Ack-Ack [AA] |
Anti-aircraft fire |
AP |
Armour-piercing shells |
AT (ATS) |
Auxiliary Territorial, in full: the Auxiliary |
AVRE |
Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers – a modified Churchill Tank mounted with a Petard short-range mortar |
COBRA |
American offensive, 25–9 July |
COSSAC |
Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander |
CP |
Command Post |
CSM |
Company Sergeant-Major |
DD |
Duplex-Drive amphibious tank |
DUKW |
Duplex-Drive amphibious truck |
ENSA |
Entertainments National Services Association |
EPSOM |
British 2nd Army offensive, 26 June |
GOODWOOD |
British assault on Bourgebus ridge, 18 July |
Ia |
Chief Staff Officer |
LCA |
Landing Craft Assault |
LCI |
Landing Craft Infantry |
LCM |
Landing Craft Motor Launch |
LCT |
Landing Craft Tank |
LCVP |
Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel |
LMG |
Light Machine Gun |
LST |
Landing Ship Tank |
ML |
Motor Launch |
NAAFI |
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes |
NEPTUNE |
Naval phase of Allied invasion of Normandy |
ODs |
Olive Drabs – American infantry combat clothing |
OP |
Observation Post |
PIAT |
British hand-held anti-tank gun |
RAC |
Royal Armoured Corps |
RASC |
Royal Army Service Corps |
RE |
Royal Engineers |
SHAEF |
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force |
SP |
Self-propelled gun |
TOTALIZE |
Canadian attack towards Falaise, 8–11 August |