European Center Of Military History (EUCMH)

Combat Operations in France

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

Doc Snafu - 17/08/2022

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...

Combat Operations in the Netherlands

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

Doc Snafu - 15/02/2023

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,...

Combat Operations in the Netherlands

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

Doc Snafu - 20/02/2023

Document Source: Operations of the 3rd Platoon, Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in the Seizure of the Nijmegen Bridge, September 19, 1944 - September 20,...

Combat Operations in France

Easy 517-PRCT Operations in La Roquette, Southern-France (August 27-28, 1944)

Doc Snafu - 18/03/2023

Document Source: Infantry School, General Section, Military History Committee, Fort Benning, Georgia, Advanced Officers Course (1946-1947). Operations of Easy Company, 517th Parachute Infantry Combat Team, in a River crossing and attack...

German Related Studies & Documents

Fallschirmjäger Troops – US 3-A Sector (1945)

Doc Snafu - 22/04/2022

Document Source: Annex #2 to G-2 Periodic Report N°199 Commanding General, Third US Army, December 27, 1944, HQ Third US Army (1) UNCOMMITTED FALLSCHIRMJÄGER AND INFANTRY UNITS The withdrawal from the contact of the...

China - Burma - India

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

Doc Snafu - 31/10/2022

(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...

Guest Writers

Forced Labor Worker to the US 26-ID (Boleslaw Piatkowski)(PL)

Doc Snafu - 12/09/2022

Document Source: (Note) Photos are for illustration purposes and all original. The original title of this archive is ‘From Forced Workers Camp to Yankee Division’, War Memories of Boleslaw Piatkowski. This...

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French Morocco – (Photos Resources)

Doc Snafu - 18/02/2022

(Above and Below) Casablanca, the Main Objective on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. The landings were made at Fedala, farther north, in order to attack Casablanca overland partly because of its...

German Related Studies & Documents

Front-Line Intelligence in WW2 – Abwehr (I) (Keith Ellison)

Doc Snafu - 14/06/2022

Document Source: Keith Ellison, Front-Line Intelligence in World War Two, (1) German Intelligence Collection Admiral Wilhelm Franz Canaris (Jan 1, 1887 – Apr 9, 1945) was a German admiral and the chief...

Guest Writers

Front-Line Intelligence in WW2 – Allies (2) (Keith Ellison)

Doc Snafu - 14/06/2022

Document Source: Front Line Intelligence in World War Two (II) The Development of Allied Intelligence Unit. Keith Ellison The first part of this series explained how the Germans developed their intelligence front-line...

OSS-SOE-FBI Files

Frontline Intelligence in WW2 – (3) Allied T Forces (Keith Ellison)

Doc Snafu - 14/03/2023

Document Source: Frontline Intelligence in WW2 - (3) Allied T Forces (Keith Ellison) During World War Two, the Allies employed specialist task forces (S Forces) in North Africa and Italy which were...

Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

Führer Begleit Brigade (Otto Remer) Ardennes 1944/1945

Doc Snafu - 04/11/2022

Document Source: This document is transcribed from the copies in the collection of the US Military History Institute, Carlisle Barrack, Pennsylvania, #D739 F6713 #B-592 & #D739 F6713 #B-838. These two separate...

War Crimes Related (Allied and Axis)

G-2 Periodic Report #1 (War Crimes)

Doc Snafu - 28/12/2021

Document Sources: G-2 Periodic Report 1 - More about your enemy. (Warning graphic content) Edited on 28-12-2021 (correction) Incl 2 to VII Corps G-2 Periodic Report #1 The following information was obtained on Dec 25,...

Pacific Theater of Operations

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

Doc Snafu - 28/10/2022

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...

Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

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

Doc Snafu - 17/11/2022

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...

Guest Writers

George S. Patton Battle Brilliance during WW-2 (David Wornow)

Doc Snafu - 03/12/2022

(Document Source: Attack, and Attack, and Attack again. How General Patton's Force of personality created the brash culture and underpinned the aggressive tactics that led to victory in Europe. David Wornow,...

