Translated from German into English by Katherine A. Mull. Austrian and German officer's personal account of the assignment from Hitler to rescue Mussolini in the summer of 1943. Includes meeting with Hitler, discovery and reconnaissance of...
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.
Information concerning the Northwest African Air Forces; including official Report of operations, Operations bulletin No.1, General Orders No.1, 18, and 23 covering the organizations, units and locations, operations, coordination with RAF, air...
Series of lectures in two volumes on infantry organization, weapons, field artillery, communications, security, infantry policies, armored forces, infantry school, manpower and various remarks from generals. Demonstration section contains series of...
Series of lectures in two volumes on infantry organization, weapons, field artillery, communications, security, infantry policies, armored forces, infantry school, manpower and various remarks from generals. Demonstration section contains series of...
Conference subjects consist of communications, armored troop carriers, liaison planes, food preparation and distribution, mine detecting and disposal, supply replacement, supply means, clothing, body armor, training aids, and War Department...
This outline plan embodies operations that follow the capture of MANUS ISLAND and KAVIENG with the concormmitant isolation of
RABAUL. It is assumed that the forces of the CENTRAL PACIFIC, staging through the SOUTH and SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREAS, with...
Reprinted from the revised British Edition of September, 1916. Contains general principles on using the grenade as a weapon in trench warfare, training of units, organizing the attack, defending an attack, and types of grenades. Series of...
Translation of an official French document, June 1916. The report is divided into three parts; sound perception and sound observation, methods for determining the direction, and account of instruments in use.
Translated from a French official document of December 1916, information is separated into four parts. Part one concerns selection and concealment of battery emplacements, part two the construction of the different elements of battery emplacements,...
This pamphlet is designed to provide ideas for the use of military history and military history related activities in fostering professional development. The ideas presented here, with some exceptions, do not require great expertise in the...
Captain Meriwether Lewis's task was to equip and man a party to traverse the unmapped middle third of the United States. Most studies of the expedition begin with the party's departure from Camp Dubois in the spring of 1804. This starting point...
General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces
From an official French document. War Department Document No. 802 cancels previous publications of the same title, War Department Documents Nos. 583 and 711. These instructions conform to the American company and are based on French experiences....
Major Gerald H. Green commanded Charlie Company, 203rd Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy) of the Missouri Army National Guard in Baghdad. Green had been in command for two and half months before receiving orders for mobilization and deployment to...
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,...
A discussion of the lack of foreign language capability as it affects the ability of the U.S. to fight in asymmetrical wars such as the War on Terrorism, especially in the area of military intelligence.
A battlebook presented to the staff and faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College in fulfillment of the requirements for P651. During the period September-December 1944 the US XX Corps encircled and reduced Metz as a preliminary move...
Writings and communications of General DePuy. In three parts, part I covers the pre-Tradoc years, 1954-1973, part II the Tradoc years 1974-77, and part III, retirement years, 1978-91. In the seventeen years between General DePuy's creation of...
This paper on neutral rights on the high seas and the origins of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War grew out of a much larger and continuing study of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War. The rights and duties of both neutrals and...
Thurman, Maxwell R.; Talbott, Orwin C.; Gorman, Paul F.
General William E. DePuy changed the U.S. Army. As the first commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), he created the mechanisms to restore the Army's self-image as a conventional combat force trained and configured for...