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 ...

Time begins at 0100 (pronounced zero-one hundred) and ends at 2400 (twenty-four hundred). Like the phonetic alphabet, military time is used to avoid any errors in communication.

Can you guess the NATO military alphabet code words? Name the code words for each letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet, also known as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet (IRSA).

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