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Advantages of air transport.
No full textAll routes of supply- roads, railroad, waterways, pipelines, air lifts- are needed in the arduous task of supplying a modern army. Each has its merits and will be used as circumstances dictate. In this Theater have been demonstrated some of the outstanding advantages of air supply- perhaps not heretofore fully appreciated. The contained notes may be helpful in evaluating the importance of this relatively new channel of supply, and in emphasizing the growing need for airfields to serve supply as well as combat functions
Report, Army Ground Forces Board European Theater of Operations number C-254.
No full textSubmitted by Colonel Albert G. Wing, infantry observer, and details given by Major H. Y. Middleworth, S-3 of the 18th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division regarding transportation of an infantry division using organic transportation and transportation of attached units
[G.I. in Frambois, France].
No full textCaption on back: SC 194638 G.I. on sidewalk trains his machine gun down a street in Frambois, France, as an American tank backs him up. 22 Sept 1944
Handbook of information concerning initial joint plan – Neptune operation.
No full textContained in the binder are extracts of pertinent portions of the initial joint plan for the Neptune operation received from Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force. Mission: to secure a lodgment on the continent from which further offensive operations can be developed. It is not an isolated operation, but is part of a large strategic plan designed to bring about the total defeat of Germany by means of heavy and concerted assaults upon German-occupied Europe from the UK, Mediterranean, and Russia. Table of contents: general (mission, target date, chain of command); intention (general plan of action); resources for assault; preliminary operations; assault phase; the build-up; mounting; operational policy; administration; and intelligence
Expeditionary Troops, Task Force 36, administrative order 1-44 to accompany operation plan 1-44, Stalemate II, 22 July 1944.
No full textAdministrative order number 1-44 to accompany Expeditionary Troops, Task Force 36, operation plan no. 1-44 – Stalemate II. Plan types include supply, engineer, shore party, medical, civil affairs, and policies in occupied territories
Statements of generals of former German Army (Nuremberg).
No full text"As last Commander in Chief of the German Army before the command was taken over by Adolf Hitler in December 1941, 1 feel obligated, in agreement with several generals of the former army, to testify on behalf of the whole army before the International Court in Nuremberg. Our statement will, to the best of our knowledge, give in all frankness a complete survey of all facts and events which were of importance for the German army in the pertinent period before and during the war. The facts stated can be testified to under oath by at least one of the undersigned. The statement was drawn up from memory, no official documents being at hand. It is my aim to put at the disposal of the representatives of the Allied Powers who have here convened a contribution which may enable them to form a very clear picture of this field. At the same time I feel this to be my duty to the soldiers of the former German army."
Supply program and operations of the Transportation Corps in World War II.
No full textThis monograph has been prepared with the aim to show the evolution of the organization and procedures employed by the Chief of Transportation in fulfilling his supply responsibilities, and to discuss the principal difficulties which were encountered and the extent to which they were overcome. The emphasis naturally has been placed upon the period of hostilities, but certain developments since VJ-Day have been included. Table of contents: responsibilities and organization; the supply program; contracting procedures; procurement problems; production control; inspection, acceptance, delivery; maintenance of equipment; technological progress; storage and stock control; redistribution and disposal of property; readjustment of contracts and prices; and conclusions. Also included in this document are appendices I-XXI and a list of statistical tables
Address at opening of the General Service Schools (1922).
No full textOpening address for the 1922-1923 General Service Schools academic year given by Brigadier General Hanson E. Ely, Commandant
Desirability of allocating cub planes to ground reconnaissance units.
No full textAttached extracts are from an overseas report: Answers to AGF Board questionnaire by Major General John B. Coulter, Commanding 85th Infantry Division, 9 April 1945. Attached extracts are from an overseas report: Discussion of questions in AGF G-2 topic list – Lt. Col. E. A. Russel, Jr., 1st Armored Division, 29 March 1945
Operations: Myitkyina, Burma.
No full textDetails: operations; P.I. Section (photo, trailer); road and trail maps; E.E.I.S. (enemy material); battle order; 164th Signal Photo (still and moving pictures); history; press censor; interrogations- POW- documents; O.W.I. (leaflet matters); O.S.S. (intelligence); liaison S.E.A.C.; base; C.I.C.; radio intercept; and railroad corridor