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Message to the Visitors
If some of you are asking themself to understand what I am doing with these Order of Battle, here are the informations.
I am mounting the skeleton of the website pouring the military units as Categories and the cities where these units passed trough as Tags. You will then see ion some months that the whole [...]
Order of Battle : 3rd Armored Division 1944
Activated on April 15 1941 at Camp Beauregard the 3rd moved to Camp Polk Louisiana on June 11 1941 and was transferred to Camp Young California on July 26 1942 for the Desert Training Center II Armored Corps California Maneuvers. It moved then to Camp Pickett Virginia on November 2 1942 and arrived Indiantown Gap [...]
5Sep2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
Request for Identification !
We decided to jump in the Forest last weekend using my notes from year 1964 done while running in the area for old War material. In this area of the Krinkelterwald I noticed in the past 18 garbages holes (trou poubelle) hole that were created and used by the armies to drop all the garbages [...]
5Sep2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
Order of Battle : 1st Infantry Division 1944
On November 19 1939, this Unit (1st Division) was stationed at Fort Hamilton New York, moverd to Fort Benning Georgia and also to the Louisiana Maneuvers in the Sabine Louisiana on May 11 1940. On June 5 1940, moved back to Fort Hamilton New York then to Fort Devens Massachusetts on February 4 1941. [...]
4Sep2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
Order of Battle : 99th Infantry Division 1944
Activated November 15 1942 at Camp Van Dorn Missouri, the 99th Infantry Division moved on September 16 1943 for the Third Army N°-4 Louisiana Manoeuvres.
Moved again to Camp Maxey Texas on November 19 1943 then staged at Camp Myles Standish Massachusetts from September 13 1944 until departed Boston Port of Embarkation for England and arrived [...]
Liège in the line of Marche (Part 2)
Monsieur S. came home today laden down with bags of gold like Ali Baba. How he is going to do away with it so that the ferret eyes of the enemy will not spy it out, is a problem to me. And I do not want it explained for I am sure I should look [...]
2Sep2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
The Bulge : 2nd Infantry Division (Part One)
The Roer River dams were impeding the First and Ninth Armies both by the flooded condition of the river and by the possibility that the enemy might decide to blow the dams near Schmidt and suddenly flood the countryside as the 2nd Infantry Division spearheaded a difficult attack from the south and south east to [...]
2Sep2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
Last Incomin Pictures
Here are the photos I’ve got from visitors during the week. Some are known, some not so but all are intresting and this is why I put them online.
1Sep2008 | Snafu | 1 comment | Continued
Get a Piece of History at Home !
International Message for Museums, Fortuned Collectors or Cities around the World that what to have a memorial on the town square with a hell of a real World War Two monument.
I have managed a way to become about 40 to 45 meters from this monster work and after trying to cut it in reasonable pieces [...]
Battle Line : 99th Reconn 99th Inf Div - ETO
With the help and work from David Gettman, the son of 2nd Lt Henry “Shorty” Gettman, Plt Leader, 1st Plt, 99th Recon Trp, 99th Inf Div, 1st Army, ETO - WW II, Gerolzhofen, Germany - post VE Day.
In loving memory of Henry “Shorty” Gettman, 18 May 1911 - 24 May 1983, and dedicated to [...]
99th Recon. Troop, 99th Inf. Div
The Battle Babies
Belgium 1944 & German 1945
Battle of the Bulge
Route of Marches
Movies : The Battle of San Pietro 1943-1944
Full version, presented by General Marck W. Clarck, CO US 5th Army, produced by John Huston for the War Department, this Movie is a must see and still one of the best ever made for the WD.
German Plane Recovered 60 years after the crash !
Large Image
Voilà une image et quelques autres (lien) juste pour prouver aux inconscients qui pensent encore que la recherche sur le terrain ne signifie que ramassage de vieux fers voir même collecte d’explosif (quand les mêmes inconscients sont en plus débiles), alors qu’en fait c’est ce qui permet aux principaux musées de la planète de [...]
99th Cav. Recon. Trp, 99th Inf. Div. 40-45 (open)
This file has to be corrected and competed. If you have informations to help me to do this work post a comment or send me an email and I will rework the listing until it is complete and exhaustive. I am searching on my side to find every information available but every help will be [...]
24Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
1940-1945-Lockheed P-38 Lightning-Serials (Processing)
Bien que ce dossier ne donne pas vraiment d’informations sur les appareils il permet cependant d’autoriser le point d’attaque pour une éventuelle rechèrche plus approfondie. Après tout, il faut bien commencer quelque part.
17Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
The Sky over Dora - Nordhausen - 08-2008 (processed)
I was there this week and will be there again next week. I will try to get some other photos from the area.
