Another Wartime photos set and like the one before it’s a really good one.
Joe Summers
Mar
15
2010
Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos
And here is the next set Wartime photos of the 17th Airborne Division.
Mar
15
2010
Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos
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 and Marty, thanks to Joe’s daugther. And once again for every other US Vet’s, if you have photos pass them over here because I love playing with wartime photos.
Mar
12
2010
The German civilians would come over during the day and tend to their gardens. They would also wash the soldiers clothes for them. Notice the wooden shoes.
Mar
10
2010
Category : 017th Airborne Division, Battelfields Photos
Message #01 : Some of the photos I sent yesterday failed to be delivered. I will try again. Have a good day. Operation Varsity taken by Joe Summers of the 17th Airborne. Marty Cavanah
Message #02 : Photos taken by my Dad Kenny Cavanah who was in the 193rd & 194th Glider Infantry of the 17th Airborne. Photo was taken on August 12, 1945 as he was boarding the USS Thomas Berry at La Harve, France. He had been transferred to the 13th Airborne to be sent to Japan. However, the war ended while they were at sea and soon docked in New York. Marty Cavanah
Message #03 : Hello Gunter, photos of my Dad with his best friend Cecil Dawson boxing. My Dad Kenny Cavanah is on the left and Cecil Dawson is on the right. Another photo of Cecil Dawson with a baseball glove. Dad went up to the cemetery after the war ended and found his grave. He paid a girl to put flowers on the grave and took a photo of Cecil Dawson’s grave and the cemetery. After the war he kept in touch with Cecil Dawson’s parents visiting them several times and visiting his grave after his body was transferred back to the US. Cecil Dawson was killed as he stepped out of his glider after landing near Wesel, Germany. Marty Cavanah
Message #04 : Gunter, glad to see the photos put up on your webpage and that you were glad to receive them. I have two more photos taken by Pvt Joe Summers of the 17th Airborne. I received these photos from his daughter and was allowed to scan them into the computer in order to have and to share with anyone who may like them. I will send you two more. One photo is of Marlene Deitrich and an unknown soldier in front of a parachute. The second photo is of Mickey Rooney. Joe Summers is the photographer standing next to Mickey Rooney with the camera. I have photos taken by Joe Summers during Operation Varsity. I will send them to you if you would like them. Have a good day and I enjoy your website very much. Marty Cavanah
Message #05 : I tried sending these to you a couple of minutes ago but do not think they came through. Will try again. I believe there is another photo of Marlene Deitrich. I will let you decide. It is taken on a stage in front of a parachute. I will send a few more images taken during Operation Varsity. Some other photos were taken by Howard Oyler who is a good friend of my Dad and was in the 17th Airborne. After the war he went back and took photos of the gliders to document the damage done. Some of these were taken at that time. Some were taken by Joe Summers of German soldiers being captured during Operation Varsity in March 1945. I have many more. Post what you like and may find interesting and let me know if you want anymore sent. I will send them to you 4 at a time.
Answer : Marty and Cindy …. keep sending … keep sending … as I am planing to create your own galerie for all the photos and the maximum is 25.000 photos / galerie 
Mar
06
2010
Someone asked me for these photos from the 732nd ROB. I have just found them inside one 2 Tetras-bytes External Archives Disk and that’s why I am posting them immediately.
These photos were send to my by a World War Two veteran I wish to thanks for this donation.
Feb
21
2010
Category : 1914-1918, 2nd Div-AEF
I am sorry. I have been (and still am) busy with the snow and also with the jeep I am refurbishing.
Here are the photos I have found in the Incoming Directory. I have also to say that if you upload a photo to the web server and don’t send me a quick note about it, this make really hard for me guess what going on.
A wonderful photo from World War One. Unfortunately I have no idea of who sent this to me. Anyway thank you. Caption : American Soldiers and Children – a natural combination, whether in France, Italy or as in the above picture, Germany. Here are Men of B Company, 9th Infantry, 2nd Division, in Bendorf, Germany, 1919.
Thank you for this very nice photo !!!
Gunter
PS : If you sent this photo, tell me more about it and I will be really happy to credit you as well as tell things about your Grandpa.
Feb
06
2010
Dear Gentle People,
I received the following email from JPAC this evening. You are all people, whom has helped with this research to date and as I promised, the purpose of this email is to let you know, the next step has begun. I realize, they will attempt to push us all aside and I promise to do as much as I can, to insure that will not take place.
Willis S. Cole, Jr. “Sam”
Executive Director/Curator
Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum
13444 124th Ave NE – Kirkland WA 98034-5403 USA (425)823-4445
www.ww1.org – email : ww1@ww1.org
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Feb
03
2010
SC 167571 – The 2d Battalion, 16th Infantry, that cleared the road and fields of mines, marching through the Kasserine Pass and on to Kasserine and Farriana, Tunisia. 26 Feb 1943. Photo : McGray.
