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Category : Army Air Forces, XIX TAC
Tags: 100th Wing, 10th Recon Group, 11. Panzerdivision, 1st Army, 28th Infantry Division, 2nd Armored Division, 2nd French Armd Division, 2nd Tactical Air Force, 303rd Wing, 354th Group, 355th Fighter Group, 357th Fighter Squadron, 358th Group, 362nd Group, 363rd Group, 36th group, 373rd Group, 406th Group, 4th Armored Division, 5th Armored Division (US), 67th Recon Group, 67th Reconnaissance Group, 6th Armored Division, 6th TAC Groups, 79th Infantry Division, 7th Armd Div, 7th Army (US), 80th Infantry Division, 83rd Infantry Division (US), 8th Infantry Division US, 90th Infantry Division, 9th Army US, Advanced Headquarters, Air Corps Tables, Air Liaison Officers, Air Service Command, Air Support Party, Aldermaston Court, Alençon, Alps, Amiens, Angers, Anoxia, Argentan, Argonne Forest, Armored Division, Avranches, B-26 Bomber, Bar-le-Duc, Beauchamps, Beauvais, Bonnetable, Brest, Bretigny, Brig Gen C. P. Wetland, Brittany, Brittany Blitz, Caen, Canadian 1st Army, Canadians, Carbon Dioxide, CCA-4AD, CCB-2-AD, Chalons, Chartres, Chateau Thierry, Chateaudun, Cherbourg, Col James Ferguson, Col Morton David Magoffin, Combat Command, Commercy, Compiègne, Corbeil, Cotentin Peninsula, Coutances, Creil, Cricqueville, Dieppe, Dinan, Dreux, Epernay, ES-293, Etampes, Eure River, Falaise, FFI, Fighter Wings, Fontaineblau, Foret de Machenoir, Fougères, France, French Forces of the Interior, Gassicourt, Gen Ernest's Task Force, General Purpose Bomb, Granville, Grassicourt, Hessian Waterproof, Ile de Cezembre, IX Air Defense Command, IX Bomber Command, IX Fighter Command, IX Fighter Commandy, Joigny, Jugon, Lamballe, Laon, Laval, Le Mans, Le Rotrou, Lessay, Lisieux, Loire River, Lorient, Lt Edward J. Moroney, Lt Gen George S. Patton Jr, Lt William S. "Tiger" Lyons, M-109, Maj James G. Martin, Mantes, Marne River, Maux, ME-262, Meaux, Melun, Meuse River, Milly, Mondesir, Montargis, Mordelle, Moret, Morlaix, Mortain, Murphy, Mustangs, Nantes, Néhou, Neufchateau, Ninth Air Force, Nivilliers, Nogent, Normandy, Operation Cobra, Orleans, Orléans Gap, P-47 Airplanes, P-51, Paimpol Peninsula, Paris, Périers, Pithiviers, Poles, Pontauboult, Rambouillet Forest, Reading, Reims-Champagne Airfield, Rennes, Rhône River, Romilly sur Seine, Russians, Sedan, Seine River, Sens, Sezanne, Soissons, Spitfires, St Calais, St Dizier, St Hilaire, St Lô, St Malo, St-James, Tables of Organization, Tactical Air Command, Tactical Control Group, Toulon, Troyes, Trun, Typhoons, US Third Army, Verdun, Vernon, Versailles, VIII Corps, Villaroche, Villeneuve, Vitry le François, XII Corps, XIX Tactical Air Command, XV Corps, XX Corps, Yonne River, Yugoslavs
12.000 Fighter and Bomber Sorties, XIX Tactical Air Command’s First Month of Operations in Support of the US Third Army in France.
