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Services of supply statistical summary.
No full textMonthly report denoting situation for supplies and distribution of materiel in North African Theater of Operations. Departments covered include: Ordnance, Quartermaster, Signal Corps, Engineers, Chemical Warfare, Medical, Transportation, Purchasing Agent, Provost Marshal
Impact : vol. 3, no. 1., January, 1945.
No full textContents: Balkan Bridges; U. S. Buzz Bomb; Plane Pick-up; Pacific Review; FEAF; Bonins; Springboard to Tokyo; B-25s at Hong Kong; The GAF; ETO Escort; Flak; 8th AF Strikes; Obituary
Impact : strategic air victory in Europe, vol. III, no. 7., July, 1945.
No full textThis issue of Impact, a companion volume to the tactical issue of May 1945, is devoted solely to the role played by strategic bombing in the European war, and concerns itself with the coordinated effort of the U. S. 8th and 15th Air Forces and the RAF Bomber Command. Emphasis has been laid on the over-all results of this campaign, in terms of the effectiveness of bombing specific German industrial systems. Consequently, the part played by the fighter in this strategic war has been mentioned only where it bears directly on the main subject.
Contents: The concept and development of strategic bombing-an over-all review of the Combined Bomber Offensive; The campaign against German aircraft industry and GAF-forcing factories underground-last-ditch German weapons; Destruction of the German fuel industry; The long campaign against the enemy's transportation system; The bombing of miscellaneous industrial targets-fake factory and camouflage; The campaign against ships, submarines, and the great German ports; The RAF's area bombing effort against German cities; Cost of the American strategic campaign-the operational difficulties that were overcome; Testimony on the effectiveness of Allied air attacks by German military men and industrial leaders
Australian Military Force weekly intelligence review no. 85.
No full textCompiled from information received from 1200 hours 10 Mar 44 to 1200 hours 17 Mar 44.
TOC: Part I: summary of significant events. Part II: summary of operations by areas (land/sea/air); strengths and dispositions of enemy forces (land/sea/air); enemy organization; enemy equipment; tactics; comments on captured documents. Part III: other fronts. Part IV: topographical. Part V: security. Appendices: Japanese new improved type hand grenade ("Kiska"), map - Japanese shipping routes and areas covered by allied reconnaissance, map - Japanese air strengths by areas, Japanese Order of Battle and organization south of Formosa
Armor in Angaur-Peleliu Campaign. A research report prepared at The Armored School, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1949-1950.
No full textThis paper is about the 710th Tank Battalion in the Angaur-Peleliu Campaign, code name Stalemate II. It is a study of how the tanks of the 710th were used under adverse conditions of terrain and weather during a period of groping and "cut and try" developments in so far as the use of armor in the Pacific was concerned. Based on this study, definite conclusions are drawn as to the best use of tanks in similar actions in the future.
TOC: Introduction; Planning Phase; Fox Day; Angaur is Taken; Operation on Peleliu; Peleliu Falls; Discussion and Conclusions; Appendix I - Terrain Study
Report, War Department Observer Board, USFET : no. C-825.
No full textAnswers to the questions listed below concerning Army Ground Forces training of quartermaster troops and the training of quartermaster troops serving with the Seventh United States Army were furnished by the quartermaster of that Army, Brigadier General Clyde Hassey, Q.M.C
Report, Army Ground Forces Board, MTO, no. A-609.
No full textObserver's Notes: 1. The material appended to this report is submitted in response to letter, Headquarters Army Ground Forces, 350.05 (H) (22 May 1945) GNGBI, dated 22 May 1945, subject as above, 2. The following comments on the subject above were submitted by the officers indicated in interviews with this observer. They are herein submitted in substantially the wording of the officers interviewed
Weekly intelligence summary: 1 April 1944 to 6 May 1945.
No full textPart I- land: Western Front; other fronts; enemy supplies and transportation; economic notes; political notes; and miscellaneous. Part II- air: summary of GAF activity (Western Europe, Mediterranean and Balkans); and characteristics of pilotless aircraft. Part III- sea: channel and other theatres. Illustrations/maps are included which show the enemy order of battle in west Normandy (16 June 1944) and enemy order of battle in the west, 17 June 1944 (legend- Supreme Hq., Army Group, Army Hq., PZ Group, Corps Hq., division area, and Army BNDY)
Policy and procedure for the development of the continental communications zone.
No full textSections include: command and control; Com Z sections (destination, mission, staff organization, responsibilities, relationship with air force, field force, and naval commanders, relationship with allied authorities, and channels of communication); Com Z districts (establishment); depots (general, location, operation); lines of communication; bulk POL distribution plan; and other installations. Three maps detail phases 1-3 of communications zone section boundaries
Briefing for Lt Gen Fischer, CG, I Corps presented on 4 Jan 63 by Major Young at HQ 101st KSC Group.
No full textMajor Raymond E. Young presented a briefing on January 4, 1963 on the Korean Service Corps detailing background information, the mission and organization, command and control, administration, cost, and logistical support. Eight charts include information on the following topics: Korean Service Corps description; mission; organizational chart- ACOFS G-5 EUSA; organizational chart- Control Detachment, KSC; operational breakdown by major command of KSC units (I Corps and 8th Army); KSC induction procedure; yearly expenditures per KSC laborer; and distribution of personnel