
Abbreviations, Acronyms, Codewords, Terms
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See also Navy Numbers for disguised mail addresses
e.g.: "NN 12, NY" = Georgetown, British Guiana
N Af
NAAFI
Navy Army Air Force Institute (British)
NABOB
Nachrichtenbetriebsabteilung des Ch H Rust u. BdE
Signal communications branch of the Chief of Army Equipment and Commander of the Replacement Army (German: p. 292)
Nachrichtengeratabteilung
Signal Equipment Branch (German: p. 171, 235)
Nachrichtenhelferinnen-Einsatzabteilung
Female Auxiliary Corps (German: p. 296)
Nachrichtentruppenabteilung--Jn 7
Signal Branch, Inspectorate 7 (German: p. 170)
NAD
NAF
Symbol for messages from the Combined Chiefs of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Allied Expeditionary Force
NANTYDERRY
NAPKIN
Feuea Village, Gilbert Islands
NAPOLEON
Dover counterinvasion measures (30 June 1940) (UK)
NARCISSUS
NARCOTIC
Rumut Passage, New Britain
NAS
NASAL
NATCHEZ
NATE
The Nakajima type 97 single-engine Japanese Army and Navy fighter
Nationalsozialistischer Fuhrungsstab des Heeres
National Socialist Guidance Staff of the Army (German: p. 297)
NATIVE
Natl
NATO
North African Theater of Operations
NAUGHTY
Alimbit River, New Britain
NAUSEATE
Kapoli River, New Britain
Nav
NAVAJO
NBC
Newfoundland Base Command
n.d.
ND
NDA
NEARHAND
Mangrove Island, New Britain
NEB
Nebelwerfer
German rocket projector or chemical mortar
NECKERCHIEF
Kaka River, New Georgia, Solomon Islands
NECROMANCER
NECTAR
NEGAT
U.S. Navy COMINT/cryptanalysis center in Washington, D.C.
N.E.I.
NEIGHBOR
NELL
Mitsubishi twin-engine medium bombers type 96 (Japanese)
NEMESIS
Kumbun Island, New Britain
NEOPHYTE
NEPTUNE
Actual operations within OVERLORD to be used instead of OVERLORD only in communications and documents which disclose directly or by interence (a) target area, (b) precise dates of assaults, (c) the total scale of assaults
NEPTUNE
Embarkation of members of French Genral Giraud's staff off River Var, near Nice, South France (7-8 November 1942)
NERVOUS
Arowak Island, New Britain
NESTEGG
Occupation of Channel Islands either after surrender of local German garrison or after evacuation of islands by Germans
NESTEGG
NEUROTIC
NEWBIGGIN
Guernsey Island, English Channel
NEWCOMER
NEW HAVEN
NEWINGTON
NEWLANDS
Cherbourg-Querqueville, France
NEWSPAPER
NGB
N Ger Abt--Nachrichtengeratabteilung
Signal Equipment Branch (German: p. 171, 235)
NGF
NH--Einsatzabteilung -- Nachrichtenhelferinnen-Einsatzabteilung
Female Auxiliary Corps (German: p. 296)
NHD
NIBLICK
NICETY
NICK ISLAND
Entrance Island, Solomon Islands
NIGHTINGALE
NIGHTMARE
South Coast, Mindanao, P.I.
NIGHTOUT
NIGHTSTICKER
NILE
American Mission, Salinas, Ecuador
NIMBUS
Nukuoro Island, Caroline Islands
NIPPLE
Magulata Point, Trobriand Island
NIPPLE
Schaumann Island, New Britain
NIRVANA
NISI
NOAH
Joint Army-Navy directive for the defense of Iceland and Greenland
NOAHSARK
NOB
NOBALL
Attacks against rocket launching sites
NOGGIN
NOIC
NOISELESS
Tanahmerah Bay, New Guinea
NONCONFORMIST
NONSTOP
Redeployment of U.S. Forces following the defeat of Germany
NONSTOP
NOONTIDE
Norden bombsight
A gyroscopically stabilized synchronizing bombsight used mainly for strategic bombing in World War II. Utilizing preset data and manual operation by the bombardier, the Norden bombsight computed the correct dropping angle and, in connection with an automatic pilot or pilot direction indicator, determined the proper course for the aircraft to the target.
NORMAN
Capture of Corsica and Sardinia (9 September 1943)
NORTHPOLE
Vitu Islands, Bismarck Archipelago
NOSEBAG
NOSERING
NOTEBOOK
Buildup of the Air Transport Route to China
NOUGAT
NR
Number (relating to a radiogram)
NRMC
Naval Records Management Center (Alexandria, VA)
NSD
NSF/OKW--Nationalsozialistischer Fuhrungsstab des OKW
National-Socialist Guidance Staff of the OKW (German: p. 65)
NSF St d H--Nationalsozialistischer Fuhrungsstab des Heeres
National-Socialist Guidance Staff of the Army (German: p. 297)
NTG
NUBBIN
NUCLEUS
Boimagi Island, Trobriand Island
NUMBSKULL
Kapiura River, New Britain
NUSA
NUTCRACKER
NUTCRACKER
NUTPINE
NWSC
Northwest Service Command
NYPE
New York Port of Embarkation
NYPOE
New York Port of Embarkation
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