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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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