Big Week: Six Days That Changed the Course of World War II (43 page)

CBO
Combined Bomber Offensive

CCOS
Combined Chiefs of Staff (alternate form of CCS)

CCS
Combined Chiefs of Staff (alternate form of CCOS)

COA
Committee of Operations Analysts

COPC
Combined Operations Planning Committee

COSSAC
Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Command (precursor to SHAEF)

EOU
Enemy Objectives Unit (of the Economic Warfare Division)

ETO
European Theater of Operations

ETOUSA
European Theater of Operations, United States Army (organizational precursor to ETO)

EWD
Economic Warfare Division

GASC
Ground Air Support Command

GWF
Gothaer Waggonfabrik

IP
Initial Point (the map coordinates of the beginning point of a bomb run)

MAAF
Mediterranean Allied Air Forces

MACAF
Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force

MASAF
Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force

MATAF
Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force

MEAF
Middle East Air Forces

MEW
Ministry of Economic Warfare (United Kingdom)

MIAG
Muhlenbau-Industrie AG

MTO
Mediterranean Theater of Operations

MTOUSA
Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army (organizational precursor to MTO)

NAAF
Northwest African Air Forces

NACAF
Northwest African Coastal Air Force

NASAF
Northwest African Strategic Air Force

NATAF
Northwest African Tactical Air Force

NATOUSA
North African Theater of Operations, US Army (later MTOUSA)

ORS
Operational Research Section (of the Eighth Air Force)

OSS
Office of Strategic Services

RAF
Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)

RLM
Reichsluftfahrtministerium (German Air Ministry)

SHAEF
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force

SKF
Svenska Kullagerfabriken

USAAF
US Army Air Forces

USSAFE
United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe

USSTAF
United States Strategic Air Forces

VKF
Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken

WPD
War Plans Division

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