| BAD |
British Admiralty Delegation (to British Joint Staff Mission in Washington) |
| BAS |
British Army Staff (attached to British Joint Staff Mission in Washington) |
| BL |
British Library |
| CAS |
Chief of the Air Staff (British) |
| CCS |
Combined Chiefs of Staff |
| CIGS |
Chief of the Imperial General Staff (British) |
| CNO |
Chief of Naval Operations (U.S.) |
| CNS |
Chief of the Naval Staff (British) |
| COMINCH |
Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet |
| COS |
British Chiefs of Staff Committee |
| COSSAC |
Chief of Staff of the Supreme Allied Commander |
| CPRB |
Combined Production and Resources Board |
| CV |
fleet aircraft carrier |
| CVE |
escort aircraft carrier |
| ETOUSA |
European Theater of Operations of the United States Army
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| FRUS |
Foreign Relations of the United States |
| JCS |
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JPS |
Joint Planning Staff (one British, one American) |
| JSM |
British Joint Staff Mission in Washington |
| JWPS |
Joint War Production Staff (British) |
| LC |
Library of Congress |
| LHC |
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College London |
| MAP |
Ministry of Aircraft Production (British) |
| NA |
National Archives (U.S.) |
| OPM |
Office of Production Management (U.S.) |
| POW |
prisoner of war |
| RAF |
Royal Air Force |
| RAFDEL |
Royal Air Force Delegation to the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington |
| RN |
Royal Navy |
| SEAC |
Southeast Asia Command |
| TNA |
The National Archives (of the UK, Kew) |
| USN |
U.S. Navy |
| VMI |
Virginia Military Institute |
| WPB |
War Production Board (U.S.) |
| WSA |
War Shipping Administration (U.S.) |