ABBREVIATIONS AEC AFB AFCRC AFOAT AFSWC AFSWP AGC ANL APD ARDC ARSD ATF AV AVR amAtomic Energy Commission — Air Force Base — Air Force Cambridge Research Center ~ Air Force Office for Atomic Energy — Air Force Special Weapons Center BRL — Ballistic Research Laboratories — Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy — Bureau of Ships, U. S. Navy CFRES CINC PAC CNO CONUS CRL CVE — arnphibious force flagship — Argonne National Laboratory — high speed transport — Air Research and Development Command — salvage lifting vessels — ocean tug, fleet — seaplane tender — crash boat - California Forest and Range Experiment Station — Commander-in-Chief, Pacific — Chief of Naval Operations -— Continental United States — Chemical and Radiological Laboratories — alreraft carriers, escort DBM DD DE DOD D-T DUKW — amphibious truck - 2-1/2 ton capacity EG&G ERDL ESL ~ Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc. — Engineer Research and Development Laboratory ~ Evans Signal Laboratory FA — forward area’ GZ — ground zero HE HMR — high explosive — Marine Helicopter Squadron — Division of Biology and Medicine, AEC - destroyer —~ escort vessel ~ Department of Defense — deuterium-tritium - AFWLUHC kb BuAer BuShips — Armed Forces Special Weapons Project li - JC