Content
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Notes on Organization, Tactics, and Technique
- Missions of the XIX Tactical Air Command
- The Background, In Brief
- Air Operations Day by Day
- Five Accompanying Maps
- Recapitulation
- Annex : Map Showing Location of Units
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Category : Battle of the Bulge, The Bulge (CMH)
Tags: Alfred Josef Ferdinand Baumgärtler, Alsace, Angerburg (Węgorzewo), Anschluss, Army Ordnance Directorate, Artilleriekommandeur, Avranches, Battle of Britain, Battle of the Bulge, Beer Hall Putsch, Belgium, Benito Mussolini, Black Forest, Bullion, Caucasus, Charles XII of Sweden, Chiemsee, Commando Order, Commissar Order, Conwentzbach, Côte d'Azur, Cotentin Peninsula, Denmark, Editions Foxmaster, Elbe River, English Channel, Fall Gelb, Feldherr, Feldmarschall List, Feldmarschall Walter Mödel, Field Marshal Günther von Kluge, Finnish Nickel-Copper-Molybdenum, Flensburg, Foxmaster Publishing, France, Fraueninsel Cemetery, Frederick II, Frederick the Great, French Bauxite, Fuehrer Conference, Führerhauptquartier, General der Flieger Werner Kreipe, General Ludwig Beck, General Walther von Reichenau, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, Generalmajor Burkhart Mueller-Hillebrand, Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, Generaloberst Dr. Lothar Rendulic, Geyr von Schweppenberg, Gierłoż (Forst Görlitz), Gotterdammerung, Gunter G. Gillot Jr, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, Hitler's East Prussian Headquarters, International Military Tribunal, Irma Gräfin, Isar River, Italy, Jr, Kętrzyn, Königsberg, Leuthen, Lorraine, Lt Gen George S. Patton, Luise von Benda, Maj Percy E. Schramm, Masurian Woods, Moselle River, München Hauptspruchkammer, Munich, Napoleon, Narvik, Netherlands, Normandy, Norway, Norwegian Nickel-Copper-Molybdenum, Nuremberg Trials, Oberkommando der Luftwaffe, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Oberkommando des Heeres, Operation Barbarossa, Operation Market-Garden, Operation Sealion, Organisation Todt, Petsamo Nickel Mines, Poland, Predappio, Prussia, Rastenburg, Reich Minister Albert Speer, Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels, Reichsbahn, Reichswehr, Reims, Rossbach, Ruhr Industrial Area, Rumanian Oil, Russian Manganese, Seven Years War, Silesia, Soviet Union, Spanish Mercury, Stalingrad, Swedish High Grade Iron, Therese Baumgärtler, Truppenamt, USSR, Versailles-limited Reichswehr, Vosges, Wehrmacht, Wehrmachtfuehrungsstab, Weimar Republic, West Wall Fortifications, Wolf's Lair, Wolfsschanze, Wurzburg, Yugoslavian Copper
UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II
Stetson Conn, General Editor
Advisory Committee
(As of 1 July 1964)
- Fred C. Cole
Washington and Lee University
- Lt Gen August Schomburg
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
- James A. Field, Jr.
Swarthmore College
- Maj Gen Hugh M. Exton
US Continental Army Command
- Earl Pomeroy
University of Oregon
- Brig Gen Ward S. Ryan
US Army War College
- Theodore Ropp
Duke University
- Brig Gen Elias C. Townsend
US Army Command and General Staff College
- Lt Col Thomas E. Griess
United States Military Academy
- Office of the Chief of Military History
Brig Gen Hal. C. Pattison, Chief of Military History
Chief Historian, Stetson Conn
Chief Histories Division, Col Albert W. Jones
Chief Editorial and Graphics Division, Col Walter B. McKenzie
Editor in Chief, Joseph R. Friedman
… to Those Who Served
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Category : 002nd ID History
Tags: 002nd Infantry Division, Belfast, Cotentin Peninsula, County Armagh, County Down, Irish Sea, Isigny, North Ireland, Port en Bessin, St Donat's Castle, Tenby
The voyage across was made without undue incident, and on Oct 17, the Division began arriving in the Irish Sea off Belfast. Disembarking at the Irish port of Belfast, the units of the Division moved by rail to points in and County Down, North Ireland. They then marched to the billets they would occupy, in hutments, castles, manor houses, and factories, throughout the scattered Irish towns and hamlets.
Division Headquarters was set up in Armagh, the county seat of County Armagh, reputed burial place of Good St Patrick. Mastering the idiosyncrasies of the Irish language which proved to be a pure, clear English and not at all the brogue of Irish comedians on the American stage. The men of the Division fell in quickly with the customs of the country. They made friends readily with their amiable Irish neighbors and soon learned to tell a crown from a bob and stout from ale. One of the great surprises was the Irish weather. It was generally wet and overcast with long slow rains and heavy swirling fogs. There hovered constantly a blanket of mist which kept the countryside a dazzling green. Once the men got used to murky skies and boggy ground, other aspects of life in garrison became more pleasing.
