Reports on Operation Husky including G-2 information and intelligence, counterintelligence, landing attack plan, follow-up plan, operational plans, sortie plan, and intelligence plans.
This monograph describes the planning and conduct of the "Ichi-Go" operation and gives details of the plans and preparations to counter contemplated attacks by the United States and Russian forces against the Japanese forces in China after June...
Intelligence summaries for the Pacific forces for July of 1945. Original document is part of "Periodic summary of enemy trends, 6 July 1945" with call number N4660.
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,...
Operational orders for the invasion of the Philippine Islands. Orders cover intelligence, infantry operations, operational maps, field artillery, engineers, chemical battalions, and amphibious operations.
Looks at the action at Singling, France on 6 December, 1944, by elements of the 4th Armored Division. This action was typical of many small engagements fought by the Third U.S. Army during the campaign in Lorraine.
The events and stories documented in this book occurred during World War Two, all over the world, and were personally narrated by the veterans who lived them. The stories are divided by theater of operation- European and Pacific; all others went...
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...
Primarily using Soviet soldierss, the author has written a comprehensive study of the 1944 Soviet offensive conducted to clear German forces from the approaches to Murmansk. Its focus is at the operational level of war, with emphasis on the...
Gives a detailed analysis of lessons learned during the II Corps advance from Garigliano to Rome. Discusses: towns that must be taken from deep flank and rear, the ineffective practice of battery towns with air and artillery, trouble with...
A series of four after action reports by the Ninth Infantry Division pertaining to operations in Southern Tunisia, Sicily, and France. Reports contain maps and overlays of the operations.
The basic building block and fighting unit of the U.S, ground force was the division. Initially projecting a 92-division force, the U.S. Army eventually fielded 89, of which 87 were employed in combat. Given the enormous problems of expansion and...
The U.S. Army believes that deception is a vital part of military operations. Field Manual 100-5, Operations, acknowledges that the Soviet Army mastered operational deception in World War II. While its success is widely recognized, there are few...
The calculations for bringing large-scale hostilities to an end and for establishing a favorable environment in which post combat operations, including the occupation of the enemy's homeland, can take place involve high-level military officers in...