A personal narrative is presented in which the author explores his role as an airfield operations officer of the Operation Restore Hope of 1992-1993's task force the Air Mobility Element (AME), including in surveying airfields, helping to stop a Somalia famine and facilitating military airlifts...
Cartwheel kicked off on the third week of June 1943, with assaults on the islands of Woodlark and Kiriwina (Operation Chronicle) and New Georgia (the first stage of Operation Toenails). Woodlark and Kiriwina, needed as airfield sites, were captured unopposed. The Japanese Army had about ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook air assault operation An operation in which assault forces (combat, combat support, and combat service support), using the mobilityof rotary-wing assets and the total integration of available firepower, maneuver under...
Northern group (Operation Goalpost): Battleship USS Texas, cruiser USS Savannah, six destroyers, six troopships, and two cargo ships; 9,000 men of US 60th Infantry Regiment and 65 light tanks; assigned to attack Port Lyautey and its airfield Southern group (Operation Blackstone): Battleship ...
Two minor casualties. The Marine Officer has been grazed on the leg and Yorky was struck in the stomach with a small piece of shrapnel. None serious.23.15 No ship appear to have been hit. Smoke clearing away. Two LCIs are alongside, and cannot reach their parent ship....
On 24 August John said farewell to the crew he had known for nearly 18 months and was posted as an instructor at No. 12 OTU, Chipping Campden. It was a different world to that of operations and heralded the start of a period of readjustment. After a spell at the Officer’s School,...
(Brigata Corazzato Speciale) under the command of General Valentino Babini; the ensuring combat saw the destruction of 9 Italian tanks and 7 British tanks. Heavy infantry action at the Derna airfield, Derna-Giovanni Berta area, and Wadi Derna slowed the Allied advance, but ultimately the ...
On the 18th Manstein had sent an officer from his staff, a Major Eismann, into the Stalingrad pocket to discuss Thunderclap with Paulus. In his memoirs, Manstein says that he gave the order for Thunderclap to begin on the 19th and that Paulus replied that he would need four to six days...
Finding a SEAL team conducting covert missions in Afghanistan was not easy. But during a stay at a Green Beret outpost on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Paktika province, I met a SEAL who gave a me a phone number at Bagram Airfield north of Kabul. ...
Above: Arthur "Jibby" Jibilian kneeling and holding a signaling devise (at night) to signal US airplanes to safely land on Pranjane Airfield to rescue downed American airmen. These airplanes, after landing, took the American airmen from Pranjane to Bari, Italy. ...