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...ll too clearly the fledgling president's inexperience--Symonds traces Lincoln's steady growth as a wartime commander-in-chief. Absent a Secretary of Defense, he would eventually become de facto comman...
...ion and recognition in an historical perspective. Usually years after a war it is easier to remember the commanders of the armies and those generals that led a critical or important battle even if t...
...omes to making decisions about war and strategy. It is for a very good reason that the army is under the command of the president. it is not for no reason that the president is at least supposed to ...
...ilung (batallion) with four kompanies, each with 4 zug (platoons). Zug = 5 panzers. Kompanie = 4 Zug + 2 command tanks = 22 panzers. Abteilung = 4 kompanie + ? command tanks = ~88 panzers. Regiment ...
...ere] later determined to be connected to a gun-laying ranging radar. ...In 1943 [the British] dispatched a commando team to the French coast to capture and disassemble a Wurtzburg and bring it (and th...
...rom a distance of 16km with 48 shots, requiring a crew of 1,420, specialized railway wagons, equipment and commanded by a Generalmajor. I got to thinking how could all this exotic military technolog...
... to not report the full story to the Japanese people. In reading about the behavior of the high military command at the end of the war, I don't think they were as much worried about the continuation...
...elevance After Malvern Hill Pres. Lincoln visited with Gens. Mc Clellen & Sumner as well as Col. Nugent (Commander of the Irish Brigade.)' A Lt. James. M. Birmingham, Adjutant of the 88th N. Y. came...
... thirty-first, where the wind remained though the day. At 10:30 on the thirtieth, the Monitor's captain, Commander John P. Bankhead, U.S.N., signaled the Rhode Island that his ship was sinking. The ...
... or Japan to attack. In October, 1940, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox advised Admiral J.O. Richardson, Commander-in-Chief of the American fleet, that the President wants to establish a patrol of t...
...issance Battalion, U.S. Army Philippines Civil Affairs Units, (PCAU 1 - 30) U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Command, U.S. Army attached to 6th U.S. Army Alamo Scouts, 6th U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion...
... paper for my history class and was trying to compare Grant's prewar experiences with those of other Union commanders. Grant was unsuccessful in civilian life compare to McClellan and it contributed t...
... option? After Malvern Hill Pres. Lincoln visited with Gens. Mc Clellen & Sumner as well as Col. Nugent (Commander of the Irish Brigade.)' A Lt. James. M. Birmingham, Adjutant of the 88th N. Y. came...
.../dday06042004.html '...The Germans had diverted only 60 divisions on the Western front, while the Hitler command maintained 259 divisions and brigades on the Soviet-German front...' Are these numb...
...is hell. After Malvern Hill Pres. Lincoln visited with Gens. Mc Clellen & Sumner as well as Col. Nugent (Commander of the Irish Brigade.)' A Lt. James. M. Birmingham, Adjutant of the 88th N. Y. came...
...gs, Carl After Malvern Hill Pres. Lincoln visited with Gens. Mc Clellen & Sumner as well as Col. Nugent (Commander of the Irish Brigade.)' A Lt. James. M. Birmingham, Adjutant of the 88th N. Y. came...
...has puzzled me for a long time and how to ask it, with sense? Well, after Gettys, Grant was with Meade the commanding general of the AoP. However, always it seems when the army did anything, it was at...
...ng but hard-hitting, his divisions are decimated Chickamauga - with no local knowledge and an improvised command structure, his attack routs half the USA army Chattanooga - at odds with Bragg, he ...
...t around 1000 meters. However, the impression remains that this did not particularly worry the German tank commanders (what did worry them, I suppose, is the 800+ meters they had to travel while under...
...n misses the mark. Harsh emphasizes that his study is only concerned with information that each of the two commanders had at the moment they made their decisions. This is especially true for General L...
...e ONLY German general to have been a target, not once, of Allied assasination attempts. Most of the Allied commanders in the Western and Afrikan front had a healthy (unless you got killed) respect for...
My uncle, John Schwob, was captain and company commander of the 817th Ordinance Depot Company. He is extremely proud of his service and showed me a lot of his pictures the other night. I am looking fo
...ge. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress) 3. At the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy command was Called CINCUS (pronounced 'sink us'), the shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th In...
...cal areas, i.e, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of Tennessee. Who was responsible for naming armies? The commander in chief, or the first commanding general? Why were the designations of land and wa...
