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Category : 001st ID Photos
Tags: 103d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, 745th Tank Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, 90th Chemical Battalion, Aachen, Amarillo, Asselborn, Belgium, Berlin, Bliesheim, Butgenbach, Colleville-sur-Mer, D.C. Cox, El Guettar, Erft River, Eupen, Farriana, France, Frauwullesheim, Furstenberg, Gabes, George Talbert, Germany, Gladbach, Hamich, Hürtgen Forest, Jalhay, Kasserine Pass, Kreuzau, Kufferath, Lendersdorf, Luxembourg, Metternich, Michael Swinkin, Mittelscheid, Murringen, North-Africa, Paul Romanick, Rhine River, Roer River, Scharfenberg, Schneidhausen, Schoppen, Soller, Sourbrodt, Staats Forest, Stockheim, Texas, Tunisia, Weilerwist, Werhdon
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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Category : 082nd Airborne Division
Tags: 1st Sgt Leonard Funk, 504th PIR, 505th PIR, 507th PIR, 508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division (US), 82nd Infantry Division, Alsace, Ardennes, Argonne, Belgium, Brig Gen James Erwin, Brig Gen William P. Burnham, British Isles, Camp Claiborne, Camp Gordon, Casablanca, Central Europe, Chatel-Chehery, Cpl Alvin C. York, Foggia, Fort Bragg, France, Gela, Gen George S. Patton, Georgia, Holland, Holzheim, Italy, Jr, La Fière, Lorraine, Louisiana, Lt Col Emory Pike, Maj Gen Eben Swift, Maj Gen George B. Duncan, Maj Gen James M. Gavin, Maj Gen Matthew B. Ridgeway, Maj Gen Omar N. Bradley, Medal of Honor, Merderet River, Meuse, Naples, Nijmegen, Normandy, North-Africa, Northwest Africa, Oosterhout, Pfc Charles N. Deglopper, Pvt John R. Towle, Rhineland, Salerno, Sicily, St Mihiel, Vandieras
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
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Category : CIC History, Intelligence US
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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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Category : Afrika Korps, North-Africa
Tags: 15th Panzer Division, 21 Panzer-Division, 5th Light Division, African Campaign, Afrika Korps, Agedabia, Artillery Regiment CO, Bardia, Bardia-Capuzzo High Plateau, Battle of Gazala, Bay of Sirte, Benghasi, Benito Mussolini, Berlin, British, British Long Range Desert Group, Buerat, Chief of Staff DAK, Chief of Staff Luftwaffe, CO 5 Panzer Rgt, Commanding 7 Panzer Rgt, Commanding in Chief, Crete, Cyrenaica Mountains, Denmark, Derna, Desert Warfare, Docktor Wilhelm Wagner, Dr Sigismund Kienow, Egypt, El Agheila, El Alamein, El Alamein Line, El Fareh, Field Marshal Rommel, Foreign Affairs Branch, Foreign Armies Intelligence Branch, Fort Leavenworth, French, Gebel Nefusa Mountains, General der Flieger Paul Deichman, General der Kavallerie Siegfried Westphal, General Garibaldi, General Staff College, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Generalmajor Gerhard Mueller, Generalolberst Franz Halder, German General Staff, German Panzer Corps, German-Italian Panzer Army, Grant, Halfaya Pass, He 111, Horns, Hubert Ziessler, Italian Navy, Italians, Kansas, Koenigstein, La Spezia, Lee, Libya, Luftwaffe, Maj Gen Alfred Toppe, Malta, Marada, Mareth, Marsa el Brega, Matmata Mountains, Military Geologist, Misurata, Misurate., North-Africa, Northeast Africa, Norway, Oberst Helmut Hudel, Operational Branch, Panzergruppe Afrika, Qattara Depression, Regierungsbaurat, Reich Ministry of War, Second Air Force, Sherman, Sicily, Sollum Coastal Plain, Sollurn Terrace, Sonderstab Trupen, Special Detachment Dora, Tarent, Taruna, Taunus, Tobruk, Tripoli, Tripolitania, Tunisia, US Army, US Army Command, Via Balbia, X Air Corps, Zem-Zem
Desert Warfare, German Experiences in World War II, Ma Gen Alfred Toppe, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027-6900
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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: AFHQ, Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory, Anvil, Arnold, Bangor, Beaches, Bradley, Buzz Bomb, C-47, Capt Larry Hansen, Cherbourg, Chief of Staff, Combined Chiefs of Staff, D-Day, Deputy Theater Commander, Empire State Building, Florida, Fort Benning, Gen "Jumbo" Wilson, Gen de Gaulle, General John G. H. Lee, H-Hour, Hungary, Iceland, Invasion, King, King George VI, Leningrad, London, Lt John S. D. Eisenhower, Manhattan, Marshall, Mattie Pinette, Mediterranean Forces, Montgomery, Nazi Europe, New York State, Normandy, North Atlantic, North-Africa, Portsmouth, Potomac, President Roosevelt, Prestwick, Prime Minister, Ramsay, Sgt Farr, SHAEF, Southern France, Southwick CP, Stalin, Supreme Commander, Telegraph Cottage, Tex Lee, Trieste, Virginia, War Room, Washington, West Point, Winston Churchill