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Category : 002nd ID History, 002nd Inf Div
Tags: 2nd Marine Division, Aisne, Alaska, Antietam, Ardennes, Arizona (1866), Atlanta (1864), Attigny, Battle of Tientsin, Bendorf, Boxer Rebellion, Camp Travis, Capture of Manila, Capture of York, Central Europe, Cerro Gordo, CG AEF, Champagne, Chancellorsville, Chapultepec, Chateau Thierry, Chickamauga Chattanooga, China, Chippewa River Battle, Churubusco, Civil War, Col Preston Brown, Cold Harbor, Colonia Dublan, Contreras, Corps of Engineers, Cotentin Peninsula, County Armagh, County Down, Cuban Expeditionary Force, Czechoslovakia, Enger am Rhine, Ettringer, Field Hospital and Ambulance Company No. 1, Fort Erie, Fort Francis D. Warren, Fort George, Fort Sam Houston, France, Fredericksburg, Gen George S. Patton, Gen John J. Pershing, Gen Winneld Scott, Georgia, Gettysburg, Hospital Corps, Idaho (1868), Ile de France, Indian Head, Indian Wars, Isigny, Kentucky (1864), Liscum Bowl, Little Big Horn, Lorraine, Lundy’s Lane, Maj Gen Lejeune, Maj Gen Leonard T. Gerow, Maj Gen Omar Bundy, Maj Gen Preston Brown, Maj Gen Walter M. Robertson, Manassas, Manchu dragon, Manchu Regiment, Marne, Mexican Border, Mississippi (1862), Mont Blanc, Murfrees Boro, New York, Niedermendig, Normandy Peninsula, North Ireland, Northern France, Obermendig, Peking, Peninsular Campaign, Petersburg, Philippine Insurrection, Pine Camp, Port en Bessin, Rhineland, Sackett’s Harbor, San Isidore Luzon (1899- 1900), Santiago, Sayn, School of Instructions, Second to None, Siege of Brest, Siegfried Line, Sitka, Soissons, South Wales, Spanish-American War, Spotsylvania, St Donat’s Castle, St Gaudens lndian, St Johann, St-Laurent-sur-Mer, St. Michiel Salient, Sugny, Syracuse, Tarlac-Samar (1901), Tennessee (1863), Texas, The Rock of the Marne, USMC, V Corps, Valley of Mexico, Verdun, Virginia (1863), Vivier au Court, War with England, War with Mexico, Washington Barracks, Wehrmacht, Wilderness, William Randolph Hearst, Wyoming, Wyoming (1866-1867), Yang-Tsun, Zapo
Members of the 2nd Infantry Division has been the wearers of the famed Indian Head Patch in five different wars around the planet. This insignia had its origin during World War One as the identifying insignia on the vehicles of the Division Supply Trains. The Commanding Officer of the trains held a contest in March, 1918, to select a distinctive identifying symbol for use upon the vehicles after he had seen the vehicles of adjacent French units decorated in this manner. Through his adjutant he sent out a memorandum authorizing prizes for the best designs submitted, with a first prize of forty francs. The winning insignia, which obtained the final approval of Division Headquarters for use upon supply train vehicles in April, 1918, was the striking red and blue Indian head, super imposed upon a white star. The head covered the reentrant angles of the star and exposed only the points. Maj Gen Omar Bundy, the Division Commander, and his Chief of Staff, Col Preston Brown, later Maj Gen Preston Brown, were riding in a command car one day in April when Gen Bundy’s eye was caught by the insignia emblazoned on a truck. According to a letter from Maj Gen Brown written some time later, Gen Bundy stopped the driver, asked the meaning of the device, and was told by the driver that it enabled him to find his vehicle in the dark. The letter does not bring out that the insignia had been authorized and was probably coming into use on all the vehicles of the trains but at that time and at any rate, the Gen and his Chief of Staff promptly sent their cars to the area to have the insignia painted upon them. In this manner the Indian Head became associated with the 2nd Infantry Division as its identifying insignia some time before it became the standard shoulder patch so proudly worn by men of the Division.
