Sommecourt - Thank you for asking. Even though no one seemed to know anything regarding my April 29 request above, the ceremony will take place...
Here is a rough and incomplete list from my notes on Divisions (and a few lesser units) that served in the Med, but not necessarily Italy. This...
And now I'll repay by citing another of the VC brigade, Major Anders Lassen, Special Boat Service, for his action in the opening blows of the Po...
Tommy - Modest advert: my website gives equal promotion for these highest awards of both US and UK Forces in the WWII Mediterranean Campaigns:...
Nick - The very best weapon? Looking at war from a different perspective, it was the Infantryman. Without him, all you could do was go...
The most reliable source I've found for the history of Taps, as well as its legends, is M/Sgt Jari A Villanueva, USAF. Please pick up that thread...
For the above-mentioned battle memorial to be dedicated this summer, I would like to get any 'Table of Organization' or 'Order of Battle'...
Stevin - It was the 2nd New Zealand Division and Trieste. You'll find more detail at http://www.milhist.net/trieste/onemoreriver.shtml
"... we went out there with a white flag tied to a rifle and took them prisoner ..." It used to be that the would-be prisoners, not their...
Two further links are offered: <a href="http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/html/">The USAAF in WWII</a>, a chronology of all USAF...
12th and 15th Photo Recon Squadrons research from http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/html/, USAAF Chronology: MONDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER 1942...
Erich - There's relatively little detail of the 416th, 422nd, and 425th Night Fighter Squadrons for me to dredge up. But what little I see on...
Erich - I'll dig up what I can on the 416th, 422nd, 425th for you and post it over on the Med folder. Unfortunately for us, while the...
Erich - Please accept my apology if you thought my reference about 'belittling' referred to you. Your voice is one of the more lucid ones here....
I get a little bit peeved when I read of any combat unit being belittled. And I will try to take the time to see myself that the poor reputation...
I have shifted discussion - at least my part of it - about the 9th, 12th, and 15th US Air Forces in the Mediterranean to a new thread/topic:...
15th Air Force: Nov 43 - Aug 45 FRIDAY, 22 OCTOBER 1943 (Twelfth Air Force): The Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS) approve the plan, submitted by...
12th Air Force: Jan 44 - Aug 45 SATURDAY, 1 JANUARY 1944 (Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater Of Operations): A complete reorganization of...
12th Air Force: Nov 42 - Dec 43 MONDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 1942 (Twelfth Air Force): Major General James H Doolittle, Commanding General Twelfth AF,...
9th Air Force: Nov 42 - Oct 43 THURSDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 1942 (Ninth Air Force): US Army Middle East Air Force (USAMEAF) is dissolved and replaced...
