Golf, George, Gravy - or what?

[iwalkedaway]

Can anyone help? I am writing something about an aircraft built in 1937-38, but how would its identifying registration have been spoken using the phonetic alphabet of the period? If, for example, its registration was 'G-ABGG' would it then have been ID'd as:

'Golf - Alpha - Golf - Golf'?

Or would it perhaps have been uttered:

'George - Alpha - George - George'?

Or wot???? The reason I ask is that it appears the original WW1-era phoentic alphabet used 'Gallipoli' for 'G' - and the NATO alphabet using 'Golf' was not current until 1951. Yet we hear so much of wartime 'G-for-George'.

Can anyone definitively put me right????

[cliffnemo]

Hi in 1942 it would be " george, able. baker, george , george.

able baker charly dog. easy, fox, george. how (I hope) ,
but 60 odd years ago could be wrong.

[jabberwok]

Some good data here.

phonetic_alphabet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet)

[iwalkedaway]

Thanks fellers. If anybody's interested, I also posed the question in the Military forum here which has thrown up a little further info on the conventions of the period.

[PPRuNe Pop]

Fully explained in the Mil forum.