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,...
This document is the G-4 Periodic Report, US Army Forces, POA, for the quarter ending 31 March 1945. Included is logistics and supply organization, orders and general instructions, service troop distribution, transportation, and unit organization.
Military History Section, Special Staff, Far East Command
Includes the Japanese navy chain of command, organization of the fleets, air fleets, submarine forces, naval ship divisions, monthly losses, and list of combatant, non-combatant and converted vessels.
Presented in this volume are command and staff rosters, composition of divisions, attachments and detachments, assignments and attachments to higher units, command post locations, and pertinent statistics. With some exception, the material...
'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...
Detailed orders for air, ground and water forces in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Contains several annexes. Digitized by the Military History Institute.
In this second of two interviews, Major Tom Miner, US Air Force, discusses his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, as commander of the 824th Security Forces Squadron from June through December 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He talks about how...
Tasked with contingency airbase defense during his first two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from August to December 2003 at Tallil Airbase, the second from May to October 2004 at Baghdad International Airport - US Air...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
This thesis argues that government and military leaders failed the American people on September 11, 2001 by neglecting previous reports, Armed Forces on Reserve Forces and Manpower Mobilization Issues, submitted as early as 1983 regarding the...