AAF Army Air Forces AAR After action report AB Airborne ACCOLADE Seizure of the Dodecanese ACHSE German plan to take over the control of Italy ACV Auxiliary aircraft carrier or tender Admin Administrative Adv Advance AFHQ Allied Force Headquarters AGF Army Ground Forces AGP Army group AGWAR Adjutant General, War Department AK Cargo ship ALARICH Occupation of northern Italy by Rommel's Army Group B if Italy collapsed politically. AP Transport ship ARCADIA U.S.-British staff conference at Washington, December 1941-January 1942 Arty Artillery AT Antitank (gun) AVALANCHE Amphibious assault, Salerno, Italy BARCLAY Plan to induce the Axis to give priority to maintaining and reinforcing its forces in southern France and the Balkans BARRACUDA Plan for a sea and airborne assault on Naples. Canceled. BAYTOWN Invasion of the Italian mainland opposite Messina Bd Board Br British, branch BRIMSTONE Plan for capture of Sardinia BUTTRESS British operation against toe of Italy CAD Civil Affairs Division CC (A, B, C) Combat Command (A, B, C) CCAC Combined Civil Affairs Committee CCS Combined Chiefs of Staff CENT Code name for beaches at Scoglitti Chem Chemical CHESTNUT Four airborne missions sent by Montgomery in an effort to aid his army in Sicily with airborne troops
CIC Counter Intelligence Corps Conf Conference CORKSCREW Operation against Pantelleria, Italy, mid-June 1943 COS British Chiefs of Staff Cositinreps Combined situation and intelligence reports DCofS Deputy Chief of Staff DIME Code name for beaches in Gela area ENTF Eastern Naval Task Force Exec Executive FA Field Artillery FAN Symbol for messages from Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force, to the Combined Chiefs of Staff FATIMA Mason-MacFarlane Mission FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service FIREBRAND Invasion of Corsica, 1943 FO Field order G-1 Personnel section of division or higher staff G-2 Intelligence section of division or higher staff G-3 Operations section of division or higher staff G-4 Logistics and supply section of division or higher staff G-5 Civil affairs section of division or higher staff GANGWAY Plan for an unopposed landing in Naples. Canceled. GIANT I Plan for an air landing and drop along the Volturno River. Canceled. GIANT II Plan for an airdrop near Rome. Canceled. GMDS German Military Documents Section, Alexandria GOBLET Invasion of Italy at Cotrone. Canceled. GSUSA General Staff, U.S. Army HARDIHOOD Aid to Turkey to induce her to enter the war HUSKY Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 Instr(s) Instructions Intel Intelligence JIC Joint Intelligence Committee Joss Code name for beaches in Licata area JP Joint Planners (British) JPS Joint Staff Planners (U.S.) JWPC Joint War Plans Committee Kampfgruppe German combat group of variable size KONSTANTIN Reinforcement of German troops in the Balkans and Greece KOPENHAGEN German plan for seizure of the Mt. Cenis Pass (part of Plan ACHSE) LCI landing craft, infantry
LCI (L) landing craft, infantry (large) LCM landing craft, mechanized LCT landing craft, tank LCVP landing craft, vehicle and personnel LEHRGANG Evacuation of German troops from Sicily to the Italian mainland, 11-17 August 1943. LST Landing ship, tank Ltr Letter MAC Mediterranean Air Command Min Minutes Med Mediterranean MEF Middle East Forces (British) MIDEAST Middle East MINCEMEAT Cover plan in connection with HUSKY to induce the Germans to believe that Allied objectives were Sardinia and the Peloponnesus MTB Motor Transport Brigade Mtg Meeting MUSKET Projected landing on heel of Italy near Taranto, 1943 MUSTANG Plan for an overland seizure of Naples after initial landings in Calabria. Canceled. MVSN Fascist Militia NAAF Northwest African Air Forces NAAFTCC Northwest African Air Force Troop Carrier Command NAF Symbol for messages from the Combined Chiefs of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force NARS National Archives and Records Service NASAF Northwest African Strategic Air Force NATAF Northwest African Tactical Air Force OB SUED Oberbefehlshaber Sued (Headquarters, Commander in Chief South) OCMH Office, Chief of Military History OKH Oberkommando des Heeres OKM Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine OKL Oberkommando der Luftwaffe OKW Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces High Command) OPD Operations Division Opns Operations OSS Office of Strategic Services
OVRA Italian Secret Police Prov Provisional Rcd Record RCT Regimental combat team Reinf Reinforced ROUNDHAMMER A cross-Channel operation, intermediate in size between SLEDGEHAMMER and ROUNDUP ROUNDUP Various 1941-43 plans for a cross-Channel attack in the final phases of the war S-3 Operations section, regimental or lower echelon SIEGFRIED German plan for occupying the southern coast of France (part of Plan ACHSE) SIM Servizio Informazione Militari (Military Intelligence Service) Sitrep Situation report SLEDGEHAMMER Plan for a limited-objective attack across the Channel in 1942 designed either to take advantage of a crack in German morale or as a "sacrifice" operation to aid the Russians SNOL Senior naval officer, landings SOC "Seagull"; single-engine Navy scout-observation (VSO) land plane or seaplane, biplane Stato Maggiore Generale (Comando Supremo) Italian Armed Forces High Command and General Staff Stato Maggiore Regia Aeronautica (Superaereo) Italian Air Force High Command and General Staff Stato Maggiore Regio Esercito (Superesercito) Italian Army High Command and General Staff Stato Maggiore Regia Marina (Supermarina) Italian Navy High Command and General Staff Sum Summary Tel Telephone Telg Telegram Tk Tank T/O Table of Organization TORCH Allied invasion of North and Northwest Africa, 1942 TRIDENT International conference in Washington, May 1943 VULCAN Operation against the Germans holding out on Cape Bon WDCSA Chief of Staff, U.S. Army WDGO War Department General Order WFSt Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab (German Armed Forces Operations Staff) WNTF Western Naval Task Force