30. This operation was the first major American operation In the Mediterranean Theater. From QuizMajor World War 2 Battles and Offensives Answer:Operation Torch You may or may not know that Operation Torch was one of the easiest offensives to succeed in through the entirety of WW2. That's ...
Investigate devastation wrought by Japan on Manchuria and China during the Great DepressionIn September 1931 the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Manchuria, and refugees fled their burning cities. From “The Second World War: Prelude to Conflict” (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educ...
The true abilities of Il-2 are difficult to determine from existing documentary evidence. W. Liss in Aircraft profile 88: Ilyushin Il-2 mentions an engagement during the Battle of Kursk on 7 July1943, in which 70 tanks from the German 9th Panzer Division were destroyed by Ilyushin Il-2 in...
large number of high-pointers produced such a demand for shipping that it precluded further movement of medical units to the Zone of Interior for inactivation. It was therefore decided to inactivate some unit in the Theater (anyway, transfers to the Pacific Theater were stopped with the announceme...
Finally, on30 June 1945, movement orders were received – the 232d Station Hospital would be relocating to the Pacific Theater of Operations. Dental examination at the 232d Station Hospital. Much of July and August was spent in processing the unit for the trip. All equipment was packed and ...
During this period, a few of the Hospital’s personnel were lost to units that were scheduled to redeploy to the Pacific Theater of Operations. These were, for the most part, those who had the lowest points. Training of Replacements was not a great problem as most of them were already tr...
Following the introduction of the RR-1 program, the Hospital was alerted for Redeployment to the Pacific Theater through the Zone of Interior with a readiness date of 2 August 1945, per Letter, File AG 370.5, OpGC, Subject: Redeployment Alert Order No. 213, Headquarters, United Kingdom Base...
A number of Nurses were redeployed during summer, they were sent to the198thand202d General Hospitalspreparatory to their transfer direct to the Pacific Theater. Some Hospitals were replaced by others, involving considerable shifting of ANC personnel with Nurses sent on DS with the various hospital...
Effective28 January 1945, the261st Amphibious Medical Battalionwas disbanded (its former parent unit, the 1st ESB was shipped from Europe to the Zone of Interior in February 1945, and re-deployed to the Pacific Theater where it took over beach supply operations on Okinawa as from 13 April 19...
Reproduction of unit sign (b/w panel) as used by the 3042d Quartermaster Graves Registration Company in the European Theater of Operations. Most of the organization’s equipment, including individual clothing and equipment, but fortunately not including the vehicles, was lost in combat during the ...