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Jan
16
2010
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 HEADQUARTERS 106TH INFANTRY DIVISION APO 443 US ARMY After Action Report |
A : Enclosed are the After Action Reports and Journals of the following units and General Staff Sections of the 106th Division, covering action against the enemy during the month of December 1944 :
- 424th Infantry Regiment Report
- 106th Division Artillery Report
- 81st Engineer (C) Battalion Report
- 331st Medical Battalion Report
- 106th Division Special Troops Report
- G-1 Report
- G-2 Report
- G-3 Report
- G-4 Report
B : The commanding officers and staffs of the 422d Infantry Regiment, 423d Infantry Regiment and the 106th Reconnaissance Troop are missing in action. Their records are presumed to have been destroyed and are not available. The action of these units is covered, but not completely, in the reports and journals of the General Staff Sections. The 14th Cavalry Group was attached to the division from 111900A to 181300A December. Its action, in part, during this period is included in the reports and journals of the general Staff Sections. After 181300A December, it was attached to the 7th Armored Division.
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Jan
14
2010
Put on your boots, boots, boots
And parachute-chute-chutes
We’re going up, up, up
And coming down, down, down
We’re All American and proud to be
For we’re the soldiers of liberty
Some ride their gliders to the enemy
Others are sky paratroopers
We’re All American and fight we will
‘Til all the guns of the foe are still
Airborne from skies of blue
We’re coming through, let’s go
Put on your boots, your parachutes
Get all those gliders ready to attack today
For we’ll be gone into the dawn
To fight them all the 82nd way
AMERICA’S GUARD OF HONOR
Where is the prince who can afford to cover his country with troops for its defense as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought to repel them ?
Benjamin Franklin, 1784
Jan
09
2010
343. Infanteriedivision
Brest, September 1944
Rudolf Kogard, Oberst i. G. a. D.
A. From the Installation of the Atlantic Wall to the Beginning of the Invasion
- 1. Occupation in General
In the world, there was talk of a strong German Atlantic Wall already at the time when same did not yet exist. It is true, the Atlantic Coast had constantly been occupied since the termination of the German-French war in 1940, but the fortifications were limited to merely a few important points. In Brittany, the occupation forces were constantly changed; units which were intact were – at the middle of 1941 – sent to the East and replaced by troops from there, which were in need of freshening up. Their chief aim was the restoration of their full fighting strength, because they expected to be committed again in the East. Therefore, aside from training and recreation, they were – as may be easily understood – not very much interested in the development of the Atlantic Wall, especially since the majority of the troops did not expect an Allied invasion before the Fall of 1942. Since, at that time, the German High Command had given up hope for a quick termination of the Russian Campaign and hence, had to reckon with an Allied invasion in the West in due course, orders were issued in 1942 for the following essential changes in the defense system of the Atlantic Wall :
a. A permanent occupation of the Atlantic Coast by units which were especially organized for this purpose (so called “garrison divisions”)
b. a systematic improvement of the coast carried out by the garrisons
c. increased effectiveness of operations on the part of the garrisons, by means of allotting supplementary weapons, according to the importance of the respective sectors. These weapons were manned by permanently stationed fortress cadre troops, who had to remain in the same localities, even when the security divisions were changed.
These measures brought it about that the garrison troops gained a good knowledge of the surroundings and became convinced that each improvement of the fortifications would result in a betterment of their own combat conditions.
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Jan
07
2010
Army Air Force Fans, Historians, Veterans’ Relatives or anyone else involved : I am searching photos from the following B-17 Bomber
Airplane Type : B17-G-35-VE
Serial Number : 42-97904
Nickname : Lady Jeannette
Gunter,
Freeman died a year or so ago. However, his reputation is such, that anything in his books become references in another after another. I have had nasty letters, when some called’ historians see that I do not use the miss-information in my books. Hell, I had to fight with our National Archives and the US Air Force Historical Research Agency about the identity of the B-24 that crashed at Tincourt-Boucly. Finally, when I had a-hold of their nuts and short hairs, with in depth proof that all of their documents were wrong and I was right, did they agree, I was right.
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Jan
04
2010
Category : 017th Airborne Division, Commemorations, EUCMH Mails Center
Written December 22, 2009 by Carol Klinger Woolbright, Ed.D., Orphan Daughter of Capt Jack R. Klinger. KIA, Battle of the Bulge, B Co., 194th Glider Infantry, 17th Airborne Division.
But this rose is an extra.
Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.
