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1/422/106-ID – Forced March (Mohn)
Forced March, from Schoenberg - St Vith (Battle of the Bulge - Belgium) to Berchtesgaden in Germany is the...
Gen Lesley J. McNair’s Folly
While serving as an armor officer in the US Army during the cold war, I had access to considerable...
Victory Has Many Fathers, But Defeat is an Orphan (Jandrew)
Original Source DocumentVictory Has Many Fathers, But Defeat is an Orphan
William C. Jandrew
American Military University, Feb 19, 2011.
MILH 551...
US Armor in the Hürtgen Forest
Armor Against the Huertgen Forest
The Kall Trail and the Battle of Kommerscheidt by Captain Mike Sullivan.
The mission of Armor...
Carol Klinger Woolbright
This is a request from a friend in Columbus Ga, Carol Klinger which is not only a friend but...
Château de Roumont
Dear Members of the European Center of Military History,
My name is Arthur Coppee, I'm a young fan of the...
Will Love – Fort Douglas
This is a request of one friend on Linkedin, William Love, Military Specialist, Fort Douglas Military Museum.
William Love sent...
Para Raiders – USMC-WW-2
Lt Col Jon T. Hoffman, US Marine Corps Reserve. Official Study - War Department, Silk Chutes and Hard Fighting,...
AGF Cbt Observations 319.1/48
319.1/48 (Foreign Obsrs) (S) GNGBI. (3-29-43)
SUBJECT: Observer Report.
E.S. Johnson, Col Infantry / Observator
TO : By Auth Commanding General, Army...
Jedburgh (12-AG Support) 1944
Foreword
The Jedburghs were three-man teams parachuted into occupied France after D-Day to develop liaison with the Resistance. They were...
Air Section to AAF (1913-1940)
At the peak of its strength in World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) had more...
Claire L. Chennault – Campaign Planner (CBI)
This archive examines Claire Lee Chennault as a military theorist and campaign planner. It inquires whether Chennault's evolution of...
Tokyo – Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Raid of Apr 18, 1942, was the first air raid by the USA to strike the Japanese...
AIR OPs – CBI – WW-2
Air Operations - China-Burma-India
Maj Edward M. Hudak, Command and General Staff College, May 31, 1949.
The problem! To determine the...
AAF Stations WW-2 – ETO
Army Air Force Stations
This article is a republication of the Guide to the Stations where US Army Air Forces...
AVG – Flying Tigers
You fly a P-40 with two hundred gallons of aviation fuel that last two and a half hours for...
27-IR (25-ID) Guadalcanal (01/43)
Operations of the 27-IR (25-ID)
Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Jan 10, 1943, to Jan 26, 1943
Guadalcanal Campaign, Personal Experience of the...
96-ID (Okinawa) Conical-Oboe Hills Area (05/45)
May 1-9 1945 – Training to Fighting
The names of Kakazu Ridge, Tombstone Ridge, Tabletop, Gate, Needle Rock, Hill 153,...
77-ID (2/306) Camp Downs – Leyte – (12/44)
Operations of the 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division during the attack on Camp Downs, Leyte, Phillppine...
6-MD (Baker 29) Okinawa – April 1945
Operations of the Gun Platoon, Baker Co, 1/29th Regiment, 6th Marine Division, Okinawa, Ryukyus Islands, April 1, 1945 -...
6-ID (Charlie 63) Mt Mataba Luzon 1945
The Sixth Army (6-A) landed on the southeastern shores of Lingayen Gulf, Luzon Island, on Jan 9, 1945, against...
24-ID – Mindanao – April-August 1945
Operations of the 24th Infantry Division, invasion of Mindanao (with Emphasis on G-1 Activities), Philippine Islands, April 17 1945...
5307 Galahad – Walawbum March 1944
Operations of the 5307th Composite Unit, Provisional, (Merrill's Marauders) in Walawbum, Burma, Mar 2, to Mar 7, 1944, China...
