Abbreviations

AFC — Armed Forces Council of South Vietnam

AID — U.S. Agency for International Development

ARVN — Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

CBUs — Cluster Bomb Units

CCP — Chinese Communist Party

CENTO — Central Treaty Organization

CIA — Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.)

CIDG — Civilian Irregular Defense Group

CMAG — Chinese Military Advisory Group

COSVN — Central Office of South Vietnam (or the Communist High Command Headquarters of all Communist Forces in South Vietnam)

CP — Command Post

CPAG — Chinese Political Advisory Group

DAO — Defense Attaché Office (U.S.)

DOD — Department of Defense (U.S.)

DRVN, or DRV — Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)

FANK — Forces Armées Nationales Khmères, or Cambodian National Armed Forces

FRAC — First Regional Assistance Command in ARVN I Corps and Region (U.S.)

GI — A member of U.S. Armed Forces, especially an enlisted person (GIs: U.S. soldiers)

GVN — Government of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

FPJMT — Four-Party Joint Military Team

JGS, or RVNAF-JGS — Joint General Staff of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (South Vietnam)

ICC — International Control Commission in South Vietnam

ICP — Indochinese Communist Party

MAAG-Vietnam — Military Assistance Advisory Group Vietnam (U.S.)

MACV — Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (U.S.)

MATA — Military Advisory Training Assistance (U.S.)

MEDTC — American Military Equipment Delivery Team, Cambodia (U.S.)

MIA/KIA — Missing in Action/Killed in Action

MIG — A Russian-Built Fighter Aircraft

M5-TEAM — Mission #5, French Intelligence Team in Kunming, China, in 1945

NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NCO — Non-Commissioned Officer

NLF — National Liberation Front, or the Communist Organization in South Vietnam

NSC — National Security Council (U.S.)

NVA, or PAVN — North Vietnamese Army, or the People’s Army of Vietnam

OPLAN-34A — Operation Plan 34A (U.S.)

OPLAN-37–64 — Operation Plan 37–64 A Bombing Scenario Against North Vietnam (U.S.)

OSS — Office of Strategic Services

PAVN — People’s Army of Vietnam

PLA — People’s Liberation Army

PRC — People’s Republic of China

PRG, or PRGSV — Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (Communist Government in South Vietnam)

PT-Boat — Patrol Torpedo Boat

PTF-Boat — Patrol Torpedo Fast Boat

POW — Prisoner of War

RVN — Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

RVNAF — Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces

SAC — Strategic Air Command (U.S.)

SAM — Surface to Air Missile

SEATO — South East Asia Organization

SMM — Saigon Military Mission (U.S.)

SSPL — Sacred Sword Patriot’s League

TAC — Tactical Air Command (U.S.)

374th-TAW — U.S. 374th Tactical Air Wing

TCK-TND — Tổng-Công-Kích/Tổng-Nổi-Dậy, or Communist Total Offensive and General Uprising Campaign

TRIM — Training Relation Instruction Mission (U.S.)

U.S., U.S.A. — The United States of America

USOM U.S. — Overseas Mission

USSR — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

VC — Việt-Cộng, or the Communists in South Vietnam

VCI — Việt-Cộng Infrastructure

VNAF — Vietnam Air Force (South Vietnam)

VNN — Vietnam Navy (South Vietnam)

VNQDD — Việt Nam Quổc Dân Ɖảng or the Vietnam Nationalist Party