AAF Army Air Forces (short for USAAF)
AEAF Allied Expeditionary Air Force
AFCE Automatic Flight-Control Equipment
AFHQ Allied Forces Headquarters (the operational command of the MTO)
AFSC Air Force Service Command
AGO Apparatebau GmbH Oschersleben
AWPD Air War Plans Division (also the acronym for documents prepared by the division)
BBSU British Bombing Survey Unit
CBO Combined Bomber Offensive
CCOS Combined Chiefs of Staff (alternate form of CCS)
CCS Combined Chiefs of Staff (alternate form of CCOS)
COA Committee of Operations Analysts
COPC Combined Operations Planning Committee
COSSAC Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Command (precursor to SHAEF)
EOU Enemy Objectives Unit (of the Economic Warfare Division)
ETO European Theater of Operations
ETOUSA European Theater of Operations, United States Army (organizational precursor to ETO)
EWD Economic Warfare Division
GASC Ground Air Support Command
GWF Gothaer Waggonfabrik
IP Initial Point (the map coordinates of the beginning point of a bomb run)
MAAF Mediterranean Allied Air Forces
MACAF Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force
MASAF Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force
MATAF Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force
MEAF Middle East Air Forces
MEW Ministry of Economic Warfare (United Kingdom)
MIAG Muhlenbau-Industrie AG
MTO Mediterranean Theater of Operations
MTOUSA Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (organizational precursor to MTO)
NAAF Northwest African Air Forces
NACAF Northwest African Coastal Air Force
NASAF Northwest African Strategic Air Force
NATAF Northwest African Tactical Air Force
NATOUSA North African Theater of Operations, US Army (later MTOUSA)
ORS Operational Research Section (of the Eighth Air Force)
OSS Office of Strategic Services
RAF Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)
RLM Reichsluftfahrtministerium (German Air Ministry)
SHAEF Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
SKF Svenska Kullagerfabriken
USAAF US Army Air Forces
USSAFE United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe
USSTAF United States Strategic Air Forces
VKF Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken
WPD War Plans Division