List of Abbreviations, Symbols, and Code Names

Editor’s Note.—This list does not include standard abbreviations in common usage; unusual abbreviations of rare occurrence which are clarified at appropriate points; and those abbreviations and contractions which, although uncommon, are understandable from the context.

  • A, airgram
  • AC, Allied Council; Allied Commission
  • ACC, Allied Control Commission; Allied Control Council
  • admin, administrative
  • AFHQ, Allied Force Headquarters (Caserta, Italy)
  • AFPac, United States Army Forces, Pacific
  • AG, Aktien-Gesellschaft (stock company)
  • AGWar, Adjutant General, War Department
  • Amb, Ambassador
  • Amco, name for the telephone switchboard servicing the United States Delegation at Babelsberg
  • AmEmbassy, American Embassy
  • AMET, Africa–Middle East Theater
  • AMG, Allied Military Government
  • AmLegation(s), American Legation(s)
  • ammo, ammunition
  • Argonaut, code name for the Yalta Conference, February 4–11, 1945
  • Ashcan, code name for a detention center maintained by SHAEF at Bad Mondorf, Luxembourg, for persons of the highest political and military importance
  • ATC, Air Transport Command
  • ATS, Auxiliary Territorial Service (United Kingdom)
  • AUNOJ. See AVNOJ
  • AUS, Army of the United States
  • AusPolAd, United States Political Adviser for Austrian Affairs
  • author, authorities
  • AVNOJ, Anti-Fascist Assembly of National Liberation of Yugoslavia
  • BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation
  • BD, barrels per day
  • BG, military communications indicator
  • BLU, British Liaison Unit
  • BMW, Bavarian Motor Works
  • BritEmb, British Embassy
  • BritGovt, British Government
  • C, military communications indicator
  • CA, class identification for heavy cruiser
  • CAC, Coast Artillery Corps
  • CAD, Civil Affairs Division, War Department Special Staff
  • Capcraft, code name for captured German vessels of small size
  • CC, Control Council
  • CCAC, Combined (American and British) Civil Affairs Committee
  • CCS, Combined (American and British) Chiefs of Staff; document symbol used by the Combined Chiefs of Staff
  • Cfb, military communications indicator
  • CG, Commanding General
  • Chanor, (English) Channel and Normandy
  • CinCAFPac, Commander in Chief, Army Forces, Pacific
  • CNO, Chief of Naval Operations
  • Comd, Commander
  • Comea, communications indicator used on messages concerning the European Advisory Commission
  • ComGenAir, Commanding General, Army Air Forces
  • ComGenChina, Commanding General, United States Forces, China
  • ComGenMed, Commanding General, Mediterranean
  • ComGenMilMis, Commanding General, Military Mission
  • CominCh, Commander in Chief, United States Fleet
  • Comintern, (Third) Communist International
  • ComNavEu, Commander, United States Naval Forces in Europe
  • ComNavForGer, Commander, United States Naval Forces, Germany
  • ComNavForGermany, Commander, United States Naval Forces, Germany
  • ComNavGr, Commander, Naval Group
  • ComNavGrp, Commander, Naval Group
  • ComNavGroup, Commander, Naval Group
  • Confmess, communications indicator used on messages to Babelsberg from the United States Delegation, Allied Commission on Reparations, Moscow
  • Confrep, communications indicator used on messages from Babelsberg to the United States Delegation, Allied Commission on Reparations, Moscow
  • Copre, communications indicator used on messages concerning the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations
  • Coronet, code name for the second phase of the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands
  • CRAB, Combined (American and British) Resources Allocation Board
  • C/S, Chief(s) of Staff
  • CSAB, Combined (American and British) Shipping Adjustment Boards
  • CWO, Chief Warrant Officer
  • D–Day, term used to designate the unnamed day on which an operation commences or is to commence
  • Depstel, Department’s telegram
  • Dept, Department (usually the Department of State)
  • Deptel(s), Department’s telegram(s)
  • Depts, Department’s
  • Deptstel, Department’s telegram
  • DNI, Director of Naval Intelligence
  • Dustbin, code name for Field Intelligence Agency, Technical (an interrogation group)
  • EAC, European Advisory Commission
  • EAM, National Liberation Front (Greece)
  • ECITO, European Central Inland Transport Organization
  • ECO, European Coal Organization
  • EEC, Emergency Economic Committee, Europe
  • EECE, Emergency Economic Committee, Europe
  • EIT, European inland transport
  • ELAS, National Popular Liberation Army (Greece)
  • Embs, Embassy’s
  • Embtel, Embassy’s telegram
  • ES, Division of Economic Security Controls, Department of State
  • ETO, European Theater of Operations
  • ETOUSA, European Theater of Operations, United States Army
