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 |
Jnl
| 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 |
O
| 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 |
Regt
| 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 |
Sec
| 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) |