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US Armor in the Hürtgen Forest (Schmidt & Kommerscheid)

Source Document: Armor in the Huertgen Forest. The Kall Trail and the Battle of Kommerscheidt by Captain Mike Sullivan. The mission of Armor is to close with and destroy the enemy...

George S. Patton’s Desert Training Center (WW-2)

Document Source: This archive - Georges S. Patton's Desert Training Center - was written by Col John Kennedy, US Air Force (Ret) Col John Lynch, and Mr. Robert L. Wooley. The...

Carol Klinger Woolbright

This is a request from a friend in Columbus Ga, Carol Klinger which is not only a friend but also the daughter of Captain Jack Klinger Woolbright, Commanding Officer of Baker...

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 truly inter-allied, French (103), Belgian (5), Dutch (5), British (90) and American...

Italian Army in WW-2 (W. Turnbow)

Source Document: The Italian Army during World War Two by Woody Turnbow Background and Preparations A. The Italian armed forces were faced with a conflict between theories of employment. They had historically been...

German Capitulation in Northern Italy (OSS)

Document source: Wild Bill Donovan OSS File, World War Two, German Capitulation Northern Italy Gen William Joseph 'Wild Bill' Donovan (Jan 1, 1883 – Feb 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer,...

OSS Wartime File : Adolf Hitler Collected Intelligence

Document Source: (OSS File) Memo copy is from the RID/ATI file folder on Adolf Hitler filed under Wah X-2 Personalities #13; the folder contains 1 copy of a 28-page report on...

SOE Codes – ETO

Special Operations Executive (SOE) Codes Operations in Europe A particularly rare thing in this world often reserved for men is the fact of being able to put women in the honor. And God...

Operation Pastorius : Duquesne Ring 1942 (Nazi in USA)

Document Source: OSS FBI File about Operation Pastorius, a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II. The operation was staged in June 1942 and...

SHAEF Report – Buchenwald 1945

Allied Forces, Supreme Headquarters, G-5, US Group Control Council. Inspection of the German Concentration Camp for political prisoners and located at Buchenwald on the north edge of Weimar. Inspection made by Gen...

One Letter from the Concentration Camp in Dachau 1945 (Crowling)

Document Source: Letter and Report filed by 1/Lt William Cowling, US 42nd Infantry Division, on liberating Dachau; photo courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum/Eric Schwab April 28, 1945 Dachau, Germany Dear Folks, Boy oh...

Capture of the Concentration Camp in Dachau (US 42-ID)

HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES 42nd INFANTRY DIVISION MILITARY REPORT CAPTURE OF THE GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP AT DACHAU May 2, 1945. On April 29, 1945, Gen Henning Linden, ADC of the Rainbow 42-ID, Gen Charles Y. Banfill...

442-RCT’s The Rescue of the Lost Battalion (Watanabe)

Document Source: A thesis presented to the Faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Military Art and...

505-ELPC – 10/1944 – 04/1945

Source Document: After Action Report, 505th Engineer Light Ponton Company, World War Two, European Theater of Operations 505-ELPC - October 1944 (1) Designation: 505th Engineer Light Ponton Company. (2) Organization: May 15 1942....

AGF Cbt Observations 319.1/48 (Torch)

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 Ground Forces / Date 3/29/43 Commanding Generals: V Army; Second Army; Third Army;...

26-ID (Raw Data) Sgt James Haahr

Archive sent to EUCMH by Sgt James 'Jim' Haahr (USA), 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division 1944-1945. You can, of course, use the information provided in this document as long as...

26-ID (Yankee) WW-2 – ETO

The 26th Infantry Division (Yankee Division), has been a famous division for almost two centuries of American burgeoning and growth. The lineage of the Yankee Division extends back to the beginning...

561-FAB – ETO – WW2 (Battle of the Bulge & Germany)

Dec 17, 1944, defying the murky skies, the tiny liaison plane circled low as Lt David E. Runden dropped a note in the battalion area. Kraut Tanks in Setz Heading our...

XIX Corps Engineers – (ETO)

Document Source: Report and Short History of the XIX Corps Engineers in Europa, World War Two The German Army is totally defeated. Now, immediately thereafter, a brief history of the XIX Corps...

1/422/106-ID – Forced March (Mohn)

Source Document: Forced March Major John P. Mohn, HQ Co, 1st Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division Forced March, from Schoenberg - St Vith (Battle of the Bulge, Belgium) to Berchtesgaden...

7-ID – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 7th Infantry Division was...

1-AD – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle US Army World War Two, War Department, Washington DC, Combat Narrative, US Army World War Two, Shelby L. Stanton, Presidio Press, Novato, California, USA, 1984 Col Daniel...