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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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: 101st Airborne Division, Addison Road Station, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Ministry, Algiers, American Red Cross, Anthony Eden, Anvil, Anzio, Army Group's Bryanston, Associated Press, Aussies, B-17, B-29, Belgians, Berkeley Square, Bovington, Bovington Airport, Britain's West Point, British Military Assistant, British War Cabinet, Bryanston Square, Cairo, Canadians, Capri, Chesterfield Hill, Churchill, Col Ivan Cobbald, Court Calendar, Czechs, Darmouth, Dominion Prime Ministers, Duke of Norfolk, Dutch, Edgeware Road, Edward Stettinius, England, European Theater Ribbon, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Free French, Gen Charles Corlett, Gen Charles de Gaulle, Gen Maxwell Taylor, Grosvenor Square, Hackbridge Kennels, Hampton Court, Harvey Gibson, Hays Lodge, House of Lords, Hyde Park, Indians, Ireland, Irish, Italy, Kensington, King of England, LCT, London, LST, Lt Col Jimmy Gault, Luxor, Marrakech, Mayfair, Montgomery, New Zealanders, Newbury, Norfolk House, North-Africa, Norwegians, Overlord, Palestine, Paris, Park West, Piccadilly Circus, Poles, President Roosevelt, Prestwick, Richmond Park, Russian, Ruth Briggs, Salisbury, Sandhurst, Scots, Scots Guards, Sicily, Sir Louis Gregg, Snuffy Nixon, South Americans, Telegraph Cottage, Tenby, Times Square, Tooey Spaatz, Torch, Tunisia, Tunisian Victory Lunch, Welsh, Wes Gallagher, World War I, XIX Corps, Yorkshiremen
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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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: Admiral, Admiral William P. Leahy, Algiers, American Expeditionary Force, Amilcar, Archive Stories, Axel Munthe, Bari, Bay of Naples, Britain, C-54, Caacie, Cairo, Capri, Caruso, Caserta Palace, Chemical Warfare, Chief of Staff, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Clark, Dakar, Distinguished Service Cross, Egypt, Eisenhower, Ellen Ruthmann, Flying Fortress, Gen Carl Tooey Spaatz, Gen Mark W. Clark, Gen Walter Bedell (Beetle) Smith, Harry Hopkins, Italian POWs, Italy, Legion of Merit, London, Maj Gen Leroy H. Watson, Malta, Marrakech, Marshall, Mattie Pinette, Mediterranean, Mike Reilly, Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Nazi Europe, North-Africa, Overlord, Pacific Theater, Palestine, Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister, Prince Urnberto, Red Cross, Rome, Sarah Oliver, Sicily, Signal Corps, Sir Alan Brooke, Sir Winston Churchill, Smith, Spaatz, Sue Sarafin, Telek, Tunis, Washington, Watson, White House
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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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: Advance CP, AFHQ Deputy Chief of Staff, Air Chief Marshal Tedder, Algiers, Bethlehem, Bizerte, Bond Street, C-54, Cairo Conference, Cairo-Jerusalem, Chief of Staff, Cleopatra, Egyptian, Egyptian History, Elliott Roosevelt, Fifth Avenue, Garden of Gethsemane, Gen Eisenhower, Gen Marshall, General "Jock" Whitely, Greece, Holy Manger, Holy Sepulcher, Italian Campaign, Italy, Jerusalem, Kansas, Karnak, King David Hotel, King Tutankhamen, Louise Anderson, Luxor, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Maj Emery, Mediterranean, Mena House, Middle East, Moslems, Mount of Calvary, Nile River, North-Africa, Palestine, Parisian, Pharaohs, Rameses II, Rome, Rue de la Paix, Ruth Briggs, Sphinx, Thebes, Turkish, Valley of the Kings
Big Brass gathered for the Cairo Conference were concerned mostly with world-wide strategy. But they also wanted to hear testimony on the war raging right there in the Mediterranean… so Gen Marshall dispatched a special C-54 to bring the star witness. Instead of flying over in lonely pomp, Gen Eisenhower made a characteristic gesture. He invited about a dozen of his lower-rank staff members to go along : There’s no use wasting all the space in this big plane, he explained. Besides, it may be the only chance you’ll ever get to visit the Middle East.
