A-2
| Intelligence officer or section of an air staff |
AAA
| Antiaircraft artillery |
AAR
| After action report |
Abwehr-Schlacht Im West
| Defensive Battle in the West |
AIB
| Armored infantry battalion |
Anlage
| Appendix or annex |
Ann.
| Annex |
AT
| Antitank |
Aufmarschanweisung
| Revised outline plan |
AW
| Aircraft warning; automatic weapons |
BAR
| Browning automatic rifle |
Bn
| Battalion |
CATOR
| Combined Air Transport Operations Room |
CCA
| Combat Command A |
CCB
| Combat Command B |
CCR
| Combat Command Reserve |
Chasseurs Ardenais
| Belgian military unit |
Christrose
| One of several code names for the Ardennes offensive |
CIC
| Counter Intelligence Corps |
C-in-C
| Commander in Chief |
CO
| Commanding officer |
Cp
| Command post |
DAGGER
| Ninth Army operation intended to clear the Germans from the west bank of the Roer River once the dams were destroyed. |
Div
| Division |
DSC
| Distinguished Service Cross |
Engr
| Engineer |
Ersatzheer
| Replacement Army |
ETO
| European Theater of Operations |
FA
| Field Artillery |
Feldherr
| Great general |
Festung
| Fortress |
Feuerwalze
| Rolling barrage |
Flak
| Fliegerabwehrkanone (antiaircraft artillery gun) |
Fremde Heere Ost
| OKH Intelligence Section East |
Frontsoldat
| Front-line fighter |
Fuehrer Reserve
| Central officers' reserve |
Fusilier battalion
| Separate infantry battalion performing both reconnaissance and support in German division |
FUSA
| First United States Army |
G-2
| Intelligence section of divisional or higher staff |
G-3
| Operations section of divisional or higher staff |
G-4
| Supply section of divisional or higher staff |
Greif
| German deception operation in support of the Ardennes counteroffensive |
Herbstnebel
| Autumn Fog (Army Group B plan) |
I and R
| Intelligence and Reconnaissance |
Inf
| Infantry |
Interv
| Interview |
Jabo
| German slang for jagd-bomber (fighter-bomber) |
Jnl
| Journal |
Kampfgruppe
| German combat group of variable size |
K-Tag
| 12 December |
KTB
| Kriegstagebuch (war diary) |
L-Tag
| 13 December |
Martin
| Code name applied to operations plan drawn up by OB WEST for Wacht am Rhein for submission to conference at headquarters Army Group B on 27 October 1944 |
Nebelwerfer
| Multiple rocket projector |
Null Tag
| D-day (16 December) |
Oberquartermeister
| General staff officer at headquarters of an army (in charge of supply and administration) |
OB WEST
| Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander in Chief West or his headquarters) |
OKH
| Oberkommando des Heeres (Army High Command) |
OKL
| Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe High Command) |
OKW
| Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Armed Forces High Command) |
OMAHA Beach
| Normandy beach assaulted by troops of U.S. V Corps, 6 June 1944 |
Ord
| Ordnance |
O-Tag
| D-day (16 December) |
Panzerfaust
| Recoilless German antitank rocket, hand-carried |
POL
| Petrol (gasoline), oil, and lubricants |
POW
| Prisoner of war |
RCT
| Regimental combat team |
Regts
| Regiments |
Reichsautobahnen
| The German superhighway system |
Reichsbahn
| German state railroads |
S-2
| Intelligence officer or section of regimental or lower staff |
S-3
| Operations officer or section of regimental or lower staff |
Sec
| Section |
SHAEF
| Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force |
SHAPE
| Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe |
SS
| Schutzstaffel (Elite guard) |
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TAC
| Tactical Air Command |
TC
| Troop carrier |
TD
| Tank destroyer |
T/E
| Tables of equipment |
T/O&E
| Tables of organization and equipment |
TOT
| Time on target, a method of timing artillery fire from various points to fall on a given target simultaneously |
TUSA
| Third United States Army |
VHF
| Very high frequency |
V-Leute
| German agents |
Volksdeutsche
| Citizens of a country other than Germany who were considered Germans racially |
Volkssturm
| A people's militia, partially organized in one of the last steps of German mobilization for total war |
Wacht am Rhein
| Watch on the Rhine (Ardennes code name) |
Waffen-SS
| A mechanized Army-type force originally made up of volunteers from Nazi party organizations |
Wehrmacht
| German Armed Forces |
WFSt
| Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab (Armed Forces Operations Staff) |
Werfer
| Rocket projector |
(-)
| Understrength |