenger"; single-engine Navy torpedo-bomber (VTB), manufactured by Grumman
TBI -- Target Bearing Indicator
TBK -- Radio Transmitter (HF)
TBL -- Radio Transmitter (HF)
TBM -- Radio Transmitter (HF)
TBM-# -- "Avenger"; single-engine Navy torpedo-bomber (VTB), manufactured by General Motors
TBR -- Torpedo Bomber Reconnaissance Aircraft
TBS -- "Talk-Between-Ships"; very high frequency shipborne radio equipment of medium power, used for ships tactically maneuvering
TBX -- Semi-portable radio equipment of low power
TBY -- Portable radio equipment of low power used as emergency for TBS
TBY-# -- "Sea Wolf"; Navy torpedo plane (VTB), manufactured by Consolidated-Vultee
TC -- Training Center
TC -- Training Circular (Army)
TC -- Transportation Corps (Army)
TC -- Turret Captain
TCA -- Theatre Commander's Approval
TCC -- Transportation Control Committee
TCg -- Contract for USCG
T Co -- Transportation Company (Army)
TCS -- Radio Transceiver (HF); used extensively in all amphibious craft
TCS -- Traffic Control Station (Army)
TCU -- new York to United Kingdom (Troop) (routing designation)
TCZ -- Permanent shipborne radio installation of medium power
TD -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, signifying Drone
TD -- Tank Destroyer (Army)
TD -- Physically on board for temporary duty (officers only)
TD -- Topographic Draftsman
TD -- Torpedo Dive Bomber Aircraft
TDC -- Tank Destroyer Center (Army)
TDC -- Navy target (training) drone, manufactured by Culver Air
T&DC or T&DCen -- Training and Distribution Center
TDCO -- Torpedo Data Computer Operator
TDD-# -- Navy pilotless aircraft for target training, manufactured by Radioplane
TDM -- Torpedo Detection Modification (sonar)
TDN -- Travel directed is necessary in the military service (Army)
TDN -- Twin-engine Navy drone manufactured by Brunswick-Balke
TDQ -- Radio Transmitter (VHF)
TDQ-RCK -- Shipborne radio transmitter and receiver of medium power for very high frequency; used in ship-to-plane communications
TDR -- Twin-engine Navy assault drone, (VTD) manufactured by Interstate
TDS -- Reservists in annual training duty status
TDS -- Target Designation System
TDT -- Radio Transmitter (VHF)
TDT -- Target Designation Transmitter
T/E -- Tables of Equipment (Army)
TE -- Technician Communications
TE -- Turbo Electric Drive
TE -- Twin Engine
*TECH -- Technical
Tech -- Technician
TechTra -- Air Technical Training
TEG -- Purchases by Coast Guard (BuS&A symbol)
*TEL -- Telegram
TEL -- Tetraethyl Lead
TELCON -- Telephone conversation
Teletype -- Teletypewriter
#TEM -- Temporary duty
#TEMAC -- Temporary active duty
#TEMACINS -- Temporary active duty under instruction
#TEMADD -- Temporary additional duty
#TEMADDCON -- Temporary additional duty in connection with
#TEMADDINS -- Temporary additional duty under instruction
#TEMCON -- Temporary duty connection
#TEMPFLY -- Temporary duty involving flying
#TEMFLYINS -- Temporary duty involving flying under instruction
#TEMINS -- Temporary duty under instruction
Temp -- Temporary
Temp att -- Temporarily attached
Temp d -- Temporary duty
Temp det d -- Temporary detached duty
#TEMPLINACT -- Temporary duty pending disciplinary action
#TEMPLINEAR -- Temporary duty (disciplinary hearing)
#TEMWAIT -- Temporary duty awaiting
TENN -- Tennessee
TERM -- Terminal island
TEV -- Turbo-Electric Drive (5-inch guns)
TEX -- Texas
"Texan" -- See SNJ-#
TexGrp -- Texas Group
TF -- Task Force
TD -- Torpedo Fighter Aircraft
TFC -- Time of First Call
TG -- Task Group
Tg -- Telegraph
TGT -- Target
TH -- Territory of Hawaii
TH -- Thermite or Magnesium Bomb
THI -- Time Handed In
Thorny -- Thorny or Thorny-Craft (boilers)
THOU -- Thousand
THQ -- Theater Headquarters (Army)
TI -- Terminal Island (San Pedro)
TI -- Training Instructor
TI -- Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay)
TIC -- Technical Intelligence Center (Navy)
