Document source: Engagements of Panzer Brigade 107, September and October 1944, by Generalleutnant Friedrich Sixt, (English translation provided by C. Awender), Historical Division, Foreign Military Studies Branch, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 11, 1954. A research of Oberstleutnant Berndt-Joachim Frhr.v.Maltzahn and with additional information from the Kreigsstagebuch (War Diary] of OB West. Prélude In summer of 1944, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces) ordered the formation of a number of independent tank brigades out of non-combat ready formations which were withdrawn from the front for reforming or refreshing. The purpose was to have new tank formations immediately ready. One of...

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, 1944, Operation of the 1st Allied Airborne Army, Operation Market Garden, Invasion in Holland during the Rhineland Campaign. Experience of Capt John D. Phillips Jr, Platoon Leader. INTRODUCTION This archive covers the operations of the 3rd Platoon, Easy Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, in the seizure of the Nijmegen Bridge, September 19/20, 1944, during the 1st Allied Airborne Army's invasion of Holland. By the early fall of...

Document Source: Operations of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in Holland, September 17 to October 9, 1944. Rhineland Campaign. Capt Lloyd E. Wills, Assistant Regimental Operations Officer. INTRODUCTION This archive covers the operation of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in Holland from September 17, 1944, to October 9, 1944, during Operation Market. In order to orient the reader a short resume of events leading up to this operation is given. On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched a coordinated airborne-seaborne assault on the Western Coast of France, the Normandy Peninsula, in the vicinity of Carentan and...

Document Source: Personal Experience of Capt Leo V. Thieme during Operations in Holland, 3rd Plat., Charlie Co, 1st Bn, 48th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division. This short battle account, describes the Personal Experience of Capt Leo V. Thieme during the Liberation and the Combats in Holland. The 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 48th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division, had just completed a six-day motor march as a member of Combat Command A. The almost continuous move greatly fatigued the men, but despite this fact, morale was exceptionally good. Partial reasons for this high state of morale probably...

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, in Holland by Capt John D. Phillips, Platoon Leader. INTRODUCTION By the early fall of 1944, the Allied Armies were suffering a serious handicap to the continued rapid advance along the Western Front in that they were badly in need of supplies, and no Army was capable of making a sustained offensive. This situation had developed because the Seaports serving the Armies were so far to the rear that the...

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 established a bridgehead on the east bank of the Meuse River in the vicinity of Maastricht, Holland. Both, Gen Leland Hobbs' US 30-ID and CCA of Gen Ernest N. Harmon's US 2-AD had moved into the bridgehead and were ready to advance east. The US 30-ID had the mission of giving flank protection to the US VII Corps, whose attack in the vicinity of Aachen, Germany, constituted the...