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Gold Remains a Good long-term Investment Whether the dollar goes up or down, gold is still going to be a good investment because we have virtually all the important central bankers focused on growth and not inflation. Gold is a dynamic metal....

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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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Another Wartime photos set and like the one before it's a really good one.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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 And here is the next set Wartime photos of the 17th Airborne Division.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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Well, these new photos are fields photos and request from me some researches.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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1st Infantry Division, Operation Torch 1

Category : 001st US Ind Div, North-Africa

The following G-3 report of the participation of the 1st Infantry Division in the Torch Operation is submitted in compliance with AR 345-105. G-3 Journal herewith as Annex #1.

1- Mission
On September 4th the 1st Infantry Division was given the mission of landing on Z and Y beaches at 0100 November 8, 1942 capturing Arzew and Oran and the port facilities therein also to seize certain Axis agents and sympathizers.

2 Planning and Preparation
An advance command post of the Division was set up at Norfolk House, London to plan the operation in conjunction with the British Navy, II Corps and Allied Force Headquarter. Planning for the operation and preparation of the initial field order; was completed on October 15th at which time the London CP was closed, Division Headquarters was established aboard the Reina del Pacifico on October 16th with an alternate headquarters aboard the Warwick Castle.


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(22)50/4-Js-340/68 : Josef Mengele (03)

Category : Holocaust, Josef Mengele

1. Release Procedures
Discharge procedures were simple and were similar to those in the 12th Armored Division areas as described by Professor Earl F. Ziemke in his book, The US Army in the Occupation of Germany :

  • The men lined up in the stable compound. On entering the building, they removed their shirts and raised their arms to be inspected for the SS blood-type tattoo. (SS men were held either as prisoners of war or, if they had enough rank, under automatic arrest). After they were inspected, German doctors gave them superficial physical examinations and separated any who were obviously sick. Next the men filled out counterintelligence questionnaires and were interviewed briefly to determine whether they were subject to automatic arrest or had technical skills of intelligence interest. Those who fell into neither category were given slips stamped with a ‘B’ and could be discharged. Those with an ‘A’ slip were put under automatic arrest when they reached the end of the line, With a ‘C’ they were held as prisoners of war. The next step was to fill out the so-called P-4 form, on which the soldier was required to give his name, the names of his close relatives, and his place of residence. After completing the form, he turned his Soldbuch (pay book) over to a German clerk and received a discharge form and instructions on how to act. If he was going to a place in the Seventh Army area, he was also given half a loaf of black bread and about a pound of lard, his rations for the trip, and could leave the stable to wait for a truck to take him home.

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Capt Alfred A. Cunningham, Marine Pilote, 1917

Category : Archive Stories, Capt A Cunningham

This diary recounts the experiences and impressions of Capt Alfred Austell Cunningham, the first Marine aviator, during his tour of British and French aviation facilities in November and December 1917. The document reveals much about the character and personality of a notable Marine and gives a view of wartime England and France as seen through his eyes. Dr. Graham A. Cosmas, the editor, joined the staff of the Division of History and Museums in December 1973 after teaching history at the University of Texas and the University of Guam. He has a PhD in History from the University of Texas and has published several articles on United States military history, as well as a book on the US Army in the Spanish-American War. The Cunningham diary, is presented here by itself as a preview of a larger collection of Cunningham materials from World War I which will be edited by Dr. Cosmas and published next year by the History and Museums Division.
EDWIN H. SIMMONS, Brigadier General, US Marine Corps (Ret.), Director of Marine Corps History and Museums
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Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (12)

Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby

The rest of that day is history. Personally, I spent it praying for the invaders … and, like the rest of his official family, aching with sympathy for our apprehensive Boss.
Gen Eisenhower stood the appalling strain for another day. Then, in the early morning of June 7 it was 0720-H, just twenty-six hours after H-Hour he left for Normandy’s beaches. I fled to the lonely comfort of our trailer-headquarters. Working on the General’s “fan mail” never seemed so difficult, so unimportant; but it helped smother worries.
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Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (11)

Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby

Suddenly the plane shot upward, roaring away from the airfield. We all smashed back against our seats. Maybe the wheels won’t come down, someone said in a small voice. Snuffy Nixon, the navigator, stuck his head in the cabin and broke the silence. Don’t worry, folks. I just got mixed up in my figuring and picked the wrong country. Not France ! we cried. No, said Snuffy, it’s not France. But it’s not England, either. He grinned over at me. This is Kay’s home. We almost landed in southern Ireland !
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Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (10)

Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby

Returning from Cairo to Algiers, I began digging away at the minor mountain of paper accumulated on my desk. Memories of Egypt and Palestine faded completely as I worked late each night to reduce those piles of the General’s fan mail. Like everyone else at headquarters, however, I was still busier on unofficial duties… working overtime on the old rumor that Gen Marshall, not Gen Ike, would head the new American Expeditionary Force building in Britain, and that Ike would go to Washington to become Chief of Staff.
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Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (5)

Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby

Within twenty-four hours, the war ripped us apart again. Dick waved forlornly, shin-deep in mud, as Ethel, Jean, and I climbed into Gen Eisenhower’s 6-17 dispatched to make certain that we proceed to Allied Force Headquarters without further delay. When the plane pulled itself from Oran’s swampy airfield I could scarcely keep from bawling as Dick gradually diminished to a mere pinpoint near the airstrip far below. His last words still rang in my ears : Im trying to get up to the front, darling.
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Assassination SS Reinhard Heydrich

Category : Killing R. Heydrich, OSS & SOE

cia-seal1A tyrant’s death at patriots’ hands revealed as Operation Salmon of Czech Intelligence in exile.
ASSASSINATION REINHARD HEYDRICH (R. C. Jaggers)

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Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (1)

Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby

Tossed by the fortunes of war into close association with World War IPs top leaders, Miss Summersby tells the inside story of military command from a woman’s point of view. Hers is a portrait of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as few could see him, continuously, at moments of tension, making great decisions, during long hours of routine work, and while he relaxed at bridge or horseback riding.
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SOE Operations Western Europe (N-Z)

Category : OSS & SOE

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Special Operations Executive Summary of Operations in Western Europe
This summary refers only to those operations with the fullest material in the files. For reasons of space it does not refer to every operation mentioned in the records. Similarly, the newly released records do not contain evidence on every operation which was mounted by the sections.
Source : Adam Matthew Publications
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