"Tigercat" -- See F7F-#
TIIC -- Technical Industrial Intelligence Committee
TINA -- Identification of radio operators by personal keying characteristics (RFP--radio finger printing)
TINSY -- Treasure Island Naval Shipyard
TIO -- Target Indication Officer
TIR -- Target Indication Room
TIS -- Technical Information Section (Navy)
TIS -- Theater Intelligence Section
TIU -- Target Indication Unit
TJ -- Trinidad to Rio de Janeiro (routing designation)
Tk -- Tank
T/L -- Training Literature
Tl -- Trial
TLoan -- Termination Loan
TLP -- Torpedo Landplane
TLP -- Total Loss of Pay
TLR -- Triangulation-Listening-Ranging (sonar)
TM -- Technical Manual (Army)
TM -- Torpedoman's Mate
TM -- Tractor Monoplane
TM -- Trinidad to Gibraltar (routing designation)
TMB -- David W. Taylor model Basin
TME -- Torpedoman's Mate, Electrical
TMF -- Trinidad to Gibraltar, Fast (routing designation)
T mort -- Trench mortar (Army)
TMV -- Torpedoman's Mate, Aviation
TNT -- A high explosive (trinitro-toluol)
TO -- Netherlands West Indies to New York (routing designation)
TO -- Northwest Africa to Aruba or Curacao (routing designation)
T/O -- Tables of Organization (Army)
TO -- Take Off
TO -- Technical Observer (flying)
TOBEDI -- To be disposed of (vessels)
TOBELE -- To be leased (vessels)
TOBELN -- To be loaned (vessels)
TOC -- Trinidad to Curacao (routing designation)
(TOC) -- Tanker Operational Circular
TOD -- Time of Delivery
T/O&E -- Tables of Organization and Equipment
T of Opns -- Theater of Operations
TOG Method -- Target-Observer-Gun Method (Army)
TOO -- Time of Origin
TopoEngr -- Topographical Engineer
TOPSEC -- Top Secret
TOR -- Time of Receipt
*TORP -- Torpedo
TORP -- Torpedoman
TorpRon -- Torpedo Squadron
TOT -- Time of Transmission (or Time on Tape)
TOT -- Time Over Target
Tp -- Telephone
TPA -- Transfer of Pay Account
TPI -- Target Position Indicator
TpOp -- Telephone Operator
TR -- Technical Regulations (Army)
TR -- Torpedo Reconnaissance Aircraft
Tr -- Transfer(red)
T/R -- Transportation Request
*TRA -- Training
Trac -- Tractor
TraComd -- Training Command
TraComdLant -- Training Command, Atlantic Fleet
TraComdPac -- Training Command, Pacific Fleet
TraComdSubPac -- Training Command, Submarines, pacific Fleet
TraComdWestCoast -- Training Command, West Coast
Tractor Group -- Convoy of ships (usually LSTs or LSVs) whose destination is an amphibious assault and whose cargo ins principally tracked vehicles used in assault
TRADET -- Training Detachment
TrainBaseFor -- Train Base Force, pacific Fleet
TrainLant -- Train Atlantic Fleet
TrainRon -- Train Squadron (later ServRon or SerRon)
TranC -- Transient Center (USMC)
*TRANS -- Transport(ation)
TRANSDEP -- Transportation of dependents
TransDiv -- Transport Division
TransGrpPhibFor -- Transportation Group Amphibious Forces
TransGrpSoPac -- Transport Group, South Pacific Force
TransLant -- Transports, Atlantic Fleet
TransPhibLant -- Transports, Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet
TansPhibPac -- Transports, Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet
TransRon -- Transport Squadron
TraSta -- Training Station
"Traveler" -- See GB-#
TrBr -- Transportation Brand
TR/FLRES -- Transferred to Fleet Reserve
TRLP -- Transport Landplane
Trng -- Training
Trng d -- Training duty
T&RNP -- Transportation of Recruiting Naval Personnel (appropriation title)
Tra -- Troops
TRSP -- Transport seaplane
TRSY -- Treasury
TS -- Tanapap, Saipan
TS -- Time Shack (NAS Operations Desk)
TSCC -- Top Secret Control Channels
TSCO -- Top Secret Control Officers
TSCP -- Top Secret Control Proceeding
TSCS -- Top Secret Control Section
TSgt -- Technical Sergeant
TSgt(C) -- Technical Sergeant (Commissary)
TSMG -- Thompson Submachine Gun
TSP -- Torpedo Seaplane
TT -- Target Towing Aircraft
*TT -- Teletypewriter
TTF -- Training Task Force
TTPE -- Total Taxable Pay Earned