1-ID – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 1st Infantry Division, also...

1-CD – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle US Army World War Two, War Department, Washington DC, Combat Narrative, US Army World War Two, Shelby L. Stanton, Presidio Press, Novato, California, USA, 1984 The history...

2-AD – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945 The 2nd Armored Division was...

2-CD (H) – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. Placed on the rolls of...

2-CD (H-C) – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The activation of the 9th...

2-ID – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 2nd Division was first...

A Letter from Buchenwald – 99th Infantry Battalion – (Minge)

(Background) After Pearl Harbor (Dec 7, 1941), the War Department considered how the military could use foreigners and bilingual, first-generation immigrants from German-occupied areas to assist the war effort. The initial...

Letter from Dachau – A/99-IB(S) (Tuftedal)

(Background) After Pearl Harbor (Dec 7, 1941), the War Department considered how the military could use foreigners and bilingual, first-generation immigrants from German-occupied areas to assist the war effort. The initial...

Para Raiders – USMC-WW-2

Lt Col Jon T. Hoffman, US Marine Corps Reserve. Official Study - War Department, Silk Chutes and Hard Fighting, USMC Parachute Units in World War II, History and Museums Division, Headquarters...

5-ID – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 5th Division was activated...

3-AD – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 3rd Armored Division (Spearhead)...

644-TDB – (William R. Lally)

My name is Daron, and I am a collector of vintage. My latest obsession is with Vogue Picture records. They were made in the years 1946-1947. An ad in a paper...

AIR Operations – China Burma India (Maj Edward M. Hudak)

Document Source: Air Operations, China-Burma-India by Maj Edward M. Hudak, Command and General Staff College, May 31, 1949. AIR OPERATIONS CHINA BURMA INDIA The problem was the way to determine the need for,...

Flying Tigers (American Volunteers Group) China-Burma-India

(Document Source: I just can not remember - sorry) You fly a P-40 with two hundred gallons of aviation fuel that last two and a half hours for five hundred miles. When...

24-ID (Mindanao – Philippine Islands) Apr-Aug 1945

Document Source: Operations of the US 24th Infantry Division, invasion of Mindanao (with Emphasis on G-1 Activities), Philippine Islands, April 17, 1945, to August 11, 1945. (Personal Experience of a Division...

6-ID (Charlie 63) Mt Mataba Luzon 1945

The Sixth Army (6-A) landed on the southeastern shores of Lingayen Gulf, Luzon Island, on January 9, 1945, against relatively light enemy opposition. A beachhead was established and all units continued...

6th Marine Division (Baker 29) Okinawa – April 1945

(Document Source: Operations of the Gun Platoon, Baker Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division, in Okinawa on the Ryukyus Islands, April 1, 1945 - April 18, 1945. Capt...

5307 Galahad – Walawbum – March 1944

Document Source: Operations of the 5307th Composite Unit, Provisional, (Merrill's Marauders) in Walawbum, Burma, Mar 2, to Mar 7, 1944, China - Burma - India Campaign, Maj John K. Eney Orientation &...

5307 (C)(P) – Combined Operations in Burma (1944)

During the Second World War, the United States fought as a member of the largest military coalition ever formed. Across the world, millions of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen joined with...

5307 (P) Galahad – China-Burma-India – Feb/ May 1944

In the thick of battle, the soldier is busy doing his job. He has the knowledge and confidence that his Job is part of a unified plan to defeat the enemy,...

WW2 Canadian Airborne Units

This is not really common for me to use the text of someone else. But sometimes, when a published archive is very interesting and has many photos I have to republish...

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (RCA) (Normandy)

Document Source: Royal Canadian Army, Historical Section, Canadian Military Headquarters. This archive is an Amendment to Report #139. Amendment to Report #139 (1) The following amendment, dealing with the casualties suffered by the...

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion – Birth of an Elite – WW2

Document Sources: Appendix, Historical Section, Canadian Military Headquarters Report #138; Further Material Relating to the Organization and Training of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. This appendix supplements the information contained in...

Love-26 (1-ID) – Maknassy – Tunisia

Operations of Love Co, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, in the Night Raid on Maknassy, Tunisia, December 17, 1942. Personal experience of a Company Commander. Maj Stephen B. Morrissey Official histories of...

1st Ranger Battalion (Darby) – Gela – Sicily

Gen Lucian K. Truscott, US Army, in liaison with the British General Staff, submitted proposals to Gen George C. Marshall that we undertake immediately an American unit along the lines of...

1st Ranger Battalion – Djebel el Ank – Tunisia

Col William Orlando Darby (Feb 8, 1911 – Apr 30, 1945) was an US Army officer who fought during WW-2 and was killed in action in Italy. He was posthumously promoted...

