U.S. Late WWII Shipping Address Codes (white) : Plastic Hobby

There were five parts to each of these coded addresses (example given):

BOBO - a four letter code name indicating the port of discharge or general destination

A- a single or later double letter indicator of which half of a month the shipment was sent (A - 1st half of January, B- 2nd half, C - 1st half of February, etc, through Z - 2nd half of December; no I or II or O or OO to avoid confusion with numbers)

ORD- the shipping service (ORD - Ordnance, QM, Quartermaster, etc.)

II- Roman numeral indicating the class of supply (per standard US Army codes:

Class I - Rations and Subsistence; II - General Supplies; III - Fuel; IV - Engineer materiel; V - Ammunition; VI - Personal Demand Items (PX, spirits, etc.); VII - Major End Items; VIII - Medical Supplies; IX - Miscellaneous

GT3 - group indicating the components or supplied needed to complete a specific order or mission (optional)

A302RA3 - combination of letters and digits which identify the shipment against a requisition, show the depot from where it was sent, and indicated the number of the shipment when several shipments were made on separate documents against a single requisition.

This would read: FOR SHIPMENT ONLY

BOBO-A-ORDII-GT3-A302RA3