Contents

AAF                Army Air Forces
AAFSC            Army Air Forces Service Command
ABC                Adriatic Base Command
ABS                Atlantic Base Section
ACC                        Allied Control Commission
ADMS                     Assistant Director, Medical Services
AFHQ                     Allied Force Headquarters
AGWAR                 Adjutant General, War Department
AMET                     Africa-Middle East Theater
AMEW                   Africa-Middle East Wing
AMG                      Allied Military Government
AMGOT                 Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory
Anvil                       Early plan for invasion of southern France
Armd                     Armored
ASRS                    Adjusted Service Rating Score
ASW                     Assistant Secretary of War
ATC                      Air Transport Command
Atl                         Atlantic
AVALANCHE     Invasion of Italy at Salerno
Aux                       Auxiliary

BBC                     Bermuda Base Command
BE BLUIE EAST (U.S. air bases in Greenland)
BEF                     Brazilian Expeditionary Force
BLACKSTONE  Subtask force of Western Task Force for the attack on Safi
Bn                        Battalion
BRUSHWOOD   Subtask force of Western Task Force for the attack on Fedala
BW BLUIE WEST (U.S. air bases in Greenland)

CBI                     China, Burma, India
CCB                    Combat Command B
CCS                    Combined Chiefs of Staff
CENT                  Task force in Sicily assault landing
CDC                    Caribbean Defense Command
CG                       Commanding general
CinC                     Commander in Chief
Cir                        Circular
CO                       Commanding officer
Co                        Company
CofS                     Chief of Staff
Comd                    Command
Comdr                   Commander
CONAD                Continental Advance Section
COMZ                         Communications Zone
C&R                            Convalescent and rehabilitation
CRIMSON                  Air routes through central and northeastern Canada, part of the air ferry route to the British Isles
CRYSTAL                   Meteorological stations in northern Canada

DCCAO                      Deputy Chief Civil Affairs Office
DDMS                        Deputy Director, Medical Services
Detach                         Detachment
DIME                         Task force in Sicily assault landing
Dir                              Director
Div                             Division
DM5                          Director, Medical Services
Doc                            Document
DRAGOON              Allied invasion of southern coast of France, 15 August 1944
DSM                         Distinguished Service Medal

EASCOM                 Eastern Command
EBS                           Eastern Base Section
ETMD                       Essential technical medical data
ETO                          European Theater of Operations
ETOUSA                  European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army
Evac                          Evacuation hospital

FEC                          French Expeditionary Corps
FRANTIC                AAF shuttle bombing of Axis-controlled Europe from bases in United Kingdom, Italy, and USSR
FUO                         Fever undetermined origin

GBC                        Greenland Base Command
GOALPOST            Subtask force of Western Task Force for assault landing in Mehdia-Port-Lyautey area, North Africa
Gp                            Group

Hist                          Historical, history
Hosp                        Hospital
HUSKY                   Allied invasion of Sicily, July 1943

IBC                          Iceland Base Command
IBS                          Island Base Section
IG                            Inspector General
Interv                       Interview
It                              Italian

JOSS                       Task force in Sicily assault landing

KOOL                    Task force in Sicily assault landing

LCI                         Landing craft, infantry
LofC                       Line of communications
LST                        Landing ship, tank

MAAF                   Mediterranean Allied Air Forces
MAC                     Medical Administrative Corps
MAETS                 Medical air evacuation transport squadron
MBS                      Mediterranean Base Section
MCD                     Malaria control detachment
MCU                     Malaria control unit
Med                       Medical
MMU                    Medical maintenance unit
MSU                     Malaria survey unit
MTO                     Mediterranean Theater of Operations
MTOUSA             Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army

NAAF                   Northwest African Air Forces
NATO                   North African Theater of Operations
NATOUSA           North African Theater of Operations, U.S. Army
NBC                      Newfoundland Base Command
NORBS                 Northern Base Section

OBE                     Order of the British Empire
Off                       Officer
Opns                    Operations
Ortho                   Orthopedic
0SS                     Office of Strategic Services
OVERLORD       Allied cross-Channel invasion of northwest Europe, June 1944
Ovhd                    Overhead

PBS                     Peninsular Base Section
PGC                    Persian Gulf Command
PGSC                  Persian Gulf Service Command
PT boat                Patrol vessel, motor torpedo boat
POW                   Prisoner of war

QM                     Quartermaster

RAAC                 Rome Allied Area Command
RCAF                 Royal Canadian Air Force
Rcd                     Record
RCT                    Regimental combat team
Regt                    Regiment
Rpt                     Report

Sec                     Section
Sep                     Separate
Serv                    Service
SHAEF                     Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
SGO                         Surgeon Generals Office
SHINGLE                Amphibious operation at Anzio, Italy
Sitrep                        Situation report
SnC                         Sanitary Corps
SOLOC                  Southern Line of Communications
SOS                        Services of Supply
Sta                          Station
Stat                         Statistical
Suppl                      Supplement, supplementary
Surg                        Surgeon, surgical
SWPA                    Southwest Pacific Area

TAS                        The Air Surgeon
T/O                         Table of Organization
TOE                        Table of Organization and Equipment
Torch                      Allied invasion of Northwest Africa, November 1942
TRUST                   Trieste-United States Troops
TSG                        The Surgeon General

UNRRA                 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
USAAF                  U.S. Army Air Forces
USAFCC               U.S. Army Forces in Central Canada
USAFEC               U.S. Army Forces in Eastern Canada
USAFICA             U.S. Army Forces in Central Africa
USAFIL                U.S. Army Forces in Liberia
USAFIME            U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East
USAFSA              U.S. Army Forces, South Atlantic
USAHS                U.S. Army hospital ship
USFET                 U.S. Forces, European Theater
USPHS                U.S. Public Health Service
USSTAF              U.S. Strategic Air Forces

Vet                        Veterinary

WAC                    Womens Army Corps
WD                       War Department

YAK                     Russian fighter plane

ZI                          Zone of interior