The CSM Theodore L. Dobol Collection contains several biographical and miscellaneous materials related to CDM Dobol’s military career. The textual files include photographs, transcripts of oral history interviews; a short autobiography; the...
This document offers information on the testimony of witnesses, gives extracts and supporting documents, military characteristics, and details of report and implementation of War Department Equipment Board report on armor.
This study attempts to develop appropriate missions for the divisional armored cavalry squadron that are based upon the needs of its parent division, and to identify an organization and equipment configuration that will enable the armored cavalry...
This document detailed the history of 116th Signal Radio Intelligence Company from date of activation, 18 May, 1942 until V-J Day, 2 September, 1945. It contains photographs and biographies of soldiers in the company, the story of the 116th from...
'These were the Americans: nearly 2,000 of them'…..There was a husky apprentice plasterer from Philadelphia who flew a fighter. His seven-ton Thunderbolt was last seen in a dive over the Zuider Zee, an Me 109 close behind with its nose-cannon...
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 manual supersedes the 1939 version. The 1941 edition of FM 100-5 encapsulates the state of Army doctrine on the eve of America’s entry into World War II. This is the doctrine the Army took into the great Louisiana maneuvers of 1941. Later,...
...Among the many problems confronting the Ordnance Replacement Training Center, since its beginning early in 1941, has been the necessity of developing suitable training methods. Adequate facilities, equipment, instructional aids and trained...
"This is the story of an infantry division. The tale is worth telling because it relates how a group of Americans was formed into a fighting team and how the team remains even though some of the men who compose it pass on. This is the record of the...
Analyses the effectiveness of modern antiaircraft weapons in defending vital areas against enemy air attacks. Looks at the air defense team, early warning systems, fighter aircraft, antiaircraft artillery, conventional aircraft weapons, and the...
By December 10, 1944, the Saar Offensive of the 3rd Army, begun on November 8, had progressed to the point where the XX Corps had forced a crossing of the Saar at Saarlautern, using the 90th and 95th Infantry Divisions, and had the 5th Infantry and...