This engineering report gives a narrative of the XIX Corps engineer operations during the crossing of the Roer. Included is original crossing order, after action reports and accurate engineer data by the author, a XIX Corps engineer. Photographs...
This document includes a history, statistical summary of corps engineers function from D-Day to V-E Day, summary of tactical principles, a complete list of bridges built by corps engineers from D-Day to V-E Day, pictures of engineer work, and an...
Glenn, Clyde; McMillan, Keith; Smith, Allison; Stewart, Samuel; Brown, Keith
Thesis: The extensive allied planning coupled with aggressive execution was critical to the success of the Normandy invasion and the allies' defeat of the Germans in France.
Thesis Statement: The extensive allied planning coupled with aggressive execution was critical to the success of the Normandy invasion and the allies’ defeat of the Germans in France.
Discussion: The Normandy Campaign resulted in the largest...
Report of enemy aircraft activity and engagement with antiaircraft artillery in the ETO for the period 1 Nov. 1944 - 20 June 1945. Reported weekly, nos. 2-35. Also includes rules of engagement and instructions on maintenance of equipment. Volume...
This book is an attempt to summarize the facts of the XIX Corps' achievements in battle, and at the same time provide a running background of incident, and description which try to give the details of a few things that had to be done and be done...
This is an account of the 3d Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, 2d Armored Division (reinforced) to seize the Adolph Hitler Bridge over the Rhine River at Uerdingen, Germany intact on 3 March 1945.
"EAGLE" passed into history as American's highest field command, after leading four U. S. Armies to victory from England to the Elbe. For the final assault on "Festung Europa" in Germany, "EAGLE" included the First, Third, Ninth and Fifteenth...
This study analyzes critical components of the initiative and synchronization tenets of AirLand Battle and U.S. Army command and control doctrines to determine if command and control of river crossing doctrine is compatible. It examines these...
This thesis evaluates the history of the 761st Tank Battalion from its activation to its deactivation. The battalion was one of the three African American tank battalions established during World War II. The 761st Tank Battalion was the first...
This is a tentative history of smoke generator operations in the Mediterranean and European theaters of operation in World War II. Contents include information about weapons, smoke generator units, employment, large area screening operation in MTO,...
This report describes the 2nd Armored Division's limited objective attack from 16 to 28 November, 1944 in the Roer River offensive against a grimly defended segment of the Siegfried Line. Original does not have page 29 either, text appears...
Intelligence and Leaflet Unit, Area III, Washington
This is vol. I, no. 3 leaflet news letter. Contents include: an editorial; some results of leaflet operations; leaflet drops and propaganda in the Far East; psychological warfare and the airman; treatment of the Emperors Meiji and Taisho and the...