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.
65th Fighter Wing, 8th U.S. Air Force, Headquarters
This document was written to make and show why certain recommendations may help future air force commanders conserve fighters; this is not a training manual, however. It details the fact that flak was by far the most dangerous weapon the strategic...
'These were the Americans: nearly 2,000 of them'…..There was a husky apprentice plasterer from Philadelphia who flew a fighter. His seven-ton Thunderbolt was last seen in a dive over the Zuider Zee, an Me 109 close behind with its nose-cannon...
The annexed file contains copies of all intelligence messages sent to and received from U.S. Military Mission at Moscow by MIS during the period 2 August 1945 through 14 August 1945. This exchange was specifically authorized by the Assistant Chief...
Fischer, Joseph, Stewart, Richard W., Sandler, Stanley
This document covers the special operations in Haiti, including details of Uphold Democracy, the psychological operations, civil affairs, support operations, redeployment and assessment of the military actions.
Contains a series of essays on various military campaigns and operations during World War II and the Vietnam War. All of the documents illustrate both the historical interest of the officer corps and the variety of tactical situations that can be...
MAJ Morgan Ashton served as a liaison officer for Task Force Shield to the Ministry of Oil in Basra, Iraq during 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this April 2012 interview, MAJ Ashton discusses the challenges of deploying not...
The operations officer for Echo Company, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Major Garret Messner deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P) in January 2002 for a six-month tour. Beyond the difficulties associated...
Staff Sergeant Steven Jackson was a Reserve Component soldier who reenlisted on his fiftieth birthday in 2003 after a sixteen-year break in service. After a valuable predeployment train-up at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, he mobilized at Fort Bragg, North...
Lacking the technological resources to compete with Combined Forces Command (CFC) conventional forces, the NKPA has compensated for their technological weaknesses by greatly increasing the number of forward-deployed conventional units, cannon and...
Avid readers of WWII air combat will find the Eighth AAF’s strategic bombing mission #84 (the Schweinfurt-Regensburg raid on August 17th, 1943) and mission #115 (the Schweinfurt raid on October 14th, 1943) to be tremendous setbacks to the...
Past and future mobilizations and deployments have placed an immense strain on the current capabilities of the Army's Civil Affairs forces. That has resulted in a recognized need for additional Civil Affair structure and capabilities in the Army's...
This is a historical narrative of the Third Infantry Division's experiences at the Anzio-Nettuno beachhead from 22 January to 2 June 1944. It identifies major contributing factors to the Third Infantry Division's battlefield success at the battle...
Consists of military documents and correspondence detailing the military operations and drive of the First American Army down the Meuse during October and November 1918 which led to the collapse of the German Army.
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...
Second of two volumes, field intelligence reports arranged chronologically by date then hour as received from each reporting headquarters, corps, division and miscellaneous units or commands operating with the First Army.
This document is the G-4 Periodic Report, US Army Forces, POA, for the quarter ending 30 September 1944. Included is supply organization, orders and general instructions, 7th Air Force employment plan, and South Pacific Base Command.
Report on the Eighth Air Force's mission to target multiple defensive installations, consisting of anti-aircraft and artillery positions and strong points covering the Gironde estuary in southwest France and defensive installations in Germany.