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The storm landings on Kwajalein and Eniwetok benefitted from a number of lessons that were learned at great cost in the preceding Operation Galvanic, the seizure of the Gilberts, which
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Life magazine photographer George Stock accompanied the landing force on Eniwetok. The images he captured are among the most searing of the Pacific War. The cost of the bitter
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It being bitterly cold and me doing some reading about the Battle of Fredericksburg, I went back to a letter written soon after the battle by Alfred Davenport of the
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#OTD January 31, 1944 the battles of Kwajalein and Majuro atolls begin. Operation Flintlock—the seizure of the Marshall Islands—followed quickly on the success of Operation Galvanic, furthering US advances in
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The elimination of the Colmar Pocket—a 50 mi bulge in French First Army’s front in southern Alsace—was a priority for US 6th Army Group preliminary to crossing the Rhine River
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Holding onto population centers in the last months of WWII was built not only around their importance to Germany’s crumbling transportation infrastructure, but also their role as communications hubs; in
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During #SWW the US Army grappled with how best to respond to and, if possible, prevent the proliferation of “psychiatric casualties” in combat units. The “intensity and duration”of a soldier’s
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Recently, I have been researching late war US infantry divisions deployed to the ETO in autumn/winter 1944. It may interest some to learn that some divisions did not arrive in
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Doing some reading this afternoon about 5th Fallschirmjager Div in the Ardennes, and it shows how badly the attritional battles in Italy and Normandy depleted this once elite arm of
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It’s important to remember that, although the 101st Airborne Division did suffer from a surfeit of small arms ammo, their artillery was in much better shape. The 101st had, in
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The “Golden Lions” of the 106th Infantry Division occupy a tragic place in the historiography of the Ardennes battle. The state of its readiness for battle has proven a fertile
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The vital role played by the 28th Infantry Division’s 110th Regimental Combat Team by delaying the advance of XLVII Panzer Corps, saved the strategic crossroads town of Bastogne, Belgium from
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