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The Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets prescribed the words that are used to represent each letter of the alphabet, when spelling other words out loud, letter-by-letter, and how the spelling words should be pronounced for use by the Allies of World War II. They are not a "phonetic alphabet" in the sense in which that term is used in ...
The US adopted the Joint Army/Navy radiotelephony alphabet during 1941 to standardize systems among all branches of its armed forces. The US alphabet became known as Able Baker after the words for A and B. The Royal Air Force adopted one similar to the United States one during World War II as well. Other British forces adopted the RAF radio ...
A spelling alphabet is also often called a phonetic alphabet, especially by amateur radio enthusiasts, [1] recreational sailors in the US and Australia, [2] and NATO military organizations, [3] despite this usage of the term producing a naming collision with the usage of the same phrase in phonetics to mean a notation used for phonetic ...
Spelling alphabet a.k.a. radio alphabet: a set of code words for the names of the letters of an alphabet, used in noisy conditions such as radio communication; each word typically stands for its own initial letter NATO phonetic alphabet: the international standard (e.g., Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot etc.)
This is indeed the old obsolete alphabet used in WWII. The US military has used the alphabet you list, usually called the NATO phonetic alphabet, since 1956. The modern list is not called the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet. Joe Kress 21:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets; APCO radiotelephony spelling alphabet; B. Burmese respelling of the English alphabet; C.
The memorandum, which was submitted to Roosevelt on November 12, 1940, recommended option D, the origin of its name ("Dog" was D in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet): I believe that the continued existence of the British Empire, combined with building up a strong protection in our home areas, will do most to ensure the status quo in the ...
"Queen" is the word for Q in the old Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet used during late WWII that was replaced by the ICAO spelling alphabet and its "Quebec" in 1956 by all NATO military commands. Of course, these new words were also used by all of civil aviation since 1956 because the International Civil Aviation Organization (a United Nations ...