(Source) This is an anonymous upload to the EUCMH webserver. I really want to thank the donator of these wartime maps because I am sure some guys online will find them really useful. So, once again, thank you. Map #01 - Arloncourt & Obourcy December 25, 1944 Map #02 - Assenois - Bastogne - Clohimont December 25, 1944 Map #03 - Assenois - Bastogne December 25, 1944 Map #04 - Benonchamps - Bras December 25, 1944 Map #05 - Bertogne December 25, 1944 Map #06 - Bizory & Neffe December 25, 1944 Map #07 - Champs & Rouette December 25, 1944 Map #08 - Champs December 25, 1944 Map #09 - Champs - Longchamps - Rolley December...

Images Source: Erik Villard, Digital Military Historian serving the US Army and veteran community.

Document Source: US National Archives (NARA) through Paperless Archives. A few years ago, just to try it out, I bought a series of archival DVDs. As this was a batch totaling some 2.5 million pages, I expected to receive a bit of everything. This series of images was one of them and, although dating from WWI, I would find it a shame not to post them to make them available to my readers.

The Port of Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf. The voyage from New York around South Africa to the Persian Gulf ports averaged 70 days. When the Mediterranean route became available in 1943, the time was shortened to 42 days. This port, built on swampy land where the river Jarrahi empties into the gulf, has a semitropical climate. Both here and at Khorramshahr much of the work was done at night, and even then the temperature was around a hundred degrees Fahrenheit from March until October. The area is subject to torrential rains in winter. Docking space at both...

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 other occupation than to kill enemies, to cling to something from real life, life before the war, life at home, to find a kid or an animal and become attached to it. The stories on this subject are very numerous. I could start writing all the anecdotes I have collected so far since the early 1970s but I still believe that one picture is worth 1000 words Pvt Gene...

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 and have them online in printable size to be used. I am sorry for the images without caption, but some are in my archives for years (some even decade), and I never published a post to used these photos. If you have a fitting caption, don't hesitate and contact me here. Bolling Field, DC, WACs use a theodolite to obtain data on upper air flow of baloon 1/Sgt...

The Beach of Les Andalouses, west of Oran (above). The landings here were unopposed. Eastern part of Oran harbor (below). Early on Nov 8, two British ships (ex-US Coast Guard cutters), carrying about 400 US soldiers, entered the port between the moles shown in the distance. The ships came under point-blank fire from French naval vessels in the harbor and from shore batteries. They returned the fire but were sunk with great loss of life. When resistance in Oran ceased at noon on Nov 10, the port was cluttered with ships either sunk by British naval gunfire or sabotaged....

✅ This post was reviewed and corrected as part of the 2025 Historical Accuracy Update.Reviewed by Doc Snafu on July 30, 2025. (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 very strong defenses and partly because of the necessity of capturing the port in usable condition. Casablanca was a naval base. The US Navy had the mission of preventing French warships from interfering with the landings. American ships came under the fire of large coastal guns on...