
Abbreviations, Acronyms, Codewords, Terms
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F-7
Single-seat, twin-engine U.S. Navy fighter used in World War II. It flew from Navy aircraft carriers. Built by Grumman, the F-7 had four .50-caliber guns in the nose and four 20-mm cannons in the wings. Could carry two 1,000-pound bombs, or 6 rockets, or a standard Navy torpedo. The F-7/F-3 was the photoreconnaissance version with cameras installed aft in the fuselage. The F-7s maximum takeoff weight was 25,720 pounds; top speed, 435 miles per hour at 22,200 feet; service ceiling, 40,700 feet; and combat range, 1,200 miles.
F-13A
Photoreconnaissance version of the B-29A.
F Abt--Feldtransportabteilung
Field Transportation Branch (German: p. 19)
FA
FABER
Potsaken River, New Britain
FABIAN
FABIUS
Amphibious landing exercises of all assault forces except Force U, early May 1944
FABIUS I-VI
A series of final rehearsals for the cross-Channel operation, involving the U.S. V Corps and British forces, carried out in April and May 1944
FABIUS III
Exercise for berthing, loading and sailing of assault forces in Portsmouth Command (2-5 May 1944)
FABULOUS
Kautaga Island, New Britain
FACTOR
Ailinglapalap Atoll, Marshall Islands
FACTORIAL
Unmak Island, Aleutian Islands
FACTOTUM
Tongareva (Penrhyn) Island, Pacific Ocean
FAdm
FADDY
FAIRWAY
Ritter Island, New Britain
FAIRY
FAITH
Sag Sag Anglican Mission, P.I.
FAKE
Bora Bora Island, Society Islands
FALLRIVER
FALSEHOOD
FALSTAFF
FAMINE
Volupai Point, New Britain
FAN
Symbol for messages from Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force to the Combined Chiefs of Staff
FANCY
FANFARE
All general preparations for HUSKY
FANFARE
Armored Task Force Middle East
FANTAN
FANTAN ONE
Nandi, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands
FANTAN TWO
Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands
FARES
Amchitka, Aleutian Islands
FARMHAND
Rano Plantation, New Britain
FARRAGO
FARTHERPOINT
FASCISM
Sivia Gila, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands
FASCIST
FASHION
House Fireman Beach, New Britain
FATSTUFF
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCNL
French Committee of National Liberation
F.D.R.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDRL
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
FE
FEAF
FEARSOME
FEATHER
FEATHERWEIGHT
FEATURE
FEC
FECOMZ
Forward Echelon, Communications Zone
FEDERAL
FEDERATION
Dampier Straits, New Guinea
FEDORA
FEEBLE
FEEDBAG
Cape Heussner, New Britain
Feldzeuginspektion--Fz Jn
Ordnance Inspectorate (German: p. 188)
FELIX
German plan for capture of Gibraltar.
FELSPAR
Shemya Island, Aluetian Islands
FENDER
FEODARY
FERDINAND
Australian intelligence organization in the Solomon Islands
FERDY
Landing made in the Vilo Valentia area, Italy (8 September 1943)
FERMENT
FERN
Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
FESTER
FESTIVE
Tukwauuka, Trobriand Island
FESTOON
FESTOONERY
FETLOCK
FETTLE
Building up India as a base
FEUDAL
FF
FFI
Forces Francaises de l'lnterieur (French Forces of the Interior)
FIDDLESTICK
FIDO
Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation
FIENDISH
Emidj Island, Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands
FIG
Fulau Island, Solomon Islands
FILBERT
Russell Islands, Solomon Islands
FILLET
Maleolap, Marshall Islands
FINANCE
FINANCIER
Mapia Island, Pacific Ocean
FINGERPRINT
FINICULA
FINKELSTEIN
Kiwok Island, New Britain
FIREARM
Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands
FIREBRAND
Operations against Corsica
FIREBREAK
Defense of U.S. West Coast against CV raids
FIREPLACE
Occupation of Adak Island, Aluetian Islands, at Rulah Bay and construction of airfield
FIRESIDE
FIREWORKS
FIRMAMENT
FIRST CULVERIN
Operation against Northern Sumatra, N.E.I.
