WW2 Luftwaffe Phonetic Alphabet
George G. Hopp
Would anyone on this newsgroup happen to know the WW2 Luftwaffe Phonetic
Alphabet, and be willing to share their knowledge. By phonetic alphabet, I
mean, the Luftwaffe equivalent of Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc.
Thanks,
George Hopp
John D Salt
In article <6e7bv8$n...@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>,
A marvellous site, with the most complete coverage of phonetic alphabets
you are likely to find anywhere, is at:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/bck1/phon.full.html
Mr. Picky says: It's "Alfa", not "Alpha". The "Alfa, Bravo, Charlie,
Delta" alphabet was not used in WW2. In 1956 (?) the ICAO introduced
an alphabet remarkably similar to the current NATO one, differing only
in having "Cocoa" for Charlie and "Metro" for Mike.
All the best,
John.
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George Hopp wrote:
> Would anyone on this newsgroup happen to know the WW2 Luftwaffe
> Phonetic Alphabet, and be willing to share their knowledge. By
> phonetic alphabet, I mean, the Luftwaffe equivalent of Alpha,
> Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, etc.
Well, somewhere out there on the net, there seems to be one or more experts on
darn near anything. And, there are experts on phonetic alphabets. You could
consult them.
I have not seen anything complete as old as WW II in German, (in English, the
OED mentions "beer" and "emma" being used in 1891.)
I am going to guess that the WW II German one was something like the one from
1965 given below:
Anton Berta Caesar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Karl Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle Richard
Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xanthippe Ypsilon
Zeppelin
but, I can't find enough gun turrets, or airplane models, to confirm more than
"Gustav" or so.
The following is a periodic posting from the guys that know with everything
they had on German. From this, and using Deja News, you could find out more, or
ask the mavens.
Henry Hillbrath
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Subject: Phonetic alphabets (Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta) (1997/5/1)
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 13:52:41 -0500
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Summary: phonetic/spelling alphabets for various languages
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Phonetic Alphabets (Alpha Bravo etc)
May 1997
There is a widely known alphabet Alpha Bravo ... Yankee Zulu.
Such alphabets are variously known as phonetic/radio/
spelling/telephone alphabets, and the term analogy alphabet
is also used. This collection currently includes alphabets
for the following languages:
English, French, German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, Romansh, Danish, Norwegian,
Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian,
Croatian, Serbo-Croat, Romanian, Turkish, Hebrew,
Russian, Swahili, Kwanyama, Ndonga, Afrikaans,
Chinese and Esperanto.
....
***** GERMAN *****
[style: A wie Anton]
[some alphabets have phonetics for umlauts, ch, sch, ss]
Contributor: Hermann Schumacher
(official alphabet for emergency services,
from "KatS-Dv 810 - Sprechfunkdienst", 1977)
Anton Berta C"asar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Kaufmann Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Samuel Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xanthippe
Ypsilon Zacharias
"Arger Charlotte "Okonom Schule "Ubermut
[also Langenscheidt Standard German Dictionary 1993
and West Berlin telephone directory 1965]
Contributor: mr...@eso.org (Michael Rosa)
Anton Berta Caesar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Karl Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle Richard
Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xanthippe Ypsilon
Zeppelin
A"rger O"dipus U"bel
More recent replacements: Konrad Zacharias
Contributor: Erik Tjong Kim Sang
anton bertha c"asar dora emil friederich gustav heinrich ida
julius kaufmann ludwig martha nordpol otto paula quelle
richard samuel theodor ulrich viktor wilhelm xanthippe
ypsilon zacharias
"arger charlotte "okonom schule "ubermut
Contributor: Rudolf Lais
(Swiss telephone directory 1993)
Anna Bertha Ca"sar Daniel Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Jakob Kaiser Leopold Marie Niklaus Otto Peter Quelle Rosa
Sophie Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xaver Yverdon Zu"rich
[also Geneva directory 1966]
Contributor: Christof A Neumann
(issued by Deutsche Bundespost)
Anton Bertha Caesar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Jakob Konrad Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle Richard
Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xantippe Ypsilon
Zeppelin
Schule
Contributor: Steve Dunham
Anton Berta Caesar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Johann Kaufmann Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula quer
Richard Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xaver
Ypsilon Zeppelin
Eszett
(OUP vocabulary book)
Anton Berta Ca"sar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Konrad Ludwig Martin Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xanten
Ypsilon Zeppelin
A"rger O"konom U"bel
(Collins vocabulary book)
Anton Berta Ca"sar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Jerusalem Kaufmann Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Samuel Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xanthippe
Ypsilon Zacharias
(Cassel business book)
Anton Berta Caesar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Kaufmann Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xanthippe
Ypsilon Zacharias
A"rger O"konom Schule U"bel
(BBC business book) "standard phone alphabet"
Anton Berta Ca"sar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Kaufmann Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Siegfried/Samuel Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm
Xanthippe Ypsilon Zeppelin/Zacharias
A"rger Charlotte O"konom Schule U"bermut
(BBC business book)
Anton Berta Ca"sar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Kaufmann Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xanthippe
Ypsilon Zeppelin
A"rger O"konom scharfes_s Schule U"bermut
(Berlitz phrase book)
Anton Berta Caesar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Kaufmann Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Samuel Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xanthippe
Ypsilon Zacharias
A"rger Charlotte O"konom Schule U"bel
(Austrian telephone directory)
Anton Berta Ca"sar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Konrad Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xaver
Ypsilon Zu"rich
A"rger O"sterreich scharfes_S Schule U"bel
(Collins phrase book)
Anton Berta Caesar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Konrad Ludwig Martin Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Victor Wilhelm Xanten
Zeppelin
Eszett
(Vienna telephone directory)
Anton Berta Ca"sar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Konrad Ludwig Martha Norbert Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Viktor Wilhelm Xaver
Ypsilon Zacharias
A"rger Christine O"sterreich U"bel
(BBC language book)
Anton Berta Ca"sar Dora Emil Friedrich Gustav Heinrich Ida
Julius Kaufmann Ludwig Martha Nordpol Otto Paula Quelle
Richard Siegfried Theodor Ulrich Victor Wilhelm Xanthippe
Ypsilon Zeppelin
Contributor: Anno Siegel
kbpeters
Here is one German phonetic version used by German speaking Dutch
conscripts at Soesterberg Air Base (near Utrecht) circa 1942. It's taken
from a ground observer's guide for directing antiaircraft fire and fighter
intercept. Note the spelling of some names has been "hollanized."
Hope it helps,
Ken Peters, Active Duty AF/HO
Anton, Bernard, Cornelus, Derek, Edward, Ferdinand, Gunther, Hans, Izaak,
Johann, Karl, Leo, Marinus, Nico, Otto, Pieter, Querinus, Rudolph, Simon,
Tinus, Ute, Victor, Wilhelm, Xylophon, Ypsylon, Zacharias.
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