TTSA -- Transitional Training Squadron, Atlantic
TTSFP -- Training Transition School (Squadron), Pacific Fleet
TTSP -- Transition Training Squadron, pacific
TU -- Task Unit
TU -- Thank you
TU -- Training Unit (Army)
TU -- United Kingdom to United States (Troop) (routing designation)
Turb -- Turbines
Turb Elec -- Turbine Electric
TUSA -- Third United States Army
"Tutor" -- See N2T
TVG -- Time Variation of Gain
Twin-Wasp -- Naval aircraft engine, 14 cylinders, manufactured by Pratt and Whitney
Twin-Wasp Jr. -- Naval aircraft engine, 14 cylinders, manufactured by Pratt and Whitney
TWL -- Leased Teletypewriter Service
TWPL -- Teletypewriter, Private Line
TWX -- Commercial Teletypewriter Exchange System
Tx -- Texas
TX -- Transmitter (general term)
--- U ---
U -- Chance Vought Aircraft (Division, United Aircraft Corporation) (manufacturer's symbol)
U -- Vought-Sikorsky (Division, United Aircraft Corporation) (Manufacturer's symbol)
UAP -- Utility Amphibian Plane
U/C -- Unclassified
UC -- Under Construction
UC -- United Kingdom to New York (routing designation)
UCDWR -- University of California Division of War Research
UCO -- Universal weather landing code
UCT -- United Kingdom to New York (Troop) (routing designation)
UDCA -- Undesirable discharge, trial by civil authorities
UDDE -- Undesirable discharge, desertion without trial
UDFE -- Undesirable discharge, fraudulent enlistment
UDT -- Underwater Demolition Team
UDTPhibsPac -- Underwater Demolition Teams, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet
UDUF -- Undesirable discharge, unfitness
U/F -- Unit of Fire (Army)
UFU -- Utility Flight Unit
UG -- United States to Mediterranean (routing designation)
UGF -- United States to Mediterranean, Fast (routing designation)
UGS -- United States to Mediterranean, Slow (routing designation)
UHF -- Ultra High Frequency
U/I -- Unidentified
UIM -- Ufficio Informazioni Militaire (Italy)
UK -- United Kingdom
UKIP -- United Kingdom Import Plan
ULP -- Utility landplane
UN -- United Nations
Uncle -- "U" in the phonetic alphabet, replacing the obsolete "Unit"
UnderSecNav -- Under Secretary of the Navy
UNIF GRAT -- Uniform gratuity
Unit -- "U" in the phonetic alphabet, now obsolete and replaced by "Uncle"
Univ -- Universal
UNLOD -- "Discharging"
UNO -- United Nations Organization (now UN)
#UNORDGAN -- Unexecuted portion of orders hereby cancelled
UNRRA -- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UPO -- Unit Personnel Office (Army)
*UR -- Your(s)
URAD -- Your Radio
URDIS -- Your Dispatch
URLTR -- Your Letter
URMGM -- Your Mailgram
URMSG -- Your Message
URSER -- Your Serial
URTEL -- Your Telegram
US -- United States
U/S or US -- Unserviceable
USA -- U.S. Army
USAAF -- U.S. Army Air Forces
USAAFIME -- U.S. Army Air Forces in the Middle East
USAASC -- U.S. Army Air Service Command
USAF -- U.S. Army Forces
USAFI -- U.S. Armed Forces Institute
USAFICPA -- U.S. Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area
USAFIK -- U.S. Army Forces in Korea
USAFIME -- U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East
USAFISPA -- U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area
USAFSA -- U.S. Army Forces in South America
USAIRMILCOMUNO -- U.S. Army Air Force Representative, UN Military Staff Committee
USASOS -- U.S. Army Service of Supply
USAT -- U.S. Army Transport
USBATU -- U.S.-Brazil Aviation Training Unit
USC(A) -- U.S. Code (Annotated)
USCC -- U.S. Commercial Company
USCG -- U.S. Coast Guard
USCGA -- U.S. Coast Guard Academy
USCGC -- U.S. Coast Guard Cutter
USCGR -- U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
USC & GS -- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
U-sec -- Micro-seconds
USEES -- U.S. Naval Engineering Experiment Station (Annapolis)
USF -- U.S. Fleet
USF (No.) -- Current Tactical Orders and Doctrine, U.S. Fleet (No.)