FISHNET
Bismarck , Admiralty, North New Guinea operations
FISHTAIL
FISHTRAP
Cape Prince Of Wales, Alaska
FISTULA
Boagis Bay, Trobriand Island
FLAGMAN
FLAGON
Ogliuga Island, Aleutian Islands
FLAGRANT
Mogadiscio, Italian Somaliland
Flak
Antiaircraft artillery, or the exploding shells
FLAPJACK
FLAPPER
FLASHPOINT
The United States Ninth Army assault across the Rhine in operation PLUNDER--March, 1945
FLASHY
FLATBUSH
Vila Airfield, Solomon Islands
FLATCATCHER
FLATFOOT
FLETCHER
Avahain Island, New Britain
Flex
FLINTLOCK
Operations on Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, Marshall Islands (February 1944)
FLIVER
FLOAT
Plan of action to be taken by OSS/SOE to hamper enemy troop movemnts to a depth of 200 miles from the south coast of France
FLOODED
FLOODTIDE
FLOTSAM
FLONCED
Flot
FLOUNDER
FLOWER
Patrol of enemy night fighter airfields
FLOWER
Kakia Island, Solomon Islands
Flt
FLURRY
Ormed Island, Wotje Atoll, Marshall Islands
FLUX
FLYING FISH
FM
FMF
FO
FO
FODDER
FOGBOUND
Biliku Island, New Britain
FOLD
FOLLY
Rawlings Point, New Guinea
FOMENT
FOOTLIGHTS
Blockade of the French West Indies
FOOTMAN
For
FORAGER
Capture of the Marianas Islands (June 1944)
FORCEFUL
Aurapushekaru Island, Palau Islands
FORCEPS
South Pass, Truk Lagoon, Caroline Islands
FOREARM
FOREDOOM
FOREMOST
Concentration of submarines on the Norwegian coast agains the German BB Tirpitz (20 March 1944)
FORERUNNER
FORFAR-HOW
Attempted landing at Quend Plage, France (3-4 August 1943)
FORFAR-ITEM
Landing in vicinity of Point d'Ailly, French Coast (2-3 September 1943)
FORFAR-LOVE
Landing north of Dunkirk, France (4 August 1943)
FORK
Landing of Battalion of Royal Marines in Iceland from Greenock (7-17 May 1940) (G.B.)
FORMULA
Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands
FORMULATE
Angup Island, New Britain
Forschungsabteilung
Ordnance Research Branch (German: p. 258)
FORSOOTH
FORTITUDE
Threat operation in 1944 directed against the Pas-de-Calais area
FORTITUDE
FORTUNE
Planning Group Force located near Ecole Normale near Algiers (12 July 1943)
FOSDICK
FOSSIL
FOUNTAIN
Aineman Island, Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands
FOURFOLD
General of the Army George C. Marshall, USA
FOURSQUARE
Fourteen
14th Naval District (Hawaii)
FOX
Last of the major training exercises conducted by V Corps, held in March 1944
FOXTON
FOXTROT
FR
FRACTION
FRAGILE
Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands
FRANCIS
FRANCISCAN
Francs Tireurs et
French communist resistance group Partisans
FRANKFURTER
FRANKTON
Combined operation landing from canoes carried in H.M.S. Tun at mouth of Gironde River, France with object to destroy enemy shipping (11-12 December 1942) (G.B.)
FRANTIC
England to Russia air shuttle bombing operations
FRANTIC JOE
First Mediterranean-to-Russia air shuttle bombing mission.
Frd Heere Ost--Fremde Heere Ost
Eastern Armies Branch (German: p. 89)
Frd Heere West--Fremde Heere West
Western Armies Branch (German: p. 90)
FREECAR
Cruiser and air patrols in the Atlantic Narrows (27 December 1943)
FREEKICK
Freiwillige
FRENCHMAN
FRETWORK
Plan for reduction of U.S. Army forces in Japan and Korea
Freya (German)
Radar installation for long-range detection
FRICTION
Kikae (Kikaiga) Jima, Nansei Shoto Islands, Japan
FRIGIDAIRE
Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands
FRISKY
Magipun Passage, New Britain
FROG
FROG
Commando landing designed to destroy the battery at Houlgate along the coast to the east of the Orne (D-Day)
FROSTBITE
U.S. Navy CV operation in Arctic (1946)
FRUITCAKE
Kawasaki, Kaga Hara, Japan
FRUITION
FUDDLE
Followed by name of target (e.g. Fuddle Wake) denotes a hit and run strike on the designated target
Fuesilier battalion
Separate infantry and reconnaissance battalion in the German 1944-type division
Fuhrerhauptquartier
Field Headquarters of the OKW (German: p. 14)
FULCRUM
FULLBACK
FULLCRY
Palau Islands, Caroline Islands
FULLSIZE
FUME
FUNDAMENTAL
FUNERAL
FUNNYBONE
Kamiri, Noemfoor Island, New Guinea
FURIOUS
FURNACE
FUSA
FUSAG
First United States Army Group
FUSILIER
Blockade of French Guiana
FUSILLIER
Sape Strait, Lesser Sundas
FW-190
Single-engine, single-seat, monoplane interceptor. Built by Focke-Wulf, its basic airframe permitted adaption to a close-support fighter, fighter-bomber, and fighter-dive-bomber. This versatile and highly efficient aircraft served from late 1940 to the end of the war in Europe. Armament of the Fw-190F-3 consisted of two 7.9-mm fuselage-mounted machineguns, and two 20-mm cannon in the wings. Typical bombload comprised a single 550-pound bomb under the fuselage and four 110-pound bombs under the wings. Maximum takeoff weight was 10,850 pounds; top speed, 394 miles per hour at 18,000 feet; service ceiling, 34,780 feet; and combat range, 500 miles.
FWA
Fz Jn--Feldzeuginspektion
Ordnance Inspectorate (German: p. 188)
FY
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