An officially recorded number of 178,892 black men served in the Union Armies, including some 7,000 noncommissioned officers. The regiments all were racially segregated and were comprised 120 Infantry regiments, 12 heavy-artillery regiments, 10...
Colonel Frank J. Caponio served as the general staff personnel officer (G1) with the 1st Cavalry Division. Operations centered on Task Force Baghdad, although units participated in operations as far away as Fallujah and An Najaf. The division grew...
On VE Day, 8 May 1945, the United States had over three million military personnel in Europe. Through redeployment of forces to the Pacific Theater and demobilization this number dropped to just over 622,000 by 1 January 1946. Staff planners...