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 continued to be used until 1957 when it was ...

In the U.S., the use of the 24-hour clock was adopted by the Navy in the 1920s and later by the Army during World War II. An easy way to convert military time to standard time is for any military ...

In 1941, the U.S. Army and Navy established the “Able Baker alphabet,” named after the first two code words. The British Royal Air Force adopted the same alphabet two years later.

The currently used and globally-accepted phonetic alphabet traces its origins back to 1951. As the world emerged from the ...