[gallery] 16Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
Liège on the Line on March 1914 (Part 1) (processed)
Liège on the Line of March, an American Girl’s experiences when the Germans came trough Belgium at the beginning of World War One.
Glenna Lindsey Bigelow
New York - John Lane Company
London - John Lane, The Bodley Head / MCMXVIII
To the King of the Belgians
Multitudes upon multitudes they throng
And thicken : who shall number their array ?
They [...]
AAF Airfields (FR-BE-NL-LU-DE-AU-CZ)(processed)
After the landing in Normandy, followed by some weeks later with the landing in the Provence (Sourth France), the US Army Air Force started to move ahead it’s Airfield to reduce the fly distances between the bombing targets assigned in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany and the home’s Airfields.
This started with the North part of [...]
Update #103 (+300 images US Army Troops) (Processed
I have updated the US Army 1940-1945 Photos Galleries. Please remember that I am only cleaning over 1200 gigas Images from the Computer. Images can be seen 2 times 3 times and even 6 times. I am only setting the gallleries up and I will sort the pictures later.
9Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
Oranieburg-Sachenhausen (+) (processed)
I was there this week. This is a strange area and I had a strange feeling while driving trough the two little cities : Oranienburg and Sachenhausen, especially while going on the Sachenhausenstrasse in Oranienburg (the Todesmarch road’s). Outside the cities I saw many road’s signs : “MassenGrab” !
Here are a few photos of the [...]
Adolf’s Best Seller Book
I am working on the publishing (side by side - 3 colones - Frenchn German, Enfglish) Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, to show the world how a stupid book can push the world to nearly 70 millions victims.
3Aug2008 | Snafu | Comments Off | Continued
American & German Veterans
Dear World War Two veteran, dear World War Two veteran’s relatives ! About sharing 1940-1945 material with these peoples wich are interested in this critical period of our past ? Why letting intresting papers and material collect dust in the attic ?
What we need is photos (can be 600 DPI scans and it doesn’t need [...]
Mozilla Firefox Only
Way far to much graphics on this website. So you have to use only Mozilla Firefox. I didn’t try any other browser (just Safari once and it looks great) but to experience the best result, go for Firefox.
Ce site est uniquement fait pour le navigateur Mozilla Firefox. Avec Safari c’est OK mais je n’ai pas [...]
AAR-1945 82nd A/B Division (Part 1)(processed)
PREFACE
In late March, 1945, the 82nd Airborne Division was engaged in training activities at its base camps at Sissone, Suippes and Laon, France. Reorganization under the new Table of Organization was under way and a schedule of intensive airborne training was being carried out. Experiments also were being conducted with new equipment, including the recoilless [...]
1Aug2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
In Plain English, it means : Go to Hell ! (Harper)
On the 22nd of December 1944, when the division was and had been totally surrounded by the Germans, the intelligence officer and I decided that we had to take this to General McAuliffe. We first took it to the chief of staff, and the three of us, and Colonel Harper then went in, woke up [...]
30Jul2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
Archives Upgrades (processed)
Upgrade 1 : American Forgotten Heroes Negro Troops (Afro-American Soldiers), 80 new photos. Note : I will never understand why these soldiers (Negros) never say a word on World War Two. No one has ever got a war souvenir from them. No one has ever got a photo or whatever.
And dont tell me they was [...]
Day Pix : Battle of the Bulge (processed)
SC-197925 (NARA). C Battery, 702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, tank destroyer on dug-in ramp has plenty of elevation to hurl shells at long range enemy targets across the Roer River. Left to right : Sgt. Earl F. Scholz, Pvt. George E. Van Horne, and Pfc. Samuel R. Marcum. (16 Dec 1944)
28Jul2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
Our Canadian Liberators in France
Photo prise d’un étage d’une maison rue de Bayeux à Creully. De nombreux véhicules dont une ambulance Humber au premier plan, des civils et des militaires, un drapeau français sur une façade à gauche. Creully a été libérée le 6 juin par les canadiens débarqués sur Juno mais des troupes britanniques débarquées sur Gold y [...]
27Jul2008 | Snafu | 0 comments | Continued
7 Daypix : France 1944 (processed)
Un convoi des Field Artillery de l’US Army passe sur la rue des Casinos et le pont du lac à Bagnoles de l’Orne en direction Domfront. Le lac est en partie visible à droite de la photo.
Les tracteurs d’artillerie sont des Mack NO de 7,5t 6×6 Prime Mover truck, qui servent dans les Field Artillery [...]
Scrapper and Collectors ! (processed)
Imaginez un peu que l’on vous donne une rallonge électrique, une disqueuse et 100 disques pour métaux et que l’on vous autorise à “chipoter” pendant 8 heures full time dans le dépôt dont les images se trouvent ci dessous !
Think about this : you get electricity, a metal trend machine with 100 disks and 8 [...]
