A Gp

Army group

Abn

Airborne

ADSEC

Advance Section

Admin

Administrative

Alarmbataillon

Emergency alert battalion

Alarmeinhelt

Emergency alert unit

Anlage

Appendix or annex

AW

Automatic weapons

Armd

Armored

Arty

Artillery

BAR

Browning automatic rifle

Bn

Battalion

Bomb

Bombardment

Br

British

Cav

Cavalry

CCA

Combat Command A

CCB

Combat Command B

CCR

Combat Command Reserve

CCS

Combined Chiefs of Staff

CG

Commanding general

CinC

Commander in Chief

co

Commanding officer

Co

Company

Cofs

Chief of Staff

Comdr

Commander

Conv

Conversation

Das Volk

German people

Dir

Directive

DSC

Distinguished Service Cross

Dtd

Dated

DUKW

21 -ton, 6 x 6 amphibian truck used for short runs from ship to shore

Ech

Echelon

EM

Enlisted men

En-r

Engineer

Ersatzheer

Replacement Army

ETO

European Theater of Operations

Evng

Evening

Ex

Executive

FA

Field Artillery

FAAA

First Allied Airborne Army

Feldheer

Field Army

FO

Field order

Fuesilier battalion

Separate infantry battalion performing both reconnaissance and support in German division

FUSA

First U.S. Army

GHQ

General Headquarters

Heeresgruppe

Army group

Hist

Historical; history

Hq

Headquarters

Ind

Indorsement

Instrs

Instructions

Intel

Intelligence

Interv

Interview

IPW

Interrogation of prisoner of war

Jn1

journal

Kampfgruppe

German combat group of variable size

KTB

Kriegstagebuch (war diary)

Kurhaus

Thermal bath establishment

Landesschuetzen battalion

Home Guard battalion sometimes employed outside Germany

Ltr

Letter

MEW

Mobile Early Warning

Mng

Morning

Msg

Message

Mtg

Meeting

NCO

Noncommissioned officer

Nebelwerfer

Multiple rocket projector

NUSA

Ninth U.S. Army

0

Officer

OB WEST

Oberbefehlshaber West (Headquarters, Commander in Chief West [France, Belgium, and the Netherlands]), highest German ground headquarters of the Western Front until May 1945

OCMH

Office of the Chief of Military History

OKH

Oberkommando des Heeres (Army High Command)

OKL

Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe High Command)

OKM

Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine (Navy High Command)

OKW

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces [joint] High Command)

Opn

Operation

Organization Todt

Paramilitary construction organization of the Nazi party, auxiliary to the Wehrmacht. Named after its founder, Dr. Todt.

Ost-Bataillon

Non-German volunteer troops from east-European countries

Panzerfaust

Recoilless German antitank rocket, hand carried. A "one-shot" weapon.

Per

Periodic

Prcht

Parachute

Puppchen

A two-wheeled bazooka

PWI

Prisoner of war interrogation

RAF

Royal Air Force

Rcd

Record

Rcn

Reconnaissance

Re-t

Regiment

Rpt

Report

Schuetzenpanzerwagen

Armored half-track

Schuh mine

German antipersonnel mine

S-2

Intelligence officer or section of regimental or lower staff

S-3

Operations officer or section of regimental or lower staff

SCR

Signal Corps radio

See

Section

SHAEF

Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force

Sitrep

Situation report

SP

Self-propelled

Sportplatz

Sports stadium

Sq

Squadron

SS

Schutzstaffel (Elite Guard)

Tac

Tactical

T/5

Technician Fifth Grade

Tel

Telephone

Topf mine

German antitank mine

TOT

Time on target, a method of timing artillery fire from various points to fall on a given target simultaneously

TUSA

Third U.S. Army

Vergeltung

Vengeance

VHF

Very high frequency

Waffen-SS

Combat arm of the SS (Schutzstaffel, Elite Guard) in effect a partial duplication of the German Army

Wehrkreis

German Army administrative area, for the most part inside greater Germany

Werfer

Rocket projector

WFSt

Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab (Armed Forces Operations Staff )