It is only goodness which gives extras,
and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Naval Treaty)
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Dec
31
2009
A-1 The Corps of Intelligence Police (CIC)-1 (1917-1940)
1. Purpose and Scope
The material in this manual is designed to furnish information on the historical development of the Counter Intelligence Corps. It covers the period from 1917 to 1945, with special emphasis on the war years. An attempt has been made, from the documents available, to describe the history and mission of the Counter Intelligence Corps in the various theaters of operations.
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Dec
16
2009
Category : Battle of the Bulge, Medics & Evacuations
As the combat troops approached the fortifications of the Siegfried Line, enemy resistance stiffened and the tactical situation settled into one of a relatively static front. Opportunity was taken to regroup the medical units of First Army so that this new phase of the campaign might be more adequately covered. An area was secured midway between the army’s north and south boundaries, and the bulk of army medical units, evacuation hospitals, NP hospitals, 91st Medical Gas Treatment Battalion, the 1st Medical Depot Company, and the headquarters of the medical groups were concentrated in this area with all possible speed.
The army surgeon rearranged the army medical units to provide three identical groups. One group operated in each corps zone and was charged with the responsibility for control of army medical service. The composition of the three groups was as follows :
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Dec
10
2009
La suite du travail sur Verviers 1940-1945 au jour le jour et encodé bénévolement par notre petite nouvelle dans l’équipe EUCMH. Anne Catherine, qui termine une formation de secrétaire et qui, dans sa vallée perdues de la région de Trois-Ponts – Basse-Bodeux cherche désespérément un travail m’a proposé de faire un peu de bénévolat et de reprendre à sa charge la digitalisation de l’un de mes livres préférés : Verviers, 5 ans de Guerre au jour le jour. Ce travail aura le mérite de mettre sur Internet une oeuvre unique car il n’existe pas, à ma connaissance, un autre livre qui reprend cinq années de guerre et d’occupation principalement centré sur une région comme celle du grand Verviers. Donc, avec l’arrivée de Véronique (France – Normandie) qui travail déjà comme une enragée à la digitalisation d’archives, voici Anne Catherine qui rejoint l’équipe. Tout ceci ne sera finalement qu’au profit des visiteurs du site mais je pense – comme le dit la célèbre campagne de publicité – que vous le valez bien.
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Dec
06
2009
The foregoing pages tell of the results achieved by air power in each of its several roles in the war in the Pacific, including the effects of the atomic bombs. The Survey has already reported on the results achieved by air power in the European war. It remains to seek out the degree to which the Pacific study modifies, adds to or supports the signposts to the future which were suggested by the European study; to state the extent to which hindsight suggests that air power might have been differently or better employed in the Pacific; to discuss the impact of the existence of atomic bombs on the role of air power; and to state the Survey’s recommendations.
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Dec
03
2009
La suite du travail sur Verviers 1940-1945 au jour le jour et encodé bénévolement par notre petite nouvelle dans l’équipe EUCMH. Anne Catherine, qui termine une formation de secrétaire et qui, dans sa vallée perdues de la région de Trois-Ponts – Basse-Bodeux cherche désespérément un travail m’a proposé de faire un peu de bénévolat et de reprendre à sa charge la digitalisation de l’un de mes livres préférés : Verviers, 5 ans de Guerre au jour le jour. Ce travail aura le mérite de mettre sur Internet une oeuvre unique car il n’existe pas, à ma connaissance, un autre livre qui reprend cinq années de guerre et d’occupation principalement centré sur une région comme celle du grand Verviers. Donc, avec l’arrivée de Véronique (France – Normandie) qui travail déjà comme une enragée à la digitalisation d’archives, voici Anne Catherine qui rejoint l’équipe. Tout ceci ne sera finalement qu’au profit des visiteurs du site mais je pense – comme le dit la célèbre campagne de publicité – que vous le valez bien.
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Dec
03
2009
US STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEYS
EUROPA AND PACIFIC THEATER
WORLD WAR TWO
The new relation of air power to strategy presents one of the distinguishing contrasts between this war and the last. Air power in the last war was in its infancy. The new role of three-dimensional warfare was even then foreseen by a few farsighted men, but planes were insufficient in quality and quantity to permit much more than occasional brilliant assistance to the ground forces. Air power in the European phase of this war reached a :
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Dec
02
2009
Archives Document related to Overlord May 28 1944 British Assault Area and the Naval Operations for Normandy.
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Nov
29
2009
Category : France (North), Photos France
As you probably noticed it I have changed the theme of my Wordpress and I have lot of images that were used before with the other theme. I was thiking of erasing them then thought that other Military History Bloggers could maybe use them for their Blogs.
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Nov
28
2009
Another nice set of pictures from World War Two : some images done in Colleville sur Mer, Normandy, France during the month of June 1944.
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Nov
28
2009
Nice little set of photos done just after the Invasion and probably during the month of June or July 1944 in Bricquebec, France, Normandy.
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