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The loss of higher categories of soldiers to the USAAF and technical branches posed challenges to the training and readiness of US Army Ground Forces in 1942-43. In the case

The seizure of the Gilbert Islands in November 1943 is best known for the bloody storm landing conducted by the US V Amphibious Force on Tarawa Atoll from 20-23 Nov.,

When examining the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest it is key to understand not just the battle’s strategic context, but how terrain, weather, and straitened resources effected the course of

As the US 4th and 28th Infantry Divisions struggled to breach the West Wall in the second week of September 1944, V Corps’ armored element, 5th Armored Division, enjoyed a

GI’s of the 106th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division, look up at Purple Heart Ridge on Saipan, June 23, 1944.The series of connected ridges would earn its nickname in a

Ran across this today. It is a poster advertising a living history event in the Philippines from six years ago that focuses on the fighting along the Abucay-Mauban line in

With a M-1928 haversack and the older Brodie style helmet, this GI in training in 1941 looks like he belongs in a different era. What really stands out though is

One month after Grant’s last attempt to carry Vicksburg’s defenses by infantry assault, James C. Christie, 1st Minnesota Battery Light Artillery, writes home about life in the trenches as the

Col. Emory Upton’s attack on the Mule Shoe Salient at Spotsylvania on May 10,1864 was a close-run thing. The attack itself, a result of careful preparation by the youthful and

The fall of Island No. 10 on April 8, 1862, was a severe blow to Confederate fortunes on the Mississippi River. Although remembered as a largely bloodless affair, the joint

Of the estimated 8,408 US soldiers wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, one man of the 11th Indiana Infantry “Wallace’s Zouaves” left an account of his experiences after receiving a

#OTD April 7, 1862 the Battle of Shiloh ends. Late on the afternoon of April 6 the first elements of Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s Army of the Ohio join