List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
AAA: Anti-Aircraft Artillery
AB: Air Base
AF: Air Force
AFB: Air Force Base
AFM: Air Forces Monthly
ANG: Air National Guard
AP: Airport
AMARC: Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona
ANLC: Army-Navy Liquidation Commission
BEA: British European Airways
BOAC: British Overseas Airways Corporation
BG: Bombardment Group
BS: Bombardment Squadron
C/N: Construction Number
CA: Combat Aircraft
CAF: Confederate Air Force (now Commemorative Air Force)
CAP: Civil Air Patrol
CL-26: USAAF category of aircraft deemed to be non-flying aircraft used for the training of ground maintence personnel.
DOW: Died of Wounds.
DPC: Defense Plant Corporation (a subsidiary of the RFC)
DVM: Depot Vliegtuig Materieel (Holland)
EdA: Ejercito de Aire (Spanish Air Force)
FLC: Foreign Liquidation Commission. Agency set up by the War Department, bonded and operated thru state. Sold aircraft to neutral countries
FMS: Foreign Military Sales
FY: Fiscal Year
JASDF: Japan Air Self Defense Force
JSTARS: Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System
KIA: Killed In Action
KLu: Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands Air Force
LLN: Leger Luchtmacht Nederland (Netherlands Army Air Forces)
MACR: Missing Air Crew Report
MAP: Military Assistance Program
MASDC: Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center
MIA: Missing In Action
MLD: Marine Luchtvaart Dienst (Royal Netherlands Navy)
NACA: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASM: National Air and Space Museum
NEIAF: Netherlands East Indies Air Force
PLAAF: People's Liberation Army Air Force
POW: Prisoner of War
RAAF: Royal Australian Air Force
RAF: Royal Air Force
RCAF: Royal Canadian Air Force
RFC: Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RMC: Returned to Military Control
RNZAF: Royal New Zealand Air Force
ROCAF: Republic of China Air Force
SE: SouthEast
SOC: Struck Off Charge
SVN: South VietNam
TACAMO: Take Charge And Move Out
USAAC: United States Army Air Corps
USAAF: United States Army Air Forces
USAF: United States Air Force
VIP: Very Important Person
WAA: War Assets Administration
W/O: Written Off
WFU: Withdrawn From Use
WPAFB: Wright Patterson Air Force Base