Glossary
| A-2 | Intelligence officer or section of an air stafff |
| AAA | Antiaircraft artillery |
| AAR | After action report |
| Abwehr-Schlacht Im West | Defensive Battle in the West |
| AIB | Armored infantry battalion |
| Anlage | Appendix or annex |
| Ann. | Annex |
| AT | Antitank |
| Aufmarschanweisung | Revised outline plan |
| AW | Aircraft warning; automatic weapons |
| BAR | Browing automatic rifle |
| Bn | Battalion |
| CATOR | Combined Air Transport Operations Room |
| CCA | Combat Command A |
| CCB | Combat Command B |
| CCR | Combat Command Reserve |
| Chasseurs Ardenais | Belgian military unit |
| Christose | One of several code names for the Ardennes offensive |
| CIC | Counter Intelligence Corps |
| C-in-C | Commander in Chief |
| CO | Commanding officer |
| CP | Command post |
| DAGGER | Ninth Army operation intended to clear the Germans from the west bank of the Roer River once the dams were destroyed. |
| Div | Division |
| DSC | Distinguished Service Cross |
| Engr | Engineer |
| Ersatzheer | Replacement Army |
| ETO | European Theater of Operations |
| FA | Field Artillery |
| Feldherr | Great general |
| Festung | Fortress |
| Feuerwalze | Rolling barrage |
| Flak | Fliegerabwehrkanone (antiaircraft artillery gun) |
| Fremde Heere Ost | OKH Intelligence Section East |
| Frontsoldat | Front-line fighter |
| Fuehrer Reserve | Central officers' reserve |
| Fusilier battalion | Separate infantry battalion performing both reconnaissance and support in German division |
| FUSA | First United States Army |
| G-2 | Intelligence section of divisional or higher staff |
| G-3 | Operations section of divisional or higher staff |
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| G-4 | Supply section of divisional or higher staff |
| Greif | German deception operation in support of the Ardennes counteroffensive |
| Herbstnebel | Autumn Fog (Army Group B plan) |
| I and R | Intelligence and Reconnaissance |
| Inf | Infantry |
| Interv | Interview |
| Jabo | German slang for jagd-bomber (fighter-bomber) |
| Jnl | Journal |
| Kampfgruppe | German combat group of variable size |
| K-Tag | 12 December |
| KTB | Kriegstagebuch (war diary) |
| L-Tag | 13 December |
| Martin | Code name applied to operations plan drawn up by OB WEST for Wacht am Rhein for submission to conference at headquarters Army Group B on 27 October 1944 |
| Nebelwerfer | Multiple rocket projector |
| Null Tag | D-day (16 December) |
| Oberquartermeister | General staff officer at headquarters of an army (in charge of supply and administration) |
| OB WEST | Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander in Chief West or his headquarters) |
| OKH | Oberkommando des Heeres (Army High Command) |
| OKL | Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe High Command) |
| OKW | Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces High Command) |
| OMAHA Beach | Normandy beach assaulted by troops of U. S. V Corps, 6 June 1944 |
| Ord | Ordnance |
| O-Tag | D-day (16 December) |
| Panzerfaust | Recoilless German antitank rocket, hand-carried |
| POL | Petrol (gasoline), oil, and lubricants |
| POW | Prisoner of war |
| RCT | Regimental combat team |
| Regts | Regiments |
| Reichsautobahnen | The German superhighway system |
| Reichsbahn | German state railroads |
| S-2 | Intelligence officer or section of regimental or lower staff |
| S-3 | Operations officer or section of regimental or lower staff |
| Sec | Section |
| SHAEF | Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force |
| SHAPE | Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe |
| SS | Schutzstaffel (Elite guard) |
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| TAC | Tactical Air Command |
| TC | Troop carrier |
| TD | Tank destroyer |
| T/E | Tables of equipment |
| T/O&E | Tables of organization and equipment |
| TOT | Time on target, a method of timing artillery fire from various points to fall on a given target simultaneously |
| TUSA | Third United States Army |
| VHF | Very high frequency |
| V-Leute | German agents |
| Volksdeutsche | Citizens of a country other than Germany who were considered Germans racially |
| Volkssturm | A people's militia, partially organized in one of the last steps of German mobilization for total war |
| Wacht am Rhein | Watch on the Rhine (Ardennes code name) |
| Waffen-SS | A mechanized Army-type force originally made up of volunteers from Nazi party organizations |
| Wehrmacht | German Armed Forces |
| WFSt | Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab (Armed Forces Operations Staff) |
| Werfer | Rocket launcher |
| (-) | Understrength |
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Last updated 13 December 2005 |