This paper was written to study the need for and the use of liaison airplane sections for ground units in furtherance of the Commanding General's expansion program for the use of such planes by combat arms.
On June 25-26, 1876, five companies of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, engaged Sioux and Cheyenne warriors at the Little Bighorn River, in what is now Montana. The battle resulted in one of the worst...
Hit and run rocket battery--Entire Marine Corps 4.5 rocket batteries are now dropped into desired firing positions, release their salvos of high explosive on the enemy, and are whisked to safety by the versatile Leatherneck Helicopters. Smoke, dust...
The Battleship USS New Jersey blasts enemy coastal installations, at Hungnam, Korea. An exploding phosphorous shell leaves a fiery trail over targets. Released, Washington, D.C. 8 December 1952
Believers that a modern army is completely mechanized would have a hard time convincing tommies of the 14th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, on a hill somewhere in Korea. The tommies know that when it comes to difficult terrain it is muscles, not...
On the 23rd of October 1950 two recently reconditioned patrol frigates were turned over on a loan agreement to the Republic of Korea. These frigates were part of a group of vessels turned over to Russia by a lend-lease during World War II. They...
When members of the United Nations Forces moved north over the 38th Parallel into the well-known industrial cities, they found gutted buildings and mounds of twisted steel, that were formerly vital to Communistic Korea’s military forces....
Contents include: railways in the Civil War; destruction, control, and protection of railways in war; troops and supplies; armored trains; railway ambulance transport; organization and railway troops in Germany; France and the war of 1870-71;...
In this interview, MAJ Susan McConnell, US Army, JAG; discusses her deployment to Afghanistan as a brigade judge advocate for 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Air Assault in 2010 through 2011 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ...
In this interview, MAJ Alan Wetzstein, US Army, Field Artillery; discusses his deployment with 2nd Brigade, 1-9 Field Artillery in 2007 through 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Wetzstein talks about his pre-deployment training...
In this February 2012 interview MAJ Christopher Pressley discusses his deployment to Iraq in 2007 as part of the Surge. MAJ Pressley deployed as a Military Intelligence (MI) company commander and served in that position for 13 of his 15 months. ...
In this February 2012 interview, MAJ Jermaine Hailey, US Army, Logistics; discusses his deployment to Iraq as a brigade logistics officer for 35th Signal Brigade in 2009 through 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Hailey...
The study presents the coordinated attack of the I German Corps against the left flank of the Second Russian Army, illustrating the important lessons of close support of the infantry by artillery in the attack, a vigorous pursuit conducted, and...
In this group study, the author concludes that the part played by the 4th Division in the St. Mihiel Offensive was relatively minor. Its mission was to hold the pivot, which it did. Only a fraction of the infantry of the division was involved. This...
While the title indicates that the subject of this study is the "Operations of the Second Bulgarian Army in 1915", the purpose may be expressed more clearly as an investigation of the operations of a semi-independent military force approximating in...
This text deals specifically with the employment of the antitank units within the infantry division. Since the infantry division is the basic organization of the army, the discussion is based on the principal types of operations in which a division...
The steps taken at various times by the War Department for the establishment of an army school of practice for young officers of the army, which have evolved the present "General Service and Staff College", are the subject of the following sketch....