  • EUR, Office of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EW, European War
  • EWT, Eastern War Time
  • ExCom, Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations
  • ExeCom, Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations
  • Eyes Only, communications indicator used on messages which were to receive extremely limited distribution
  • F, document symbol used by the British Delegation to the Berlin Conference on papers relating to meetings of the Foreign Ministers
  • Fan, military communications indicator
  • Fat Man, an atomic bomb of the implosion type (the type dropped on Nagasaki; previously tested as an experimental device in New Mexico on July 16, 1945)
  • FEA, Foreign Economic Administration
  • FF, Fatherland Front (Bulgaria)
  • FM, Field Marshal
  • FO, Foreign Office
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • FonOff(s), Foreign Office(s)
  • ForMin, Foreign Minister
  • ForOff, Foreign Office
  • FX, military communications indicator
  • G–2, Army general staff section dealing with intelligence at the divisional or higher level
  • G–5, Army general or special staff section dealing with civil affairs at the divisional or higher level
  • GmbH, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (limited liability company)
  • HQ, HQs, headquarters
  • Hula, code name for the lend-lease transfer to the Soviet Union of 180 vessels to be assembled at Seattle, Washington, and Cold Bay, Alaska
  • info, information; for information; for information to; for the information of
  • IPCOG, Informal Policy Committee on Germany; document symbol used by that Committee
  • I T and T, International Telephone and Telegraph Company
  • JA, Judge Advocate
  • JAGD, Judge Advocate General’s Department
  • JCS, Joint (United States Army and Navy) Chiefs of Staff; document symbol used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Jcs, military communications indicator
  • KKE, Communist Party of Greece
  • Leg, Legation
  • Little Boy, an atomic bomb of the gun-assembly type (not tested at the time of the Berlin Conference; the type dropped on Hiroshima)
  • Lockup, code name for special handling of messages to the United States Military Mission in the Soviet Union relating to the war against Japan
  • L/T, Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, Department of State
  • M, military communications indicator
  • MA, Military Attaché
  • Mailfist, code name for the capture of Singapore
  • Manhattan District, code name for the atomic-bomb-development project
  • Masterwork, code name for the Berlin Conference (changed to Terminal ); name of the telephone switchboard servicing the United States Delegation at Babelsberg and of the United States area at Babelsberg
  • Mel, communications indicator
  • MG, military government
  • Mik, Mikołajczyk
  • mil, military
  • Milepost, code name referring to stockpiling of supplies in eastern Siberia for the use of Soviet forces in the war against Japan
  • MilID, Military Intelligence Division, War Department General Staff
  • MilMis, Military Mission
  • MinForAff, Minister of (for) Foreign Affairs
  • msg, message
  • MWT, Ministry of War Transport (United Kingdom)
  • mytel, my telegram
  • Naf, military communications indicator
  • nbr, number
  • NDF, National Democratic Front (Rumania)
  • NEI, Netherland East Indies
  • Neter, communications indicator used on messages between the Department of State and the London Embassy with reference to relations with the Government of the Netherlands
  • Niact, communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any hour of the day or night
  • NKVD, People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)
  • NL, national liberation
  • nr, number
  • NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party)
  • OANLC, Office of the Army–Navy Liquidation Commissioner
  • OGPU, United State Political Administration (Soviet Union)
  • Olympic, code name for the assault on Kyushu, scheduled for March 1, 1946
  • OPD, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
  • OpDiv, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
  • OpNav, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
  • OSS, Office of Strategic Services
  • OWI, Office of War Information
  • P, document symbol used by the British Delegation to the Berlin Conference on papers relating to plenary meetings
  • para(s), paragraph(s)
  • PAW, Petroleum Administration for War
  • PC, Preparatory Commission of the United Nations
  • PFC, Private First Class
  • PGC, Persian Gulf Command
  • pgh, paragraph
  • PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation
  • pls, please
  • PM, Prime Minister
  • PO, communications indicator
  • POW(s), prisoner(s) of war
  • PPR, Polish Labor Party
