AAF Historical Office, Headquarters, Army Air Forces; Mayock, Thomas J.
This study recounts the career of the Twelfth Air Force from the time it became established in newly pacified French North Africa until it was absolved in the Northwest African Air Forces. Contents include the race for Tunis, impasse and...
The purpose of the R.A.F. Middle East Review is to present the story of air force activities in the Middle East and various aspects of those activities for their instructional as well as their informative value. This edition includes operations in...
The purpose of the R.A.F. Middle East Review is to present the story of air force activities in the Middle East and various aspects of those activities for their instructional as well as their informative value. This edition includes operations in...
Hatlem, John C., comp; Hunter, Kenneth E., comp.; Phillips, W. Brooks, ed.; Bacon, Mary Ann, ed.
This volume deals with the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and the Middle East. It is divided into five sections: (1) North Africa and the Middle East; (2) Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia; (3) Italy: 9 September 1943–4 June 1944; (4) Southern...
In 1801, Yusef Caramanli, ruler of Tripoli, declared war on the United States. Yusef expected the United States to agree to pay tribute in exchange for protection from Tripolitan corsairs. Instead, President Thomas Jefferson sent the navy. Four...
This study analyzes the logistics operations of the North Africa Campaign. The thesis covers the wholesale and retail level preparedness and execution of the U.S. ground force sustainment following the Allied landings in northwest Africa in...
Between April and August 1943, the U.S. Army’s II Corps saw two of its division commanders relieved of their commands. Each relief appeared tied to battlefield setbacks. MG Orlando Ward of the 1st Armored Division was relieved after his division...
The movement of major combat, combat support, and combat service support units to the decisive place and time on the battlefield is the commander's operational art. Effectively integrating, controlling, and supporting motor, rail, air, and water...
Reports on Operation Husky including G-2 information and intelligence, counterintelligence, landing attack plan, follow-up plan, operational plans, sortie plan, and intelligence plans.
The 1st Armored Division was the first American armored unit to enter combat against German panzer divisions in World War II. A product of the contentious mechanization process between the First and Second World Wars, the division soon found itself...
Information concerning the Northwest African Air Forces; including official Report of operations, Operations bulletin No.1, General Orders No.1, 18, and 23 covering the organizations, units and locations, operations, coordination with RAF, air...
Recent scholarly work has devoted much attention to analyzing the French counterinsurgency war in Algeria from 1954 to 1962. The United States military has taken many of the lessons and principles offered by authors such as David Galula and Roger...
This outline plan was prepared jointly by a British - American group of planners, under the direction of the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations, United states Army. It is designed to initiate and give direction to more detailed...
In December 2010, spontaneous protests began in Tunisia following the self-immolation of a Tunisian citizen, who was upset after having his vegetable cart seized by Tunisian police. Wide spread demonstrations followed in the capital city of Tunis....
A narrative report produced by General Dwight Eisenhower on the invasion of North Africa by the Allied Forces in 1942. Areas covered in the report are the creation of the Allied Force; the planning considerations; the invasion; the race for...