Abbreviations, Acronyms, Codewords, Terms
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 MANNA

Air transportation of supplies and food to the citizens of Holland--April/May, 1945

 MANNER

Shimchiku (Shinteku), Formosa

 MANTELSHELF

Woodlark Island [Solomon Sea]

 MANURE

Walinda River, New Britain

 MAORI

Visayan, P.I.

 MAPLE

Port Morseby, New Guinea

 MAPLE

Special minelaying operations in connection with OVERLORD

 Maquis

French underground resistance movement

 Maquisards

Men of the maquis

 Mar

Marine(s)

 Mar

Maritime

 MARBLE

Carnarvon, Australia

 MarCor

Marine Corps

 MARDIGRAS

Kimbe Bay, New Britain

 MARGE

Surubaya, Java, N.E.I.

 MARGERINE

Gulei, New Britain

 MARIGOLD

Landing military personnel along East Coast of Sardinia (30 May­1 June 1943) (UK)

 Mark III, IV

German medium tanks

 Mark V

German medium tank with heavy armor and high-velocity gun

 MARKET

Airborne operations--Arnhem, September, 1944

 MARLOW

Capri, Italy

 MARMALADE

Santa Lucia, Cuba

 MAROON

Trinidad, B.W.I.

 MARQUEE

Hobart, Tasmania

 MARROW

Maika, New Britain

 MARROWBONE

Eastern Siberia

 MARSHMALLOW

Mokmer, BIak Island, New Guinea

 MARSHMALLOW

"Torpedo Track Sighted"

 MARTINI

Dodecanese Islands, Mediterranea Sea

 MARYLAND

Bulu-Murli, New Britain

 MASHIE

Navalapua, New Britain

 MASONITE

Koskins Peninsula, New Britain

 MASQUERADE

Cape Reilnitz, Manning Strait, Solomon Islands

 MASTHEAD

Numundo Point, New Britain

 MASTIFF

Air transportation of medical supplies and evacuation of Allied Prisoners of War--Far East, 1945

 MATCHABLE

Panaon Strait, P.I.

 MATCHWOOD

Talasea Airdrome, New Britain

 MATT I

Abatiku Island, Gilbert Islands

 MATTERHORN

Plan for very long range air operations from the Chengtu area in China against vital targets in the Japanese inner zone

 MATURE

Kabunikau Point, Lusancay Island [Solomon Sea]

 MAVIS

Kawanishi type 97 four-engine flying boat (Japanese)

 MAW

Marine Aircraft Wing

 MAWSEED

Tanamerah, New Guinea

 MAXWELL

Siwat Island, New Britain

 MAYFLOWER

Gilva, Lottin Island, Dampier Strait, New Guinea

 MAYFLY

U.S. Base, Midlands, England

 MAZE

Melbourne, Australia

 M.B.R.

Matthew B. Ridgway

 Mbr

Member

 MBW

Munitions Assignments Board in Washington

 MC

Marine Corps; Medical Corps (Navy)

 McDUFF

Boeroe Island, N.E.I.

 MCEC

Marine Corps Educational Center

 MCO

Marine Corps Order

 MCS

Marine Corps School

 MD

Marine Detachment

 MDC

Mexican Defense Commission

 ME

Middle East

 Me-109 (Bf-109)

Single-engine, single-seat, low-wing fighter, developed by Messerschmitt. Used in the Battle of Britain and throughout the war. One of the finest models was the Me-109F-3. Its armament consisted of one 15-mm cannon and two 7.9-mm machineguns. Maximum takeoff weight was 6,054 pounds; top speed, 390 miles per hour at 22,000 feet; service ceiling, 37,000 feet; and combat range, 440 miles.

 MEADOWS

"Dangerous Ground"

 MECHANISM

Gosei, Formosa

 Med

Medical

 MEDICO

Anurio Island, New Britain

 MEETINGHOUSE

Tokyo, Japan

 MEGAPHONE

American Mission, Salinas, Ecuador

 Merhbuch

Notebook

 MELINITE

Argentia, Newfoundland

 MEMBER

Sao, Formosa

 Memo

Memorandum

 Memo/Conv

Memorandum of conversation

 MEMSAHIB

Rabaul, New Britain

 MENACE

Plan to establish Free French Forces at Dakar under General De Gaulle (23-25 September 1940)

 MENDICANT

Malakal Island, Palau Islands

 MENTONE

Peru

 MERCANTILE

Manus Island, Bismarck Archipelago

 MERCEDES

Sealark, Santa Isabel Island, Solomon Islands

 MERCENARY

Honshu Usland, Japan

 MERCURY

Panama

MERIDIAN

Attack on Palembang, Sumatra, refineries by carrier borne aircraft (January 1945)

 MERITORIOUS

Aineman Island, Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands

 MERRYMAID

Bohol, P.I.

 MERRYMAKER

Petropavlovsk, U.S.S.R.