USFR -- U.S. Fleet Reserve
USFR 2 -- See F
USFR 3 C -- See F
USFRD 3 D -- See F
USFR 4 C -- See F
USFR 4 D -- See F
USFR 5 -- See F
USHP -- U.S. Helium Plant (Amarillo)
USL -- Underwater Sound Laboratory
USLO -- U.S. Liaison Officer
USMA -- U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
USMAPU -- U.S. Military Academy Preparatory Unit
USMB -- U.S. Marine Barracks
USMC -- U.S. Marine Corps
USMC -- U.S. Maritime Commission
USMCAS -- U.S. Marine Corps Air Station
USMCR -- U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
USMCR(F) -- U.S. Fleet Marine Corps Reserve
USMCR(O) -- U.S. Organized Marine Corps Reserve
USMCR(V) -- U.S. Volunteer Marine Corps Reserve
USMCWR -- U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve
USMEMMILCOMUNO -- U.S. Members, UN Military Staff Committee
USMILCOMUNO -- U.S. Delegation, UN Military Staff Committee
USMS -- U.S. Maritime Service
USMSOS -- U.S. Maritime Service Officers School
USMSTS -- U.S. Maritime Service Training School
USN -- U.S. Navy (also indicates Regular Navy)
USNA -- U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis)
USNACC -- U.S. Naval Member of the Allied Control Commission (Germany)
USNATRA -- U.S. Naval Training
USNAVYMILCOMUNO -- U.S. Naval Representative, UN Military Staff Committee
USNDD -- U.S. Naval Drydocks
USNH -- U.S. Naval Hospital
USN-I -- U.S. Regular Navy-Inductee
USN-I-CB -- U.S. Regular Navy-inductee-Construction Battalion
USNIP -- U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
USN-ISA -- U.S. Regular Navy-Inductee Special Assignment
USNLO -- U.S. Naval Liaison Officer
USNR -- U.S. Naval Reserve
USNR -- U.S. Navy Regulations
USNR M -- U.S. Merchant Marine Reserve
USNR M1 -- U.S. Merchant Marine Reserve Seagoing
USNR M2 -- U.S. Merchant Marine Reserve Coastal Defense
USNR O -- U.S. Organized Naval Reserve
USNR O1 -- U.S. Organized Naval Reserve Seagoing
USNR O2 -- U.S. Organized Naval Reserve Aviation
USNR&SL -- U.S. Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory (San Diego)
USNR SV -- U.S. Naval Reserve, Selective Volunteer
USN-SV -- U.S. Regular Navy Selective Volunteer
USNR V -- U.S. Volunteer Naval Reserve
USNTI -- U.S. Navy Travel Instructions
USO -- Under Secretary of the Navy's Office
USO -- United Service Organizations
USP -- Utility seaplane
USRad -- U.S. Fleet Shore Radio Station
USREPMILCOMUNO -- U.S. Representative, UN Military Staff Committee
USREPOF -- U.S. Navy Reporting Officer
USRO -- U.S. Routing Office
USS -- U.S. Ship (naval vessel)
USSAFE -- U.S. Strategic Air Force, Europe
USSBS -- U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey
USSECMILCOMUNO -- The Secretary, U.S. Delegation, UN Staff Committee
USSR -- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSTAFE -- U.S. Strategic Tactical Air Force, Europe
USW -- Undersecretary of War
USWBC -- U.S. War Ballot Commission
UT -- United States to United Kingdom (Troop) (routing designation)
*UT -- Utility
UTC -- Unit Training Center (Army)
UtRon -- Utility Squadron
UtRonFwdArea -- Utility Squadron, Forward Area
UtWing -- utility Wing
UtWingServLant -- Utility Wing, Service Force, Atlantic
UtWingServPac -- Utility Wing, Service Force, Pacific
--- V ---
V-1, V-2, V-3 -- Divisions of the Air Department aboard an aircraft carrier
V -- Canadian Vickers (manufacturer's symbol)
V -- Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation(ConVAir) (manufacturer's symbol)
V -- Heavier-than-air aircraft
V -- Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (formerly Vega Aircraft Corporation) (manufacturer's symbol)
V-1 -- Pilotless flying bomb employed by the Germans
V-2 -- Rocket bomb employed by the Germans
V -- Vega Aircraft Corporation (now Lockheed Aircraft Corporation) (manufacturer's symbol)
V -- Vertical in line (aircraft engine)
V -- Vickers, Inc. (manufacturer's symbol)
V -- Volunteer (U.S. Naval Reserve)
V -- Vultee Aircraft, Inc. (manufacturer's symbol)
V1 -- Accredited College Program and Naval ROTC (USNR classification)
V2 -- Aviation Branch (USNR classification)
V3 -- Communications (USNR classification)
V4 -- Intelligence (USNR classification)
V5 -- Aviation Cadets (USNR classification)
V6 -- General Service and Specialists (USNR classification)
V7 -- Midshipmen Officer Candidates (USNR classification)
V8 -- Aviation Pilot Training, Enlisted Reserve (USNR classification)
V9 -- WAVES Officer Candidates (USNR classification)
V10 -- WAVES Enlisted Personnel (USNR classification)
V11 -- Midshipmen Officer Candidates O (Older Group) (USNR classification)
V12 -- College Training Program (USNR classification)
VA -- Ambulance plane
VA -- Veterans' Administration
VA -- Virginia
VA -- Visual Training Aid Specialist
VABPF -- Vice Admiral British Pacific Fleet
VA (D) -- Vice Admiral (Destroyers) (GB)
VADM -- Vice Admiral
"Valiant" -- See SNV-#
VAM -- Vice Admiral, Malta (GB)
