The Overlord operation is a widely-studied episode in military history. Often overlooked is a little known U.S. operation designed to overcome logistical problems in the Overlord plan. For the first 90 days of combat the Overlord operation would...
"This treatise is based on authentic information from the Western front in Europe, but the art and practice of Field Fortification today is like so many other things, in the melting pot, and men who study this work may find, upon their arrival in...
The following pages are written with the idea of furnishing the members of the Army School of the Line and Staff College a guide in the solution of field problems in fortification. These problems are such that any line officer might be called upon...
This Civil Affairs document gives information regarding categories of monuments, Belgian authorities, art history of Belgium, arrangement and classification of lists, provinces, and important dates in Belgium's history.
Strategic Logistics Branch, Planning Division, Army Service Forces
This document contains official documents such as memorandums, letters, and communications to and from the Commanding General with respect to logistics, training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. Also...
Sections on public works and utilities in the Philippines include: power, light and water (hydro-electric and steam, gas plants, and water works and supply); docks, harbors and aids to navigation (ownership and administration, national ports and...
Consists of organization, orders, service of information, service of security, marches, combat, ammunition supply, subsistence, transportation, shelter, medical and sanitary service, and the instruction for government of armies of the United States...
One of the enduring controversies of World War II is the debate over the value of the Brittany campaign following the Normandy breakout. The Allies adhered to an Overlord requirement by sending Third Army west to seize port facilities in Brittany,...
"In making the following study of certain attacks upon fortified harbors it was my object to make an analysis of each campaign, and of them all collectively, in order to attempt to derive well grounded conclusions as to future wars."
This monograph investigates historical examples of sustainment improvisation at the operational level to determine the role sustainment improvisation has played in the conduct of the operational art of war and the significance of improvisation for...
Strategic Logistics Branch, Planning Division, Army Service Forces
This document contains official documents such as memorandums, letters, and communications to and from the Commanding General with respect to logistics, training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. Also...
This report covers the medical effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima 6 August 1945, and on Nagasaki 9 August 1945. It also analyzes the physical damage as related to death and injury of personnel, the organization of relief activities by...
Consisting of the field service regulations, revised by the General Staff of the Army. Published for the information and government of the Regular Army and organized militia of the United States. Includes the organization of the Army, information...
Issued from the War Department, Document No. 693. The object of the manual of the battery commander is to place in the hands of the officers of the 75-mm. batteries a summary of all necessary information on the occupation of positions, adjustment...
Covers engineer planning data, supply planning data, transportation and movement planning, personnel service support, health service support planning for evacuation and hospitalization and operational force requirement planning.
A large part of all the history that has been written relates in some way to military operations. The history of the Civil War is useful in keeping alive the military interest of the present generation so that the next may have some civil history...
To encourage further research in the history of World War I and to fill a gap in the Army's historical documentation of that conflict, the Center of Military History has created a World War I series of publications consisting of new monographs and...
War Department, Special Staff, Historical Division
This document contains the technical details developed in the various areas and subjects of the Planning Division with respect to logistics training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. It is intended to...