AGRU-Front – Technische Ausbildungsgruppe für Front U-Boote – technical training group for front-line U-boats.

Aggregat 4 (A4) – original name of the German V2 rocket.

In the end, the Afrika Korps was defeated by combined offensives from the British and Americans. Allied efforts to defeat Rommel were high and many historians believe that had Rommel convinced Hitler to provide him with three additional divisions of tanks, he very well could have gained command of the Suez Canal in early 1942 and cut off the vast supplies being sent from America to the Soviet Union via the Persian Gulf.

Afrika Korps – the elite German mechanized force commanded by Erwin Rommel, known as the 'Wüstenfuchs' (en: Desert Fox), which performed exemplary in Hitler's North African campaigns between 19.

These attacks ultimately failed and the air campaign is now known in the anglophone world as the Battle of Britain.

Adlerangriff – 'Eagle Attack' term for projected 'decisive attack' by the Luftwaffe on RAF Fighter Command under the direction of Hermann Göring, instituted to gain control of the skies from the Royal Air Force and soften Britain for the impending invasion forces planned in Operation Seelöwe (Sea Lion).

Abzeichen – insignia badge of rank, appointment or distinction.Also an element in such compounds as Fliegerabwehr-Kanone 'anti-aircraft gun.' Abwehr – 'defense' as a shortening of Spionage Abwehr (spy defense) the term referred to the counter-espionage service (German Secret Service) of the German High Command, headed by Admiral Canaris.Abteilungsveterinär – battalion veterinarian.Abteilungsführer – substitute battalion commander in artillery and cavalry formations.Abteilungschef – battalion commander in artillery and cavalry formations.Abteilung (Abt.) – a battalion-sized unit of armor, artillery or cavalry in other contexts a detachment or section.Ablösungsdivision – relief division (1917), later renamed Eingreif division (intervention division).abgeschossen – shot down destroyed by means of firing.A-Stand – forward defensive gunner's position on aircraft.

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