5307 – Combined Ops Burma 1944
During the Second World War, the United States fought as a member of the largest military coalition ever formed....
5307-Galahad – Burma – April-May 1944
Operations of the 5307th (Composite) Regiment (Provisional), Merrill’s Marauders, (Codenamed - Galahad), in Northern Burma during the period of...
5332 (P) LRPG Central Burma – Jan 29 / Jul 15 1945
At the beginning of 1945, less than eight months remained before the final surrender of Japan. Those eight months,...
Gurkhas – WW-2 (Sanju Gurung)
Gurkhas: Re-assessing the performance of Imperial Soldiers in WW-2.
Sanju Gurung, Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Bowman (War Studie Dissertation)
Acknowledgement
It is my...
5307 Galahad – CBI – Feb/ May 1944
In the thick of battle, the soldier is busy doing his job. He has the knowledge and confidence that...
124-CAV (2-Sq) Knight’s Hill Burma 1945
China - Burma - India
Operation of the 2nd Squadron, 124th Cavalry Regiment (Special) during the Battle of Knight's Hill...
124-CAV (Able) Nampakkha 1945
China-Burma-India
Operation of Troop A, 124th Cavalry Regiment, Mars Task Force, in the Battle of Nam-Pak-Kha, Jan 28, 1945, to...
The Ledo (Stilwell) Road
On Dec 1, 1942, Gen Sir Archibald Wavell (UK), the supreme commander of the Far Eastern Theater, agreed with...
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106-ID (1/422) Schlausenbach (12-1944)
Document Source
Operations of the 1st Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division (Golden Lion)
Vicinity of Schlausenbach, Germany, December 10-19 1944
Personal Experience of a battalion...
OSS WW-2 Initialisms, Abbreviations, Acronyms
Document Source
US National Archives
OSS Glossary of Initialisms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
Office of Strategic Services Records (Record Group 226)
World War Two.
A-2 - Air Intelligence, US Army
AAF...
Victory Has Many Fathers, But Defeat is an Orphan (Jandrew)
Original Source DocumentVictory Has Many Fathers, But Defeat is an Orphan
William C. Jandrew
American Military University, Feb 19, 2011.
MILH 551 – World War II in...
10th Mountain Division – WW-2
The 10th Light Division (Pack Alpine) was constituted on Jul 10, 1943, and activated five days later at Camp Hale, Colorado, under the command...
10th Armored Division – WW-2
The US 10th Armored Division was activated on Jul 15, 1942, at Fort Benning, Georgia, and moved on Jun 24, 1943, to the Second...
US ARMY - ORDER OF BATTLE - WW-2 (1-99)
10th Armored Division – WW-2
The US 10th Armored Division was activated on Jul 15, 1942, at Fort Benning, Georgia,...
10th Mountain Division – WW-2
The 10th Light Division (Pack Alpine) was constituted on Jul 10, 1943, and activated five...
1st Armored Division – WW-2
Col Daniel Van Voorhis took a cadre of 175 officers and enlisted men from Fort...
1st Cavalry Division – WW-2
The history of the 1st Cavalry Division began in 1921 after the army established a...
1st Infantry Division – WW-2
The 1st Division also nicknamed Fighting First or Big Red One, is the oldest division...
2nd Armored Division – WW-2
The 2nd Armored Division was formed at Fort Benning, Georgia on Jul 15, 1940, by...
2nd Cavalry Division (H) – WW-2
Placed on the rolls of the Army in 1921, the 2nd Cavalry Division was not...
2nd Cavalry Division (H-C) -WW-2
The activation of the 9th Armored Division created several logistical problems at Fort Riley and...
2nd Infantry Division – WW-2
The 2nd Division was first constituted on Sept 21, 1917, in the Regular Army. It...
3rd Armored Division – WW-2
The 3rd Armored Division (Spearhead) was activated on Apr 15, 1941, at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana....
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