Basic Military Map Symbols

[David]

Symbols within a rectangle indicate a military unit, within a triangle an observation post, and within a circle a supply point.

Military Units- Identification
Antiaircraft Artillery
Armored Command
Army Air Forces
Artillery, except Antiaircraft and Coast Artillery
Cavalry, Horse
Cavalry, Mechanized
Chemical Warfare Service
Coast Artillery
Engineers
Infantry
Medical Corps
Ordnance Department
Quartermaster Corps
Signal Corps
Tank Destroyer
Transportation Corps
Veterinary Corps
Airborne units are designated by combining a gull symbol with the arm or service symbol:
Airborne Artillery
Airborne Infantry

Size Symbols
The following symbols placed either in boundary lines or above the rectangle, triangle, or circle inclosing the identifying arm or service symbol indicate the size of military organization:
Squad
Section
Platoon
Company, troop, battery, Air Force flight
Battalion, cavalry squadron, or Air Force squadron
Regiment or group; combat team (with abbreviation CT following identifying numeral)
Brigade, Combat Command of Armored Division, or Air Force Wing
Division or Command of an Air Force
Corps or Air Force
Army
Group of Armies

EXAMPLES
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. Letters or numbers above or below boundary lines designate the units separated by the lines:
Company A, 137th Infantry
8th Field Artillery Battalion
Combat Command A, 1st Armored Division
Observation Post, 23d Infantry
Command Post, 5th Infantry Division
Boundary between 137th and 138th Infantry

Weapons
Machine gun
Gun
Gun battery
Howitzer or Mortar	.
Tank
Self-propelled gun

[SuperScout]

You must have found these in some WWII manuals. Many have been changed.

[David]

Here is a link to more modern map symbols US and NATO Military Map Symbols - The Patriot...