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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: 3rd Inf Div, AFHQ, Algiers, Army Air Force, Eisenhower, II US Corps, King of England, Mateur, Mussolini, North-Africa, Oran, Pantelleria, Royal Navy, Sgt Huntll, Sicily, Supreme Commander, Truscott, Tunis, US Navy, West Point
For Me, that strange late Spring was filled with the scent of orange blossoms. I couldn’t smell the ordinary jasmine, the poppy fields; I could neither see nor hear the war being readied against Mussolini. I expected to be married before June melted into the African summer. Dick, now a full colonel, was in Oran with II Corps HQs. Gen Eisenhower not only promised each of us at least several days’ leave after our marriage, already approved by the Army after its usual ninety-day waiting period; he also offered, as a sort of refuge from the war, the use of his little farm outside Algiers. We would have a full-fledged honeymoon in North Africa. Dick arrived in Algiers the last week of May, en route to Gen Truscott’s 3rd Inf Div’ Hqs at Mateur. Ive got a command, at last, he told me. Got what I always wanted, a regiment and actual field duty.
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Category : 002nd Cav (Color), US Army - World War 2
Tags: 4th Cavalry Brigade, 5th Cavalry Brigade, California, Camp Funston, Camp Lockett, Fort Clarke, Fort Riley, Maj Gen Harry H. Johnson, North-Africa, Texas, War Department
The activation of the 9th Armored Division created logistical problems at Fort Riley and Camp Funston. The installations that had accommodated a single division were now home to a division and an additional cavalry brigade. Consequently, the 4th Cavalry Brigade Headquarters and the 10th Cavalry, relocated to Camp Lockett, California. The 9th Cav, although still assigned to the brigade, moved to Fort Clarke, Texas.
As the number of black personnel entering the Army rose, the need for negro units for these soldiers to join also increased.
In November 1942 the War Department directed that the 2nd Cavalry Division would be reactivated, and that two new black regiments would be assigned. It was also announced that the 2nd, now the Army’s third black division, would remain divided between Texas and California. Construction was started at both posts since neither had the facilities to support an entire division. The work completed, the 2nd Cavalry Division activated on 25 February 1943 with Headquarters at Fort Clarke. The 9th and 27th Cavalry, active at the Texas post, were the assigned troops of the 5th Cavalry Brigade. The 10th and 28th Cavalry, located at Camp Lockett, made up the 4th Cavalry Brigade.
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Category : Airborne Operations, Archives Movies, Fallschirmjäger, German Airborne
Tags: (Operation Seeloewe), 1. Armee, 22 Luftland Division, 27-BCA, 28 Alpine Infantry Division, 3. Imperial Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment, 352. Infanterie Division, 5. Gebirgsjäger Division, 601 GIA, 602 GIA, 7-BCA, 7. Fallschirmjäger Division, Ahnhem, Airborne Panzer Korps, Airborne Training Center, Algeria, Alikaneos, Allied Airborne Operations, Alsace, Ardenne Offensive, Ardennes 1944, Ardennes Forest, Army Group B, Arnemuisen Isthmus, Avignon-Pujaut, Aviorex 120, Aviorex 130, BA112, Balkans, Baraki, Bavaria 6. Infanterie Division, Bavarian 3. Armee Korps, Bavarian Staff College, Berlin, Blue Division, Boys AT Rifles, BR 7 squadron, Brigade Schmalz, British Expeditionary Force, British Prime Minister, British SAS, Calais, Carbine Berthier Mle1892 M16, Catania, Caucasus, Claus Von Stauffenberg, Compagnie d’Infanterie de l’Air, Corinth, Corinth 1941, Corinth Canal, Crete, Crete 1941, Crown Prince, Czechoslovakia, Dachau, Dnepr, Dora Radio Set, Durance River, East Prussia, Emil, England, Equipe, Erma-Vollmer, Fallschirmtruppe, Farman 224, Fifth Column, Flessingue Airbase, Fliegerfuehrer, Flossenbürg, FM 24/29 LMG, Fort Eben Emael, France, Fred Geille, French Air Force, French Maquis, French Paratroopers, Friedrich Radio Set, Gela, Gen Haller, General Conrath, General der Fallschirmtruppen Eugen Meindl, General der Flakartillerie August Schmidt, General