This is the combat history of the 79th Fighter Group during World War Two. The document details the following contents: group commanders; group combat narrative; campaigns; battle citations and commendations; claims- illustrated statistical...
In the European Theatre of Operations, flak reached its majority when the back of the German Air Force was broken in the first months of 1944. Enemy antiaircraft artillery replaced enemy aircraft as the major combat risk of Allied air fleets. The...
This history of the 7th Field Artillery Battalion In World War II Is a compilation of unit reports, extracts from unit journals and maps that cover the period from the convoy operation that took us to the landing at Arzew, Algeria on 8 November...
This story of an artillery battalion in the European War of 1944 - 1945 is told not by one man, but by the many who lived the story and told it by note or word of mouth, that it might be included in the history of the battalion. Sources for the...
Proceedings of the Army Intelligence Officers' Conference, held in New Orleans, Louisiana 17-19 November, 1943. Discussions include the functions of the Director of Intelligence, accomplishments of the CIC in the US and abroad, the collecting of...
Saipan (Forager) operation report. 19 June - 5 August 1944. Section I, Narrative report -- Section II, Unit report -- Section III, Regimental journal -- Section IV, Field orders, field messages, notes. Contains narrative, staff...
This bulletin consists of recent information of tactical and technical developments and trends affecting the operations of the Arms and Services. It is derived from official sources (except where specifically noted), and consists principally of...
This bulletin consists of recent information (in WWII) on tactical and technical developments and trends affecting the operations of the Arms and Services. It details numbers 21-30, with dates ranging from March 25, 1943 to July 29, 1943. Part I...
This tactical and technical trends publication starts with no. 31 (12 August 1943) and finishes with no. 40 (16 December 1943). Sections include information on air, antiaircraft, antitank, armored, artillery, chemical warfare, engineers, infantry,...
This is a history of the 850th Engineer Aviation Battalion. It includes a roster, dedication page, memoriam, men in the Battalion Headquarters who shared responsibility for successes and failures, the battalion in the United States (England,...
This is a report of the Leyte operation, World War II. Constituted on 22 January 1943, Headquarters Sixth Army was activated on 25 January 1943 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The Leyte Operation was the initial phase of the Allied thrust into the...
Anzio Beachhead, fourteenth in the series of studies of particular combat operations, is the story of how VI Corps of the American Fifth Army seized and held a strategic position far to the rear of the main fighting front, in the Italian campaign...
Long before the dust settled on European battlefields in World War II, the U.S. Army had to face the difficult tasks of occupying and governing war-torn Germany. Its leaders and troops were called upon to deal with a series of complex challenges in...
This publication is intended to present a historical review of outstanding intelligence developments in Sixth Army during the Luzon operation. The campaign on Luzon presented situations and problems unique in the Southwest Pacific war against the...
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...
Translated from German into English by Katherine A. Mull. Austrian and German officer's personal account of the assignment from Hitler to rescue Mussolini in the summer of 1943. Includes meeting with Hitler, discovery and reconnaissance of...
Conference topics include special troops, military police, graves registration, cavalry reconnaissance, intelligence, defense, security, administration, personnel assignment, war dogs, and the general organization of an infantry division.