| a |
|
Force Deception and escape organisation [Cairo, Algiers] |
| afhq |
|
Allied Force Headquarters [Mediterranean] |
| a gas |
|
Air Ground Air Service [China] |
| ai |
|
Air Intelligence [London], specifically: |
| ai |
|
9 cover name for MI 9 |
| baag |
|
British Army Aid Group [China] |
| bats |
|
Balkan Air Terminal Service |
| bbc |
|
British Broadcasting Corporation |
| bef |
|
British Expeditionary Force [France] |
| ccs |
|
Combined Chiefs of Staff |
| cmf |
|
Central Mediterranean Forces |
| cohq |
|
Combined Operations Headquarters [London] |
| cos |
|
Chief(s) of Staff |
| cpm |
|
Captured Personnel and Materiel [branch of G-2, Washington, D.C.] |
| csdic |
|
Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre |
| ddmi |
|
Deputy Director of Military Intelligence |
| dmi |
|
Director of Military Intelligence |
| dni |
|
Director of Naval Intelligence |
| Dulag |
|
Durchgangslager (Luft) [transit POW camp (for airmen)] |
| e Group |
|
Escape organisation [New Delhi] |
| eam |
|
Ethnikon apeleftherotikon metopon [Greek national Liberation front] |
| e & e |
|
Escape and evasion; escapers and evaders [for distinction, see p. 13] |
| em |
|
Enlisted men [American = British ORs] |
| eto |
|
European Theater of Operations |
| faa |
|
Fleet Air Arm |
| f/o |
|
Flying Officer |
| g-1, g-2, g-3, g-4 |
|
Administrative, intelligence, operations, supply branches of American General Staff |
| Gestapo |
|
Geheime Staatspolizei [German secret state police] |
| gso |
|
General Staff Officer |
| hk |
|
Hooker code |
| io |
|
Intelligence Officer |
| ircc |
|
International Red Cross Committee |
| is 9 |
|
Intelligence School 9 [also used as cover for MI 9] 383 |
| jic |
|
Joint Intelligence Committee |
| lcs |
|
London Controlling Section |
| lrdg |
|
Long Range Desert Group |
| maaf |
|
Mediterranean Allied Air Forces |
| mef |
|
Middle Eastern Forces |
| mi |
|
Military Intelligence [British], specifically: |
| |
|
mi 1a organisation |
| |
|
mi 5 security |
| |
|
mi 6 intelligence |
| |
|
mi 9 escape and evasion |
| |
|
mi 14 German army |
| |
|
mi 19 refugees and enemy prisoners |
| mid |
|
Military Intelligence Department [American] |
| mi r |
|
Military Intelligence Research [British] |
| mis |
|
Military Intelligence Section [American], specifically: |
| |
|
MIS-X escape and evasion |
| |
|
MIS-Y captured enemy personnel and signals |
| mo 4 |
|
Cover name for SOE in Cairo |
| mto |
|
Mediterranean Theater of Operations |
| n section |
|
Escape and evasion section of A Force [Cairo, Algiers, Balkans, Italy] |
| nco |
|
Non-commissioned Officer |
| nkvd |
|
Narodny kommissariat vnutrennich dyel [people’s commissariat for internal affairs, Russia] |
| obli |
|
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
| Oflag |
|
Offizierslager [officers’ POW camp] |
| ors |
|
Other ranks [British = American EM] |
| oss |
|
Office of Strategic Services [American] |
| ovra |
|
Organizzazione di vigilanza e repressione dell’anti-fascismo [organisation of vigilance for repressing anti-Fascism, Italy] |
| pao |
|
‘Pat’ escape and evasion line |
| p/o |
|
Pilot Officer |
| poa |
|
Pacific Ocean Area |
| pow |
|
Pacific Ocean Area |
| ppa |
|
‘Popski’s Private Army |
| pro |
|
Public Record Office [London] |
| p/w, ps/w |
|
Prisoner(s) of war |
| pwe |
|
Political Warfare Executive |
| raaf |
|
Royal Australian Air Force |
| raf(vr) |
|
Royal Air Force (Volunteer Reserve) |
| ran |
|
Royal Australian Navy |
| rcaf |
|
Royal Canadian Air Force 384 |
| rn |
|
Royal Navy |
| rnvr |
|
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
| r/t |
|
Radio telephony |
| sao |
|
Senior American officer [in a POW camp] |
| sas |
|
Special Air Service |
| sbo |
|
Senior British officer [in a POW camp] |
| sbs |
|
Special Boat Section [British] |
| sbs |
|
Strategic Balkan Service [American] |
| sd |
|
Sicherheitsdienst [security service, Germany] |
| seac |
|
South-East Asia Command |
| shaef |
|
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force [in ETO] |
| sis |
|
Secret Intelligence Service |
| soe |
|
Special Operations Executive |
| ss |
|
Schutzstaffel [protection squad] |
| Stalag |
|
Stammlager [fixed POW camp for ORs] |
| swpa |
|
South-West Pacific Area |
| taf |
|
Tactical air force |
| usaaf |
|
United States Army Air Force |
| usaf |
|
United States Air Force |
| usn |
|
United States Navy |
| wea |
|
Western European Area |
| wo |
|
War Office |
| w/o |
|
Warrant Officer |
| w/t |
|
Wireless telegraphy |
| x |
|
Escape |
| y |
|
Wireless interception |