... of Northern Virginia is still divided into three infantry in OTL. Lee had believed for some time that the command structure of his army was unwieldy, and decreasing the number of troops in each corps...
command strengths in the Virginia theatre beginning in May 1864 with a few notable additions during June and July. Am I wildly wrong with any figures or missing any large contingents? Grant Meade 2,
...resources. > > Rubbish. There was a process of progressive improvement in > logistics, training, doctrine, command and equipment in the > desert army from 1940-1942 all of which played a role in the >...
...king the Bialystock salient full of troops to counter-attack an invader ASAP (also Gen Pavlovs, West Front commander), Zhukov and Timoshenko developed a scheme of deeply echeloned defence to defeat th...
...flags and torches, ...), their problems and advantages, and then I would like to write something about how commanders spoke or ordered something to their subordinates ('You will go there...', 'You hav...
... did McCellan think of Grant (do we know from any sources how Mac felt about Grant's ultimate promotion to commander, and what did he think of Grant's leadership style)? Thanks for any info on this....
...id that 42 experience cause him to decline battle in 44? Why did Spruance give him the choice instead of a command? Did Spruance fire Lee later? Carrier admirals kept getting replaced to get winners s...
...(USA). Among the prisoners held there were thirty-six generals, including Hans Jurgen von Arnim. Von Arnim commanded the Axis forces in North Africa after Rommel was recalled to Germany. The German ...
...ames Lucas ISBN:0312459408 St. Martin's Press, 1985) and wondered which Para Engineer Battalion is the one commanded by Major Witzig, the hero of Eben Emael. p.89. did a google search and came up wi...
...ble to answer from my books: what were the reasons for the appointments of the various Army of the Potomac commanders? McClellan is easy...
I was wondering whether the Soviet spy in the German High Command was ever identified. It was he who allegedly game away the plans for the attack at Kursk or is this just another myth ? Cliff Kenned
...hter. Was it the DB605 , or a newer engine ? Forthly, armament. Designed as it was during the USAAF/Bomber Command offensive, was it a 'sturm' fighter or a fighter escort ? Did it fulfil the roles of ...
...until Halsey bails us out. As such, I'd have to say that it is arguable that Fletcher was in over his head commanding American forces in the situations he was in. Maybe later in the war, but still, I ...
First, understand that Fort Donelson was commanded by a politician with negligible military ability - ex-Virginia Governor John Floyd. His 'experienced' second in command, a Mexican war veteran, was
...that people think Longstreet needs any sort of rehabilitation. seems that Longstreet was the only senior commander on the Confederate side with his stick on the ice (to use my favourite Red Greenism...
Most of the WW2 buffs are well informed about US 'odd' numbered armies and their commanders (Bradley, Hodges, Patton, Clark, Troscott, Patch and Simpson) and campaigns in ETO. What about 'even' numb
...r Hotta Masayoshi, 'Among the rulers of the world at present, there is none so noble and illustrious as to command universal vassalage, or who can make his virtuous influence felt throughout the lengt...
... 1941. The sub had spotted the japanese fleet heading for Pearl Harbour and promptly informed the Allied Command in Asia. The message, using the normal chain of Command, reached both Churchill and R...
...ot fought under Lee? How much success would Sherman, McPherson and Sheridan have had if they risen to high command under anyone other than Grant? Or would they have even risen to high command? Some of...
...1944. According to this and other accounts General Forrest must be counted as one of the most accomplished commanders and outstanding generals of the Confederacy. I have seen posts on this and other c...
...ding about the failure of Market - Garden, I keep shaking my head over the lack of urgency of some British commanders on the drive north to aid the paratroops fighting for their lives at Arnhem. Horro...
...I'd never heard of it before. The article states 'the De Lisle was used with tremendous success by British commandos during raids on Fortress Europa prior to D-Day and against Japanese forces in the o...
...re Japanese citizens subject to military service against the United States in wartime. The Western Defense Command estimated this number at approx 20,000, many of whom had parents and siblings in the ...
...to twice the American rate and two and a half the British rate.To escape criticism some staff officers and commanders blamed the fighting men for failures.(Canadians had very poor leadership but its f...
...s uncle on May 23, 1941 (quoted in his book), 'the Fuehrer selected General Rommel for the role [of German commander in North Africa] personally. The Army had suggested another general' (p. 100). So...
... 2 the exact date of the war but this is close enough for government work, especially considering that the commanders in Hawaii were mislead through press reports (their only source of information) in...
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