Mar
13
2010
Category : Archives Movies, Tributes
Jan
06
2010
Peenemünde était un site militaire de recherche de l’armée allemande. La base de Peenemünde était à la fois une centre de fabrications et un site d’essais de missiles, entre 1937 et 1943. C’est là que furent produites les bombes volantes allemandes (V1, V2) dirigé par Walter Dornberger pour le V2 et la Luftwaffe pour le V1. Cette fabrication s’est poursuivie jusqu’au bombardement allié de 1943. Après cela les autorités la déménagèrent à la campagne, à Blizna en Pologne occupée. Wernher von Braun, qui y travaillait, ainsi qu’une centaine d’autres ingénieurs, se sont rendus à la 7e armée américaine le 2 mai 1945, puis la base a été investie par la 2e armée soviétique le 5 mai : Opération Paperclip.
Following earlier experiments at Kummersdorf, the Army Research Center Peenemünde (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the Army Weapons Office (Heeres Waffenamt). On April 2, 1936, the Reich Air Ministry paid 750,000 reichsmarks to the town of Wolgast for the whole Northern peninsula of Usedom. By the middle of 1938, the Peenemünde facility was nearly complete. The Army Research Center (Peenemünde Ost) consisted of Werk Ost and Werk Süd, while Werk West (Peenemünde West) was the Luftwaffe Test Site (Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe).
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Jan
03
2010
End of WW-2 aboard the USS Missouri
This movie is the ceremony organized on the deck of the USS Missouri by Gen Douglas McArthur. This really top quality original Newsreel was sent to me last week and I am really happy to make this movie available to the visitors.
Please Remember : to register (it’s free of course) to gain access to this part of the website.
Gunter
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Dec
28
2009
Turning a 18 years farmer’s kids from deep Winsconsin to a Paratrooper and a Perfect War Machine was and will always be the job the Sergent in charge of the Platoon. It started during the 40s and is still going the same way today.
This film (made in Fort Bragg) (2nd Airborne Group / 504th Regiment) is dedicated to the Insctructors.
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Aug
01
2009
Category : Archives Movies, Films Rushes
Let me tell you this : I have movies, films, cuts etc and I can’t use them as I am not used to post pages of pieces of movies. I like them orginal, full version. I was thinking to put them all together and do a 60 minutes (or so) film with all these pieces but it won’t work because jumping from the Battle of Kursk to the Battle of St Vith doesn’t really fit together.
I am gonna do this : create posts with 20 movies and put some text to tell you before what the film is about. I will be able to get ride of these movies and archives them on Cds.
Let’s go for the big movies night …
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Jul
14
2009
A really nice movie done beside the celebrations of the landing (D-Day) in Normandy, France during the month of June 2009.
This movie is really well done and it is always a great feeling to see these old men again.
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Jul
11
2009
Category : Airborne Operations, Archives Movies, Fallschirmjäger, German Airborne
Section 8
Reflection on the Absence of Russian Air Landings
It is surprising that during World War II the USSR did not attempt any large-scale airborne operations. Although Soviet Russia was the first country in the world which during peacetime had experimented with landing troops by air and had organized special units for this purpose*, its wartime operations were confined to the commitment of small units which were dropped back of the German front for the purpose of supporting partisan activities and which had no direct tactical or strategic effect. The reasons can only be surmised and might have been any or all of the following :
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Jun
24
2009
This Airplane, which was during and after World War Two the most terrible looking flying bananas constructed in the United States, was one of the best Fighter Planes. You can ask anyone who had the chance to take this monster up into the air and you will never meet the usual slang answers like : just a piece of crap or even a this thing was baddest that a pain into the ass.
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Jun
18
2009
The Red Ball Express was a gigantic convoy system created by Allied forces to supply their forward-area combat units moving through Europe following the breakout from the D-Day beaches in Normandy. The term “Red Ball” was a railroad phrase referring to express shipping. The system lasted only three months, from August 25 to November 16, 1944, when the port facilities at Antwerp, Belgium were opened. The term Red Ball is often used incorrectly to refer to all WWII European supply convoys by historians and the veterans themselves.
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Jun
16
2009
Category : Archives Movies, CIC History, Intelligence US, Interrogation Teams
From its inception, the United States made use of spies. The nation’s first spy master, Gen George Washington, recognized the need for accurate intelligence during the Revolutionary War. In a letter written July 26 1777, Washington wrote :
- The necessity of procuring good intelligence is apparent and need not be further urged – All that remains for me to add is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible.
