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Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

120-IR (30-ID) – Operations during the Battle of the Bulge and Friendly Bombings

Doc Snafu - 13/04/2023

Document Source: Bangor Public Library, World War Regimental Histories, 1947, History of the 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, by the Officers of the Regiment. Original Document 1947, Infantry Press Publication....

China - Burma - India

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

Doc Snafu - 06/11/2022

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...

China - Burma - India

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

Doc Snafu - 07/11/2022

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...

US Order of Battle WW-2

13-A/B – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 24/03/2023

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. 13th Airborne Division, Black Cat...

US Order of Battle WW-2

13-AD – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 01/04/2023

Source Documents: 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, and Danny S. Parker,...

Combat Operations in France

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

Doc Snafu - 14/10/2022

(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,...

US Order of Battle WW-2

14-AD – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 02/04/2023

Source Documents: 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, and Danny S. Parker,...

US Order of Battle WW-2

16-AD – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 02/04/2023

Source Documents: 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, and Danny S. Parker,...

Combat Operations in France

16/1-ID – Omaha Beach – (Journal)

Doc Snafu - 11/02/2023

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,...

US Order of Battle WW-2

17-A/B – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 27/03/2023

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 17th Airborne Division (Thunder...

Royal Canadian Army Documents

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (RCA) (Normandy)

Doc Snafu - 23/04/2023

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...

Royal Canadian Army Documents

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion – Belgium Holland Germany

Doc Snafu - 14/01/2023

Document Source: Operations of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Royal Canadian Army, in Belgium, Holland, and Germany, 1944-1945. The Final Operation: January 2, 1945, to March 24, 1945. (1) The object of...

Royal Canadian Army Documents

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

Doc Snafu - 23/04/2023

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...

Combat Operations in France

1st Infantry Division (26-IR) AAR Normandy July 1944

Doc Snafu - 17/06/2023

#WW2Archives, #MilitaryHistory, #WW2Photographs, #HistoricalDocuments, #WW2Research, #WW2Liberation, #EUCMH, #DocSnafu, #WW2Photos Document Source: After Action Report of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division during the month of July 1944 in Normandy France In 1941,...

Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

1st Infantry Division – (AAR) – Hauset (Belgium) (12/1944)

Doc Snafu - 21/06/2022

Document Source: AAR 1-st Infantry Division (Rear HQs), Hauset, Neu Moresnet, Belgium, December 1944, Journal Entries, Maj Paul Bystrak, 1-QMC, 1-ID, December 15, 1944, Location (CP) Hauset (vic) (Belgium), Location (ICP)...

Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

1st Infantry Division – Butgenbach – January-1945

Doc Snafu - 01/10/2022

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...

Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

1st Infantry Division – Dom Butgenbach – December 1944

Doc Snafu - 20/10/2022

Source Document: Selected Intelligence Reports, December 1944 - May 1945, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, First United States Infantry Division, Czechoslovakia, June 6, 1945. December 1 to December 31, 1944 Luchem...

Combat Operations in North-Africa

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

Doc Snafu - 06/11/2023

In November 1942, the US First Infantry Division embarked on a monumental mission known as Operation Torch in North Africa. This audacious endeavor represented an unyielding commitment to liberate Europe from...

Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

1st Infantry Division – Dom Butgenbach – January 1945

Doc Snafu - 20/10/2022

Source Document: Selected Intelligence Reports, December 1944 – May 1945, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, First United States Infantry Division, Czechoslovakia, June 6, 1945 1. CHOICE OF ACTION (1 January...

Combat Operations in Sicily

1st Ranger Battalion (Darby) – Gela – Sicily

Doc Snafu - 17/06/2023

#WW2Archives, #MilitaryHistory, #WW2Photographs, #HistoricalDocuments, #WW2Research, #WW2Liberation, #EUCMH, #DocSnafu, #WW2Photos Document Source: EUCMH own research Gen Lucian K. Truscott, US Army, in liaison with the British General Staff, submitted proposals to Gen George C....

1st Ranger Battalion – Djebel el Ank – Tunisia

Doc Snafu - 18/02/2022

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...

Combat Operations in Sicily

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

Doc Snafu - 12/08/2022

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,...

US Order of Battle WW-2

2-AD – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 24/03/2023

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...

US Order of Battle WW-2

2-CD (H) – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 24/03/2023

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...

US Order of Battle WW-2

2-CD (H-C) – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 27/03/2023

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...

US Order of Battle WW-2

2-ID – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 24/03/2023

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...

Unit Histories

2-ID – WW2 – Second to None

Doc Snafu - 30/09/2021

Document Source: 1945 Brief History of the 2nd Infantry Division (Indian Head). The members of the 2nd Infantry Division were the wearers of the famed Indian Head Patch in five different wars...

2024 Requests to EUCMH

Doc Snafu - 22/04/2024

Please remember you can answer to these request freely. Matteo D'Angella: Hello, I'm a university student with the passion for history in spare time https://eucmh.com/2023/02/23/1-504-pir-82-a-b-altavilla-italy-september-13-19-1943/ I want kindly add that 504th PIR...

US Order of Battle WW-2

24-ID – OOB – WW2

Doc Snafu - 24/03/2023

Document Source: US Army War Department Order of Battle US Army 1945; Wikipedia; Philippine Scouts Revue The 24th Infantry Division traces its lineage to Army units activated in Hawaii. It was activated...

Pacific Theater of Operations

24th Infantry Division (Mindanao – Philippine Islands) Apr-Aug 1945

Doc Snafu - 22/06/2023

#DavaoGulf HMindoro #Mindanao #Parang #1945 #Talomo #24thinfantry #Tamogan #Kibangay #41stinfantry #Baguio #Philippines Document Source: Operations of the US 24th Infantry Division, invasion of Mindanao (with Emphasis on G-1 Activities), Philippine Islands, April...

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