der Infanterie Guenther Blumentritt, General der Kavallerie Siegfried Westphal, General Erich von Manstein, General Franz Halder, General Gerd von Rundstedt, General Ludwig Beck, General Max Halder, General Walther von Brauchitsch, General Walther von Reichenau, General Wilhelm Keitel, General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Generalleutant Max Pemsel, Generalleutant Werner Ehrig, Generalmajor Hellmuth Reinhardt, Generaloberst Kurt Student, German Second Air Force, German Stosstruppen, Gestapo, Greek Island Leros, Groupe Franc, Groupement Franc, Groupes de l’Infanterie de l’Air, Haguenau, Hermann Goering Panzer Division, Holland, Hotchkiss Mle1914, Infanterie de l’Air, Isthmus of Corinth, Italy, Kastelli Hill, Khania, Kremenchug, Lebanon, Lembach, Leningrad, Lentini, LeO 213, Leros 1943, Low Countries, Luftgau VI, Luftwaffe, Maleme Airfield, Malta, Marshal Tukhachevski, MAS-38 SMG, MG-34, Montélimar, Munich, Munich Agreement, Munster, Narvik, Neville Chamberlain, Niederbronn, Nijmegen, North-Africa, OB Southwest, OB WEST, Oberkommando des Heeres, Oberquartiermeister, Oberst Albert Emmerich, Oberst Freiherr August Friedrich von der Heydte, Oberst Fritz Ziegelmann, OKW, Operation Barbarossa, Paleochora, Peloponnesus, Poland, Potez 650, Prague, Primosole, Reichswehr War Ministry Training Branch, Reims, Reinhard Heydrich, Romania, Royal Bavarian Army, Section d’Eclaireurs Skieurs, Sicily, Simeto, Sizaine, Sollbruchstellen, Soviet Union, Sudetenland, Suomi M-31, Syria, Tarnopol, Trentaine, Ukraine, Vassieux, VB Launcher, Von Richthofen Corps, Wehrkreis Kdo VI, Wehrkreis VI, Wehrmacht, Westphalia, Wurzburg, XVIII Korps, Zossen Conspiracy
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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Category : Italy, Northern Part
Tags: Admiral Doenitz, AFHQ, Alexander Constantin von Neurath, Annemasse, Army Group G, Austrian Alps, Baron Luigi Parrilli, Bavarian Alps, Bevollmaechtigter, Bolzano, Brenner Pass, British, British General Terence Airey, Carl Burckhardt, Caserta, Catholic Church, Chief of Security Police, Chief of Security Service, CLNAI, Czechs, Don Cossacks, East Prussia, Eastern Front, Edda Ciano, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Fasano, Feldkirch, Ferruccio Parri, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Field Marshal Alexander, Field Marshal Gert von Rundstedt, Foreign Minister Protector Bohemia Moravia, Fusto Pancini, Gauleiter Hofer, Gen Lyman L. Lemnitzer, General der Waffen SS Karl Wolff, Generalleutnant der Polizei Wilhelm Harster, Generalleutnant Roettiger, Generalleutnant Siegfried Westphal, Generaloberst Alfred Jodl, Generaloberst Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Genoa, German Ambassador, German Armies Italy, German Army Group C Italy, German Consul, German Embassy, Gero von Gaevernitz, Guido Zimmer, Hungary, Italians, Jews, Kuban Cossacks, Kurland, Ligurian Corps, Locarno, Lt Col Victor von Schweinitz, Lugano, Lyon, Major Usmiani, Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, Miss Grace Tully, Mussolini Regime, North Italian Patriots Unified Command, North Italy, North-Africa, Obergruppenfuehrer Karl Wolff, OSS, OSS Agent Milan, OSS Reports, Papal Nuncio, Partisans, Po River, President Roosevelt, Reichswehr, Rudolph Rahn, SACMED, Serbs, SHAEF, Slovenes, Sogno Franci, Standartenfuhrer Dollman, Sturmbandfuehrer Wenner, Stuttgart, Supreme Allied Mediterranean Command, Switzerland, Turkomans, Tyrol, Verona, Vorarlberg, Western Allies, Western Austria, White House, William J. Donovan
Memoranda for the President : Sunrise
OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Intelligence cables covering the capitulation of the Nazi armies in northern Italy.
Among the William J. Donovan papers are five volumes entitled OSS Reports to the White House containing carbons of memorandum predominantly transmitting or paraphrasing intelligence reports for the President’s personal attention. They are characteristically introduced by a note to the President’s secretary, Miss Grace Tully :
“Dear Grace : Will you please hand the attached memorandum to the President ? I believe it will be of interest to him”.