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Category : US Army - World War 2
Tags: 1st Armored Division (US), 1st Infantry Division, 28th Infantry Division, 2dn Infantry Division, 39-9-ID, 39th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, 47th Infantry Regiment, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9-ID, 99th Infantry Division (US), 9th Inf Div, 9th Infantry Division, Algiers, Alzen Ridge, Amphibious Training, Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Corps, Berg, Bizerte, Boich, Brig Gen Francis W. Honeycutt, Briouze, British 46th Division, Cap de la Hague, Cap Matifou, Casablanca, Cherbourg, Col Charles B. Elliot, Corps Français d'Afrique, Cotentin Peninsula, Dessau, Dinant, Djebel Berdi, Djebel Cheniti, Djebel Dardyss, Douve River, Dreiborn, Elsenborn, England, Faimes, Falaise Gap, Fort Dix, France, Friedrichsbrunn, Fromental, Gürzenich, Hammer, Harz Mountains, Hill 382, Hill 554, Hill 772, Huy, Jefna, Juengersdorf, Kalterherberg, Kef en Nsour, Lahn River, Lammersdorf, Langerwehe, Le Dézert, Liège, Luchem, Ludendorf Railroad Bridge, Maegdesprung, Maj Gen Jacob L. Devers, Maj Gen Jesse A. Ladd, Maj Gen Louis A. Craig, Maj Gen Manton S. Eddy, Maj Gen Rene E. Der Hoyle, Mariaweiler, Marigny, Marne River, Mehdia, Merode, Messina, Mieux, Monschau, Monschau Forest, Mortagne, Mulde River, Namur, New Jersey, New York, New York POE, Nicosia, North-Africa, November 1941 Carolina Maneuvers, Octeville, October 1941 Carolina Maneuvers, Opperode, Orglandes, Palermo, Périers, Port of Embarkation, Port-Lyautey airfield, Quedlinburg, Quineville Ridge, Randazzo, Rhine River, Road Junction 471, Roer, Röhren, Safi, Schmidt, Schwammenauel Dam, Sened Station, Shevenhütte, Sicily, St Colombe, St Lô, Taute, Thurn, Tunisia, Urft Dam, Urft Lake, Urft River, Utah Beach, Verviers, Vicht, West Wall, Wied River, Wollseifen
The 9th Infantry Division was activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on August 1, 1940 as the 9th Division then it participated in both October and November 1941 Carolina Maneuvers and was sent later to amphibious training under the Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Corps.
Re-designated as 9th Infantry Division on August 1 1942, the division left Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and was sent to Fort Dix, New Jersey on November 25 1942.
On December 11 1942, the 9th Infantry Division departed the New York Port of Embarkation and landed in North Africa on December 25 1942, less elements of the division which assaulted on November 8 1942 in Casablanca. From there, the 9th Infantry Division arrived in Palermo, Sicily on July 31 1943 and was sent back to England on Novermber 25 1943.
The division landed then in France on June 10 1944, crossed into Belgium on September 2 1944 and entered Germany on September 14 1944 where it remained active thru 1946.
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Category : Cavalry Troops
Tags: 100th Armrd Recon Bn, 104th Infantry Division, 10th Armored Division, 11th Cavalry Group, 15th Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 15th Cavalry, 16th Armored Division, 16th Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 17th Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 18th Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 19th Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 1st Infantry Division, 1st Sq 2nd Cav (Mecz), 20th Armored Division, 23rd Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 24th Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 25th Cav recon Sq (Mecz), 28th Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 2nd Armored Division, 2nd Armored Regiment, 2nd Cav Gp, 2nd Cav Recon Sq, 2nd Cav Recon Sq Mez, 2nd Cavalry Regiment (Horse), 316th Provisional Cavalry Brigade, 32d Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 36th Cav Recon Sq (Mecz), 3rd Armored Division, 3rd Armored Regiment, 3rd Cav Recon Sq Mecz, 3rd Cavalry Division, 3rd Cavalry Group, 42nd Infantry Division (US), 4th Armored Division, 4th Cav Recon Sq Mecz, 4th Cavalry Group (US), 4th Infantry Division, 6th Cav Recon Sq Mecz, 6th Cavalry Group, 82nd Airborne Division (US), 84th Armd Recon Bn, 84th Infantry Division (US), 84th Recon Battalion, 89th Infantry Division, 8th Armored Division, 90th Infantry Division, 90th Motorized Division, 96th Armd Recon Bn, 99th Infantry Division (US), 9th Infantry Division, Austria, Bardenburg, Basse, Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge, Bayreuth, Belgium, Bonn, Canal Zone, Carlsbrunn, Cherbourg, Cotentin Peninsula, Czechoslovakia, D-Day, Danube River, Eisenbach, Elbe River, England, France, Fulda, Fulda River, Fürth, Giessen, Gotha, Harz Mountains, Hergern, Holland, Hürtgen Forest, Ingolstadt, Inn River, Irsch, Kaiserslautern, Kassel, Kelheim, Kontz, Kyll River, Lahn River, Landshut, Le Havre, Loire River, Lorraine, Losheimer Gap, Luneville, Luxembourg, Mainz, Metz, Meuse River, Mortain, Moselle River, Munich, Munster, Nancy, Normandy, Nürnberg, Omaha Beach, Operation Cobra, Our River, Paderborn, Panama, Parroy Forest, Remagen, Rhine River, Roer River, Ruhr Pocket, Saar River, Salzburg, Siegen, Siegfried Line, St Malo, St Nazaire, Thionville, Trier, Utah Beach, Villedieu, Volklingen, Waldrach, West Wall, Wittenburg, XII Corps
I have found some interesting informations about Cavalry Troops during World War Two. I know that these informations are not really dig in but at least they give interesting Location and good start points to dig deeper.
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Category : 004th Inf Div, US Army - World War 2
Tags: 12th Armd Div, 28th Inf Div, 359/90th ID, 4th Inf Div, 5-AD, 82nd A/B Div, 83rd Inf Div, 87th Inf Div, Ansbach, Avranches, Azevllle Fort, Bettendorf, Brandscheid, Camp Gordon, Camp Gordon Johnston, Camp Kilmer, Carolina Maneuver Area, CCA/5AD, Chauny, Cherbourg, Cotentin Peninsula, Danube River, Dickweiler, Donau River, Dry Prong, Echternach, First Army Carolina Maneuvers, Fort Benning, Fort Dix, Fort Jackson, France, Georgia, Gondelsheim, Grosshau, Honerath, Huertgen Forest, III Corps Carrabelle Maneuvers, Isar River, IV Corps Louisiana Maneuvers, Kleinhau, Koenigshofen, Le Teilleu, Lech River, Louisiana, Luxembourg, Main River, Maj Gen Fred C. Wallace, Maj Gen George P. Hays, Maj Gen Harold R. Bull, Maj Gen Harold W. Blakeley, Maj Gen Lloyd R. Fredendall, Maj Gen Oscar W. Griswold, Maj Gen Raymond O. Barton, Maj Gen Terry de la Mesa Allen, Maj Gen Walter E. Prosser, Meuse River, Mézières, Miesbach, Neumarkt, New Jersey, New York POE, Ochenfuhrt, Olzheim, Operation Cobra, Osweiler, Our River, Paris, Périers, Pruem River, Pruembridgehead, Rhine River, Rothenburg, Sauer River, Schnee Eifel, Schwabstadt, South Carolina, St Pois, Ste Mere-Eglise, Utah Beach, Wasserbillig, Watzerath, West Wall, Zweitfall
Activated on Jun 1 1940 as the 4th Division at Fort Benning, Georgia the Division was reorganized as 4th Division (Motorized) on Aug 1 1940 then as 4th Motorized Division in Jul 11 1941. It moved then to Dry Prong Louisiana, on Aug 1 1941 for IV Corps Louisiana Maneuvers and returned to Fort Benning Aug 27 1941. It moved then to Fort Jackson South Carolina Oct 30 1941 for the First Army Carolina Maneuvers and arrived back to Fort Benning on Dec 3 1941. On Dec 29, the 4th Division arrived at Camp Gordon, Georgia and, finally, went to Carolina Maneuver Area on Jul 7 1942. The 4th Division returned to Camp Gordon on Aug 31 1942 and moved to Fort Dix, New Jersey on Apr 12 1943 where it was re-designated to 4th Infantry Division on Aug 4 1943. Sent, then, to Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida on Sept 19 1943 for the III Corps Carrabelle Maneuvers the 4th was sent to Fort Jackson South Carolina on Dec 1 1943 and staged at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey on Jan 4 1944 until departed New York POE on Jan 18 1944. The Division landed in England on Jan 26 1944 and was ready to start fighting
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