- Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive
... relatively sparse until the return of prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union until April 1954. With the blessings of the Franco regime, the ‘ex-captive memoir’ genre helped regenerate public interest in the mid to late 1950s, including the pivotal and classic book Embajador en el infierno by Pala ...
... relatively sparse until the return of prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union until April 1954. With the blessings of the Franco regime, the ‘ex-captive memoir’ genre helped regenerate public interest in the mid to late 1950s, including the pivotal and classic book Embajador en el infierno by Pala ...
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... securing of communication and supply lines between the front line troops and their logistical tails as well as apprehending thousands of scattered Red Army soldiers whose dislocation was caused by the advancing German armor. In addition to these tasks, the growing partisan movement added yet another ...
... securing of communication and supply lines between the front line troops and their logistical tails as well as apprehending thousands of scattered Red Army soldiers whose dislocation was caused by the advancing German armor. In addition to these tasks, the growing partisan movement added yet another ...
The 85th Infantry Division in Italy, 1944-1945
... examines the 85th Infantry Division from its formation in May 1942 to its disbanding in August 1945. This thesis challenges the age-old assumption that conscripted soldiers were inferior to volunteer forces. By the 1940s, the United States retained a long-standing prejudice against drafted troops da ...
... examines the 85th Infantry Division from its formation in May 1942 to its disbanding in August 1945. This thesis challenges the age-old assumption that conscripted soldiers were inferior to volunteer forces. By the 1940s, the United States retained a long-standing prejudice against drafted troops da ...
The 85th Infantry Division in Italy, 1944-1945
... examines the 85th Infantry Division from its formation in May 1942 to its disbanding in August 1945. This thesis challenges the age-old assumption that conscripted soldiers were inferior to volunteer forces. By the 1940s, the United States retained a long-standing prejudice against drafted troops da ...
... examines the 85th Infantry Division from its formation in May 1942 to its disbanding in August 1945. This thesis challenges the age-old assumption that conscripted soldiers were inferior to volunteer forces. By the 1940s, the United States retained a long-standing prejudice against drafted troops da ...
The logic of violence in Kosovo during the - Hugo Valentin
... League of Prizren was formed on the principles of the First League of Prizren (Albanian League for the Defense of the Rights of the Albanian Nation) which was founded in 1878 as a response to the Treaty of Berlin, in which conference it was agreed among the Great Powers to secede Albanian populated ...
... League of Prizren was formed on the principles of the First League of Prizren (Albanian League for the Defense of the Rights of the Albanian Nation) which was founded in 1878 as a response to the Treaty of Berlin, in which conference it was agreed among the Great Powers to secede Albanian populated ...
1st Armored Division "Old Ironsides"
... The 1st Armored Division began the year 2000 with a bang as the 1st Brigade Combat Team blasted its way through the rolling fog of Grafenwoehr Training Area in a challenging January gunnery. February 2000 saw 1st Armored Division Headquarters announce the closure of military facilities in Bad Kreuzn ...
... The 1st Armored Division began the year 2000 with a bang as the 1st Brigade Combat Team blasted its way through the rolling fog of Grafenwoehr Training Area in a challenging January gunnery. February 2000 saw 1st Armored Division Headquarters announce the closure of military facilities in Bad Kreuzn ...
Dates in the 30th`s History
... Col. Walter M. Johnson assumes command of the 117th Reg’t. Battle of Mortain – 2nd Battalion of the 120th Regiment surrounded on Hill #314 for 5 days. German High Command declared this Battle to be the major turning point of the war, leading to the ultimate defeat of the German Army. Started the ‘Ra ...
... Col. Walter M. Johnson assumes command of the 117th Reg’t. Battle of Mortain – 2nd Battalion of the 120th Regiment surrounded on Hill #314 for 5 days. German High Command declared this Battle to be the major turning point of the war, leading to the ultimate defeat of the German Army. Started the ‘Ra ...
Dates in 30th Infantry History
... Col. Walter M. Johnson assumes command of the 117th Reg’t. Battle of Mortain – 2nd Battalion of the 120th Regiment surrounded on Hill #314 for 5 days. German High Command declared this Battle to be the major turning point of the war, leading to the ultimate defeat of the German Army. Started the ‘Ra ...
... Col. Walter M. Johnson assumes command of the 117th Reg’t. Battle of Mortain – 2nd Battalion of the 120th Regiment surrounded on Hill #314 for 5 days. German High Command declared this Battle to be the major turning point of the war, leading to the ultimate defeat of the German Army. Started the ‘Ra ...