They begin in modest quantity, the first volume covering a full two years and including some administrative matters such as requests for draft deferment; but those for the nine months beginning with July 1944 occupy three volumes, almost exclusively intelligence.
After President Roosevelt’s death and the end of the war in Europe they taper off in the fifth volume-bound, curiously, in reverse chronology-and again include non substantive material, particularly concerning the formation of a peacetime central intelligence agency.
The reports are for the most part not the finished intelligence that the President might now be expected to examine personally. They do include summaries of some Research and Analysis Branch estimates-of the age distribution of German casualties, for example, or the Soviet Union’s population in 1970 – but the bulk of them are unedited reporting from individual case officers on subjects of particular importance or of particular interest to President Roosevelt. For the historian this minute but choice fraction of the total of OSS raw reporting constitutes a pre-selected documentary source of considerable value.
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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 : 002nd Armd Div, US Army - World War 2
Tags: 1st Army Carolina Maneuvres, 2-AD, 2d Armd Div, 2nd Armored Division, 4th Cav Group, 66th Infantry Division, 67th Armored Infantry Regiment, Aachen, Albert Canal, Apweiler, August 12 1941, August 15 1942, Auville-sur-le-Vey, Avranches, Baesweiler, Barmen, Beja, Belgium, Buissonville, Cambrai, Campobello, CCA-2-AD, CCB-2-AD, Cologne, December 2 1941, December 25 1942, Domfort, Dreux, Durbuy, Elbeuf, England, Fedala, Forst Konigslutter, Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Dix, France, Gangelt, Geilenkirchen, Gela, Gelles, Georgia, Germany, Grohnde, Havelange, Holland, Houffalize, Humain, II Armored Carolina Maneuvres, July 10 1942, July 15 1940, June 2 1941, June 28 1941, Le Neubourg, Leine River, Licata, Lippstadt, Louisiana, Marche, Marienburg, Mass River, Mazagan, Meerseen, Mehdia, Merzenhausen, Monroe, New Jersey, New York, New York Port of Embarkation, Niscemi, North Carolina, North-Africa, November 2 1941, November 8 1942, N°2 3rd Army Maneuvres, Odeigne, Ohr, Oidtweiler, Oker River, Ourthe River, Palermo, Paris, Percy, Puffendorf, Ragley, Rhine River, Rhineland Campaign, Roer River, Rohrbusch, Safi, Schladen, Schulenberg, Seine River, September 29 1941, Sicily, Sittard, Tennessee Maneuvres, Tessy, Tunisia, Ubach, Uebach, Valkenburg, Verdingen, VII Corps, Weser River, Wurm River, Wurselen
The 2nd Armored Division was activated on July 15th 1940 at Fort Benning, Georgia. It participated in the VII Corps Tennessee Maneuvers from June 2nd to June 28th 1941 and moved to Ragley, Louisiana, on August 12th 1941 to participate in the 2nd/3rd Army Louisiana Maneuvers. The Division returned to Fort Benning Georgia on September 29th 1941 and participated (November 2nd 1941), in the 1st Army Carolina Maneuvers then returned to Fort Benning on December 2 1941. Relocated to Monroe, North Carolina on July 10th 1942 for the II Armored Corps Carolina Maneuvers the 2-AD was transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on August 15 1942; staged at Fort Dix, New Jersey, on November 3rd 1942 until departed tje New York Port of Embarkation December 11th 1942; arrived North Africa December 25th 1942 (less elements which invaded November 8th 1942).
The 2-AD assaulted Sicily on July 10th 1943 and departed November 12th 1943, arrived in England on November 25th 1943 and landed in France on June 7th, 8th and 9th. It crossed to Belgium on September 2nd 1944 and Holland on September 11th 1944, initially entered Germany on September 18th, returned to Holland then to Belgium on December 22nd. The 2nd Armored Division re-entered Germany on February 4th 1945, returned to the New York POE on January 19th 1946 then arrived at Camp Hood, Texas on February 4th 1946. The 2-AD was deactivated later in 1946.
