Operations report of the Fourth Marine Division in Iwo Jima from February 19 to March 16, 1945. Including sections: planning and preparations, movement to objective, ship to shore movement, narrative of operation, progress of attack, and comments...
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 I...
Strategic Logistics Branch, Planning Division, Army Service Forces
This document contains official documents such as memorandums, letters, and communications to and from the Commanding General with respect to logistics, training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. Also...
This document is the G-4 Periodic Report, US Army Forces, POA, for the quarter ending 30 June 1945. Included is details on logistics and supply of ground and air forces, service troop disposition, unit organization, transportation, orders and...
War Department, Special Staff, Historical Division
This document contains the technical details developed in the various areas and subjects of the Planning Division with respect to logistics training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. It is intended to...
There are several topics discussed in this document regarding the operations surrounding the port that was Cherbourg during the Second World War. Military planning included how plans were made and then changed. Contents revealed administering the...
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (Public Information Division)
This document was prepared in the historical section, public information division, United States Coast Guard Headquarters. This paper describes assistance and rescue operations by the U.S. Coast Guard. There are many charts showing the U.S....
This special action report is based on operations of the First Marine Division (reinforced) against the former Japanese island of Okinawa in 1945 and is divided into three phases for purposes of the report. Phase I included training, planning, and...
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...
The war in Italy required new techniques to deal with challenges imposed by topography, climate, road-net, the construction of its buildings and the location of its villages. Non-administrative portions of this document address those challenges. ...
Contains digests 1-24. Brief study of certain European trends and developments in field artillery furnished for general interest and to show results of the (then) present war.
This document describes the conquest of Sicily (preparatory measures, the assault, the enemy’s stand at Catania, reduction of the island, and a diary of the Sicilian campaign), air operations, air transport, etc., during World War II.
This volume contains information on the following topics: German Air Force, Royal Air Force, story of VIII Fighter Command, staff work at command and the planning of missions, enemy reactions, divebombing, and strafing, D-Day and after.
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.
This report was compiled to supplement the operational reports, and to make record of the duties and responsibilities that were assigned in connection with the operations. It gives in detail the administrative, training, and logistic...
Conference topics include special troops, military police, graves registration, cavalry reconnaissance, intelligence, defense, security, administration, personnel assignment, war dogs, and the general organization of an infantry division.