The Sword of St
... battlefield performance of American soldiers in both the Pacific and European theaters. Marshall felt strongly that the battlefield is “the epitome of war” and the place where “the issues of war are decided.”5 The key to success on the battlefield, he continued, is fire superiority but his interview ...
... battlefield performance of American soldiers in both the Pacific and European theaters. Marshall felt strongly that the battlefield is “the epitome of war” and the place where “the issues of war are decided.”5 The key to success on the battlefield, he continued, is fire superiority but his interview ...
German Order of Battle
... April 1, 1940. Later in the war, they were more and more frequently equipped with hand-carried Panzerfausts or self-propelled assault guns, or sometimes combinations of the two. These selfpropelled assault guns were turretless, open-topped, tracked, and armed with a gun mounted on the hull. There us ...
... April 1, 1940. Later in the war, they were more and more frequently equipped with hand-carried Panzerfausts or self-propelled assault guns, or sometimes combinations of the two. These selfpropelled assault guns were turretless, open-topped, tracked, and armed with a gun mounted on the hull. There us ...
The Defense of St. Vith - 7th Armored Division Association
... formed, and at these points the German attack began to falter, despite continued gains generally. As the attack moved westward, more slowly than anticipated, other centers of resistance, in fact many of them, were formed to block the advance. By Christmas, 1944, the Germans had made their furtherest ...
... formed, and at these points the German attack began to falter, despite continued gains generally. As the attack moved westward, more slowly than anticipated, other centers of resistance, in fact many of them, were formed to block the advance. By Christmas, 1944, the Germans had made their furtherest ...
american soldiers and pow killing - Digital Collections Home
... Artilleryman in World War II and Beyond (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006), 93-4. For a comprehensive examination of American post-war POW killing see James Bacque, Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After ...
... Artilleryman in World War II and Beyond (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006), 93-4. For a comprehensive examination of American post-war POW killing see James Bacque, Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans After ...
Walter Felson`s war experiences
... just a stopping off place on the way to the next camp in Algeria. The 500 mile distance between the camp in Morocco and the training site in Algeria took three days by train. The cars in the train did not have passenger seats. Rather they were more like cattle cars, carrying 30 men in each. Here is ...
... just a stopping off place on the way to the next camp in Algeria. The 500 mile distance between the camp in Morocco and the training site in Algeria took three days by train. The cars in the train did not have passenger seats. Rather they were more like cattle cars, carrying 30 men in each. Here is ...
The 2ème Division Blindée (from Flames Of War)
... 9 August. This was the first of many major French cities that Leclerc and his 2éme Division Blindée would liberate in the next year of the war. From Le Mans, the XV Corps turned its attention northwards to the city of Alençon, which was liberated by the 2éme Division Blindée on 12 August. The follow ...
... 9 August. This was the first of many major French cities that Leclerc and his 2éme Division Blindée would liberate in the next year of the war. From Le Mans, the XV Corps turned its attention northwards to the city of Alençon, which was liberated by the 2éme Division Blindée on 12 August. The follow ...
DEFEAT AT KASSERINE - 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines
... BATTLE COMMAND IN NORTHWEST AFRICA, WORLD WAR II, by Major Mark T. Calhoun, 97 pages. 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 Wa ...
... BATTLE COMMAND IN NORTHWEST AFRICA, WORLD WAR II, by Major Mark T. Calhoun, 97 pages. 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 Wa ...
Little Iron Men - American Public University System
... authorities. It is from this turmoil and rejection that some of the most incredible stories of courage, sacrifice, honor and patriotism begins. This is the story of how one minority overcame incredible odds both on the battlefield and on the home front to achieve amazing results. Whether as a membe ...
... authorities. It is from this turmoil and rejection that some of the most incredible stories of courage, sacrifice, honor and patriotism begins. This is the story of how one minority overcame incredible odds both on the battlefield and on the home front to achieve amazing results. Whether as a membe ...
North Attleborough Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Lost
... Americans from the village of Mortain. The intent of the Germans was to split the American 1st Army from the American 3rd Army and drive into the city of Avranches on the Atlantic. While the 30th Infantry division had been forced from Mortain many of it’s unites and much of it’s artillery had remain ...
... Americans from the village of Mortain. The intent of the Germans was to split the American 1st Army from the American 3rd Army and drive into the city of Avranches on the Atlantic. While the 30th Infantry division had been forced from Mortain many of it’s unites and much of it’s artillery had remain ...
