Reports on Operation Husky including G-2 information and intelligence, counterintelligence, landing attack plan, follow-up plan, operational plans, sortie plan, and intelligence plans.
This document is a supplement to the study titled "The Balkan Campaign (The Invasion of Yugoslavia) submitted by the Historical Division. Told from the German perspective, it gives background to the Balkan Campaign and provides information on...
This report covers the training in North Africa of the American Airborne and troop carrier units, the final organization and preparation at takeoff airfields, the drop itself, and the first week of operation. The report is based upon observations...
The Infantry was successful throughout American history by the use of other branches of service to achieve victory in battle. This theory has been proven throughout time over the last 230 years of conflict. The Infantry cannot survive in battle...
The purpose of this is to show how the United States Army combined arms operations are necessary to obtain success on today’s battlefield. Combined arms operations have greatly evolved from the American Revolutionary War to today’s Global War...
Our Battalion was deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom in January 2007. Our Battalion occupied a remote Fire Base in south eastern Afghanistan. The battalion had one Physician’s Assistant Medical Officer and about 14 Soldiers assigned to the...
The military and governments that represent nations continually fail to understand the cultural differences between them and the nation they are at war with. Understanding a country’s culture could be the determining factor whether the conquering...
This thesis examines how the Duke of Wellington used Portuguese and Spanish forces during his 1812 Salamanca campaign. Wellington assessed the strengths and weaknesses of his allies, and then leveraged them throughout the campaign within the...
This collection is one of a series describing campaigns in World War II by the 82d (All-American) Division. In the course of these operations the 82d Airborne Division became the first American Airborne Division to fight in two Theaters of...
Operational reports on the Sicilian campaign taken from the G-3 journal of the 45th Infantry Division. Contains information on 157th, 179th, and 180th Regimental Combat Teams.
This special text is a narrative history of the operations of the United States Civil Censorship Organization, in Italy, during World War II. It details the procedure by which the military planned for and executed the mission of controlling the...
The purpose of this text is to furnish intelligence officers with a detailed picture of the basic composition and disposition of the Italian Army. The first part, comprising sections I to IV, is for general orientation on the structure of the Army...
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.
This study on industry and commerce describes food, textile, lumber and woodworking, chemical, iron and steel, tanning/leather, paper, building materials, and shipbuilding industries in Yugoslavia.
Department of Military Art and Engineering, United States Military Academy
Italy's entry into World War II on 10 June 1940 opened a vast new theater of operations--the Mediterranean area. During its first year the war had been fought in central and northern Europe, the center of gravity moving successively from Poland to...