From his experience as a British officer in the French and Indian war, he often relied on intelligence provided by Native Americans to keep his troops mobile and out of reach of the enemy. Intelligence operations in the American colonies, though, predate the war. In 1765, after the British passed the hated Stamp Act, a confederation of dissident groups called the Sons of Liberty formed to harass the British. By 1772 the Sons of Liberty had evolved into the Committees of Correspondence, whose purpose was to share information in resisting colonial rule. In Boston, members of the committee, including Samuel Adams and John Hancock, patrolled the streets at night, observing the movement of British troops and warning rebels in the countryside of impending British raids that might turn up caches of arms and gunpowder. The Boston group learned that on one of these raids the British intended to arrest Adams and Hancock, but it was unclear whether troops leaving Boston would travel across land or up the seacoast.
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May
26
2009
I’ve got it !!! I was able to get the Video to CD and Flv machine working. You’ll have now about 30 or 40 (not sure) movies to see very soon on www.eucmh.com. Here is the first one and one of the better, US Army Signal Corps movie original, uncutt, Part 1 and Part 2, narated : Robert Taylor and starring (interviews) Gen Bruce C. Clark CO CCB/7AD, Gen der Panzertruppe Hasso von Manteuffel, Gen Siegfried Westphall, Col Dustin Nelson, Gen US Robert Hasbrouck CG 7/AD, Pvt William Dassenger 7/AD, Lt Will Rogers Jr 7/AD, Lt Col V. L. Boylan 7/AD, Martha Knauf St Vith, Thomas G. Riggs 106/ID Engr, Col Don Boyer 7/AD : in The Battle of St Vith.
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Apr
06
2009
The Third United States Army was first activated as a formation during the First World War on November 7 1918, at Chaumont, France, when the GHQ-AEF issued General Order # 198 organizing the Third Army and announcing its headquarters staff. On the 15th, Maj Gen Joseph T. Dickman assumed command and issued Third Army General Order # 1 The third Army consisted of three corps (III, Maj Gen John L. Hines; IV, Maj Gen Charles Muir; and VII, Maj Gen William G. Hahn) and seven divisions.
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Apr
05
2009
Category : Archives Movies, USA Forever
This is one of my favorite clip and song on the American spirit as well as the American way to be !
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Apr
05
2009
Category : Archives Movies, USA Forever
I’ve never heard before Céline someone singing that way with her guts till getting the tears out of our eyes. In fact I believe that Céline is not a Diva but simply the Diva because there is only one place at the top of this Podium.
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Apr
05
2009
Category : Archives Movies, Tributes
There are many prairies like the one in Arlington. Some smaller, some really small, sometime even at the foot of a tree or at a trails crossing in the countryside. And as time goes by some are thinking that it won’t last for long anymore. In fact this last for over 300 years and there will always be a children to grab a bugle and start sounding taps for all our felt comrades. This will last for the eternity.
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Mar
22
2009
A Short History of the Parachute and
the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment
(Chip Cifone USA & Gunter G. Gillot Jr BE)
Parachute and Umbrellas :
It seems that the first draw of a parachute look like things was made in China some 2000 years before JC. As the story told us, Shun, the Emperor itself trapped in his burning palace used some large umbrella (not sponsored by Coca Cola) to jump out of a window and landed relatively safely on the ground.
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Mar
20
2009
Category : Archives Movies, Bombing Berlin
Another very nice World War Two (Universal Newsreel). Interesting but poor quality (screener) : Bombs away over Berlin, German POW in the USA, Japs Air Force …
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Mar
08
2009
War is over in Europe and the US Army and it’s Allies are in Germany. They all have a new job to do : cleaning Krautsland from the Nazis. That why the War Department requested the following movie.
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Mar
07
2009
Category : Archives Movies, DDay minus One
Review from Christine Henning, USA
The story of the paratroop and glider corps, who landed in France the day before D-Day and cleared the way for the invasion, is told with first person narration. It’s actually a fairly compelling story, which impresses you with the bravery of the men involved. The footage is excellent, giving you a real feel for what it must have been like to be over there.
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Mar
07
2009
A nice and fairly accurate portrayal of combat in the Aleutians. One item I thought very interesting was the lack of mention regarding the large Canadian contribution to this theater. I would have to guess it was not considered appropriate for the home audience in the US at the time.