 Mersig

Merchant signal (encrypted communications to-from merchant shipping)

 MESPOT

Cover and deception policy for Western Europe from 1 January 1944 until NEPTUNE plus 21

 MESSMATE

U.S. Army, North Africa

 METAL

Newfoundland

 METAPHOR

Cold Bay, Unimak, Alaska

 METFIELD

Bulgaria

 METRO

Sarhe, New Britain

 METTLE

Grass Point, New Britain

 MG

Marine Gunner; Machine Gun

 MGC

Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps

 MI

Military Intelligence (G-2)

 MIA

Missing in Action

 MIAPD

Missing in Action, Presumed Dead

 MICHAELMAS

Saidor, New Guinea

 MICHIGAN

Puspun, New Britain

NICROCOSM

Goodenough Island, New Guinea

 MICROSCOPE

Nagoya, Japan

 MID

Military Intelligence Division, U.S. Army

 MIDWIFE

Salier Strait, Celebes, N.E.I.

 MIKE ONE

Landing on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, P.I.

 Mil

Military

 MILD

Canton Island, Phoenix Islands

 MILEPOST

Project to build up stocks in the Far East in preparation for the entry of the USSR into the war against Japan.

 MILID

Military Intelligence Division

 Militaerbefehlshaber

Military governor

 Militarwissenschaftliche Rundschau

Military Science Review

 MILLET

Diversionary operation in the form of an air strike within the Southeast Asia Command to coincide with major operations by U.S. Forces in the Philippines (15-21 October 1944) (UK)

 MILLRACE

Pulusuk Island, Caroline Islands

 Min

Minutes

 MINERAL

Caucasus

 MINERVA

Embarkation of General Giraud in Bormes Road, 20 miles east of Toulon, South France 6 November 1942)

 MINIVER

Djailolo Pass, Halmahera, N.E.I.

 Min St A--Mineralolstammabteilung

Central Petroleum Branch (German: p. 60)

 MIRACLE

Namatutu, New Britain

 MIS

Military Intelligence Service

 Misc

Miscellaneous

 Miss

Mission

 MLR

Main Line of Resistance

 Mm

Millimeter

 MM&D

Matériel, Maintenance, and Distribution

 MO

Japanese plan to seize Port Moresby, Papua/New Guinea, in the spring of 1942

 Mob

Mobile

 MOBILE

Ongaia, New Britain

 MOCCASIN

Wake Island

 MODEL

Marine Movement

 MODEST

Kukurio, New Britain

 MODICUM

Party sent to London to present Marshall Memorandum, April 1942.

 MOLAR

Dabanu Village, Woodlark Island [Solomon Sea]

 MOLEHILL

Ellice Islands

 MOMP

Mid-Ocean Meeting Point [mid-Atlantic location where convoy escort responsibilities were exchanged between U.S. and U.K.]

 MONARCH

Spratly Island, South China Sea

 MONKEYPUZZLE

Japan

 MONOCLE

Siberia

 MONSOON

Otta Pass, Truk Lagoon, Caroline Islands

 MONTCLAIR

Operations to reoccupy the Visayas-Mindanao-Borneo-Netherlands East Indies area

 MOONMAN

Skagway, Alaska

 MOONSHINE

Kulumadau, Woodlark Island [Solomon Sea]

 MOONSTRUCK

Vogelkop Peninsula, New Guinea

 MORINO

Singapore

 MOROCCO

Sunpanam, Umboi Island, Bismarck Archipelago

 MOSCOW

Reilly's Creek, Woodlark Island [Solomon Sea]

 MOSSBANK

Pierre Laval

 MOTHER

Cape Selatan, Borneo

 MOTOROLA

Cape Mensing, New Britain

 MOTTLED

Limassol, Cyprus

 Mov and Tn Br

Movements and Transportation Branch

 MOVCO

Movement Control

 MOZART

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

 Mph

Miles per hour

 MRU

Machine Records Unit

 MS

Manuscript

 M.S.F.

Major Gen. Muir S. Fairchild

 MS-Flotilla

German mine sweepers

 Msg

Message

 MSgt

Master Sergeant

 MTB

Motor Torpedo (PT) Boat

 MT ship

Liberty ship converted for maximum vehicle-carrying purposes

 MT80

Motor transport gasoline, 80-octane

 MTB

Motor Transport brigade

 MTCA

Military Training Camps Association

 Mtg

Meeting

 MTS

Motor Transport Service

 MTO

Mediterranean Theater of Operations

 MUDBANK

Operations against Ponape, Caroline Islands

 MUDBATH

U.S. Army occupation of Martinique, Guadaloupe and French Guiana

MULBERRY

Artificial harbors for OVERLORD

 MULE

Suva, Fiji Islands

 MULTITUDE

Ngargol Island, Palau Islands

 MUMMY

Sibuyan Island, P.I.

 Mun

Munitions

 MUNSTER

Le Havre, France

 MURDER

Esaihi, New Britain

 MURSLEY

Loire River, France

 MUSCATEL

Kaurai, New Britain

 MUSKET

Projected landing on heel of Italy near Taranto, 1943

 MUSKETEER

Landing on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, P.I.

 MUSK-OX

Exercise to be conducted by Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force during the winter, 1945-46

 MUTUAL

Nus Nus, New Britain

 Mvmt

Movement

 MYSTERY

Reu Island, Solomon Sea

 MYTHOLOGY

Canton Island, Phoenix Islands

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