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Request for Identication - Crashed Plane 1945 I need the following answers : (Body) German or British ? (Plane) German or British ? I have studied the photos for more than an hour and I am still wondering because the Cockpit looks like an AAF P-38's...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Another Wartime photos set and like the one before it's a really good one. Joe Summers Pontoon bridge over the Rhine River. Note signs : (left) seems to be a "one way - Red Ball Express",...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 And here is the next set Wartime photos of the 17th Airborne Division. My Dad took a photo of the same concrete bunker from a distance. It had a Russian star on top of it when he took the photo....

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Well, these new photos are fields photos and request from me some researches. This is exactly what I like to do, so it will take a little more time as usual to be posted. And once again thanks to Cindy...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Bombed out bridge along the Rhine River with a pontoon bridge in the background. This was taken near Duisburg, Germany or near the Krupps plant that the 17th guarded after the war ended. Kenny Cavanah...

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99th Infantry Division (Medical) 1944-1945

Category : 099th-ID, 324th-MED, Battle of the Bulge

324-med

HEADQUARTERS, 99TH INFANTRY DIVISION
Office of the Division Surgeon
A.P.O. 449, c/o Postmaster
New York, New York

28 January 1945

SUBJECT : Medical History, 99th Infantry Division.
TO : The Surgeon General, US Army, Washington, DC
(Through Technical Channels).
The Medical History of the 99th Infantry Division for the calendar year 1944 is submitted in compliance with instructions in paragraph 6, AR 40-1005, Circular Letter No. 168, 1942, No. 81, 1943, Office of the Surgeon General, and Circular Letter No. 143, 1944, Office of the Chief Surgeon, ETO, United States Army.

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11th Armored Division (OOB-WW-2)

Category : 011th Armd Div, Order of Battle US

The US 11th Armored Division (11-AD) was activated on August 15 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana and moved on June 24 1943 for the Third Army #3 Louisiana Maneuvers. Transferred then to Camp Barkeley, Texas on September 5 1943 the 11-AD participated, October 29 1943, in the Desert Training Center #4 California Maneuvers and arrived at Camp Cooke, California on February 11 1944, staged at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey September 16 1944 until departed New York, Port of Embarkation on September 29 1944 and arrived in England on October 11 1944.
The 11-AD landed in France on December 17 1944, crossed into Belgium on December 29 1944 and entered Germany on March 5 1945. The 11th Armored Division was inactivated on August 1945.

11-AD Commanders
- Maj Gen Edward H. Brooks : August 1942 – March 1944
- Maj Gen Charles S. Kilburn : March 1944 – March 1945
- Maj Gen Holmes E. Dager : March 1945 – Deactivation

11-AD Casualties
- Killed in Action : 432
- Wounded in Action : 2.394
- Died of Wounds : 90
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