*VAN -- Advanced
VAQ(VPF) -- Vice Admiral Administration British Pacific Fleet at Melbourne
VB -- Navy bombing plane
VB -- Navy dive bomber squadron
VBF -- Navy bombing-fighting aircraft
VBF -- Navy bomber-fighter squadron
VBT -- Bombing, torpedo plane
VC -- Composite aircraft squadron
VC -- Veterinary Corps (Army)
VCB -- Construction Battalion (USNR classification)
VCNO -- Vice Chief of Naval Operations
VCS -- Cruiser-scouting squadron
VD -- Photographic squadron (aircraft)
VD -- Venereal Disease
V-DISC -- Recording of musical entertainment
VDP -- Volunteer Reservists in drill pay status
VE -- Air Evacuation squadron
V-E -- Victory-Europe (9 May 1945)
"Ventura" -- See PV-1-3
Vert 2-exp -- Vertical double expansion engine
Vert 3-exp -- Vertical triple expansion engine
Vert 4-exp -- Vertical quadruple expansion engine
*VES -- Vessel
VESCA(S) -- Vessels and Cargo
*VET -- Veteran
VetAdm -- Veterans Administration
VF -- Navy fighter plane
VF -- Navy fighter squadron
VFB -- Fighter bombing plane
VF(M) -- Fighter plane (two-engine)
VF(N) -- Navy night fighter squadrons
VG -- Light transport plane (single-engine)
VG -- Very good
VGF -- Escort-fighting squadron
VGS -- Escort-scouting squadron
VH -- Ambulance plane
VH -- Navy rescue squadron
VHF -- Very High Frequency
VI -- Virgin Islands
Vice Adm -- Vice Admiral
Vice CNO -- Vice Chief of Naval Operations
Victor -- "V" in the phonetic alphabet
"Vindicator" -- See SB2U-#
VIO -- Visual Intercept Officer
VIP -- Very Important Person
"Viper" -- See BAKA
VIPI -- Very Important Person Indeed
VIR -- Virginia
VIS -- Visibility
*VIS -- Visual
VJ -- Utility plane
VJ -- Navy utility squadrons
V-J -- Victory-Japan (14 August 1945)
V-J(M) -- Utility, 2-engine plane
V-JR -- Utility-transport plane
VK -- Drone
VKN -- Target drone (training)
VL -- Glider
VLA -- Very Low Altitude
VLB -- Navy glider (special)
VLN -- Training glider
V-Loan -- Production loan made under regulation V (Victory) of the Federal Reserve System
VLR -- Transport glider
VLR -- Very long range (aircraft)
VM -- Anti-aircraft Gunnery Instructors
VM -- Aviation Free Gunnery Instructors
VM -- Discharge Interviewers
VM -- Engineering Inspectors
VM -- Inspectors of Aviation Material
VM -- Ordnance Inspectors
VM -- Position Classifiers
VM -- V-Mail Specialists
V-Mail -- Letters transmitted by microfilm
VMB -- Marine medium and heavy patrol bomber squadron (land-based and seaplane)
VMBF -- Marine fighter bomber squadrons
VMD -- Marine photographic squadrons
VMF -- Marine fighter squadrons
VMF(N) -- Marine night fighter squadrons
VMJ -- Marine utility squadron
VML -- Marine glider squadron
VMO -- Marine observation squadron
VMO(AS) -- Marine observation squadron (artillery spotting)
VMR -- Marine transport squadron
VMSB -- Marine scout bombing squadron
VMTB -- Marine torpedo bomber squadron
VN -- Training plane
VNO -- Observation plane
VO -- Navy battleship observation squadron
VO -- Verbal Order (Army)
VOC -- Navy observation spotter squadron
VOC -- Volunteer Officer Candidate (Army)
VOF -- Navy observation fighter squadron
VOG -- Navy observation plane squadron
*VOL -- Volunteer
VOpNav -- Vice Chief of Naval Operations (usually VCNO)
VOS -- Observation scout plane
*VOU -- Voucher
"Voyager" -- See JRB-2-3-4
VP -- Patrol plane
VP -- Navy patrol squadron
VP -- Venereal Pamphlet
VPB -- Patrol-bombing plane
VPB -- Navy medium and heavy patrol bomber squadron (land-based and seaplane)
VPB -- Vertical Plot Board
VPB (HL) -- Patrol Bomber, 4-engine, landplane
VPB (HS) -- Patrol Bomber, 4-engine, seaplane
VPB (ML) -- Patrol Bomber, 2-engine, landplane
VPB (MS) -- Patrol Bomber, 2-engine, seaplane
VPR -- Virtual PPI Reflectoscope (radar)
VPR-NMP -- VPR with Navigational Microfilm Projector (radar)
VPT -- Patrol-torpedo plane
VR -- Transport plane (multi-engine)
VR -- Navy transport squadron
VR (HL) -- Transport, 4-engine, landplane
VR (HS) -- Transport, 4-engine, seaplane
VR (ML) -- Transport, 2-engine, landplane
VR (MS) -- Transport, 2-engine, seaplane
VS -- Scouting plane
VS -- Navy shore-based scouting squadron
VS -- Visual Signal
VSB -- Scout-bombing plane
VSN -- Scout-training plane
VSN (M) -- Training plane, 2-engine
VSO -- Scout observation plane
VT -- Torpedo plane
VT -- Navy torpedo bomber squadron
VT -- Vermont
VTB -- Torpedo-bombing plane
VTD -- Navy aircraft (training)
VT fuse -- Variable Time fuse
VT-Loan -- Combination Production Termination loan
VT(N) -- Navy night torpedo bomber squadron
VTO -- Visual Training Officer
VTO -- Vocational Training Officer
--- W ---
W -- Canadian Car and Foundry (plane manufacturer's symbol)
W -- Special search mission (suffix to plane designation)
W -- Waco Aircraft Company (plane manufacturer's symbol)
W -- Willys-Overland (plane manufacturer's symbol)
W -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Unlimited Service. Formerly (W).
