Appendix A: Equipment glossary
Equipment | Description | Location |
| 105mm | German Artillery 105mm Barrel | NB Diary |
| 75mm | German Artillery 75mm Barrel | NB Diary |
| 88mm | German Artillery 88mm Barrel | NB Diary |
| Austin 3-Tonner | Small lorry to carry the diesel generators | EH Article |
| Crossley | In RAF radar context, this implies the massive four-wheel vehicles of that make commonly used to accommodate mobile equipment. The Crossley truck had a large petrol engine with prodigious power and could tow almost anything. | NB Article |
| Diamond T | Large Recovery Truck | NB Diary |
| F.D.T. | Fighter Direction Tender (There were 3 FDTs off the Normandy beaches and were converted Landing Ship Tanks used as floating GCI stations) | NB Article |
| G.C.I. | Ground-Controlled Interception | NB Article |
| GP | General Purpose | NB Article |
| LCT | Landing Craft Tank | NB Article |
| L.S.T. | Landing Ship Tank. A form of special craft, designed to carry tanks to be beached in Normandy. Some, modified, became FDTs. | NB Diary |
| Mosquito | British Fighter Bomber. 2-engined. | NB Article |
| M.T. | Motor Transport | NB Article |
| MK1 | Mark 1 | |
| POL | Military term for petrol, oil and lubricants | NB Article |
| RADAR | Radio Direction and Ranging | NB Article |
| R.D.F. | The first title given to Radar in the UK. Generally understood to stand for Radio Direction Finding (alternatively, Reflected Direction Findings). Announced publicly as ‘Radiolocation’ in 1941, but this term was soon superseded by ‘Radar’. | |
| R.T. | Radio Telephony |