Big Leaguers in the ETO
... landing craft in the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach, "It was just like a Fourth of July celebration," he later recalled. Jim Blackburn (Cincinnati Reds) Blackburn was the squad leader of a light machinegun outfit of the 7th Armored Infantry Battalion. He was wounded on December 23, 1944 during the Ba ...
... landing craft in the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach, "It was just like a Fourth of July celebration," he later recalled. Jim Blackburn (Cincinnati Reds) Blackburn was the squad leader of a light machinegun outfit of the 7th Armored Infantry Battalion. He was wounded on December 23, 1944 during the Ba ...
AfricA replAcement BAttAlions
... authorized him to use any forces in his geographic area of responsibility to accomplish this task.9 With his peculiar blend of energy and ruthlessness, Kesselring ordered his staff to scour the Mediterranean for any force it could lay its hands on, including those mentioned above, and ordered the ai ...
... authorized him to use any forces in his geographic area of responsibility to accomplish this task.9 With his peculiar blend of energy and ruthlessness, Kesselring ordered his staff to scour the Mediterranean for any force it could lay its hands on, including those mentioned above, and ordered the ai ...
DACS Working Paper February 1996 The British and American
... interest. It helps us understand the more fundamental question of how large and complex organizations "learn" lessons and adapt to new circumstances. This paper examines three candidate explanations for why American forces learned faster than did their British counterparts during the Second World Wa ...
... interest. It helps us understand the more fundamental question of how large and complex organizations "learn" lessons and adapt to new circumstances. This paper examines three candidate explanations for why American forces learned faster than did their British counterparts during the Second World Wa ...
As 1939 erupted into war, the U.S. Army was an under
... Training of the 56th Armored Infantry Regiment was inten-upted on 1 April 1943 because it was detailed to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he traveled by rail through Tennessee. After that brief respite, it was back to a regimen of tough road and motor marches, tactical trainit1g, field ex ...
... Training of the 56th Armored Infantry Regiment was inten-upted on 1 April 1943 because it was detailed to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he traveled by rail through Tennessee. After that brief respite, it was back to a regimen of tough road and motor marches, tactical trainit1g, field ex ...
James R. Maxwell 2004
... area of the Castel del Rio. By September 27th, Jim and his company had reached highest peak in the area, Mt. Capella. To recapture some ground lost the night before, Jim and his platoon had to fight off many German soldiers. At one spot on a trail, there was a notch in the ridge. The enemy had a ma ...
... area of the Castel del Rio. By September 27th, Jim and his company had reached highest peak in the area, Mt. Capella. To recapture some ground lost the night before, Jim and his platoon had to fight off many German soldiers. At one spot on a trail, there was a notch in the ridge. The enemy had a ma ...
File - Melrose Veteran Services
... our artillery and despite the losses suffered in the bombardment they gained about 8/10 of a mile that first day. An advance of that magnitude had never been achieved in the hedgerows where we measured our progress in yards. The troops of our 22nd Regiment mounted the backs of the tanks of the Secon ...
... our artillery and despite the losses suffered in the bombardment they gained about 8/10 of a mile that first day. An advance of that magnitude had never been achieved in the hedgerows where we measured our progress in yards. The troops of our 22nd Regiment mounted the backs of the tanks of the Secon ...
Military Units which Supported or Opposed the 100th Infantry Division
... Two days later, while supporting the 411th infantry Regiment’s attack in the vicinity of Sessenheim, the crews of A/81st encountered some of the heaviest armored vehicles to ever see combat—”Hunting Tiger” (Jagdtiger) tank destroyers of the 653d Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion, mounting powerful 128m ...
... Two days later, while supporting the 411th infantry Regiment’s attack in the vicinity of Sessenheim, the crews of A/81st encountered some of the heaviest armored vehicles to ever see combat—”Hunting Tiger” (Jagdtiger) tank destroyers of the 653d Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion, mounting powerful 128m ...
Montreal and the Battle of Ypres 1915 One Hundred Years
... Germans advancing in large numbers on his left. He acted with commendable sang froid; “reversing two of my guns I opened fire on them at about 200 yards.”13 King’s action surprised the Germans; shrapnel rounds shredded their ranks, and they withdrew to cover. But as daylight waned, they advanced aga ...
... Germans advancing in large numbers on his left. He acted with commendable sang froid; “reversing two of my guns I opened fire on them at about 200 yards.”13 King’s action surprised the Germans; shrapnel rounds shredded their ranks, and they withdrew to cover. But as daylight waned, they advanced aga ...
Albert Yoneo Mayeda 2003
... government had given left them the only option to move to the United States of America. They had arrived in the United States through the west coast ports, at this point they settled in Dileno, California. His father began farming on his own farm. The war had begun when Japan struck Pearl Harbor in ...