W(s) -- Watt(s)
WA -- Western Approaches (to GB)
WA -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Aviation Nonflying Duties. Formerly W(A).
WAA -- War Assets Administration
WAAC -- Women's Auxiliary Army Corps
WAC -- Women's Army Corps
WANAP -- Washington National Airport
"War-Weary" -- Over-age bombers equipped with "Block" (See "Block")
WASH -- Washington (State)
WASHDC -- Washington, D.C.
WASHN -- Washington
"Wasp" -- Naval aircraft engine, 9 cylinders, manufactured by Pratt and Whitney
"Wasp Junior" -- Naval aircraft engine, 9 cylinders, manufactured by Pratt and Whitney
WASPS -- Women's Airforce Service Pilots
WAT -- Key West to Aruba to Trinidad (routing designation)
"Water Buffalo" -- A Landing Vehicle, Tracked (LVT)
WATU -- Western Approaches Tactical Unit
WAVES -- Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (U.S. Navy Women's Reserve)
WB -- Weather Bureau
WC -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Communications Duties. Formerly W(C).
WC1 -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Special Communications Duties. Same as SC1. Formerly W(C1).
WC2 -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, Special Communications Duties. Same as SC2. Formerly W(C2).
WCA -- Sound gear combination installation for sonar
WCAB -- Working Committee of the Aeronautical Board
WCBSU -- West Coast Base Service Unit
WCDC -- West Coast (Naval Publications) Distribution Center
WCPAB -- War Control Price Adjustment Board
WD -- USNR officer classification; qualified for Deck Watch
WD -- War Department
WDA -- Sound gear combination installation for sonar
WDC -- Washington Document Center
WDC -- Western Defense Command (Army)
WDCSA -- War Department Chief of Staff, US Army)
WDGF -- War Department Ground Forces
WDGS -- War Department General Staff
WDI -- War Department Intelligence
WDPMG-ID -- War Department Provost Marshal General, Investigation Division
WDSS -- War Department Special Staff
WE -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, engineering duties. Formerly W(E).
WEA -- Weather
WEFY -- Wings, Engines, Fusilage, Tail (system for recognition of aircraft)
*WES -- West(ern)
WesAustralianFor -- West Australian Force
WesCar -- Western Carolines
WesCarSubArea -- Western Carolines Sub-Area
WesCoBaseServUnit -- West Coast Base Service Unit
WesCoSoundScol -- West Coast Sound School
WesSeaFron -- Western Sea Frontier
Westgh -- Westinghouse
WESTOMP -- West-Ocean Meeting Point
WestPacBaCom -- Western Pacific Base Command
WestSeaFron -- Western Sea Frontier
WESTUNION -- Western Union
WESTVIR -- West Virginia
W-F -- White-Forster (boilers)
WFA -- Sound gear combination installation for sonar
WFA -- War Food Administration
WFT -- Turbo Geared Drive Machinery
"Whirlwind" -- Naval aircraft engine, 7 cylinders, manufactured by both Wright and Naval Aircraft Factory
"Whirlwind" -- naval aircraft engine, 9 cylinders, manufactured by Wright
WHX -- St. Johns, Newfoundland, Joiner to HX (New York to United Kingdom) (routing designation)
WI -- Oak Harbor, Whidbey Island, Washington
WI -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, intelligence duties. Formerly W(I).
WIA -- Wounded In Action
"Widgeon" -- See J4F-#
"Wilco" -- "I understand and will comply"
"Wildcat" -- See F4F-#, FM-#
William -- "W" in the phonetic alphabet
WIMS -- Wartime Instructions for Merchant Ships
"Window" -- Radar countermeasure
WIS -- Wisconsin
Wkr -- Worker
WL -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, legal specialist duties. Formerly W(L).
