The Military Alphabet During World War II. During World War II, the United States military used a modified version of the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet (JANAP). This was adopted in 1941 and ...

This version came into effect in 1951 for non-military aviation only, and included many of the same words used in today’s NATO phonetic alphabet. But the IATA alphabet at that time was still a ...

The NATO alphabet is an international standard of communication. That doesn’t stop people from saying “N as in Nancy.” ...