Abbreviations, Acronyms, Codewords, Terms
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 N Af

North Africa

 NAAFI

Navy Army Air Force Institute (British)

 NABOB

Northern Ireland

 Nachrichtenbetriebsabteilung des Ch H Rust u. BdE

Signal communications branch of the Chief of Army Equipment and Commander of the Replacement Army (German: p. 292)

 Nachrichtengeratabteilung

Signal Equipment Branch (German: p. 171, 235)

 Nachrichtenhelferinnen-Einsatzabteilung

Female Auxiliary Corps (German: p. 296)

 Nachrichtentruppenabteilung--Jn 7

Signal Branch, Inspectorate 7 (German: p. 170)

 NAD

Naval Ammunition Depot

 NAF

Symbol for messages from the Combined Chiefs of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force

 NANTYDERRY

Bordeaux, France

 NAPKIN

Feuea Village, Gilbert Islands

 NAPOLEON

Dover counterinvasion measures (30 June 1940) (UK)

 NARCISSUS

Palix River, New Britain

 NARCOTIC

Rumut Passage, New Britain

 NAS

Naval Air Station

 NASAL

Burma Road, Curma-China

 NATCHEZ

Senla, New Britain

 NATE

The Nakajima type 97 single-engine Japanese Army and Navy fighter

 Nationalsozialistischer Fuhrungsstab des Heeres

National Socialist Guidance Staff of the Army (German: p. 297)

 NATIVE

New Guinea Force

 Natl

National

 NATO

North African Theater of Operations

 NAUGHTY

Alimbit River, New Britain

 NAUSEATE

Kapoli River, New Britain

 Nav

Naval

 NAVAJO

Cape Aulop, New Britain

 NBC

Newfoundland Base Command

 n.d.

No date

 ND

Naval Department

 NDA

National Defense Act

 NEARHAND

Mangrove Island, New Britain

 NEB

Northeastern Brazil

Nebelwerfer

German rocket projector or chemical mortar

 NECKERCHIEF

Kaka River, New Georgia, Solomon Islands

 NECROMANCER

Sepik River, New Guinea

 NECTAR

Paligmete, New Britain

 NEGAT

U.S. Navy COMINT/cryptanalysis center in Washington, D.C.

 N.E.I.

Netherlands East Indies

 NEIGHBOR

Natal, Brazil

 NELL

Mitsubishi twin-engine medium bombers type 96 (Japanese)

 NEMESIS

Kumbun Island, New Britain

 NEOPHYTE

Molua, New Britain

NEPTUNE

Actual operations within OVERLORD to be used instead of OVERLORD only in communications and documents which disclose directly or by interence (a) target area, (b) precise dates of assaults, (c) the total scale of assaults

 NEPTUNE

Embarkation of members of French Genral Giraud's staff off River Var, near Nice, South France (7-8 November 1942)

 NERVOUS

Arowak Island, New Britain

 NESTEGG

Occupation of Channel Islands either after surrender of local German garrison or after evacuation of islands by Germans

 NESTEGG

Pru River, New Britain

 NEUROTIC

Olapum, New Britain

 NEWBIGGIN

Guernsey Island, English Channel

 NEWCOMER

Sorong, New Guinea

 NEW HAVEN

Yamai, New Guinea

 NEWINGTON

Brittany, France

 NEWLANDS

Cherbourg-Querqueville, France

 NEWSPAPER

Gaho River, New Britain

 NGB

National Guard Bureau

 N Ger Abt--Nachrichtengeratabteilung

Signal Equipment Branch (German: p. 171, 235)

 NGF

Naval Gunfire

 NH--Einsatzabteilung -- Nachrichtenhelferinnen-Einsatzabteilung

Female Auxiliary Corps (German: p. 296)

 NHD

Naval History Division

 NIBLICK

Oran, Algeria

 NICETY

Riff Point, New Britain

 NICK ISLAND

Entrance Island, Solomon Islands

 NIGHTINGALE

Vessi Islet, New Britain

 NIGHTMARE

South Coast, Mindanao, P.I.

 NIGHTOUT

Latakia, Syria

 NIGHTSTICKER

Khabarovsk, U.S.S.R.

 NILE

American Mission, Salinas, Ecuador

 NIMBUS

Nukuoro Island, Caroline Islands

 NIPPLE

Magulata Point, Trobriand Island

 NIPPLE

Schaumann Island, New Britain

 NIRVANA

Manila, P.I.

 NISI

Camocim, Brazil

 NOAH

Joint Army-Navy directive for the defense of Iceland and Greenland

 NOAHSARK

Liapo, New Britain

 NOB

Naval Operating Base

 NOBALL

Attacks against rocket launching sites

 NOGGIN

Bulu-Daba, New Britain

 NOIC

Naval Officer in Command

 NOISELESS

Tanahmerah Bay, New Guinea

 NONCONFORMIST

Buna, New Guinea

 NONSTOP

Redeployment of U.S. Forces following the defeat of Germany

 NONSTOP

Ruango, New Britain

 NOONTIDE

Waisisi, New Britain

 Norden bombsight

A gyroscopically stabilized synchronizing bombsight used mainly for strategic bombing in World War II. Utilizing preset data and manual operation by the bombardier, the Norden bombsight computed the correct dropping angle and, in connection with an automatic pilot or pilot direction indicator, determined the proper course for the aircraft to the target.

 NORMAN

Capture of Corsica and Sardinia (9 September 1943)

 NORTHPOLE

Vitu Islands, Bismarck Archipelago

 NOSEBAG

Geraldton, Australia

 NOSERING

Sarmi, New Guinea

 NOTEBOOK

Buildup of the Air Transport Route to China

 NOUGAT

Haiphong, China

 NR

Number (relating to a radiogram)

 NRMC

Naval Records Management Center (Alexandria, VA)

 NSD

Naval Supply Depot

 NSF/OKW--Nationalsozialistischer Fuhrungsstab des OKW

National-Socialist Guidance Staff of the OKW (German: p. 65)

 NSF St d H--Nationalsozialistischer Fuhrungsstab des Heeres

National-Socialist Guidance Staff of the Army (German: p. 297)

 NTG

No Time Group

 NUBBIN

Sul River, New Britain

 NUCLEUS

Boimagi Island, Trobriand Island

 NUMBSKULL

Kapiura River, New Britain

 NUSA

Ninth U.S. Army

 NUTCRACKER

Panama Canal

 NUTCRACKER

Sosoli, New Britain

 NUTPINE

Corregidor, P.I.

 NWSC

Northwest Service Command

 NYPE

New York Port of Embarkation

 NYPOE

New York Port of Embarkation

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