Guest Writers

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

Doc Snafu - 27/03/2023

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...

OSS-SOE-FBI Files

German Capitulation in Northern Italy (OSS)

Doc Snafu - 17/04/2023

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,...

Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

German Counter Offensive in the Belgian Ardennes (1944-1945) (Maj Keith H. Barber)

Doc Snafu - 06/12/2022

Document source: The Germans Ardennes Counter-Offensive December 16, 1944, to January 2, 1945, Ardennes Alsace Campaign, Type of operation: Army Group Offensive, Advanced Infantry Officers Class #1, Major Keith H. Barber....

Army Air Forces Archives

German Defeat 1945 – Air-Sea-Ground – USSAF 1945

Doc Snafu - 13/11/2022

(Document Source: The material presented herewith was prepared by Headquarters Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Intelligence Section, and is published for official use. January 1946) FOREWORD Eight months have elapsed since...

German Related Studies & Documents

German Tank and Infantry Warfare (Gen Fridolin von Senger)

Doc Snafu - 30/11/2022

Document Source: The material presented herewith was prepared by Headquarters Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Intelligence Section, and is published for official use on January 6, 1945. Headquarters US...

German Related Studies & Documents

Greif – Stoesser – German Special Operations – Battle of the Bulge

Doc Snafu - 01/09/2022

Document Source: this study is a historical analysis of the German Special Operations conducted in support of their overall Ardennes Offensive. It focuses on the two major special operations of the...

War Crimes Related (Allied and Axis)

Hauptmann Curt Bruns (Trial Data) (106-ID Related)

Doc Snafu - 12/03/2023

(Document Source: Reproduction of the Original Papers by EUCMH) EUROPEAN CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY - 2022 UNITED STATES ARMY - FIRST UNITED STATES ARMY EUROPEAN COMMAND APO 407 - April 20 1945 Office of the...

War Crimes Related (Allied and Axis)

Hauptmann Kurt Bruns (6/56 BRUNS)

Doc Snafu - 03/05/2022

(Document Source): Memorandum to Maj J. C. Duvall, Acting Chief Prosecution Section 1. FACTS On or About December 20, 1944, in the neighborhood of Bleialf, Germany, (GSGS 42, Sheet 6, Coordinates P-98), between...

Raw Archives

Hermann Göring – Letter to Churchill

Doc Snafu - 22/09/2021

Document Source: Archives EUCMH via Imperial War Museum, London (Nuremberg, October 10, 1946 - Last letter from Hermann Goering to Sir Winston Churchill). Mr. Churchill, You will have the satisfaction to survive me...

Pacific Theater of Operations

Hill 260 (Bougainville) (2/182-IR) March 10 1944 (AAR)

Doc Snafu - 06/08/2023

#afteractionreport, #182infantry, #23division, #americal, #march1944, Document Source: After Action Report, 2nd Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment, 23rd Infantry Division (Americal Division), March 18, 1944, Operations of Hill 260, from March 10, 1944,...

Combat Operations in Italy

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

Doc Snafu - 17/03/2023

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...

Photos Resource EUCMH

Hurtgen Forest – WW2 – Photos

Doc Snafu - 17/03/2023

Huertgen Forest - WW2 - Photos Note: the name of the photo is often the caption

Guest Writers

Hürtgenwald – Victory Has Many Fathers, Defeat is an Orphan (Jandrew)

Doc Snafu - 16/09/2022

Original Source Document: Victory Has Many Fathers, But Defeat is an Orphan. William C. Jandrew, American Military University, Feb 19, 2011, MILH 551 – World War II in Europe (Final Check Doc...

POW Interrogation Reports

Interview SS-Obersturmbandführer Otto Skorzeny (Greif)

Doc Snafu - 03/12/2022

Document Source: Battle of the Ardennes, Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Commanding Officer Operation Greif. The German SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny (Jun 12, 1908 – Jul 5, 1975) was an...

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