Glossary
In our collection you will encounter military terminology and acronyms. Here you can find out what they mean.
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Vertical (short) take off and landing
V/Australian Corps Heavy Trench Mortar Battery [First World War AIF Artillery Unit]
Visual signaling (by Aldis lamp in the case of aircraft)
Visual Telegraphy
German flying bomb
V1A Heavy Trench Mortar Battery [First World War AIF Artillery Unit]
German stratospheric rocket bomb
V2A Heavy Trench Mortar Battery [First World War AIF Artillery Unit]
V4A Heavy Trench Mortar Battery [First World War AIF Artillery Unit]
V5A Heavy Trench Mortar Battery [First World War AIF Artillery Unit]
Vice Admiral
Fifth Army Air Force (United States)
Voluntary Aid Detachment (First World War)
Vice Admiral
Vietnam Laboratory Assistance Programme Army
Voluntary Air Observation Corps (RAAF)
Voluntary Air Observation Post
Voluntary Air Observers Corps Control Post
Victoria Cross
Veterinary Corps (USA)
Viet Cong, a derogatory term for Vietnamese Communist. VC were irregular troops/guerillas mostly based in South Vietnam who opposed and fought the Government of [South] Vietnam (GVN).
Vulcanizer
Vice Chief of the Air Staff
Vehicle collecting centre
Vice Chief of the defence Force
Viet Cong Infrastructure
Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Viceroy's Commissioned Officer (India)
Venereal Disease
Volunteer Officers' Decoration or Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
Volunteer Defence Corps
Volunteer Defence Corps, Part time duty
Valvular disease of the heart (First World War)
Victory in Europe Day, 8 June 1945
Vehicle
Vertical replenishment at sea (helicopter)
Veterinary Evacuating Station
Veterinary
Veterinary Section
Veterinary Officer
Fighters (aircraft)
Very high frequency radio
Vertical Interval
Victoria
Very important person(s)
Vietnamese Information Service, VIS was the agency responsible for interpretation and dissemination of Government of [South] Vietnam (GVN) programs and information
Victory Over Japan
Very low altitude
Vehicle landing ramp
Very long range
Vertical launch system(s)
Vietnam Logistics Support Medal
Victorian Military Forces
Vietnamese Air Force
Vietnamese Marine Corps
Vietnamese Navy
Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang. Nationalist Party formed in 1927 along lines of Chinese Kuomintang.
Verbal Order (USA)
Veterinary Officer
Voyage Only
Volunteer Officer Candidate (USA)
Verbal Order Commanding General (USA)
Verbal Order Commanding Officer (USA)
Vehicle Outfit List
Vulnerable Point
Volunteer Reserve
Volunteer Rifle Corps
Vehicle Reserve Depot
Volunteer Reserve Officers' Decoration
Veterinary Service
Variable speed gear
Torpedo bombers
Vung Tau (Vietnam War)
Volunteer Training Corps
Vung Tau Special Zone