Document Source: Gunter G. Gillot (Doc Snafu), 1984, US Airborne ETO-MTO 1940-1945, Foxmaster Publishing, (French), with Gen William T. Ryder, Gen William P. Yarborough, Gen Matthew B. Ridgway, Gen William M. Miley, Gen James M. Gavin, and many veterans (from both sides) of the World War Two Airborne Warfare. FOREWORD Most of the text deployed below is extracted from a book I wrote in 1986, US Airborne 1940-1945 ETO-MTO (Collector's Academy Press). This was before the Internet. During this period, collecting information and images for the conception of a book was a real endeavor. By chance, while I was doing research...

(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, University of Virginia)(via www.academia.edu) NEVER TELL PEOPLE HOW TO DO THINKS JUST TELL THEM WHAT TO DO AND THEY WILL SURPRISE YOU WITH THEIR INGENUITY George Smith Patton Jr INTRODUCTION The Patton family was of Irish, Scots-Irish, English, Scottish, French, and Welsh ancestry. His great-grandmother came from an aristocratic Welsh family, descended from many Welsh lords of Glamorgan, which had an extensive military background. Patton believed he had former lives as a soldier and...

(Document source: this archive was found while searching for papers in the CDs. It was submitted to EUCMH by Elmer T Garvelson (USA) on June 13, 2005. No other information available) (Note I am not late with my publications but burning CDs en mass make things like that happen). The most important source for the personal aspects of this historical perspective came from hours of oral interviews with my grandmother, Etta Louise Bietz. Her unrelenting attention to detail became this work's greatest attribute. Michelle L. Ellison. It was a beautiful afternoon in Lexington, especially in early December. Still, in her Sunday...

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 used to search newly occupied cities and towns for intelligence, strategic, tactical, technical and economic documents, and artifacts. The initial aims had been to collect military intelligence and counter-intelligence, but with the occupation of Rome, these aims had begun to evolve. When the Allies began to consider operations in Northwest Europe, they realized that technical, economic, and industrial intelligence would be important both for the war against Japan and...

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 collection units. This article covers how the western allies copied the German example under the Codename S Force during their North African campaign. While some problems were identified, the system proved successful enough for the allies to continue with similar collection units in Italy and to develop this form of intelligence collection even further in preparation for the military campaign in NW Europe. During the Second World War, the...

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 of the Abwehr (the German military intelligence service) from 1935 to 1944. Canaris was initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, and the Nazi regime. However, following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Canaris turned against Hitler and committed acts of both passive and active resistance during the war. As the head of Nazi Germany's military intelligence agency, he was in a key position to participate in Nazi...

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 on the ground (archaeology) or sources, either of which can be referenced and are available to peer reviewers and readers to confirm and cross-check. But both these two pillars of academic inquiry have their limitations, which quickly become apparent when dealing with a practical discipline, such as military history, where 'soft' matters as e.g. organization, tactics, training, command procedures, leadership, and morale are often of crucial importance. This...

Document Source: Memoirs of Raymond E. Kitchell, 89th Infantry Division. This document has been uploaded to the webserver by one of our members. Anyway, to follow the text and find some photos, I will use the copy available online on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, this copy is linked to the website of the 89th Infantry Division. Memoirs of a Young Private A personal history of World War II Written at age 76 by Raymond E. Kitchell September 2000 PRELUDE Of the almost 40 months I spent in the US Army during World War II, only a bit more than two months were spent...

Document Source: Gurkhas, Re-assessing the performance of Imperial Soldiers in WW-2. Sanju Gurung, Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Bowman (War Study Dissertation) Acknowledgement It is my pleasure to thank those who made this research possible, including my tutor Dr. Timothy Bowman who gave me immense support in my time of need. A special thanks to Maj Rick Beven who was the Officer Commanding in Gurkha Recruiting Camp in Pokhara, Nepal, in 2011. He provided me with an extensive range of Gurkha veterans’ interviews that he had conducted over years. Not last but least, my sincere thanks to Senior Welfare Officer in Nepal, Maj Krishna...

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 structured for deployment in the mountainous terrain found in Italy and her immediate neighbors. These forces were forced to adapt themselves to a colonial role, and, even more conflicting, to the 'War of Rapid Decision'. These theories mixed about as well as oil and water, and Italy lacked the industrial power and the raw materials to field forces able to meet all these needs. She even lacked the means...

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 monograph appeared originally as issue number 47 in the Journal of the Council on America's Military Past, in December 1982, Fort Myer, Virginia 22211. I have compiled it, added more information, and also several series of illustration photos to fit with the text. (Doc Snafu) Gen George C. Marshall in his Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, July 1, 1941, to June 30,...