P-38 Lightning "Fork Tailed Devil". Garnison – garrison Gasmaske – gas mask Gasmaskenbehälter – gas mask container. Gaspistole – starting pistol; a gun that fires blanks. Gau – An administrative region equivalent to a shire or province. Gauleiter – supreme territorial or regional Nazi party authority(-ies). Gau leader. Gebirgsjäger – mountain troops; a mountain "unit" might be referred to as either Gebirgs or Gebirgsjäger. Gebirgstruppe – mountain troops. gefallen (gef.) – fallen, killed in action Gefecht – combat, action. Gefechtsgepäck – infantry assault pack. Gefechtsstand – command post. Gefechtsstation – naval term, "battle stations" or (more literally) "combat stations". Gefechtsverband – defensive aerial tactic employed against USAAF heavy bombers when Zerstörer twin-engined heavy fighters had proven too vulnerable to Allied single-engined fighters – used heavily armed Fw 190As as bomber destroyers in place of the slower Zerstörer aircraft, with Bf 109Gs for escort. Gefreiter – enlisted rank, senior to privates but not considered an NCO. Gegenangriff – counterattack. Gegenoffensive – counter-offensive. Gegenstoß – hasty counter-attack. Gegenschlag – counter stroke. geheim – secret. Geheime Feldpolizei (GFP) – Secret Field Police. It was Germany's secret military police that was organised by the German high command (OKW) in July 1939 to serve with the Wehrmacht. It was mainly designed to carry out security work in the field, as the executive agent of the Abwehr. Geheimfernschreiber – (literally, "secret distance writer") cipher machine. Gelbkreuz – mustard gas Geleit – escort. Geleitschutz – convoy. Gemeindepolizei – local police. Gemeinschaft – community. Generalfeldmarschall – Field Marshal. Generalkommando – the headquarters of an army corps. Generalstab des Heeres (Gen. St.d. H.) – German Army General Staff. gepanzert (gep.) – armoured. Geschütz – cannon, gun. Geschützführer – gun captain / commander / layer. Geschwader – originally and literally a naval "squadron" and, therefore, equivalent to the French escadre or Italian squadriglia; in military aviation, the translation varies: World War I Luftstreitkräfte: a unit comprising four fighter Staffeln, such as Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1) –the famous "Flying Circus", led by Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"); also used for the Kagohl and Bogohl heavy bomber units, the last two mentioned unit types specifically tied to the Oberste Heeresleitung or "OHL"; World War II Luftwaffe: comprising three or more Gruppen, each made up of three (or sometimes four) Staffeln; a WW2 Geschwader was equivalent to a British Commonwealth air force group, a French escadron, an Italian stormo, an IJAAS hikōdan,