34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division 1917-2015
... broken up. Within two months, nearly all personnel were shipped out as replacements to fill openings in other commands in France. Reduced to a skeleton of cadre NCOs and officers, the 34th remained at Camp Cody just long enough for new draftees to refill its ranks. In late August, the reconstituted ...
... broken up. Within two months, nearly all personnel were shipped out as replacements to fill openings in other commands in France. Reduced to a skeleton of cadre NCOs and officers, the 34th remained at Camp Cody just long enough for new draftees to refill its ranks. In late August, the reconstituted ...
Koch_American Spirit Essay - Military Historical Society of
... At the onset of its involvement in the First World War, the United States struggled to prove its ability to field a competent, professional army capable of facing an experienced, proficient Germany. General Pershing fought passionately, and ultimately successfully, to prevent patronization of the ...
... At the onset of its involvement in the First World War, the United States struggled to prove its ability to field a competent, professional army capable of facing an experienced, proficient Germany. General Pershing fought passionately, and ultimately successfully, to prevent patronization of the ...
Military Police in the 30th Infantry Division during WWII
... M.P. Identification, Equipment, Uniforms The 30th M.P.’s wore the same regulation uniform as regular infantry with the exception of the yellow and green piping on the overseas Cap. T Service Cap was occasionally worn while on town patrols. Since M.P.’s enforced uniform regulations, they were require ...
... M.P. Identification, Equipment, Uniforms The 30th M.P.’s wore the same regulation uniform as regular infantry with the exception of the yellow and green piping on the overseas Cap. T Service Cap was occasionally worn while on town patrols. Since M.P.’s enforced uniform regulations, they were require ...
ARMY AIRBORNE dale fleming
... • On December 17th, 1944 over 12,000 101st soldiers were sent south to fight in what would be known as the Battle of the Bulge. The 101st arrived in Bastonge just ahead of the Germans and took control of the city. They formed a perimeter and readied to defend the city the Germans came and surrounded ...
... • On December 17th, 1944 over 12,000 101st soldiers were sent south to fight in what would be known as the Battle of the Bulge. The 101st arrived in Bastonge just ahead of the Germans and took control of the city. They formed a perimeter and readied to defend the city the Germans came and surrounded ...
The 3rd Infantry Division in World War II
... ward. He was felled by a second wound that lacerated his and was ordered to fall back on the company command shoulder and back, but he once more refused to be evacu- post. He refused to follow the directive, however, upon ated. With only about 12 of the original 36 men of the pla- hearing that addit ...
... ward. He was felled by a second wound that lacerated his and was ordered to fall back on the company command shoulder and back, but he once more refused to be evacu- post. He refused to follow the directive, however, upon ated. With only about 12 of the original 36 men of the pla- hearing that addit ...
John Terfinko Corporal U.S. Army 12 March 1936 – 24 May 1938 7
... Devils”) Division, under the 5th Army. At that time, the 88th Division was refitting and preparing for operations subsequent to their participation in the capture of Rome. The Division resumed operations on 5 July 1944, when they relieved the 1st Armored Division in the vicinity of Pomerance, Italy. ...
... Devils”) Division, under the 5th Army. At that time, the 88th Division was refitting and preparing for operations subsequent to their participation in the capture of Rome. The Division resumed operations on 5 July 1944, when they relieved the 1st Armored Division in the vicinity of Pomerance, Italy. ...
21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg
The 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party that served alongside, but was never formally part of, the Wehrmacht during World War II.The division was developed around the nucleus of an ethnic Albanian battalion which had briefly seen combat against the Yugoslav Partisans in eastern Bosnia as part of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian). Composed of Muslim Albanians with mostly German and Yugoslav Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) officers and non-commissioned officers, it was given the title Skanderbeg after medieval Albanian lord George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, who defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades in the 15th century.Skanderbeg never reached divisional strength, being at most a brigade-sized formation of between 6,000 and 6,500 troops. In May 1944, members of the division arrested 281 Jews in Pristina and handed them over to the Germans, who transported them to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where many were killed. The division itself was better known for this action and for murdering, raping, and looting in predominantly Serb areas than for participating in combat operations on behalf of the German war effort. Its only significant military actions took place during a German anti-Partisan offensive in the German occupied territory of Montenegro in June and July 1944. Following those operations, the unit was deployed as a guard force at the chromium mines in Kosovo, where it was quickly overrun by the Partisans, leading to widespread desertion. Reinforced by German Kriegsmarine personnel and with fewer than 500 Albanians remaining in its ranks, it was disbanded on 1 November 1944. The remaining members were incorporated into the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen. After the war, divisional commander SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS August Schmidhuber was found guilty of war crimes by a court in Belgrade and executed in 1947.