1st Infantry Division – Z-Y Beaches – Operation Torch

(Document Source) The following archive is the G-3 report of the participation of the 1st Infantry Division in Operation Torch, French Morrocco, North Africa, Nov 8, 1942. It is submitted in...

504-PIB – Operations in Sicily – July 9 1943 – August 19 1943

Document Source: Operation of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regimental Combat Team, in Sicily during the period July 9, 1943, to August 19, 1943. Personal Experience of the Regimental Headquarters Company Commander,...

2-AD (Kool Force) (Operation Husky) Sicily

Document Source: Historical Record, Operations of the US 2nd Armored Division, Kool Force, Operation Husky, Sicily, World War Two Concentration for Husky Concentration, April 22 to July 22, 1943. Pursuant to orders CG,...

3/157-IR – 45th Infantry Division – Moletta River – Italy – February 1944

Document Source: Infantry School, General Section, Military History Committee, Fort Benning, Georgia, Advanced Officers Course (1946-1947). Defensive Operation of the 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division along the Moletta...

How Co 2/350-IR (88th Infantry Division) MonteRumici Italy April 1945

Document Source: Infantry School, General Section, Military History Committee, Fort Benning, Georgia, Advanced Officers Course (1946-1947). Operations of How Company, 2nd Battalion, 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, in MonteRumici, Vicinity...

509th Parachute Battalion S3 Journal – Italy (November 1943)

(Document Source: Report of Operations of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, Office of the Battalion Commander, S-3 Journal, Period, November 10, 1943, December 13, 1943. Italy. HQs 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion,...

3rd Infantry Division (Anvil-Dragoon) Southern France

Document source unknown. The preliminary planning for Operation Anvil-Dragoon, an Operation first code-named 'Anvil' and later changed to 'Dragoon' because it was believed that the original name had been compromised, was for...

Operation Dragoon – Planning

The invasion of Southern France, Operation Dragoon, was characterized by an 'on again - off again', attitude at the highest political levels. Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the UK) had...

1/358-IR (90-ID) – Fort Koenigsmacker – Thionville – France (November 1944)

Document Source: Operations of the 1st Battalion, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division in and around Fort Koenigsmacker, North of Thionville, France, November 9-11 1944, Rhineland Campaign. Personal Experience of the...

26/1-ID AAR Normandy (07/44)

In 1941, the 26-IR stood with its sister regiments and prepared for war in Europe. The regiment was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division for the duration of World War II....

16/1-ID – Omaha Beach – (Journal)

Document Source: Journal entries of the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, June 6, 1944, Omaha beach, Normandy, France. (Raw Data) Journal entries, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, June 1944, Normandy,...

1-506/101st Airborne Division – Carentan – June 1944

Ducument Source: Operations of the 1st Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the period of June 6, 1944, to June 8, 1944, in Carentan and in the vicinity,...

E-7/3d Infantry Division (Colmar Pocket) 01/1945

Document Source, Operations of the 3rd Platoon, Easy Company, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division; East of Ostheim in the Colmar Pocket (Alsace Campaign) 22-23 Jan 1945. Personal Experience of a...

134/35th Infantry Division (AAR) France, December 1944

(Document source: Original After Action Report, 35th Infantry Division, December 1, 1944 - December 31, 1944. The 35th Infantry Division, with the exception of one battalion, began the month of December 1944,...

2nd Armored Division – (TF Stokes) Holland – Sept 1944

Document Source: I really don't remember where I found this archive or who sent it to me. By the evening of September 15, 1944, Gen Joseph Lawton Collins' US XIX Corps had...

Easy 505-PIR (82-A/B) – Nijmegen Bridge – September 1944

Document Source: Operations of the 3rd Platoon, Easy Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Allied Airborne Army, during the seizure of the Bridge in Nijmegen, September 19-20, 1944,...

1/110-IR (28-ID) – Heinerscheid – Marnach – December 16-18 1944

Document Source: Operations Report of the 1st Battalion, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division in the vicinity of Heinerscheid and Marnach during the Batte of the Bulge, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,...

1-ID (Charlie 18) – Crucifix Hill Aachen 10/44

Operation Report of Charlie Company, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One), Attack on the Crucifix Hill (Hill 239 - Haarberg), Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany, Rhineland Campaign - October 8-9...

US VII Corps – Breaching the Siegfried Line September 1944

(v. 2023) Document Source: Headquarters Army Ground Force, Army War College, Washington D. C., Report Number 61. Col H. A. Miller; Col Shaffer F. Jarrel, September 22, 1944. Combat Observations. (Transcription...

