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Back to Ebb And FlowMilitary Units- IdentificationSignificance of symbols on military maps |
| Antiaircraft Artillery |  | ||||
| Armored Command |  | ||||
| Army Air Forces |  | ||||
| Artillery, except Antiaircraft and Coast Artillery |  | ||||
| Cavalry, Horse |  | ||||
| Cavalry, Mechanized |  | ||||
| Chemical Warfare Service |  | ||||
| Coast Artillery |  | ||||
| Engineers |  | ||||
| Infantry |  | ||||
| Medical Corps |  | ||||
| Ordnance Department |  | ||||
| Quartermaster Corps |  | ||||
| Signal Corps |  | ||||
| Tank Destroyer |  | ||||
| Transportation Corps |  | ||||
| Veterinary Corps |  | ||||
| Airborne units are designated by combining a gull symbol with the arm or service symbol: | |||||
| Airborne Artillery |  | ||||
| Airborne Infantry |  | ||||
| Size Symbols | |||||
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| The following symbols placed either in boundary lines or above the rectangle, triangle, or circle inclosing the identifying arm or service symbol indicate the size of military organization: | |||||
| Squad |  | ||||
| Section |  | ||||
| Platoon |  | ||||
| Company, troop, battery, Air Force flight |  | ||||
| Battalion, cavalry squadron, or Air Force squadron |  | ||||
| Regiment or group; combat team (with abbreviation CT following identifying numeral) |  | ||||
| Brigade, Combat Command of Armored Division, or Air Force Wing |  | ||||
| Division or Command of an Air Force |  | ||||
| Corps or Air Force |  | ||||
| Army |  | ||||
| Group of Armies |  | ||||
| EXAMPLES | |||||
| The letter or number to the left of the symbol indicates the unit designation; that to the right, the designation of the parent unit to which it belongs. Letters or numbers above or below boundary lines designate the units separated by the lines: | |||||
| Company A, 137th Infantry |  | ||||
| 8th Field Artillery Battalion |  | ||||
| Combat Command A, 1st Armored Division |  | ||||
| Observation Post, 23d Infantry |  | ||||
| Command Post, 5th Infantry Division |  | ||||
| Boundary between 137th and 138th Infantry |  | ||||
| Weapons | |||||
| Machine gun |  | ||||
| Gun |  | ||||
| Gun battery |  | ||||
| Howitzer or Mortar |  | ||||
| Tank |  | ||||
| Self-propelled gun |  | ||||
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