✅ This post was reviewed and corrected as part of the 2025 Historical Accuracy Update.Reviewed by Doc Snafu on April 17, 2026. (Source) Report of Col Harry McK. Roper Field Artillery, covering his observations as an AGF (Army Ground Force) Observer, during the landing at Fedala and subsequent attack on Casablanca, French Morocco by the Third Amphibious Division (Reinforced). The 3rd Infantry Division, organized as an amphibious division and reinforced by additional units, was one of the Sub Task Forces of the Western Task Force which recently landed in French Morocco. This division, with its attached units, was designated as Sub...

✅ This post was reviewed and corrected as part of the 2025 Historical Accuracy Update.Reviewed by Doc Snafu on November 27, 2025. During the course of my research while researching info for this post : (3/135th Infantry Regiment – 34th Infantry Division – Operations at Algiers (North Africa) – November 7-10 1942 (Maj Leslie W. Bailey), I came across a 1944 document that carries the following cautionary statement: Combat Narratives were written to fill a temporary requirement before the appearance of official and semiofficial complete histories. Due to hastily gathered and oftentimes incomplete information, there are certain inaccuracies. With this warning...

Document Source: Log Book of the 85th Naval Construction Battalion & History (EUCMH Archives) 85th Naval Construction Battalion February 6, 1943. Following in the footsteps of the 84 Groups ahead of them, 27 officers and 1079 enlisted men who had been through an initial three weeks training period, paraded in ceremonial review and also the thick mud of Virginia, with the group officially named the 85th US Naval Construction Battalion and the battalion standard presented to the Officer in charge, Commander Fred­erick C. Ray, by Commander A. G. Hillberg, CEC, USNR, who was the Military Training Officer at Camp Allen (Texas),...