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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: 3rd Infantry Division's Hqs, Admiral Cunningham, Air Chief Marshal Tedder, Algiers, Ambassador Winant, Bournemouth, Brig Eric Mockler-Ferryman, Clyde, Col Julius Holmes, Dorchester, Eisenhower, Elspeth Duncan, Freeman Mathews, French Morocco, Gen Truscott, General Eisenhower, Greenock, Grosvenor Square, Harriman, Hendon, Huston Station, II Corps HQs, Inveteracy, Kensington Close, Kentallen, King of England, Lt Craig Campbell, Maison Blanche, Mateur, Mr. William H. B. Mack, Mussolini, Norfolk House, North Africa 40-45, North-Africa, Oran, Pantelleria, President Roosevelt, Road to Morocco, Robert Murphy, Scotland, Sicily, Telegraph Cottage, Torch Operation, Wardour Street
Inevitably, I had heard of the impending North African invasion. Talk in the back seat of my staff car was more Top Secret than anything on paper. In general, I knew about as much about Torch Operation as most senior commanders in the early autumn of 1942. One month before the birthday party I had taken Gen Eisenhower out to Telegraph Cottage in a hurry. For once he seemed preoccupied. He obviously didn’t want to talk; I had long made it a habit not to ask questions, ever. As we sped through Kensington he mumbled something about ‘big doings for a colonel’. The rest of the ride was in heavy silence. But Generals, three-star Generals don’t usually get excited over colonels. I knew something big was up. I don’t know how long we’ll be here, the General said as he got out at the cottage.
Mickey will look after you.
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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
Tags: Alene Dresmal, America, American Army Headquarters, Archive Stories, Army Driver, Audley Street, Austria, Belgium, Bushey Park, Captain Ernest (Tex) Lee, Chef Hunt, Cheltenham, Chequers, Claridge’s, Col Oveta Gulp Hobby, Cotswolds, Denmark, Dixie Belle, Dorchester, Downing Street, Egypt, Eighth Air Force, England, Ethel Westermann, France, Gen Carl Tooey Spaatz, Gen George C. Marshall, Gen Henry Happ Arnold, Gen Walter Bedell (Beetle) Smith, George Bernard Shaw, Germany, God Save the King, Grosvenor Square, Harry C. Butcher, Hendon Airport, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Hungary, Hyde Park, Iceland, Imperial General Staff, Inish Beg, Ireland, Italy, John G. Winant, Kathleen McCarthy-Morrogh, King Haakon, Lady Astor, Lambeth, London, Louise Anderson, Luxembourg, Maj Geg Dwight D. Eisenhower, Major Sy Bartlett, Martha Rogers, Mattie Pinette, May 1942, Mississippi, Moscow, Motor Transport Corps, Mr. Harry Hopkins, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, North-Africa, Northholt, Paddington Station, Palestine, Park Lane, Pinetree, Prestwick Airport, Prime Minister, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Rhode Island, Rover, Royal Engineers, Russia, Ruth Briggs, Scotland, Sergeant Mickey McKeogh, Sicily, St James Park, Supply Headquarters, T. J. Davis, Telegraph Cottage, the Netherlands, The Sheltered Life, Tower of London, US Air Headquarters, Waiter Moaney, War Office, Warwick Court, Westminster Abbey, Winston Churchill, Worth's of Paris, Wycombe Abbey
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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Category : 001st Infantry, US Army - World War 2
Tags: 103rd AAAA-W Battalion, 104th Infantry Division, 16th Infantry Regiment, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st CIC Detachment, 1st Engineer Combat Battalion, 1st Quartermaster Company, 1st Signal Corps Company, 26th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division (US), 32nd Field Artillery Battalion, 33rd Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, 4th Cav Grp, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 5th Inf Div, 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 701st OD Light Maint Company, 745th Tank Battalion, 7th Armd Div, 7th Field Artillery Battalion, 8th Infantry Division US, 97th Infantry Division, 9th Infantry Division, Aachen, Aywaille, Bambusch Woods, Barrafranca, Bayeux, Beja, Belgian Mons Pocket, Bonn, British, British 4th Inf Div, Buchholz Forest, Burg, Butgenbach, Caltanisseta, Camp Blanding, Carolina Maneuvres, Caumont, Colombières, Czechoslovakian, Djebel Berda, Djebel el Ahmera, Djebel el Anz, Eilendorf, El Guettar, Elsenborn Ridge, Eupen, Faymonville, Florida, Fort Benning, Fort Devens, Fort Hamilton, Gabes, Gangi, Gela, Georgia, Haaren, Harz Mountains, Hill 407, Hill 523, Hill 575, Indian Town Gap Mil Reservation, Juengersdorf, Karlsbad, Kasserine Pass, Kreuzau, Kynsperk, Langerwehe, Laufenburg Castle, Les Andalouses, Liège, Louisiana, Louisiana Maneuvers, Luchem, Malmedy, Marigny, Massachusetts, Mayenne, Mazzarino, Medjez el Bab, Merode, Meuse River, Mnichov, Mortain, Neffell River, New York, Niscemi, Nort Africa, North Carolina, North-Africa, Nrw York POE, Observatory Hill, Omaha Beach, Operation Cobra, Oran, Ouseltia Valley, Paderborn, Paris, Rhine River, Roer River, Ruhr Pocket, Sabine, Sakket, Salsa River, Samarcand, Sangerberg, Schoenbach, Schoppen, Sée River, Sicily, Sieg River, Siegen, St Lô, St Vith, Steinbach, Troina, Tunis, Tunisia, Verlautenheide, Weser River, West Wall
