"... for your viewing pleasure ..."

<a href="http://www.milhist.net/encyc/milencyc.shtml">Military Encyclopedia ¥ Italian Campaign, 1943-1945</a>

This is a transcription, into PDF files, of a 600-page document prepared by 15th Army Group in the summer of 1945.

The link given above contains the set of 15 links to execute the PDF downloads. The first of those links is a detailed table of contents.

Thank you for the info, on line access to the book is very useful and, as noted in your comments, the American perspective.

It would be mind-boggling if the official Records Offices ever put their archives on the net!

No.9

Many thanks for that link - a great source for those of us interested in the Italian campaign.

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No. 9 notes, above:
"It would be mind-boggling if the official Records Offices ever put their archives on the net!"

The next best thing is now underway. Below is an abbreviated contents list of some CDs in my library. I'll dig up and post later this week price and ordering information.

As to the "Military Encyclopedia" I've put online, a lower-echelon document, there were only 1200 copies produced by 15th Army Group in '45; the last one I saw offered online was priced at $375. Please share the link for this resource with others who might benefit from it.

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The United States Army and World War II : Set 1 of 7 / compiled by US Army Center of Military History.
Publ: US Army Center of Military History, February 2002 [CMH EN 0192].
CMH PIN 077559-000. Four CD-ROMs.

Disc 1:
The European Theater of Operations : The Supreme Command / by Forrest C Pogue.
The European Theater of Operations : Logistical Record of the Armies : Volume 1 : May 1941 - September 1944 / by Roland P. Ruppenthal.
The European Theater of Operations : Logistical Record of the Armies : Volume 2 : September 1944 - May 1945 / by Roland P. Ruppenthal.
The European Theater of Operations : Cross-Channel Attack / by Gordon A. Harrison.
The European Theater of Operations : Breakout and Pursuit / by Martin Blumenson.

Disc 2:
The European Theater of Operations : The Lorraine Campign / by Hugh M Cole.
The European Theater of Operations : The Siegfried Line Campaign / by Charles B MacDonald.
The European Theater of Operations : The Ardennes : Battle of the Bulge / by Hugh M Cole.
The European Theater of Operations : Riviera to the Rhine / by Jeffrey J Clark and Robert Ross Smith.

Disc 3:
The European Theater of Operations : The Last Offensive / by Charles B MacDonald.
The Middle East Theater of Operations : The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia / by T H Vail Motter.
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations : Northwest Africa : Seizing the Initiative in the West / by George F Howe.

Disc 4:
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations : Sicily and the Surrender of Italy / by Albert N Garland and Howard McGaw Smyth.
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations : Salerno to Cassino / by Martin Blumenson.
The Mediterranean Theater of Operations : Cassino to the Alps / by Ernest F Fisher Jr.

Thanks once again, look forward to more info.

No.9

Nice link and info, thanks MHN. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Great site MHN...it'll sure help with my term paper! *lol*

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Great site!!!

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