Page 682 GLOSSARY A-2 .......................... Intelligence officer or section of an air staff 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 .......................... Browning 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 Christrose.................... 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 0st ............. 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) Page 684 TAC .......................... Tactical Air Command TC ........................... Troop carrier TD ........................... Tank destroyer T/E .......................... Tables of equipment T/0&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 projector (-) .......................... Understrength Note on Military Map Symbols For complete listing of symbols in use during the World War II period, see FM 21-30, dated October 1943, from which these are taken.