The Overlord operation is a widely-studied episode in military history. Often overlooked is a little known U.S. operation designed to overcome logistical problems in the Overlord plan. For the first 90 days of combat the Overlord operation would...
This study examines the mistakes made by the Austrian Corps in tactical and technical preparations and the execution of crossing the Danube River and the attack on Belgrade.
This study on Germany focuses on transportation systems and inland waterways. The four sections of this document are broken down by the shipbuilding industry, shipping industry, Reich (national) waterways, and inland ports.
This report covers the naval phases of the amphibious operations in connection with the mounting, movement, and landing of the Tenth Corps assigned to the occupation of the Kure-Hiroshima and Matasuyama areas of Japan, following the termination of...
Translation of a Japanese document concerning principles of river crossing for the Japanese Army. Discusses characteristics of large rivers in an anticipated theater of operation, practical steps and methods for a successful and swift river...
Covers engineer planning data, supply planning data, transportation and movement planning, personnel service support, health service support planning for evacuation and hospitalization and operational force requirement planning.
This document focuses on water airdromes or landing areas (types of sites, availability, planes suitable for use), ice airdromes (types of ice, how near the shore, pack ice, ice fields, ice caps), and conventional airdromes (arctic problems and...
There are several topics discussed in this document regarding the operations surrounding the port that was Cherbourg during the Second World War. Military planning included how plans were made and then changed. Contents revealed administering the...
This paper examines one aspect of warfare at the operational level, the defense, and attempts to identify how the elements of planning, preparation, and execution, previously applied in the conduct of the tactically-oriented Active Defense, must be...
Gives general information of the area and information on landing facilities, supplies, repair facilities, vulnerability and port security, industry and health sanitation and hospitals.
The Rhine River has been long recognized as one of the most formidable obstacles to military movement on the European Continent, and its crossing was the object of the most intensive planning and preparatory effort made by Ninth Army while...
Information on the Okinawa Operation covering enemy defenses, individual island defenses, disposition of Japanese forces, Japanese weapons, artillery situation, Japanese tactics, and weather.
This book is written in question and answer format describing the objects of fortification and field profiles and examines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Covers obstacles, revetments, field works, defenses, demolition, sieges, and...
Reports of a Major in the United States Army Corps of Engineers attached as an observer to the Third Japanese Army. Major Khun presents a detailed description of the Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese conflict, including army life,...
This document provides an account of the Palestine campaign. Chapters include background and information on Egypt and the Suez Canal, the desert of Sinai, Palestine, Gaza, trench warfare, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Junction Station and Ludd, the...
This report covers the period from the time the Engineer, Sixth Army, was first apprised of the Luzon operation, 14 September 1944, until the capture of Aparri on the northern tip of Luzon. The document stresses capabilities and limitations that...
Reports on Operation Husky including G-2 information and intelligence, counterintelligence, landing attack plan, follow-up plan, operational plans, sortie plan, and intelligence plans.