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AAI Allied Armies in Italy AAR After Action Report Actg Acting AF Air Force Anlage Appendix or annex A and P Ammunition and Pioneer AR Army Regulations Armd Armored Arty Artillery AT Antitank Atchd Attached Atk Attack Bailey bridge Portable steel bridge of the "through" type. The roadway is supported by two main trusses composed of ten-foot sections called "panels" pinned together to form a continuous truss. Capacity may be increased by adding extra trusses alongside the first, by adding an extra truss on top of the first to make a second story, or by both means. Bn Battalion BAR Browning automatic rifle Bazooka Recoilless antitank rocket launcher, hand-carried Bazooka pants Additional armor to protect tank tracks from antitank fire Br Bridge Btry Battery Burp gun A colloquial term applied by American troops to German submachine guns of the MP (Maschinenpistole) 40 type (C) Combat CCA Combat Command A, one of the major, flexible combat formations in armored divisions CCB Combat Command B, in armored division CCR Reserve Combat Command, in armored division CE Corps of Engineers CG Commanding General Cml Chemical CO Commanding Officer Co Company CofS Chief of Staff
Comdg Commanding Comdr Commander Com Communications CP Command post D Day Target date for the beginning of a specific military operation Div Division EM Enlisted men Engr Engineer Equip Equipment ETHINT European Theater Historical Interview of former German military personnel ETO European Theater of Operations Ex Off Executive Officer FA Field Artillery Fahnenjunkerschule German officer candidate school Feldgericht Military tribunal of summary nature FO Field order; forward observer FUSA First United States Army G-1 Personnel officer or section of divisional or higher staff G-2 Intelligence officer or section G-3 Operations officer or section G-4 Supply officer or section Gp Group Gren Grenadier H Hour Exact minute for the beginning of a specific military operation Hist Historical Hq Headquarters Hv Heavy Inf Infantry Info Information Instn Instruction Intel Intelligence Interv Interview IPW Interrogation Prisoners of War Jnl Journal Kampfgruppe German combat group of variable size KIA Killed in action K ration One of several types of emergency field rations KTB Kriegstagebuch (War Diary) Landesschuetzen German local security units, designed for rear-area service but later pressed into front-line duty. Ldr Leader Ln Liaison
Lt Lieutenant; light Ltr Letter (M) Medium M-4 (Sherman) American medium tank M-10 (Tank Destroyer) American vehicle, lightly armored, mounting a 3-inch gun, highly maneuverable M-18 (Tank Destroyer) Same as M-10 but mounting a 76-mm. gun M-20 (Smoke Generator) A generator for making smoke from fuel oil under combat conditions M-29 (Weasel) Tracked, lightly armored cargo carrier MAAF Mediterranean Allied Air Force MAC Medical Administrative Corps Machine pistol German submachine gun, known to American troops as a "burp gun" Mark IV German medium tank Mark V (Panther) German heavy tank Mark VI (Tiger) German heavy tank MATAF Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force Med Medical; Mediterranean MIA Missing in action MID Military Intelligence Division MLR Main line of resistance Mm. Millimeter Msg Message Mtr Motor Nachrichtenschule Signal school NCO Noncommissioned officer OB WEST Oberbefehlshaber West (Highest German ground headquarters on the Western Front) OCMH Office of the Chief of Military History Off Officer OKW Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces High Command) OP Observation post Opn Operation Panther German Mark V heavy tank Panzerfaust Recoilless German antitank rocket, hand-carried. A "one-shot" weapon. Pcht Parachute PL Public Law Plat Platoon Pon Ponton Pz Panzer RAF Royal Air Force Rcn Reconnaissance Regt Regiment Ret Retired
Rpt Report S-1 Personnel officer or section of regimental or lower staff S-2 Intelligence officer or section S-3 Operations officer or section S-4 Supply officer or section SCR Signal Corps radio Sec Section SG Smoke Generator Sherman American medium tank, M-4 Sit Rpt Situation Report S-mine German antipersonnel mine SP Self-propelled SS See Waffen-SS. Subj Subject Sum Summary T-2 retriever Tank recovery vehicle of the M-31 series TAC Tactical Air Command TD Tank destroyer Tdwy Treadway Teller mine German antitank mine TF Task force Tiger German Mark VI heavy tank Tk Tank Tns Trains TOT Time on target, a method of timing artillery fire from various points to fall on a given target simultaneously. Tp Telephone Trps Troops TUSA Third United States Army USAAF United States Army Air Force USAF United States Air Force Waffen-SS Combat arm of the SS (Schutzstaffel--Elite Guard); in effect a partial duplication of the German Army. Weasel (M-29) Tracked, lightly armored cargo carrier WIA Wounded in action Wpns Weapons