Armored Divisions

Command ship Mount Whitney - 700 sailors, 400 troops. IRAQ 82nd Airborne 3rd Infantry Division 4th Infantry Division 101st Airborne Division 173rd Airborne Brigade V Corps 1st Armored Division - 250,000 soldiers. I Marine Expeditionary Force. KUWAIT Elements of the 101st Airborne Division - about... 

M. Scheckter and a report of June 4, 1945, written by an officer of the 2nd Armored Division, about Auschwitz FranzOsisches Buro des Informationsdienstes uber Kriegsverbrechen (ed.), op. cit. (note 395), p. 184, Wolfgang Benz, (ed.), Dimension des Volkermords, Oldenbourg, Munich 1991, p. 462. 

We reviewed the Second Armored Division, Truman reports his Berlin tour in his impromptu diary, ... Gen. [J. H.] Collier, who seemed to know his stuff, put us in a reconnaissance car built with side seats and no top, just like a hoodlum wagon minus the top, or a fire truck with seats and no hose, and we drove slowly down a mile and a half of good soldiers and some millions of dollars worth of equipment— which had amply paid its way to Berlin. The destroyed city fired an uneasy burst of associations ... 

Maizieres-les-Metz fell on 30 October, and the all-out drive on the city of Metz began early in November. As at Aachen, the attack took the form of a double envelopment, each arm of which was supported by companies of the ist Battalion. In this operation Company C found itself attached to Team Cherry of the toth Armored Division, a most unusual arrangement. During the initial stages of the attachment mine fields and roadblocks kept the advance at a relatively slow pace, and the mortar company was able to assume its normal role. But as the pace quickened, the problems of the supporting unit increased.. In order to insure constant support, the two mortar platoons leapfrogged forward, one of them ready to fire while the other advanced to the next appropriate position. A liaison officer stayed with the team commander to insure prompt response to any calls for fire. This leap-... 

Rpt 183, AGF BD MTOUSA, 31 Jan 43, sub CWS. This report and Report 339, cited above, included the iwlicies for flame thrower teams promulgated by IV Corps, the 34th, 88th, and 9id Divisions, and the ist Armored Division. All differed. 

Ltr, CmlO SOS ETO to CmlO FUSAG, 3. Jun 44, tub Flame Throwert. rath Army Group Reds, 470.71—Apparatus, (a) The theater made this recommendation after the portable Eanie thrower became an item of Class IV issue. WD Cir No. ao4, ay May 44. Other support bases of issue were airborne division, 13 armored division, it Ranger battalion, 6% and engineer combat battalion, 14. 

Built upon an ideological platform of communism that emphasizes juche (self-reliance). North Korea has threatened to invade Seoul and forcefully unify the Korean peninsula. While on paper the North has numerical superiority in terms of men (and women) under arms, as well as heavily armored divisions, much of its military equipment is in poor shape. As a force-multiplier—at least in the minds of the Northern leadership—chemical weapons may offer a qualitative military edge. 

Instruction in maintenance and operation of the flame thrower was offered in infantry and armored divisions where the commanding generals showed an interest. In these divisions the chemical officers inaugurated courses of instruction for gas officers or a limited number of enlisted men from each company. Generally, the division chemical officer carried on this instruction on his own initiative, but in certain divisions the commanding officer of the engineer battalion co-operated closely with the chemical officer. ... 

All infantry and armored divisions devoted some time to smoke training... 

The use of certain non-armored cables is acceptable to API RP 14F in Division 1 areas on drilling and workover rigs where ignitible concentrations t)f gases and vapors do not occur for appreciable lengths of time. 

An armored or infantry division in the field is not at great risk of exposure to a marine toxin whose toxicity is so low that 80 tonnes is needed to produce an MCBW covering 10 km2. Most marine toxins are simply too difficult to produce in such quantities. Military leaders on today s battlefield should be concerned first about the most toxic bacterial toxins. 

A feature of the fight for San Pietro was the introduction of a self-propelled 4.2-inch mortar, designed to provide the infantry with a means of more mobile support and armored units with a weapon with a high angle of fire. Developed by Colonel Barker and the 36th Division ordnance officer, at the instigation of the latter s commander,... 

For the Kyushu operation (Olympic) over twice as many main armament flame tanks per division were to be used as had been employed on Okinawa. A tank battalion was to be attached to each assault division and Sixth Army requested sufficient main armament flame throwers to equip one company in each of these battalions. At this time the Sixth Army understood that some 600 main armament flame throwers were being manufactured in the zone of interior, but that only 40 of these would be available in time for Olympic. Therefore, the plan called for the distribution of armored flame throwers in equal lots to each tank battalion as soon as the weapons arrived in the theater. Some 56 additional main armament flame throwers of the POA model were to be obtained from Hawaii. Thus a total of 96 main armament... 

A few months earlier such proposals would have received scant attention at the General Staff level now they were seriously studied and action on them was begun immediately. Within a week OPD sought their approval by the General Staff, with the exception of the ratio proposed by General Porter of one mortar battalion per armored or infantry division. OPD recommended instead that twenty-eight chemical battalions be activated by 1944 with a maximum of fourteen by the end of 1942 and the General Staff concurred in the recommendations. ... 

The CWS in the meantime had on its hands four obsolete light tanks that it had rigged up with flame throwers for Armored Board tests. The service did not wish to abandon these tanks since they were serviceable as flame weapons. It had the turrets strengthened and shipped the tanks to Manila early in 1945. The Sixth Army attached them to the 27th Division for assault operations on Myoko Mountain, and to the 38th Infantry Division in the Ipo Dam area. They were the only main armament flame throwers produced in continental United States to see combat. ... 

---