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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND CODE NAMES



HMG, His (Britannic) Majesty's
  Government
HMS, His (Britannic) Majesty's Ship
ILO, International Labor Organization
JCS, Joint (United States Army and
  Navy) Chiefs of Staff
jg, junior grade
JLC, Joint Logistics Committee
JPS, Joint Staff Planners
JSSC, Joint Strategic Survey Com-
  mittee
JWPC, Joint War Plans Committee
Le, Office of the Legal Adviser,
  Department of State
LOYALIST, Code name for the opera-
  tion to liberate Burma
L/T, Assistant (Assistant Legal Ad-
  viser) for Treaty Affairs, Depart-
  ment of State
LVT, Landing vehicle, tracked
M, Communications indicator
MAGNETO, Code name for Yalta as
  a geographical location
MANHATTAN DISTRICT, Code
  name for the atomic-bomb-develop-
  ment project
MC, Medical Corps
MC-V(s), Medical Corps, Volunteer
  (Specialist)
ME, Division of Middle Eastern
  Affairs, Department of State
MILEPOST, Code name referring to
  stockpiling of supplies in eastern
  Siberia for the use of Soviet forces
  in the war against Japan
MR, Map Room at the White House or
  at the   conference.  Served  as
  communications center for the Pres-
  ident
MWT, Ministry of War Transport
  (British)
NAF, Military communications indi-
  cator
Narkomindel, People's Commissariat
  for Foreign Affairs (Soviet)
NCR, Communications indicator
NEA, Office of Near Eastern and
  African Affairs, Department of State
NIACT, a communications indicator
  requiring attention by the recipient
  at any hour of the day or night
NKVD, People's Commissariat for
  Internal Affairs (Soviet)



OCTAGON, Code name for the Second
  Quebec Conference, September 11-
  16, 1944
OPD, Operations Division, War De-
  partment General Staff
para, paragraph
PM, Prime Minister
RAF, Royal Air Force (British)
RANKIN "C", Code name for a plan
  that provided for Allied action in
  case of German unconditional sur-
  render and cessation of organized
  resistance
ReEmbs, Regarding the Embassy's
  (telegram)
ReEmbstel, Regarding the Embassy's
  telegram
Ret, retired
RN, Royal Navy (British)
S, Office of the Secretary of State
SA, National Socialist Storm Troops
  (German)
SACMED, Supreme Allied Command-
  er, Mediterranean
SACSEA, Supreme Allied Commander,
  Southeast Asia
SC, Supply Corps
SCAEF, Supreme Commander, Allied
  Expeditionary Force
SCAF, Military communications indi-
  cator
SCC, Secretary's Coordinating Com-
  mittee
SEAC, Southeast Asia Command
See, Secretary
ser, series
sess, session
SHAEF, Supreme Headquarters, Allied
  Expeditionary Force
SM, Secretarial memorandum, Joint
  Chiefs of Staff
SPA, Office of Special Political Affairs,
  Department of State
SS, National Socialist Elite Guard
  (German)
SSR, Soviet Socialist Republic
Stat, The Statutes at Large of the
  United States
S/W, Secretary of War
SWNCC, State-War-Navy Coordinat-
  ing Committee
TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority



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