In my review I ran across a document in my personal files, dated 26 December 43, covering in considerable detail the tasks assigned and the part played by the 82d Airborne Division in that operation. It is, I think, rich in lessons of what not to...
This discussion on tank destroyer employment was submitted by an officer with four year's experience on this subject. Lessons learned are from personal observation and actual combat experiences in Africa, Sicily, Normandy, France and Germany. The...
This study examines the U.S. Army's use of tank destroyers in World War II, particularly the origins and evolution of tank destroyer doctrine, changes in training at the tank destroyer school at Camp Hood, and selection of weapons systems taken to...
From April 2003 through April 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Tim Cyprian commanded the 813th Replacement Company - a US Army Reserve unit out of Gordo, Alabama - and was based in country at LSA Anaconda. In this interview, he...
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.
This document is the G-4 Periodic Report, US Army Forces, POA, for the quarter ending 31 March 1945. Included is logistics and supply organization, orders and general instructions, service troop distribution, transportation, and unit organization.
Official AAR contains a monthly accounting of over-all army operations in the European theater. Supplemented with maps and supporting documents. In 2 volumes with volume II a compilation of general and special staff sections operations reports.
Contents in this final report on the Japanese Army include: orders and instructions; condensed itinerary; Japanese transport and supply system; system of communication between units of field army; machine guns; Japanese infantry; Japanese cavalry;...
Anzio Beachhead, fourteenth in the series of studies of particular combat operations, is the story of how VI Corps of the American Fifth Army seized and held a strategic position far to the rear of the main fighting front, in the Italian campaign...
Order of items in this document are by annexes and inclosures. Includes Sixth Army casualty reporting plan, administration, troop movements, Base K development and operations, construction and engineer service plan, evacuation, medical services,...
This narrative picks up the history of the Fifth Army in Italy on October 7, 1943 on the banks of the Volturno River and continues through their halt at the German Winter Line November 15, 1943.