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 |
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) |
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 |