Part I of this report is concerned with the overall planning for the invasion of Southern France; part II is the execution of the plan. Planning (decision, formulation of planned action, assignment of task organizations) and execution of the plan...
The following study is a composite of the opinions, ideas, and memories of five German officers who helped shape the course of the war in the West- three from OB West, one from OKW, and one from A Gp B. There are commentaries by Bodo Zimmerman,...
Volumes I and II are both contained in this document (German and Japanese). There is a practical reading and translation of Japanese characters, tables of basic key characters for Japanese ordnance, instructions for translating Japanese markings,...
This is a tentative history of smoke generator operations in the Mediterranean and European theaters of operation in World War II. Contents include information about weapons, smoke generator units, employment, large area screening operation in MTO,...
This document describes the conquest of Sicily (preparatory measures, the assault, the enemy’s stand at Catania, reduction of the island, and a diary of the Sicilian campaign), air operations, air transport, etc., during World War II.
Topics in this World War Two review include: the invasion of Italy; the Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force (trends of activity); the Balkan Theater (Greece and Yugoslavia); operations in the Aegean; R.A.F. educational service (activities in...
A report on the organization and function of the German Joint Command based on German naval staff documents. Discusses the Joint Command from 1919-1928 and contains memorandums by General v. Brauchitsch and Admiral Raeder. Also contains a...
Compiled from a series of reports written especially for the Historical Division, EUCOM, by several former German generals. All of these officers had extensive combat experience during World War II, especially on the eastern front.
An allied force must be considered as a whole, made up of balanced component forces. To acquire that balance, or for political reasons, it may be necessary to place troops or units of different allied nations under the same command in Corps and...
Monograph was prepared in June 1947 by lt. Col. Sasumu Tozuka and was based on his diary notes. A staff officer with the Eastern Detachment which conducted operations on Ambon and Timor, Col. Tozuka has augmented his narrative with recollections....
Air Defense office of the Ministry of Home Affairs
A translation of an article appearing in the 20 October 1943 issue of the Shuho, the official weekly organ of the Japanese cabinet Board of Information. Contains directives for factories.
Contains an analysis of submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare, information on interesting aircraft attacks, increasing the number of kills, new technical developments, aircraft and naval recognition, information on losing a wing tip, a...
Contains a copy of Headquarters, Communications Zone Planning Directive Series I, No. 4 (Plan "A") Assembly and Staging Areas, dated 14th March, 1945 and Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, Planning Directives, Series 'L', No. 4, dated 1...
Part on covers August-December, 1942 and discusses the North African Invasion. Topics include: the Allied Command and headquarters, the Administrative sections and offices, general and special staff sections, the move of AFHQ to North Africa and...
Discussion of Austria. This section covers Employment and unemployment, employment agencies, wages, hours and working conditions, labor legislation and labor policies, labor organizations, industrial relations, cooperatives and social insurance.
Discussion of Austria. This section covers administration, the telephone, the telegraph and miscellaneous wire services, the radio, postal service, postal collection and delivery, postal transport and the postal banking system.
Discussion of Austria. This section gives a general background of agriculture and food both before and after the war years. It also contains statistics by state, and miscellaneous statistics and information, in addition to a list of main...
Discussion of Austria. This section covers industrial production, industrial employment, building and construction, mining and smelting, chemicals, paper, glass, lumbering and woodworking, foodstuffs, the Austrian tobacco monopoly, leather and...
Discussion of France. This section covers the country, farm holdings, agricultural labor, agricultural machinery and fertilizer, principal crops, livestock, food supplies including pre-war supplies and wartime production and supplies, rationing,...