Some of the following abbreviations date from WW2, and appear in excerpts from archive documents. Others are used in the text of the articles on www.Operation-Ladbroke.com to save space when, for example, unit names are repeated.
2 i/c – Second in Command (deputy)
AA – Anti-aircraft (fire)
AAA – Anti-aircraft Artillery
A/C – Aircraft
AD – Airborne Division, as in 1 AD
ADMS – Assistant Director Medical Services
ADS – Advance Dressing Station (as opposed to MDS)
AFHQ – Allied Forces Headquarters
AFPU – Army Film & Photographic Unit (British)
1 ALB – 1st Air Landing Brigade
AOC – Air Officer Commanding
1 BR – 1st Battalion the Border Regiment
CCP – Company / Casualty Collecting Post
CCS – Casualty Clearing Station
CCU – Combat Camera Unit (American)
CO – Commanding Officer
C/S – Colour Sergeant
DZ – Drop zone (for paratroopers)
FA – Field Ambulance, as in 181 FA
FCRE – Field Company Royal Engineers, as in 9 FCRE
Flak – AA (from the German word)
GP – Glider pilot
GPR – Glider Pilot Regiment (British)
HQ – Headquarters
LCA – Landing Craft Assault
LMG – Light machine gun
LZ – Landing zone (for gliders)
MDS – Main Dressing Station (as opposed to ADS)
MG – Machine gun
NASAF – Northwest African Strategic Air Force
OC – Officer Commanding
OR – Other Rank(s) (i.e. not officers)
PA-S – Piazzaforte Augusta-Siracusa, the fortified zone around the ports of Syracuse and Augusta
RAF – Royal Air Force
RAMC – Royal Army Medical Corps
RAP – Regimental Aid Post
RSF – Royal Scots Fusiliers
SAS – Special Air Service
SASO – Senior Air Staff Officer
S/L – Searchlight
SMO – Senior Medical Officer
SRS – Special Raiding Squadron (of 1 SAS)
2 SS – 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
TCC – Troop Carrier Command, USAAF
TCG – Troop Carrier Group, USAAF
TCS – Troop Carrier Squadron, USAAF
TCW – Troop Carrier Wing, USAAF
U/S – Unserviceable, i.e. not working
USAAF – United States Army Air Force
