Discusses the operations of the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion during the Sicilian Campaign during the dates of July 10-22, 1943. Describes the use of the battalion on missions for armored division and provisional corps.
This is an analytical study of the handling of palletized supplies, covering the subject from palletization at factory sources to delivery to the fighting front, including transportation.
This student paper is an analysis of the experience gained in World War II in "marrying" equipment to specific units moving overseas and to extract there from the principles which must be followed to avoid confusion. It groups procedures into...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been and...
The book Infantry in battle by George Marshall was the inspiration for this book which has been written to reflect its own times, not Marshall's. The thirty-six chapters that follow have been chosen to reflect changes in the military art since...
This is Occasional Paper 31 which surveys the U.S. Army's approach to media relations from the Spanish-American War to the first Gulf War; it surveys how the U.S. Army communicated its missions to the American public during periods of conflict...
Combat Studies Institute developed this bibliography in response to a growing interest by the Army in the operational level of war. Defined in FM 100-5, Operations (1982), as the planning, conducting, and sustaining of larger units to obtain...
This is a CSI Reprint of Joint Publications Research Service, Southeast Asia Report No. 1247, Foreign Broadcast Information Service. JPRS publications contain information primarily from foreign newspapers, periodicals and books, but also from news...
Service in the Armed Forces of our Nation has been instrumental in preparing a notable number of Americans for positions of senior leadership in the government. Military service played a vital role, for example, in the development of such leaders...
This volume is a series of pen-pictures of the every-day life of the soldier during the Georgia campaigns beginning with the movement against Atlanta, how he lived, how he marched, and how he fought on the skirmish line and the line-of-battle.
Albright, John; Cash, John A.; Sandstrum, Allan W.
These accounts of fighting in Vietnam are based on official U.S. Army records- daily journals, journal files, after action reports, interviews conducted soon after the events by historical officers in Vietnam, and upon interviews and correspondence...
From March 2007 through June 2008 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Chris Grose served as initially the executive officer and then the operations officer for the 70th Engineer Battalion, which was focused primarily on route clearance...
In this interview, MAJ Edward Gavin, US Army, Chemical; discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as the company commander in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Gavin discusses a typical day in theater and...
An Iowa National Guardsman deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January through December 2005, Captain Jason Wisehart commanded Alpha Company, 224th Engineer Battalion and was located initially in the Najaf/Karbala area and then, for...
This study identifies a gap in current (1992) U.S. Army doctrine regarding compulsory population relocation as a counter-insurgency measure, and suggests a format for its consideration and inclusion in internal conflict. To determine the viability...
In late 1943, the British army ordered the veteran 7th Armored, 51st (Highland), and 50th (Northumbrian) Divisions to return to the Great Britain to provide combat experienced troops for the invasion of northwest Europe. On D-Day, the 50th Division...
The modernization of the United States airborne forces is long overdue. As the Army transitions from a European-based forward deployed force to a "versatile, deployable and lethal" Army, the role of the airborne forces must increase. Unfortunately,...
The U.S. Army has made several changes in its command and control structure that affect the interface relationship of the Air-Ground Operations System and thus the efficiency of the Tactical Air Control System (TACS). The study addresses two of...
The purpose of this study is to examine the doctrine for providing close air support to the field army in the North African., Mediterranean, and European Theaters of Operations during World War II. The study attempts to show the forces and events...