  • PPS, Polish Socialist Party
  • PreCo, Preparatory Commission of the United Nations
  • Preco, communications indicator used on messages concerning the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations
  • PriMin, Prime Minister
  • PTT, post, telephone and telegraph
  • PW, Pacific War
  • PWD, Psychological Warfare Division, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
  • RCL, Reserved Commodity List
  • R D & R, Reparation, Deliveries and Restitution Division
  • rec’d, received
  • reDeptel, regarding the Department of State’s telegram
  • remytel, regarding my telegram
  • reps, representatives
  • reptd, repeated
  • retels, regarding telegrams
  • reurmemo, regarding your memorandum
  • reurtel, regarding your telegram
  • RM, Reichsmarks
  • rpd, repeated
  • rptd, repeated
  • S–1, code name for the atomic bomb
  • SA, National Socialist Storm Troops (Germany)
  • SAC, Supreme Allied Commander
  • SACMed, Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean
  • S/AE, Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Disarmament and Atomic Energy
  • Safehaven, code name for the United States program to forestall German attempts to hide assets outside Germany, particularly in European neutral countries
  • Sam, class identification for “Samuel”-class troop carriers
  • SC, document symbol used by the Secretary’s Staff Committee, Department of State
  • SCAEF, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force
  • Scaf, military communications indicator
  • SD, communications indicator; Security Service of the National Socialist Elite Guard (Germany)
  • SEA, Southeast Asia
  • SEAC, Southeast Asia Command
  • SecState, Secretary of State
  • Sextant, code name for the Cairo Conferences, November–December 1943
  • Sgs, military communications indicator
  • SHAEF, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
  • SM, Secretariat memorandum, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • SMR, South Manchurian Railway
  • SovDeleg, Soviet Delegation
  • SovGovt, Soviet Government
  • SS, National Socialist Elite Guard (Germany)
  • SSR, Soviet Socialist Republic
  • Stat, United States Statutes at Large
  • Sumoc, communications indicator
  • SWNCC, State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee; document symbol used by the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee
  • SWPA, Southwest Pacific Area
  • TA. See Tube Alloys
  • TASS, Telegraphic Agency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • teles, telegrams
  • Terminal, code name for the Berlin Conference, July 16–August 2, 1945
  • topsec, top secret
  • Torch, code name for the Allied landings in North Africa
  • TRC, Office of Transport and Communications Policy, Department of State
  • Tube Alloys, code name for atomic energy research and development
  • TUC, Trades Union Congress (United Kingdom)
  • UK, United Kingdom; communications indicator
  • UMA, United Maritime Authority
  • UMEB, United Maritime Executive Board
  • UNations, United Nations
  • UnderSecNavs, Under Secretary of the Navy’s
  • UNRRA, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • urtel, your telegram
  • USFA, United States Forces in Austria
  • USFET, United States Forces, European Theater
  • USGCC, United States Group, Control Council (Germany)
  • USPolAd, United States Political Adviser
  • V. See Victory
  • V–1, Vergeltungswaffe–1 (a German weapon guided by an automatic pilot first used against England in June 1944)
  • V–2, Vergeltungswaffe Zwei (a German weapon guided by an automatic pilot first used against England in September 1944)
  • V–E Day, the day of Allied victory in Europe
  • Victory, communications indicator used on outgoing messages from the United States Delegation at the Berlin Conference (a Victory in number was also assigned to incoming messages)
  • V–J Day, the day of Japanese capitulation
  • VLR, very long range
  • W, communications indicator
  • WAC, Women’s Army Corps
  • War, military communications indicator
  • WarCOS, Chief of Staff, United States Army
  • WarOpDiv, Operations Division, War Department General Staff
  • WSA, War Shipping Administration
  • Wsa, communications indicator used on messages of the War Shipping Administration
  • Y, code name for the atomic bomb
  • Z, time indicator (the four digits immediately preceding the indicator give the hour at which the message in question was sent, expressed in “Zebra” time, i. e., Greenwich Civil Time—e.g.,231350Z represents 1350 hours, or 1:50 p.m., Greenwich Civil Time, on the 23d day of an unspecified month)
  • Zecho, Czechoslovakia
  • Zipper, code name for operations for the establishment of a bridgehead in the Port Swettenham–Port Dickson area preparatory to an advance southward on Singapore