Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, Historical Division
This document gives an overview of Operation Torch (the Torch plan- genesis and development), actions of the Twelfth Air Force (organization of the Torch Air Force and air plan, contribution of the Eighth Air Force, air preparations for the...
AAF Historical Office, Headquarters, Army Air Forces; Mayock, Thomas J.
This study recounts the career of the Twelfth Air Force from the time it became established in newly pacified French North Africa until it was absolved in the Northwest African Air Forces. Contents include the race for Tunis, impasse and...
This outline plan was prepared jointly by a British - American group of planners, under the direction of the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations, United states Army. It is designed to initiate and give direction to more detailed...
This collection of 25 Mediterranean Base Section 1944 circulars includes topics like regulations, spare parts, accidents and traffic violations, staging areas, security and safety, off limit areas, billeting, medical personnel, sanitation,...
Discusses the observers' experience traveling from the US via the U.S.S. Elizabeth C. Stanton to Oran, Algeria. They visited and commented upon the replacement center at Canestel, then to Setif, Algeria and Guelma, Algeria, Teboursouk, Tunisia. ...
The employment of the 1st Infantry Division and Combat Command "B", 1st Armored Division, in the envelopment and capture of Oran is the subject of this paper. The author also gives information on the terrain of Oran, the enemy situation, plan of...
This is an oral history interview with Sergeant Major of the Army (Ret.) William o. Wooldridge, the first Sergeant Major of the Army, conducted on 6 February 2000.
47th Armored Medical Battalion, 1st Armored Division
After action report for the 47th Armored Medical Battalion, 1st Armored Division, during March 1944 thru May 1945, October 1942 thru January 1945, and June 1946.
Hatlem, John C., comp; Hunter, Kenneth E., comp.; Phillips, W. Brooks, ed.; Bacon, Mary Ann, ed.
This volume deals with the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and the Middle East. It is divided into five sections: (1) North Africa and the Middle East; (2) Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia; (3) Italy: 9 September 1943–4 June 1944; (4) Southern...
The most critical commodity on the battlefield is leadership and each war has provided the background for many leadership studies. Our Armed Forces service schools have conducted numerous of these studies in an effort to establish leadership...
Covers G-1 matters of casualties, health, sanitation, morale, athletics, recreation, guarding of prisoners of war, religious activities and burials, billeting and quarters, foreign personnel, financial matters, mail, discipline, reliefs and...
This study analyzes the logistics operations of the North Africa Campaign. The thesis covers the wholesale and retail level preparedness and execution of the U.S. ground force sustainment following the Allied landings in northwest Africa in...
This monograph analyzes the Arctic region as a system by examining the strengths and weaknesses of its political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, and information sub-systems. This investigation reveals the key nodes (critical people and...
Between April and August 1943, the U.S. Army’s II Corps saw two of its division commanders relieved of their commands. Each relief appeared tied to battlefield setbacks. MG Orlando Ward of the 1st Armored Division was relieved after his division...
Recent scholarly work has devoted much attention to analyzing the French counterinsurgency war in Algeria from 1954 to 1962. The United States military has taken many of the lessons and principles offered by authors such as David Galula and Roger...
This thesis evaluates the role of Allied strategic and operational intelligence in conjunction with Department of State actions in French North Africa from 1940 through the invasion, Operation TORCH, November 8, 1942. The primary focus is to...
The movement of major combat, combat support, and combat service support units to the decisive place and time on the battlefield is the commander's operational art. Effectively integrating, controlling, and supporting motor, rail, air, and water...
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...
A review of Army leadership doctrine exposes a disconnect. Army doctrine states that development of the “warrior spirit” in soldiers, leaders, and organizations is vital to the Army's success. However, the Army does not have a uniform...