It has long been a question whether it is necessary to study history. Many people say that it is a waste of time because you can never go back in time, but some say the best way to predict the future is to study the past. When you are talking about...
This document contains a G-2 special study of Iwo Jima. There is an index to standard map symbols, starboard center and profiles of beaches, a vertical photograph of the southern half of the island with beaches superimposed, situation maps, and...
This report covers the medical effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima 6 August 1945, and on Nagasaki 9 August 1945. It also analyzes the physical damage as related to death and injury of personnel, the organization of relief activities by...
One of a series of civilian defense handbooks prepared by the United States Office of Civilian Defense. The purpose is to instruct the individual enrolled as a civilian defense worker in his duties. The measures for safeguarding civilians against...
This handbook of artillery materiel is the sixth edition of this work. Topics include general principles of gun construction, breech-loading ordnance, quick-firing guns, machine guns, explosives, projectiles, fuzes/tubes, field and siege carriages,...
Chief Warrant Officer John Groseclose served as the officer in charge of the tactical human intelligence (HUMINT) team section for Charlie Company, 501st Military Intelligence Battalion in Baghdad, Iraq, through 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi...
From August 2005 through August 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Erick Sweet served in the brigade aviation element as part of the air defense and airspace management (ADAM) cell for 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. In this...
MAJ Jason Kristolaitis served as the commander for the movement control team (MCT), 27th Transportation Battalion under 3rd Corps Support Command (COSCOM) out of Tallil Air Base during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In...
MAJ John Chung served as operations officer (S3) of a Ranger Regiment on various deployments to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In the second of three February 2009 interviews, MAJ Chung discusses pre-deployment preparation and...
MAJ John Chung served as company commander of Delta Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion in Afghanistan during 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In the last of three February 2009 interviews, MAJ Chung discusses the training regimen...
In this interview, MAJ John Chung talks about his deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2003-2004 as the logistics officer (S4) for the 1-501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), which later transitioned to...
The first course map problems are reproduced in one volume which has one part of the second course at the beginning of the volume. The material for the second course is found in 4 bound volumes which have been reproduced from the damaged originals...
When the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) arrived in France in 1917, AEF authorities decided to reorganize the Army's division and higher level staffs to be more in line with their French and British counterparts. The reorganization required an...
This brief history has been prepared for the purpose of acquainting the personnel of the Quartermaster Corps with some of the facts concerning the principal and auxiliary functions of the Quartermaster Corps, A.E.F., during the First World War....
A summary review of the general situation as it existed upon the United States entry into the war is necessary to appreciate at its true value the American effort and in order fully to understand many important decisions reached in the early days...
This document contains a selection of the records of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. The documents contained within this volume were selected to show the development of policy in General Headquarters, A.E.F., as the operations of...