Deciasstrres

oD DIR 5200-10
NY

Declassified

DOD DIE 5200.10

PEARL HARBOR
HONOLULU, OAHU, T.H.

CRAB

c. Shipping designators to be used for classified shipments
will be distributed under separate cover.
d, It is the responsibility of persons receiving shipping
designator information to supply the information to other personnel

for transaction of official business only. When non-military personnel
are given the meanings of shipping designators they will be held re-

sponsible for their security, Care will be taken to prevent agencies
or persons actually engaged in handling shipments from knowing the geographical locations represented by the shipping designators when this
information is not essential to their operations.
e. Every precaution will be exercised to prevent confusing
code words with shipping designators,
3.

OVERSEAS ADDRESS:

a. A coded overseas address is the complete marking used to
identify a shipment and to indicate its overseas destination.

b. There are normally five (5) authorized parts in an overseas address, each of which will be separated by dashes (~-), These

dashes serve as spacers between the component parts.

Fos

-

W

Part 1

Part 2

-

II

-

Part: 3

SFU

~

. Part

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Part 5

(1)

The first part always consists of either the shipping

(2)

The second part will be a letter symbol known as the

designation which identifies the port of discharge, or
a shipment number which identifies a particular troop
unit.
time indicator used to indicate the specific half-

month period during which shipments will be forwarded

overseas by ports of embarkation,

(a)

The following table will be used in selecting
the proper time indicator letter:

JAN

FEB

YAR

APR

MAY

$%I 1-15
J1631
Nov

K 1-15
1 16-30
DEC

M 1-15

P

1-15

R 1-15

T

1-15

W 1-15

Y 1-15

N 16-31

Q 16-31

8 16-30

U 1631

X 16-30

Z 16~31

ALIS
Bl6-31
JUL

NOTE:

C15
D16-29
AUG

ES
F163
SEP

GieS5
4H1630
OCT

JUN

Letters "0" and "V" are not used.
veclassitied

DOD Diz &200.10
TASK GROUP 7.4
OPRS ORDER NO. 1-53
ANNEX C, APNDX 2

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