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Talking About the Battle of the Kasserine Pass (Gassmann)

Doc Snafu - 14/09/2022

Document Source: Dr. Jürg Gassmann, 15 June 2020, . The Battle of Kasserine Pass: A Forgotten Medieval Battle. (Doc Snafu Final Check September 13, 2022) 1. ABSTRACT Modern academic historians rely on facts formerly...

Combat Operations in Germany

The Battle of Aachen – Germany – Capt Bruce K. Ferrell

Doc Snafu - 22/06/2022

Document Source: Reprint from the December 2000 Article of the Armor Magazine, by Capt Bruce K. Ferrell. The October 1944 Siege of Germany’s West Wall (Siegfried Line), led to a MOUT...

Combat Operations in Italy

The Battle of San Pietro (Film)

Doc Snafu - 20/03/2021

Source: US Department of Defense. US Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer Motion Picture Films from the Campaign Reports Program Series, 1944-1945 (US Army & John Huston) DedicationGen Mark...

China - Burma - India

The Ledo (Stilwell) Road (China Burma India)

Doc Snafu - 26/10/2022

Document Source, US Army Center of Military History, EUCMH research online (Photo NARA, EUCMH Collection) (Definitive Version, Doc Snafu, October 26, 2022) </a On December 1, 1942, Gen Sir Archibald Wavell (UK), the...

Army Air Forces Archives

Tokyo – Japan – The Doolittle Raid

Doc Snafu - 01/08/2022

The Doolittle Raid of Apr 18, 1942, was the first air raid by the USA to strike the Japanese home islands during WW-2. The mission was notable in that it was...

Combat Operations - Battle of the Bulge

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

Doc Snafu - 10/06/2022

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...

Guest Writers

US Armor in the Hürtgen Forest (Schmidt & Kommerscheid)

Doc Snafu - 22/10/2022

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...

Raw Archives

US Army in Alaska during World War Two

Doc Snafu - 05/01/2023

The text you are about to read is part of an almost scientific archive on a very specific subject, Alaska during World War Two. Originally, this study traces the evolution of...

NARA HISTORIC MOVIES EUCMH

US Army Quartermaster Corps History – US Big Picture 1951

Doc Snafu - 30/07/2023

The Quartermaster Story is an examination of the research and engineering program of the Army Quartermaster Corps. It is a program designed to meet the problems posed by modern warfare and...

EUCMH - Graphic Resources

US GIs, Kids, Animals – WW2 (Photos)

Doc Snafu - 29/12/2021

Document Source: Photos Archives Collection of the European Center of Military History. Sorting and searching, as well as compiling, Doc Snafu There were many, especially those who on the front lines had no...

War Crimes Related (Allied and Axis)

US POWs (106-ID) Murdered Schoenberg (12/44)

Doc Snafu - 26/01/2022

Headquarters First United States Army Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, April 20, 1945 Subject: Review of proceeding of Military Commission in the case of the United States v. Hauptmann (Captain) Kurt...

Combat Operations in Germany

US VII Corps – Breaching the Siegfried Line September 1944

Doc Snafu - 12/01/2023

(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...

Army Air Forces Archives

USAAF Stations WW2 – ETO

Doc Snafu - 29/07/2022

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...

Army Air Forces Archives

USAAF Stations – WW2 – (Mediterranean)

Doc Snafu - 31/07/2022

Document Source: US Army Air Force Stations, Mediterranean Theater of Operation, 1945, WD Army Air Forces – Mediterranean Theater Station List – 1 May 1945 Algiers, Algeria 56 Army Airways Communications System Group – Hq...

Guest Writers

War Diary of Gen Frank P. Lahm – US Air Service World War One (Part One)

Doc Snafu - 21/01/2023

(PART ONE) Document Source: Historical Research Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The World War One Diary of Col Frank P. Lahm, Edited by Albert F....

Army Air Forces Archives

War Diary of Gen Frank P. Lahm – US Air Service World War One (Part Four)

Doc Snafu - 09/02/2023

(PART FOUR) Document Source: Historical Research Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The World War One Diary of Col Frank P. Lahm, Edited by Albert F....

Army Air Forces Archives

War Diary of Gen Frank P. Lahm – US Air Service World War One (Part Three)

Doc Snafu - 05/02/2023

(PART THREE) Document Source: Historical Research Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The World War One Diary of Col Frank P. Lahm, Edited by Albert F....

Army Air Forces Archives

War Diary of Gen Frank P. Lahm – US Air Service World War One (Part Two)

Doc Snafu - 29/01/2023

(PART TWO) Document Source: Historical Research Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The World War One Diary of Col Frank P. Lahm, Edited by Albert F....

Photos Resource EUCMH

Wartime Images (Rothenburg ob der Tauber) Germany

Doc Snafu - 06/03/2023

Here is a series of photographs shot during World War Two in Germany and sent to me by a friend from the USA probably 10 or 12 years ago, so please...

China - Burma - India

Where is my Son (Pearl Dunaway)(S/Sgt Joseph Wilburn Dunaway)

Doc Snafu - 31/10/2022

427TH NIGHT FIGHTER SQUADRON Arriving in India, the squadron cooperated closely with the 426th Night Fighter Squadron. The 426th, with only four operational P-61 Black Widows, needed additional aircraft for their Chengtu,...

German Related Studies & Documents

Winners 1940 to Loosers 1945 – Germany’s WW-2 Mistakes

Doc Snafu - 15/11/2022

Document Source: Chapter II of Defeat. The material presented herewith was prepared by the Headquarters Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Intelligence Section, and is published for official use. January...

EUCMH - Graphic Resources

Women at War – WW-2 (Photos)

Doc Snafu - 07/02/2022

Source : Doc Snafu's WW-2 US Photos Collection - European Center of Military History Note: the purpose of this post is to share a large group of photos of Women at War...

Royal Canadian Army Documents

WW2 Canadian Airborne Units

Doc Snafu - 13/02/2022

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...

Raw Archives

WW2 Weapons for Jungle Warfare (1944)

Doc Snafu - 03/01/2023

Document Source: War Department, War General Staff, Organization and Training Division G-3, Washington DC. Subject: Manual on Weapons for Jungle Warfare. The enclosed manual which was prepared due to a special...

NARA HISTORIC MOVIES EUCMH

WWII Infantry Full Combat Pack US Army Big Picture 1951

Doc Snafu - 30/07/2023

#bigpicture, #wwii, #usarmy, #militaria Colonel Quinn appears and explains the clothing, equipment, and food available to the combat infantryman. Combat pack, ammo belt, canteen, bayonet, first aid kit, mess kit, cargo pack,...

Unit Histories

XIX Corps Engineers – (ETO)

Doc Snafu - 04/12/2021

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...

Army Air Forces Archives

XIX TAC – 12.000 Sorties (1944)

Doc Snafu - 31/07/2022

Document Source: Army Air Force Archives, XIX Tactical Command, 1944. The XIX Tactical Air Command (XIX TAC) (Fly Seek Destroy) is an inactive US Air Force unit. The unit’s last assignment was...

Combat Operations in Germany

XVIII Corps (Airborne) Operation Varsity (Germany 1945)

Doc Snafu - 11/10/2022

Document source: Personal Copy of Maj Gen William M. Miley, XVIII Corps Airborne, Operation Varsity, March 23, 1945 - March 30, 1945. Copy N°60, Headquarters XVIII Corps Airborne, Office of the...

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