Sounds like you've been reading Robin Neilland’s ‘The battle for the Rhine 1944’. Try this instead: From "The United States Army in WWII: the...
No, Ike was never the direct commander of II Corps (or British 1st Army). His role was essentially the same as it was in Normandy, Supreme...
The answer is yes, landing craft were diverted to the Med at the expense of Overlord, but not for ANVIL/DRAGOON, rather for SHINGLE (Anzio). ANVIL...
It depends on when you considering them being moved. Landing craft were at least retained, if not moved or diverted to the Mediterranean for the...
It seems at the time the Rangers were first being organized some divisions went ahead and organized an integral divisional Ranger force...
The "funnies", core of two of the enduring myths of WWII! The main reason the US Army did not adopt the British "Funnies" is that there weren't...
I think that you are slightly off base here. As noted above the air campaign leading up to D-Day had a lot of different objectives, trying to pick...
I guess I should read all four pages of the topic before posting the same info provided two years ago! Sorry about that.
One small correction here, the 4th Armored Division at the time of the battle did not have a 37th "Armored Regiment". Lt Col Creighton Abrams...
US Chief of Staff, Gen George Marshall, very much wanted an invasion of Europe in 1943. This position was vigorously opposed by the British, who...
It was mostly trucks until the end of September, when rail traffic started to get up to speed. Rolling stock was a limitation up to mid October....
Just to be clear, there is no question that Antwerp was the major supply source for US 12th Army Group from December 1944 on. It was only in the...
Great site Andrew! I have to think though that the southern French ports probably provided supply to a lot more than US Seventh Army before...
A US Tank Battalion in 1944 had 53 x M4* "Sherman" Tanks with 75mm or 76mm guns, 17 x M5 "Stuart" light tanks with 37mm guns, 6 x M4-105 "assault"...
According to the US Army TO&E, each Rifle Company Weapons Platoon had a Light Machine Gun section with two Light Machine Gun squads, each with an...
"The 2nd Canadian Corps was directed to take over the Nijmegen sector from the 30th British Corps (of Second British Army) by 10 November."...
Dragoon didn't trap any sizable German forces, they had their own mini "Falaise Gap" at Montelimar. The Germans were able to keep the escape path...
Antwerp was opened on 26 November, and by mid December daily discharges were reaching 20,000 tons a day. In December 428,000 long tons were...
The ports of Southern France supplied between 25-40% of US supply needs in North Western Europe. The ports were capable of supplying over 500,000...
I'm not sure how relevant any of this is to the discussion, but from memory I offer the following: Although slavery was not made illeagal...
