Military Map Symbols

Knowing your Chemical Warfare Services from your Veterinary Corps.

Military Map Symbol, Antiaircraft Artillery

Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA)

Armored Command

Army Air Forces

Artillery (not AA or coastal)

Cavalry (horse)

Cavalry (mechanized)

Chemical Warfare Services

Coastal Artillery

Engineer Unit

Infantry

Medical Corps

Ordnance Department

Quartermaster Corps

Signal Corps

Tank Destroyer

Transportation Corps

Veterinary Corps

Airborne elements / units are designated by combining a "gull wing" symbol with the arm or service symbol as follows:

Airborne Artillery

Airborne Infantry

The following symbols placed either in boundary lines or above the rectangle, triangle, or circle enclosing the identifying arm or service symbol indicate the size of military organization:

Squad

Section

Platoon

Company / Troop / Battery / Flight

Military Map Symbol, Infantry Battalion / Cavalry Squadron / Air Force Squadron

Battalion / Cavalry Sqdrn / AF Sqdrn

Regiment / Group / Combat Team

Military Map Symbol, Brigade Command / Armored Division / Air Force Wing

Brigade Cmd / Armored Div / AF Wing

Division / Command of an Air Force

Corps / Air Force

Army

Group of Armies

Specialized weapon types receive their own symbols on a military map:

Machine Gun

Gun

Gun Battery

Howitzer / Mortar

Tank

Self-Propelled Gun

Putting it All Together

The letter or number to the left of the symbol indicates the unit designation; that to the right, the designation of the parent unit to which it belongs to. Letters or numbers above or below boundary lines designate the units separated by the lines:

Company A, 137th Infantry

8th Field Artillery Battalion

Cbt Cmd A, 1st Armored Division

Obsv Post, 23d Infantry

Cmd Post, 5th Infantry Div

Btw 137th & 138th Infantry

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