This volume resumes the narrative of the Fifth Armies history during the Italian offensive on December 16, 1944 and details the utilization of time during the cessation of offensive operations during the winter of 1944/1945.
Second volume of top-level directives issued by Hitler and the German Armed Forces High Command from 1939 through 1945. The directives of the later years of the war clearly reflect the change in the character of German warfare from large-scale...
This abbreviated report covers the actions of the II Corps Artillery for the period from 25 July 1944 to 2 May 1945, and has been written as a sequel to a previous report, "MINTURNO TO ROME", covering the period 25 March 1944 to 5 June 1944.
This history picks up the Fifth Army's continued advancement from the Arno River beginning August 16, 1944 through the stall at the Gothic Line December 15, 1944.
The paper will provide you with information about “Auftragstaktik” and it will explain with some examples how “Auftragstaktik” has proven its worth in history. “Auftragstaktik” is a command and control principle that emerged during the...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
This thesis examines how Brazil participated in World War II shoulder to shoulder with the Allies and what this participation brought to the country. During the 1930s, when the relationship between Brazil and Germany was improving yearly, and when...
Committee 28, Officers Advanced Course, the Armored School; Frankel, Henry; Noseck, Kenneth A; Fox, Victor B.; Williams, Walter H.; Wilson, Weldon W.; Wallace, Jerry G.; Hughes, John W., Jr.; Irving, John H.; Young, Maurice L.
This is a report of committee investigation of the use of armor in mountainous warfare in World War II. It considers the employment of armored units of all sizes from section to division. It was the purpose of this report to collect for ready...
Task Force 45 was a task force of American and British antiaircraft gunners acting as infantry, with Italian Partisans, Brazilians and African American troops fighting by their side. Explains the organization and committing of TF 45. Gives...
This study explores the experiences of the Army's only World War II era divisional unit designed specifically for employment in mountainous terrain, the 10th Mountain Division. It examines the reasons for its activation, its organization, training,...
This study attempts to analyze the decisions made by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring prior to and during the battle of Anzio in February 1944. The focus of the investigation is on Kesselring's decision to shift Army Group reserves from the Rome...
Strategy is the art of concentrating superior combat power in a theater of operations at the required time and place and under conditions which will favor the defeat or destruction of the enemy's armed forces in battle. One of most momentous...
This narrative picks up the history of the Fifth Army in Italy on October 7, 1943 on the banks of the Volturno River and continues through their halt at the German Winter Line November 15, 1943.
On June 5, 1944 the Fifth Army began their advance to the Arno River in pursuit of the remnants of the German Fourteenth Army. This history details their advance through August 15, 1944.
This narrative picks up the history of the Fifth Army's Italian offensive from April 14, 1945 and ends with the German surrender on May 2, 1945. A summary of 5th Army activities until its October inactivation is included.
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. ...