WLTE -- Warrant loss to enlisted status; revocation of appointment
WM -- USNR officer classification; qualified for engineering watch
WMC -- War Manpower Commission
WNTF -- Western Naval Task Force
WO -- War Orientation
WO -- Warrant Officer
WO -- USNR officer designation for Women's Reserve, ordnance duties. Formerly W(O).
WOJG -- Warrant Officer, Junior Grade (Army)
WOO -- War Orientation Officer
WOP -- Without Payment
WOQ -- Wave Officers' Quarters
WP -- White Phosphorous
WPA -- Works Progress Administration Agency
WPB -- War Production Board
WPBC -- Western Pacific Base Command
WPD -- Western Procurement Division (USMC)
WPL -- War Plan(s)
Wpn -- Weapon(s)
WPNTS -- War Plan Naval Transportation Service
WPRI -- Wartime Pacific Routing Instructions
WPSC -- Shipping Control War Plan (Navy)
W&R -- Welfare and Recreation
WR -- Women's Reserve
WRA -- War Relocation Authority
WRNS -- Women's Reserve Naval Service ("Wrens") (GB)
WRO -- War Records Office
WS -- United Kingdom to Middle East to India (routing designation)
WSA -- War Shipping Administration
WSC -- Wabana Joiner to SC (Halifax, slow, to United Kingdom) (routing designation)
WSC -- Working Security Committee
WSF -- Western Sea Frontier
WT -- Water Tender
W/T -- Wireless Telegraphy (GB)
WTCB -- Water Tender Construction Battalion
WTF -- Western Task Force
WTV -- Water Tank Vessel
WU -- Western Union
WUTelCo -- Western Union Telegraph Company
WVA -- West Virginia
W-V(S) -- Commissioned officers of the Women's Reserve appointed for emergency duties. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and officers were assigned the new classification for which best qualified.
W-V(S) (CEC) -- Commissioned officers of the Women's Reserve appointed for duties in connection with the Civil Engineering Corps of the Navy. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and officers were assigned the new classification for which best qualified.
W-V(S) (DC) -- Commissioned officers of the Women's Reserve appointed for duties in connection with the Dental Corps of the Navy. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and officers were assigned the new classification for which best qualified.
W-V(S) (H) -- Commissioned officers of the Women's Reserve appointed for duties in connection with the Hospital Corps of the Navy. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and officers were assigned the new classification for which best qualified.
W-V(S) (MC) -- Commissioned officers of the Women's Reserve appointed for duties in connection with the Medical Corps of the Navy. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and officers were assigned the new classification for which best qualified.
W-V(S) (SC) -- Commissioned officers of the Women's reserve appointed for duties in connection with the Supply Corps of the Navy. This classification was abolished in September 1944 and officers were assigned the new classification for which best qualified.
WYO -- Wyoming
--- X ---
X -- Prefix in standard Navy aircraft designation, designating an experimental model
X -- Any punctuation (dispatches)
(X) -- Pre-Flight Center under reserve Training (not a Reserve Station)
X -- A suffix, which, when appended to a basic USNR line officer classification, indicates special qualifications in electronics: officers who, in addition to having the qualifications for CIC Watch Officers, are qualified in aircraft control except at night or in conditions of low visibility.