The 1st Infantry Division also nicknamed The Fighting First, is the oldest division in the United States Army, and has seen continuous service since its organization in 1917. The 1st Division started preparing for World War II by moving to Fort Benning on November 19th 1939 and ran its personnel through the Infantry School. It then moved to the Sabine Parish, Louisiana area on May 11th 1940 to participate in the Louisiana Maneuvers, returned to Fort Hamilton on June 5th 1940 then to Fort Devens, Ma., on February 4th 1941. The Division was sent to both Carolina Maneuvres of October and November 1941, moved to Samarcand, North Carolina on October 16th 1941 and on December 6th 1941, returned to Fort Devens, Ma. It was then transfered to Camp Blanding, Florida (February 21st 1942) where it was re-designated 1st Infantry Division on May 15th 1942. The 1st Infantry Division moved then back Fort Benning, on May 22nd 1942, to Indian Town Gap Mil Reservation, on June 21st 1942 and, finally, Division departed New York Port of Embarkation on August 1st 1942. The 1st ID arrived in England on August 7th 1942 and assaulted in North Africa on November 2nd 1942 (Operation Torch).
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Category : 003rd Inf Div, US Army - World War 2
Tags: 10th Engineer Combat Battalion, 10th Field Artillery Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, 30th Infantry Regiment, 36th Inf Div, 39th Field Artillery Battalion (105-MM), 3rd CIC Detachment, 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Quartermaster Company, 3rd Recon Troop Mecz, 3rd Signal Corps Company, 41st Field Artillery Battalion (105-MM), 441st AAA-Auto-Wpns Battalion, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 703rd OD Light Maintenance Company, 756th Tank Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 9th Field Artillery Battalion, Acerno, Agata, Agrigento, Alsatian Plain, Anzio, Arles, Augsburg, Austria, Avellino, Battipaglia, Bennwihr, Berchtesgaden, Besançon, Brig Gen Charles P. Hall, California, Camp Patrick Henry, Camp Pickett, Canal de Colmar, Capo d'Orlando, Capua, Casablanca, Cavalaire, Cisterna, Clairefontaine, Cleurie, Colmar Pocket, Dilligen, Etival, Fedala, Fort Fontain, Fort Lewis, Fort Ord, Fourth Army Maneuvers, France, French 2eme Division Blindée, French 5eme Division Blindée, French Morocco, Furiano River, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Hohe Rhon, Horbourg, Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation, Italy, IX Corps California Maneuvers, Maginot Line, Main River, Maj Gen Charles F. Thompson, Maj Gen John P. Lucas, Maj Gen John W. O'Daniel, Maj Gen Jonathan W. Anderson, Maj Gen Lucian K. Truscott, Maj Gen William R. Schmidt, Messina, Meurthe River, Mont Lungo, Montélimar, Moselle River, Munich, Mussolini Canal, North-Africa, Nuremberg, Pampelonne, Ponte Rotto, Rhine River, Rhône River, RN-7, Rome, Rupt, Salerno, Salzburg, Sicily, St Amé, St Die, St Michel, St Tropez, Strasbourg, Toulon, Tunisian, Vageny, Vesoul, Virginia, Voiron, Volturno River, Vosges, Washington, West Wall, Winter Line, Woerth, Zweibruecken
Stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington and known as the 3rd Division it moved to Fort Ord, California Jan 22 1940 then returned to Fort Lewis, May 19 1940. It moved again to Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation, California May 25 1941 for IX Corps California Maneuvers. The 3rd returned to Fort Lewis again on Jul 1 1941 and participated in the Fourth Army Maneuvers Aug 15 to Aug 30 1941. The 3rd was then transferred to Fort Ord, California on May 1 1942 and was re-designated 3rd Infantry Division on Aug 1 1942. Sent to Camp Pickett, Virginia on Sep 22 1942, it staged at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia on Oct 27 1942 and departed Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation on the same date. The 3rd Inf Div assaulted Fedala North Africa on Nov 8 1942, assaulted Sicily Jul 10 1943 and arrived Italy Sep 18 1943. On Jan 22 1944, the 3rd assaulted Anzio then southern France on Aug 15 1944. The division entered into Germany on Mar 13 1945, arrived New York POE Sep 4 1946 and then Camp Campbell Kentucky Sep 8 1946.
