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Operations of armored field artillery battalions. A research report prepared at The Armored School, Fort Knox, Kentucky 1949-1950.
No full textThis report treats operations of the armored field artillery battalions in various phases of combative action to include assualt landings, attack, exploitation and pursuit, defense, withdrawal, and river crossings. Lessons learned by these units during combat have been highlighed, conclusions have been drawn, and recommendations have been made.
The broad scope of this report, the employment of armored field artillery in the Mediterranean and the European Theaters, has dictated the selection of representative battalions in specific operatoins in order to underscore principles common to all such battalions in similar operations.
TOC: The organization and role of the armored field artillery battalion; armored field artillery in an assualt landing; the employment of the armored field artillery battalion in the attack; the armored field artillery battalion in the exploitation and pursuit; armored field artillery battalion in the defense; armored field artillery battalion in the withdrawal; armored field artillery battalion in river corssings and bridgeheads; combat lessons; conclusions and recommendations
C-1 Section report – Guam operation. III Amphibious Corps report on Guam operation, personnel.
No full textThe III Amphibious Corps captured and occupied Guam during the period 21 July 1944 to 10 August 1944. The assigned task was successfully accomplished with a minimum of difficulty. Enclosures A to M describe the details of the operation. This document contains a daily periodic personnel report from W-Day to 2400, 11 August 1944 (organization and KIA, WIA, MIA, sick, and effective strength). Topics include provisional replacements, recommendations for awards, punishment and trial, command posts, religious services, mail service, periodic personnel report (plus morale), 'straggler lines'/violators, stockade for prisoners of war, assault forces, flies and mosquitos (and health problems), law and order, graves registration (burials), no known cases of capture, and civil affairs
Suggested organization, policies, and procedures for general procurement organizations in theaters of operations. Memorandum no. W5-11-43, 26 June 1943.
No full textIn view of the vital importance of conserving shipping space, this general guide has been developed with the thought that it may prove helpful to each theater in establishing organizations, policies, and procedures for the most efficient utilization and development of local theater resources and production. Section headings: General Procurement Board; Office of General Procurement Agent; reciprocal aid procurement; division of responsibilities for procurement between technical services and general procurement boards; procurement by the General Procurement Board; procurement by supply officers in the field; control over procurement from the United States; procurement of items requiring replacement; reporting of local procurement; relationship with lend-lease mission, screening of lend-lease requisitions; supervision of storage and inspection; and miscellaneous. The document contains a functional organization chart for general procurement organizations in theaters of operations
Preparation of staff studies.
No full textThis is a memorandum for the G-3 Planning Division. In order to minimize changes in staff studies at advanced stages of preparation and to take advantage of the experience of operating agencies of the Southwest Pacific Area, G-3 has directed that the views of Major Component Headquarters and of General and Special Staff sections, this Headquarters, be secured and fully considered at early stages in formulation of staff studies produced by the G-3 Planning Division
Transportation system control: Southwest Pacific Area.
No full textIn compliance with a request, enclosed are memorandums covering Regulating Office procedure as practiced in the Southwest Pacific Area. The Chief Regulating Officer controls traffic to, within, and from the SWPA of all water, air and rail transportation, in accordance with established priorities, of individuals, troops, organizational equipment, and cargo, except for movements of operationally controlled vessels and air craft. A 15 October 1944 section details the origin, functions and aim of the GHQ regulating system (Air Division, Statistics Division, Records Section, Cargo Section, Troop Section, Water Division, Water Status Section, Water Position Section, Water Planning Section, Traffic Staff, Troop Movement Section, Cargo Movement Section, and Trans-Pacific Water Section)
Circular no. 105, 29 December 1944, Headquarters Eighth Army, United States Army, Office of the Commanding General.
No full textEach division concerned will have twelve air liaison parties. The total additional equipment required for each division is as follows in the document: the item, allowance, and remarks for both ordnance and signal
Study of Japanese defenses of Betio Island (Tarawa Atoll) : part I, fortifications and weapons.
No full textThis portion of the study of the BETIO defenses was prepared jointly by the Intelligence Section (D-2) of the Second Marine Division and the Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Areas. Tactical discussions and some photographs were provided by D-2 personnel, while other photographs, all drawings, and reproduction were provided by the JICPOA. Some of the illustrations, showing installations before the assault, are from Japanese negatives captured on BETIO. The urgency of early publication of this material has precluded any more thorough study or discussion of the general defensive plan than is included herein.
Table of Contents: A. General Discussion of the defense of Betio; B. Coast Defense Guns; C. Heavy Anti-Aircraft Dual-Purpose Guns; D. 13 mm Anti-Aircraft and Beach Defense Machine Guns; E. Field Guns and Emplacements; F. Heavy Machine Gun Emplacements, Rifle and Light Machine Guns Pits; G. Barricades and Obstacles; H. Shelters, I. Mines, Mortars and Grenades; J. Tanks; K. Command Posts.
Note: Page 4 of supplement is missing from document
III Phib Corps report on Guam operation, C-3 periodic reports.
No full textThe III Amphibious Corps captured and occupied Guam during the period 21 July 1944 to 10 August 1944. The assigned task was successfully accomplished with a minimum of difficulty.
Series of periodic reports describing: Our Front Lines and Location of Troops using map overlays; Information of Adjacent Units and Supporting Troops; Weather and Visibility; Our Operation for the Period; Combat Efficiency; Results of Operations
Impact : vol. 1, no. 7., October, 1943.
No full textImpact is a medium for the dissemination, in graphic form, of air intelligence and correlated subjects. It presents information on the results of our operations against the enemy. So that Air Force units in one theater may be informed of how units in another meet specific problems, pertinent data on the operations themselves is also included.
Contents: Enemy Shifts to Fighters and Defense; Paratroops Lead Lae Attack; Weather Hid Kiska Evacuation; Paramushiru; Engineers Build and Rebuild; ATC Serves Russian Lend-Lease; He Buzzed the Field; Sic Transit Gloria, Munda; B-24s Sink Subs; PI Study of Ploesti Installations; Italian Rail Lines Blasted
U. S. and Soviet use of deception in World War II - information memorandum.
No full textIn compliance with DAMO SSP DF, dated 24 July 1985 (Subject: Deception in World War II), the Center of Military History has conducted a review of U. S. and Soviet use of deception in World War II. Attached as enclosures are the two reports on the review