List of Abbreviations

AAA

Antiaircraft artillery

AFA

Armored field artillery

ASCOM

Army Service Command

AW

Automatic weapons

BCT

Battalion Combat Team

BomCom

Bomber Command

CCF

Chinese Communist Forces

CINCFE

Commander in Chief, Far East

CINCUNC

Commander in Chief, United Nations Command

ComCarCom

Combat Cargo Command

CPV

Chinese People's Volunteers

CTC

Civil Transport Corps

DPRK

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

EUSAK

Eighth U.S. Army in Korea

FA

Field artillery

FAF

Fifth Air Force

FEAF

Far East Air Forces

FEAM Com

Far East Materiel Command

FEC

Far East Command

H&W

Health and welfare

I&R

Intelligence and reconnaissance

JCS

Joint Chiefs of Staff

JLC

Japan Logistical Command

KATUSA

Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army

KMAG

U.S. Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea

KMC

Korean Marine Corps

KOSB

King's Own Scottish Borderers

KSLI

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

LCM

Landing craft, mechanized

LST

Landing ship, tank

512

LVT

Landing vehicle, tracked

MASH

Mobile Army surgical hospital

MAW

Marine air wing

NavFE

Naval Forces, Far East

NKPA

North Korean People's Army

PLA

People's Liberation Army (Chinese)

POL

Petroleum, oil, lubricants

PPCLI

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

RCT

Regimental combat team

ROK

Republic of Korea (South Korea)

ROKA

Republic of Korea Army

RUR

Royal Ulster Rifles

SAG

Special activities group

SCAJAP

Shipping Control Administration, Japan

TOT

Time on target

UNC

United Nations Command

UNCACK

United Nations Civil Assistance Command, Korea

UNCURK

United Nations Commission for the Unification and

 

Rehabilitation of Korea

UNRC

United Nations Reception Center

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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