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Category : France (North)
Tags: 100th Battalion, 1922 Supreme Court Ruling, 1924 Exclusion Act, 232nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 298th Regiment, 299th Regiment, 34th Infantry Division, 442d RCT, 442nd Infantry Regiment, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 6th Service Command, Acapulco, AJAs, Anzio, Army Hawaiian Department, Arno River, Belvedère, buddhaheads, Camp McCoy, Camp Shelby, Cassino, Chinese, Chinese Exclusion Act, Civitavecchia, Col Charles W. Pence, Com Matthew Calbraith Perry, Dillon S. Myer, Elmer Davis, Emperor Meiji, Europeans, Executive Order 9066, Fifth Amendment, Fifth Army, Foggia, Ganbare, Gannen Mono, Gen George C. Marshall, Gen Mark W. Clark, Haji, Hawaii, Hawaii National Guard, Hawaiian archipelago, Henry L. Stimson, Issei, Italy, Japanese, Japanese Exclusion Act, John J. McCloy, John L. Rankin, kotonks, Kuroshio, Lt Gen Delos C. Emmons, Lt Gen John L. DeWitt, May 1869, Mexico City, Mississippi, Naples, Neukirchen, Nisei, Nisei Hawaii Provisional Battalion, North-Africa, One Puka Puka, Oran, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Pidgin English, Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, Po River, Po Valley, Rome, ROTC, Salerno, San Francisco, Selective Service Act, Treaty of Kanagawa, Volturno River, Western Defense Command, Wisconsin
The story of the 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team is rooted in the history of the Japanese in Hawaii and America itself. As the second generation of Japanese born abroad, or the first Japanese generation born in Hawaii and America through the early 1910s and 1920s, the Nisei were American citizens and part of the larger greatest generation to be of the right age to face the conflict of World War II. This generation of Japanese born abroad best personifies the blending of American and Japanese cultures that laid the foundation for a resolute, cohesive, and dedicated unit that accomplished every assigned mission without fail. The importance of Japanese immigration to Hawaii and the United States lies not in the fact that it did occur, but rather in how it occurred and in its consequences. Like many that came to America, the Japanese came for economic reasons. Unlike many Europeans, however, the bulk of the Japanese came to the United States not to escape the old country and settle in the new world, but rather with the intent to return home rich after a short period of contract labor, in what actually equated to indentured servitude. Many did not return and before long had established a solid and unique Japanese American culture ‘one that often faced severe prejudice’.
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Category : Archive Stories, O. Iverson - 9-TAC
Tags: 2nd Armored Division, 3rd Infantry Division, 414th Signal Company (Avn), A/926 Signal Battalion, Aachen, Aden, Algiers, B-17 Radio, Battle Creek, Belgium, Boise, Bournernouth, British Navy, Brown Street Baptist Church, Buzz Bomb, Cairo, Camp Crowder, Camp Kilo 13, Camp Patrick Henry, Carbon Dioxide capsule, Casablanca, Cosmoline, Criqueville, Dog Red, East-Africa, Egypt, England, Fedala, Fort Snelling, Gibraltar, Gowen Field, Grandcamp, Heliopolis, Helwan, Herb Person, Idaho, International Morse Code, Joplin, Kansas City Belle, LCT, Libya, Liège, Liverpool, M-1903, Mariposa, Massawa, Matson Line Luxury Ship, Michigan, Middlewallop Airbase, Missouri, Neosha, Newport News, Nile River, Ninth Tactical Air Command, North-Africa, Notre Dame Cathedral, Omaha Beach, Oxford, Palais of Justice, Paris, Peace Palace, Point du Hoc, Port Said, Pyramids, Red Sea, Rio de Janeiro, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Salisbury, Salt Lake, Seabees, Signal Section, Spa, Sphinx, Springfield-1903, St Lô, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Tennessee, Trowbridges, United Steel and Wire Company, Utah, Vernon Iverson, Versailles, Verviers, Virginia, Wendover Airbase, Wiltshire County
This is the wartime story of an American GI. In fact, this is the story of a GI like many other GI’ stories. It’s about friendships, cold, winter, rain, snow, mud, blood, war and dead. But this story has something else. It is the story over one of these GIs who were in Verviers and Liège during the period September 1944 to December 1944. This GI, Orville Iverson – Ivy – had built a strong friendships with the Jacquet Family from Verviers. Especially Claude and Ninette.
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