... government had given left them the only option to move to the United States of America. They had arrived in the United States through the west coast ports, at this point they settled in Dileno, California. His father began farming on his own farm. The war had begun when Japan struck Pearl Harbor in ...
At the Reich Labor Service
... technicians in Gräf & Stift completed works in Vienna. Shortly thereafter, I was briefly called up to the Reich Labor Service for the mandatory 6-month training. There I received a very strict and harsh pre-military training. In common with many young comrades from all over the former German Reich, ...
... technicians in Gräf & Stift completed works in Vienna. Shortly thereafter, I was briefly called up to the Reich Labor Service for the mandatory 6-month training. There I received a very strict and harsh pre-military training. In common with many young comrades from all over the former German Reich, ...
HIstory of the 2nd Infantry Division
... Texas. It remained there for the next 23 years, serving as an experimental unit, testing new concepts and innovations for the Army. In 1940, the 2d Inf. Div. was the first command reorganized under the new triangular concept, which provided for three separate regiments in each division. ...
... Texas. It remained there for the next 23 years, serving as an experimental unit, testing new concepts and innovations for the Army. In 1940, the 2d Inf. Div. was the first command reorganized under the new triangular concept, which provided for three separate regiments in each division. ...
Marty Troutman 106th Infantry Di
... St. Vith for about two weeks were very lucky when an American half-track unit rescued us before retreating to Eupen, Belgium.” After enduring the war’s most deadliest battle, Troutman and other members of his unit were transferred to a POW camp in Biebelsheim, Germany, where they were responsible fo ...
... St. Vith for about two weeks were very lucky when an American half-track unit rescued us before retreating to Eupen, Belgium.” After enduring the war’s most deadliest battle, Troutman and other members of his unit were transferred to a POW camp in Biebelsheim, Germany, where they were responsible fo ...
CODE NAME - tankdestroyer.net
... their flanks. Pockets of resistance were to be bypassed and left to be cleared by the infantry divisions whteh were following. The 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion's " B " Company and the 2nd Platoon of the Reconnaissance Company supporting CCB's attack were soon in the thick of the fighting, destroy ...
... their flanks. Pockets of resistance were to be bypassed and left to be cleared by the infantry divisions whteh were following. The 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion's " B " Company and the 2nd Platoon of the Reconnaissance Company supporting CCB's attack were soon in the thick of the fighting, destroy ...
On December 16, 1944, the 1278th Engineer Combat Battalion
... while his rear gunner returned fire. Upon reaching a U.S. roadblock at Route 9 manned by the 511th Engineer Light Pontoon Company, it was blown. The U.S. Army wanted Martelange, and made plans on December 20th to retake the town. German forces there would have to be defeated if Patton’s Third Army w ...
... while his rear gunner returned fire. Upon reaching a U.S. roadblock at Route 9 manned by the 511th Engineer Light Pontoon Company, it was blown. The U.S. Army wanted Martelange, and made plans on December 20th to retake the town. German forces there would have to be defeated if Patton’s Third Army w ...
Transfer of the Capitol Hill Army National Guard Armory
... unit was the 745th Military Police Company from the 45th Military Police Battalion headquartered in McAlester, Oklahoma. In 1968, the 45th Infantry Division was reorganized into three separate brigades and after 47 years, ceased to exist. These separate brigades, who trace their lineage and history ...
... unit was the 745th Military Police Company from the 45th Military Police Battalion headquartered in McAlester, Oklahoma. In 1968, the 45th Infantry Division was reorganized into three separate brigades and after 47 years, ceased to exist. These separate brigades, who trace their lineage and history ...
442 Regimental Combat Team “Go For Broke”
... The 442nd is commonly reported to have suffered a casualty rate of 314 percent (i.e., on average, each man was injured more than three times), informally derived from 9,486 Purple Hearts divided by some 3,000 original in-theater personnel. U.S. Army battle reports show the official casualty rate, co ...
... The 442nd is commonly reported to have suffered a casualty rate of 314 percent (i.e., on average, each man was injured more than three times), informally derived from 9,486 Purple Hearts divided by some 3,000 original in-theater personnel. U.S. Army battle reports show the official casualty rate, co ...
Battle of Kesternich
Kesternich is a small village just inside the German border from Belgium. It was the site of two major battles during World War II. These battles are tied to the Siegfried Line Campaign, Battle of the Huertgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, and the assault on the Roer River dams at the outset of Operation Lumberjack.