Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa

Abbreviations

Abbreviations Service Abbreviations ARSN Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy ARSO Annual Report of the Army’s Chief Signal Officer BuAer Bureau of Aeronautics BuCR Bureau of Construction and Repair BuEng Bureau of Engineering BuEq Bureau of Equipment BuNav Bureau of Navigation BuOrd Bureau of Ordnance BuSA Bureau of Supplies and Accounts BuSE Bureau of Steam Engineering BuShips Bureau of Ships CIC Combat Information Center C-in-C commander-in-chief CinCLant commander-in-chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet CinCPac commander-in-chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet CNO chief of naval operations COMINCH commander-in-chief, U.S. Fleet (World War II) CSO USN chief signal officer, U.S. Navy CTF Commander Task Force CTG Commander Task Group ECM electric cipher machine NRL Naval Research Laboratory OPNAV Office of the Chief of Naval Operations ORN Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of Rebellion OTC officer in tactical command 228 Abbreviations SecNav Secretary of the Navy SOE Squadron of Evolution USMC United States Marine Corps USNIP United States Naval Institute Proceedings Archival Abbreviations ADM 116/523 Wireless Telegraphy—Experiments, Admiralty: Record Office: Cases, Records of the Navy Board and the Board of Admiralty, National Archives, Kew, U.K. ADM 116/567 Marconi Wireless Telegraphy System, Admiralty: Record Office: Cases, Records of the Navy Board and the Board of Admiralty, National Archives, Kew, U.K. AIR 2/2625 Flying Arrangements for Biggin Hill Experiments, Air Ministry and Ministry of Defense: Registered Files, General Records of the Air Boards and Air Ministry, National Archives, Kew, U.K. CC/100 History of Naval Radio (Series 100), George H. Clark Radioana Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. IWM/CC Robert Church Collection, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum Collections, London. LOC/HP Papers of Stanford C. Hooper, Naval Historical Foundation Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. M89/SL National Archives Microfilm M89, Letters Received by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanding Officers of Squadrons (“Squadron Letters”), 1841–1886 M964/FP National Archives Microfilm M964, Records Relating to United States Navy Fleet Problems I to XXII, 1923–1941 M971/FR National Archives Microfilm M971, Annual Reports of Fleets and Task Forces of the U.S. Navy, 1920–1941 M984/GO National Archives Microfilm M984, Navy Department General Orders, 1863–1948 M1140/SCC National Archives Microfilm M1140, Secret and Confidential Correspondence of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, 1919–1927 NA/VF Vertical File, Special Collections and Archives, Nimitz Library, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. NDL/HR World War II Histories and Historical Reports, Special Collections, Navy Department Library, Washington, D.C. Abbreviations 229 NDL/ZB Biographical (ZB) Files, Special Collections, Navy Department Library, Washington, D.C. NOA/OB Officer Biographies, U.S. Navy Operational Archives, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C. NOA/WWII World War II Command File, U.S. Navy Operational Archives, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C. NWC/LP Papers of Caleb B. Laning, Manuscript Collection 116, Naval Historical Collection, Naval War College Archives, Newport, R.I. NWC/OH Oral Histories, Naval Historical Collection, Naval War College Archives, Newport, R.I. PU/MP Benjamin F. Miessner Papers, Purdue University Archives and Special Collections, West Lafayette, Ind. RG19/BEQ General Correspondence, 1899–1910, Records of the Bureau of Equipment, Records of the Bureau of Ships, Record Group 19, National Archives, Washington, D.C. RG19/NRLC Naval Research Laboratory General Files, 1923–1940, Confidential, Records of the Bureau of Ships, Record Group 19, National Archives, Washington, D.C. RG19/NRLS Naval Research Laboratory General Files, 1923–1940, Secret, Records of the Bureau of Ships, Record Group 19, National Archives, Washington, D.C. RG19/OM Orders and Memoranda, 1906–1930, Records of the Bureau of Equipment, Records of the Bureau of Ships, Record Group 19, National Archives, Washington, D.C. RG19/WT Records Relating to Wireless Stations and Tests of Wireless Equipment, 1904–1910, Records of the Bureau of Equipment, Records of the Bureau of Ships, Record Group 19, National Archives, Washington, D.C. RG24/DL Logs of U.S. Naval Ships, 1801–1915, Logs of Ships and Stations, 1801–1946, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Record Group 24, National Archives, Washington...