38th Cavalry Recon Squadron (MECZ) AAR – December 1944

Document source: After action report 38th Cavalry Recon Squadron (Mechanized), Aug 44 thru April 45, Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research, Digital Library. (Checked and Corrected while processing the file: Doc Snafu) 38th...

George Co 2/395-IR (99-ID) Schleiden – Germany December 1944

Document Source: This archive comes from either an After Action Report or a Monograph. I have so many archives that I don't find the origin again. Anyway, this is an original...

1/9-IR – 2nd Infantry Division Krinkelt-Rocherath – December 17/18 1944 (Maj William F. Hancock)

(Document Source) Operations of the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Indian Head, in a hasty Defense against a German Panzer Force Attack in the north of Krinkelt-Rocherath, December...

589th Field Artillery Battalion (TF Parker) (Parker Crossroads) December 1944

Source Document: Parker and the Team, 1945; 424th Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, 82nd Airborne Division, EUCMH archives, AAR, Parker's Crossroads, Baraque de Fraiture, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1944 The tactical...

US 3&1 Armies Junction – January 1945 (Bulge)

Document Source: The German Winter Offensive, often called the Battle of the Bulge, which started on Dec 16 1944 at 0530, was terminated on Jan 16 1945 when the US 1-A...

1st Infantry Division – Butgenbach – January-1945

Document Source Unknown (Definitively Checked (typo) and City Names by Doc Snafy on October 1, 2022). On January 1, 1945, the enemy was on an operational see-saw, his original plans of an...

644th Tank Destroyer Battalion – (AAR) – December 1944

Document Source: Report about the employment of four (4) Tank Destroyer Battalions in the ETO. Officers Advanced Course, Armored School. 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion (Self-Propelled), by Maj William F. Jackson, Maj...

124th Cavalry Regiment (Troop A) Namhpakkha 1945 (Burma)

Document Source: Operation of Troop A, 124th Cavalry Regiment, Mars Task Force, in the Battle of Nam-Pak-Kha, Jan 28, 1945, to Feb 2, 1945, Central Burma Campaign. Personal Experience of a...

124-CAV (2nd Squadron) – Knight’s Hill – Burma – 1945

Document Source: Operation of the 2nd Squadron, 124th Cavalry Regiment (Special) during the Battle of Knight's Hill in Burma, Jan 29 to Feb 2, 1945, Central Burma Campaign. Personal Experience of...

5307 (P)(C) (Merril’s Marauders) GALAHAD – Burma – April-May 1944

Document Source: Operations of the 5307th (Composite) Regiment (Provisional), Merrill’s Marauders, (Codenamed - Galahad), in Northern Burma during the period of April to May 1944, (LRPM) Long Range Penetration Mission. Personal...

5332 (P) Long Range Penetration Group (Central Burma) 01/29/45-15-07-45

(Document Source: EUCMH Archives CD #8 World War Two Monographs - China Burma India) At the beginning of 1945, less than eight months remained before the final surrender of Japan. Those...

3-ID – OOB – WW2

Document Source: United States Army Order of Battle (1945). (Marne Division) The three white stripes represent the number of the division and the three major operations in which the division participated...

ASSC Section to AAF (1913-1940)

At the peak of its strength in World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) had more than 2.400.000 men and women in uniform. There were pilots, navigators, bombardiers,...

General USAAF Lee Claire Chennault – Campaign Planner (AVG) (CBI)

Document Source & Purpose: This archive examines Claire Lee Chennault as a military theorist and campaign planner. It inquires whether Chennault's evolution of a theory of war assisted his planning of...

4-AD – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 4th Armored Division was...

4-ID – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. Activated on June 1, 1940,...

5-AD – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle US Army World War Two, War Department, Washington DC, Combat Narrative, US Army World War Two, Shelby L. Stanton, Presidio Press, Novato, California, USA, 1984 The 5th...

6-ID – OOB – WW2

The 6th Division (Red Star) was activated first during the month of November 1917 with the following Order of Battle: 11th Infantry Brigade (51-IR, 52-IR, and 17th Machine Gun Battalion), 12th...

6-AD – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 6th Armored Division was...

7-AD – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 7th Armored Division was...

USAAF Stations WW2 – ETO

Army Air Force Stations This article is a republication of the Guide to the Stations where US Army Air Forces Personnel served in the United Kingdom and on the Continent During World...

8-ID – OOB – WW2

Document Source: Order of Battle of the United States Army, World War II, European Theater of Operations. Office of the Theater Historian, Paris, France, December 20, 1945. The 8th Infantry Division, was...

8-AD – OOB – WW2

The 8th Armored Division was activated on Apr 1, 1942, at Fort Knox, Kentucky, with 'surplus' units of the recently reorganized 4th Armored Division and newly-organized units. The division served as...