AKA |
cargo ship, attack |
APA |
transport ship, attack |
BAR |
Browning automatic rifle |
Belgian Gates |
antilanding obstacles |
CCS |
Combined Chiefs of Staff |
CIC |
Combat Information Center |
CO |
commanding officer |
COSSAC |
Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (Designate) |
CP |
command post |
CTF |
commander task force |
DUKW |
2 1/2 ton amphibious truck (Duck) |
E-boat |
German torpedo boat |
ECB |
engineer combat battalion |
ESB |
engineer special brigade |
ETO |
European Theater of Operations |
FUSAG |
First United States Army Group |
GHQ |
general headquarters |
JCS |
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff |
LCA |
landing craft, assault |
LCC |
primary control vessel |
LCI |
landing craft, infantry |
landing craft, medium |
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LCT |
landing craft, tank |
LCT(R) |
landing craft, tank (rocket) |
LCVP |
landing craft, vehicle and personnel (Higgins boat) |
LST |
landing ship, tank |
MG-34 |
a tripod-mounted machine gun with a rate of fire of up to 800 rounds per minute |
MG-42 |
a tripod-mounted machine gun with a rate of fire up to 1,300 rounds per minute |
OB West |
Oberbefehlshaber West (general HQ for the Western Front) |
OKH |
Oberkommando des Heeres (Army High Command) |
OKW |
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces High Command) |
OP |
observation post |
OSS |
Office of Strategic Services |
OWI |
Office of War Information |
Rhino ferry |
barge constructed of pontoon units |
SAS |
Special Air Service |
SCR |
Signal Corps Radio |
SHAEF |
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force |
SOE |
Special Operations Executive |
SP |
self-propelled guns |
SS |
Schutzstaffel |
Sten gun |
British 9mm automatic weapon, 30 inches long, weighing 7 pounds |
TBS |
talk between ships |
Tetrahedra |
pyramid-shaped steel obstacles |
UDT |
underwater demolition teams |
Waffen-SS |
combat arm of the SS |
Widerstandsnest |
resistance nest |