XAM -- Merchant ship converted into a mine-sweeper (old designation)
XAP -- Merchant cargo ship
XAP -- Radio Communications Team
XAP -- Transport (GB)
XB -- Halifax to Boston (routing designation)
XCL -- Armed Merchant Cruiser (US)
X&D Flot -- Experiment and Development Flotilla (landing Craft)
XFM -- Expeditionary Force Message (usually EFM)
XMTR -- Transmitter
XO -- Executive Officer
XPC -- OG cutter assigned to Inshore Patrol
XPG -- Converted merchant ships, assigned to antisubmarine patrol or convoy escort
Xray -- "X" in the phonetic alphabet
XRP -- X-Ray and Photofluorography Technician
XRT -- X-Ray Technician
--- Y ---
Y -- Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
Y -- Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation (manufacturer's symbol)
Y -- Tankers (Army symbol)
Y -- Yeoman
YA -- District Lighter, Ash
YAG -- District Auxiliary, Miscellaneous
YandD -- Bureau of Yards and Docks
YangPat -- Yangtze Patrol, Asiatic Fleet
Yar -- Yarron (boilers)
YC -- District Lighter Open
YC -- Yard Craft
YCK -- Open Cargo Lighter
YCU -- Aircraft Transportation lighter
YCV -- District Lighter, Aircraft Transportation
Y&D -- Bureau of Yards and Docks
YD -- District Derrick, Floating
YDG -- District Degaussing Vessel
YDSD -- Yards & Docks Supply Depot
YDT -- District Diving Tender
YE -- Aircraft radio homing beacon (HAYRAKE)
YE -- District Lighter, Ammunition
YF -- District Lighter, Covered (self-propelled)
YF -- Provision Store Lighter
YF -- Range Tender
YFB -- District Ferry Boat or Launch
YFC -- Car Float
YFD -- Floating Drydock
YFN -- District Lighter, Covered (non self-propelled)
YFR -- Covered Lighter, Refrigerated (self-propelled)
YFRN -- Covered Lighter, Refrigerated (non self-propelled)
YFT -- District Lighter, Torpedo Transportation
YG -- District Lighter, Garbage, (self-propelled)
YG -- Land-based radio homing beacon (MOTHER)
YGN -- District Lighter, Garbage (non self-propelled)
Y-gun -- Y-type depth charge projector
YH -- District Lighter, Ambulance
YH -- Radar beacon
YHB -- District Boat, House
YHT -- District Scow, Heating
YJ -- Radar homing beacon
YK -- Radar beacon
YLA -- District Lighter, Open Landing
YM -- District Dredge
YM -- Radar beacon
YMS -- District Motor Mine Sweeper
YMT -- District Tug, Motor
YN -- District Net Tender
YNG -- District Gate Tender
YNT -- District Net Tender (Tug Class)
YO -- District Barge, Fuel Oil (self-propelled)
YOG -- District Barge, Gasoline (self-propelled)
YOGN -- District Barge, Gasoline (non self-propelled)
Yoke -- "Y" in the phonetic alphabet
YON -- District Barge, Fuel Oil (non self-propelled)
YOS -- District Barge, Oil Storage
YP -- District Patrol Vessel
YPD -- District Floating Pile Driver
YPK -- District Barge, Pontoon Stowage
YR -- District Workshop, Floating
YRC -- District Chamber, Submarine Rescue
YRD(H) -- District Workshop, Floating, Drydock (Hull)
YRD(M) -- District Workshop, Floating, Drydock (Machinery)
YS -- District Barge, Stevadoring
YSD -- District Derrick, Seaplane Wrecking
YSP -- District Pontoon Salvage
YSR -- District Barge, Sludge Removal
YT -- Harbor Tug
YT -- Yukon Territory
YTB -- District Tug, Harbor, Big
YTL -- District Tug, Harbor, Little
YTM -- District Tug, Harbor, Medium
YTT -- District Barge, Torpedo Testing
YTX -- Planned District Craft
YW -- District Barge, Water (self-propelled)
YWN -- District Barge, Water (non self-propelled)
--- Z ---
Z -- Administrative Aircraft (suffix to plane designation)
Z -- Lighter-than-air aircraft (airship)
Z -- Impedance (radar)
ZD -- Zone Description
Zebra -- "Z" in the phonetic alphabet, replacing the obsolete "Zed"
Zed -- "Z" in the phonetic alphabet, now obsolete and replaced by "Zebra"
ZedRon -- Blimp Squadron (later separated into Blimp-Ron and Blimp-Hedron)
ZF -- Free balloon
Z/F -- Zone of Fire (Army)
ZG -- Canal Zone to Guantanamo (routing designation)
Z-Hour -- Hour set for attack
ZK -- Barrage balloon
ZKN -- Training balloon
ZKO -- observation balloon
ZMC -- Experimental metal-clad airship
ZN -- First two letters in the Navy aircraft designation, indicating an airship (non-rigid)
ZNH -- Navy airship, air-sea rescue
ZNJ -- Navy airship, utility
ZNN -- Non-rigid training airship
ZNN-G -- Two-engine Navy training and utility airship manufactured by Goodyear
ZNN-K -- Two-engine Navy training and utility airship manufactured by Goodyear
ZNN-L -- Two-engine Navy training airship, manufactured by Goodyear
ZNO -- Non-rigid observation airship
ZNP -- Non-rigid patrol airship
ZNP-K -- Two-engine Navy patrol and escort airship manufactured by Goodyear
ZNP-M -- Two-engine Navy patrol and escort airship manufactured by Goodyear
ZNS -- Non-rigid scouting airship
ZofC -- Zones of Communications
ZofI -- Zone of Interior (Army)
ZPG -- Airship Group
ZPRon -- Navy Patrol (lighter-than-air) Squadron
ZRN -- Rigid training airship
ZRP -- Rigid patrol airship
ZRS -- Rigid scouting airship
ZT -- Zone Time
ZTO -- Zone Transportation Office (Army)
ZutRon -- Airship Utility Squadron
The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II
USAAF Military History Section
Editor for Asisbiz: Matthew Laird Acred
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