WWI era poster showing image of a wounded soldier standing and holding two German steel helmets, one in each hand. He is wearing the 1911 pattern pullover flannel shirt, breeches and M1917 helmet. He is carrying a 1903 Springfield rifle with...
A review by the board of various types of equipment required for the Army Ground Forces in the postwar Army, including equipment used by the Army Air Forces in direct support of ground operations and equipment for service type units normally a part...
Volume I of three parts, it includes the naval situation at the start of the Civil War, focusing on the tactic of naval blockade squadrons located in the Atlantic, Chesapeake, and Gulf. Also covered are the operations of commerce-destroyers and...
Contains a summary of answers to an Artillery School and covers topics such as antiaircraft artillery, naval and air support of ground operations, tactics, army aviation, transportation, communications, ammunition, fuzes, material, organization of...
The purpose of the History of Delta Base Section contained in the ensuing pages is the making of a brief record to prompt the memories of officers and men who made the history. The presentation plan undertakes first to place Delta Base Section in...
This is the story of the 64th Engineer Topographic Battalion. Information includes an activation letter, the battalion commander and staff, and a history of the following: 64th Co-651st-1633rd, 64th Bn-PETMD-Guam, battalion sections, commendations,...
This book is concerned primarily with the combat (or tactical) groups that were active during the Second World War. Although such groups had numerous designations, nearly all fell within four major categories: bombardment, fighter, reconnaissance,...
Planning and Control Branch, Oversea Supply Division, New York Port of Embarkation
A summary comparison of the Oversea Supply Division operations of World War I and World War II. Based at New York Port of Embarkation. Covers the organization and functions of the planning and control branch, statistics and reports branch,...
"All wars illustrate the importance of the means of speedy communication." The author in a work of two volumes focuses on the importance and role of the telegraph in the course of the Civil War. A historical recounting of events is organized by...
This volume is a series of pen-pictures of the every-day life of the soldier during the Georgia campaigns beginning with the movement against Atlanta, how he lived, how he marched, and how he fought on the skirmish line and the line-of-battle.
Includes the findings and recommendations of a board of officers appointed to study the present Army and Navy Systems of air support and to make recommendations for the establishment of a standardized systems in the fields of communications,...
This part of the final report of the Board of Officers appointed to develop proposals for the reorganization of the infantry and airborne infantry regiments includes the orders appointing the board, directives, studies prepared by the members of...
This monograph describes U.S. Army riverine planning and operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the years 1966 through 1969. Particular attention is paid to significant trends or changes in riverine operations, and the study attempts to...
Albright, John; Cash, John A.; Sandstrum, Allan W.
These accounts of fighting in Vietnam are based on official U.S. Army records- daily journals, journal files, after action reports, interviews conducted soon after the events by historical officers in Vietnam, and upon interviews and correspondence...
Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army
The following historical monograph is a revised version of the earlier "U.S. Army expansion and readiness, 1961-1962," distributed in September 1962. Topics of this document include the development of an expansion program to meet the Berlin crisis,...
The purpose of this paper is to determine what courses in military history were of particular benefit to the students, those which were not of sufficient value to be retained, and discover courses or methods of instruction which could be added...
This thesis examines some of the reasons behind task force commanders inability to properly employ their direct fire systems during the conduct of offensive operations at the National Training Center (NTC). The thesis develops a set of criteria...