I'm starting to read War Diaries and thought it might be helpful to have a general thread where people can help each other with Abbreviations etc. For example the diary below refers to APers bombs and UX bombs. I am thinking the first might be anti personnel and the second might mean unexploded? I have found a great set of original British Army maps of Normandy on Normandywarguide in the articles section and have been able to accurately find the locations mentioned, if that helps anyone.
Hello Jill, You are correct about the abbreviations. You may want to have a look at these: Updated Resource - Abbreviations & Acronyms New Resource - Topographic & Town/City Maps Richard p.s. Thanks for the link to the maps on Archives ยป Normandy War Guide, I hadn't seen them before.
Help with War Diary Abbreviations WW2 Commonwealth Army War Diaries, Info Thread abbreviations | WW2Talk Unit History - scroll to bottom of page for general info threads on war diaries
Operational question. Currently working through RA and CBO WDs for the Tobruk siege in 1941 - naby complaints about dust and sand storms. Fortunately these diaries are all typed. How did they produce some 16 to 20 copies each day?
They had some kind of paper-copying technology. There was also an army newsletter within Tobruk, I believe.
Thanks .. While the Australians were there they produced one known as "Dinkum Oil " or "Tobruk Truth" .
Re. Normandy War Guide Very useful - but for some strange reason nothing there ever seems to be "quiet" - it's all so "quite" - instead...
