US troops of the 69th Infantry Division (left), shake hands with Russian troops on the wrecked bridge over the Elbe at Torgau, Germany. April 26, 1945. © Getty Images / Hulton Archive / Allan Jackson “The meeting on the Elbe represented a culmination of tremendous efforts by the many...
In 1944, the United States Army began testing British-built flail tanks such as the Crab and Scorpion. Mine flails like these consist of a rotating drum connected to a series of chains suspended from the front of the vehicle. The drum rotates at a high speed, causing the chains to pummel...
1st Lt. Matthew Guevara, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Platoon Leader. 2nd Lt. Erick J. Anderson † 2nd Lt. Ilario Patitanom USMC. 2nd Lt. Nicholas Acosta, 69 ID %Junior Under Officer Mohammed, Iraqi Army, received the...
WAR DEPARTMENT iENGINEER FIELD MANUAL Volume II MILITARY ENGINEERING (TENTA TI VE) PART TWO DEFENSIVE MEASURES U S.Army PlWilar HWsforv Instiljfe ENGINEER FIELD MANUAL VOLUME II MILITARY ENGINEERING (Tentative) PART TWO DEFENSIVE MEASURES PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS ...
The last Air Cavalry Troops left Vietnam in 1973. They are the last U S Army conventional COMBAT forces to leave Vietnam. And, technically speaking, since each Air Cavalry Troop had an Infantry platoon that could be employed to fight “on the ground’ you could argue that the last convent...
1925. 5pp. 0082 (i-2 Report: Organi/alion and I'se of a French Infantry Division as Taught at the Ecole Supericurc dc Guerre. June 20. 1927. 22pp. 0104 (i-2 Report: Reorgani/ation Scheme for the French Army. May 18. 1933. Ip. 0105 M.I.D. Report: Infantry Tables of Organi...
24-20 HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON 25, D. C., 19 May 1960 FIELD WIRE AND FIELD CABLE TECHNIQUES Paragraph CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION --- 1-4 2. FIELD WIRE AND FIELD CABLE --- 3. SPLICING FIELD WIRE --- 5-8 9-15 4. TYING FIELD WIRE LINES 16-26 5. WIRE-LAYING...
Buckner’s renaming produced Butler to after the majority of the troops of the Army of USA stopped of Okinawa, and the base was transferred to Marina’s Infantry.In addition, Marinade Corps Air Station Futenma (included the satellites Auxiliary Yomitan Aeródromo) and Allah Marina Enlace Kadena...
Confederate troops retook the forts and turned the guns on the Federal ships, while infantry attempted to board them. Battle of Galveston Two Confederate ships arrived, the armed tugboat Neptune and the Confederate Army cottonclad Bayou City. The two engaged with the largest of the Federal ships...