Considering the minor theater the Aleutians seemed to be view as it is a great tribute to this campaign. I found the scenes of vastness of the area amazing. The views of old aircraft in action would be of great interest to aviation fans. For most people, I’m sure this is film will be the only views of the Aleutian Islands most people will ever see !
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Mar
01
2009
Don’t You Dare Call Me a Soldier
(Semper Fidelis – Dick Gaines – GySgt USMC (Ret.) – 1952-72)
Marines’ sites and bulletin boards on the Internet are nothing short of amazing regarding what many do not know about Marine Corps history and traditions. There are numerous cases where Marines – some of them even senior enlisted Marines and officers – post and respond to downright erroneous information demonstrating a definite lack of knowledge on various topics of Marine Corps interest. I have addressed several of these individual topics elsewhere on Gunny G’s.
Perhaps, some independent study would be in order – better start at the top. One random example, among many I have noticed, are several items lately where Marines are lambasting someone or other on the subject of one’s having dared to refer to a Marine, or Marines, using the term “soldier.” With righteous indignation they scream that they are Marines, not soldiers, and they decry those who call them such ! And rightfully so, in some cases, where the media or an individual, whatever, is using that term within an inappropriate context. Of course, they (both the writer and the Marine) are acting out of their own lack of knowledge. The user of the term “soldier” is not aware that he should generally refer to all Marines as “Marines”; and the Marine is very likely ignorant of the fact that the word “soldier” is also correct, in some cases.
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Mar
01
2009
Form : Jari A. Villanueva
Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily recognized or more apt to render emotion than the call Taps. The melody is both eloquent and haunting and the history of its origin is interesting and somewhat clouded in controversy. In the British Army, a similar call known as Last Post has been sounded over soldiers’ graves since 1885, but the use of Taps is unique with the United States military, since the call is sounded at funerals, wreath-laying and memorial services.
Taps began as a revision to the signal for Extinguish Lights (Lights Out) at the end of the day. Up until the Civil War, the infantry call for Extinguish Lights was the one set down in Silas Casey’s (1801-1882) Tactics, which had been borrowed from the French. The music for Taps was adapted by Union Gen Daniel Butterfield for his brigade (Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac) in July, 1862.
Daniel Adams Butterfield (31 October 1831-17 July 1901) was born in Utica, New York and graduated from Union College at Schenectady. He was the eastern superintendent of the American Express Company in New York when the Civil War broke out. Despite his lack of military experience, he rose quickly in rank. A Colonel in the 12th Regiment of the New York State Militia, he was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of a brigade of the V Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The 12th served in the Shenandoah Valley during the the Bull Run Campaign. During the Peninsular Campaign Butterfield served prominently when during the Battle of Gaines Mill, despite an injury, he seized the colors of the 83rd Pennsylvania and rallied the regiment at a critical time in the battle. Years later, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for that act of heroism.
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Feb
20
2009
This is a soundless movie shot in France in 1917 or 1918. It’s an interesting movie for Militaria collectors as you will see Italian Troops, American Troops, French Troops and British Troops.
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Feb
17
2009
We ‘the clowns’ (yes yes) – the clowns, because we are really clowns. When I use paint for some metal it last 3 or 4 years. In 2006, I digged up the M-1 Carbine holder that was fixed on the windshield of the World War Two Jeep. It was in the Dec 1944 battle sector of the 3-493/99-ID. This holder was – after 61 years in the ground – still covered with 90 to 95% original World War Two Paint ! 61 years … imagine. That’s why I am saying that we are just clowns because we do never request what we do really need but buy what they do really want to sell to us …
Anyway …
This is a great movie of America’s most wanted and loved creation : the Bantam, Ford and Willys Jeeps. Created to be used on the battlefield, this little thing is still rolling today. Not the one that were refurbished and repainted but some that were still used since 1945.
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Feb
17
2009
This War Department movie is announcing the end of the Old World. I agree with the Chief of Staff US Army George C. Marshall and President Truman : Atomic Power will save a lot of life on our side !
Unfortunately – and even today – no one is able to say what the costs were to the other side !
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Feb
17
2009
Category : Archives Movies, D-Day H-Hour
There is another movie but it’s not a tribute but a War Department Movie on the Allied Invasion in Normandy, France, on June 6 1944. This Archives footage was presented during World Wat Two in the United News.
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Feb
17
2009
This is a well deserved Tribute made in USA for the Heroes, Past and Actual of the Screaming Eagles : William Lee’s 101st Airborne Division
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