On the opening day of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I, the newly-created United States 79th Division was templated to advance nine kilometers through German-controlled terrain. However, the advance through the first four kilometers,...
This study discusses the 79th Division encounter with gas warfare in the Montfaucon operation and covers types of gases, military operations, lack of training, and analyzes the actual attack.
On 11 March 1943, the Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, made a momentous decision in committing an entire British armored division, the 79th, to the task of developing equipment, tactics, and capabilities...
This is the combat history of the 79th Fighter Group during World War Two. The document details the following contents: group commanders; group combat narrative; campaigns; battle citations and commendations; claims- illustrated statistical...
To encourage further research in the history of World War I and to fill a gap in the Army's historical documentation of that conflict, the Center of Military History has created a World War I series of publications consisting of new monographs and...
Committee 1, Armored Officers Advanced Course, The Armored School; Brothers, Benjamine M.; Allen, Raymond W.; Smith, Allen T.; Willey, Wilford L.; Greer, Harry A.; Hislop, Albert H.; Wingfield, Oren C.; Wehrle, Howard F., III; Spann, James H.;...
In this historical example is an armored division indoctrinated and trained for the offensive, forced by circumstances of war, to adopt temporarily the defensive.
Contents include: World War II and Battle of the Bulge chronologies; WWII allied conferences; Allied Command architecture and order of battle; the U.S. Army in December 1944; biographical sketches- senior allied commanders; German command...
This author of this study questions whether the advance of the V Corps was carried out as planned on the morning of the 26th of September, 1918. Also presented is the inquiry of the main reasons for the failure of the divisions of this corps to...
This paper examines the development of the American Army corps structure during World War I. The corps formation developed in World War I by General John J. Pershing was the culmination of 56 years of lessons learned from the Civil War through the...
Military History Section, Headquarters, Army Forces Far East
Japanese monograph no. 154 (excluding the first chapter) deals exclusively with the eastern front under the jurisdiction of the First Area Army. It covers preparation for operations as well as the operations themselves.
Official AAR contains a monthly accounting of over-all army operations in the European theater. Supplemented with maps and supporting documents. In 2 volumes with volume II a compilation of general and special staff sections operations reports.