The requirement for review of current division night attack doctrine is found in the apparent inconsistencies, ambiguities, and omissions of current doctrine. Present division night attack doctrine is alleged to fall short of a coherent, organized...
This thesis examines field expedient modifications to US armored vehicles by US Army and US Marine Corps armored vehicle crewmen during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Two major categories of modifications are examined. They are...
Although the government’s reliance on contractors to support military forces is not a new phenomenon, the degree to which contractors are involved in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OIF) has increased substantially. In OIF in...
On VE Day, 8 May 1945, the United States had over three million military personnel in Europe. Through redeployment of forces to the Pacific Theater and demobilization this number dropped to just over 622,000 by 1 January 1946. Staff planners...
Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps Division of Operations and Training
This Basic Plan contains the statement of the problem presented for solution in the Army and Navy Joint Exercises of 1925, the first estimate of the situation by the Commanding General of the Blue Marine Corps Expeditionary Force, an outline of the...
Continuation from II part, contains a narrative of events displaying the facts, seriousness of difficulties encountered, decisions made, results of such and management of the campaign and its effect on the war.
Looks at the operations of the 2d and 36th Divisions with the Fourth French Army in Champagne in October, 1918. The Blanc Mont operation is classed as part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, but it's also part of a larger offensive that extended along...
Contains World War I records for the 2d Army Corps; records of military operations over seas, records of services of supply overseas and records of military activities in the United States.
Chapters include the following headings: political; operations against the Waziristan tribes previous to 1914; operations against Waziristan tribes between August 1914 and 11th June 1917; operations in the Shahur and Khaisara valleys between 12th...
First of two volumes, field intelligence reports arranged chronologically by date then hour as received from each reporting headquarters, corps, division and miscellaneous units or commands operating with the First Army.
Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services
Extracts from short wave radio broadcasts from Tokyo, Manila, and other affiliated stations, from January 1 to April 1, 1944. Broadcasts included programs covering politics, the military, economics, and social and cultural affairs.
A history of the Mediterranean Base Section, Services of Supply, North African Theater of Operations. Includes monthly activities separately reported. Volume I of II volumes.
Report of enemy aircraft activity and engagement with antiaircraft artillery in the ETO for the period 1 Nov. 1944 - 20 June 1945. Reported weekly, nos. 2-35. Also includes rules of engagement and instructions on maintenance of equipment. Volume...
This document contains maps and sections on messages received (and who they were from) along with action taken from August 1, 1942 to October 31, 1942 during the Second World War. Plans are listed, as well as 'other action taken'; sections are...
This is the private war journal of Generaloberst Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Army (OKH), 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942 (first entry: 7 December 1939, last entry: 9 May 1940).
This document detailed the history of 116th Signal Radio Intelligence Company from date of activation, 18 May, 1942 until V-J Day, 2 September, 1945. It contains photographs and biographies of soldiers in the company, the story of the 116th from...
The following topics are discussed in this document on World War Two: completion of training in the U.S., Camp Forrest to Ft. Slocum, Transatlantic, England (Camp Bewdley, Birmingham, and Braemore), prelude to operations, the campaign in France,...
A series of four after action reports by the Ninth Infantry Division pertaining to operations in Southern Tunisia, Sicily, and France. Reports contain maps and overlays of the operations.