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	Operation Avalanche (World War II) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Avalanche was the codename for the landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy.
		The Italians withdrew from the war the day before the invasion, but the Allies landed in an area defended by German troops.
		Simultaneous sea landings were made by the British 1st Airborne Division at the port of Taranto (Operation Slapstick).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Avalanche_(World_War_II) (506 words)

	Naples_Foggia
		World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind.
		While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose.
		World War II was waged on land, on sea, and in the air over several diverse theaters of operation for approximately six years.
	www.488thportbattalion.org /Naples_Foggia.html (8973 words)

	Second World War Books: Books by Subject
		Operation Alacrity: The Azores and the War in The Atlantic.
		Operation Autonomous: With the SOE in Wartime Romania.
		Operational Situation Of The Japanese Navy In The Philippines Invasion Operations, December 1941.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/bib/bookto.shtml (2869 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		The U.S. armed forces had their first large-scale experience with aeromedical evacuation during World War II, in which 672,000 Americans were wounded—almost four times the number in World War I. Because incapacitating wounds or illnesses frequently occurred in areas remote from modern medical facilities, providing care to soldiers and airmen often required aeromedical evacuation.
		When the war ended in September 1945, it was clear that air evacuation, despite its early problems, was at least as safe as ground and sea evacuation.
		Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the European Theater of Operations, thought that air evacuation was as important as other World War II medical innovations—sulfa drugs, penicillin, blood plasma, and whole blood—in reducing the fatality rate of battle casualties.
	www.usaaf.net /ww2/medical/mspg5.htm (1544 words)

	European Theatre, WWII: Catalogue by Back Creek Books
		France's compromises with the Nazi's in World War II and French complicity in the Holocaust.
		The first 10 issues of this World War II magazine which was bent on making sure Germany would be made to pay for its war crimes after the war and was taught a stern enough lesson that it wouldn’t be able to incite yet another world war in 20 more years.
		History of the American military presence in England during World War II, memorials erected in England in their honor, and the memorial American Chapel constructed at St. Paul's Cathedral in the early 1950s.
	www.backcreekbooks.com /catalogs/ww2eto.php (2803 words)

	The 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) during World War II
		The largest combined military operation in history,"D-Day", was to be spearheaded by the 82d and 101st Airborne Divisions.
		The airborne phase of the operation consisted of capturing five bridges ahead of the armored force.
		Operation Market Garden, the 505th made its fourth jump at Groesbeck, Holland, the largest airborne assault in history.
	www.ww2-airborne.us /units/505/505.html (2133 words)

	Naples-Foggia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Operation HUSKY and their commitment to drive Italy from the war.
		The operation lacked adequate amphibious shipping, and the forces landed at Salerno were insufficient to hold the extensive beachhead.
		Notwithstanding the Rapido incident and subsequent operations, a secure Mediterranean, excellent bases from which to wage the air war against the Germans, the engagement of at least twenty-three German divisions, and Italy's change in status to an Allied cobelligerent shortened the war and contributed significantly to the defeat of Germany.
	www.army.mil /Cmh-Pg/brochures/naples/72-17.htm (8923 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AMCNS) -- Ruth Brooks, widow of World War II veteran Jess Brooks, speaks to a crowd of friends, family, and members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Association, after accepting the Bronze Star Medal on behalf of her late husband.
		He fought in the North African and European theaters during World War II, in operations such as Operation Torch, Operation Husky and Operation Avalanche.
		The last combat mission for Jess Brooks was Operation Avalanche, the invasion of Italy at Salerno.
	public.amc.af.mil /news/2004/September/040910.html (673 words)

	36th Inf - History During The Second World War
		D-Day for Operation Avalanche, the invasion of Italy, was September 9, 1943.
		It was at this time War Correspondent Ernie Pyle wrote his famous dispatch "Capt. Waskow." On December 30, 1943 the unit once again moved into reserve.
		Operation Anvil, the invasion of Southern France, began on August 15, 1944 with the 36th landing in the Raphael-Frejus area.
	www.ghg.net /burtond/36th/36infhist.html (1609 words)

	Battles of Salerno and Cassino (from World War II) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by...
		The war began in Europe in 1939, but by its end in 1945 it had involved nearly every part of the world.
		Details the history of World War II in the Asia-Pacific region, and examines the role of the U.S. Army in the conflict.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-210444?tocId=210444 (1018 words)

	Samuel Eliot Morison / History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 9
		Packed with vivid firsthand observations, this multivolume account of naval activities during World War II applies a seaman's eye to the techniques of a professional historian.
		Morison's history is generously illustrated with maps, charts, and many candid photographs that intensify the reader's sense of being in the middle of the action.
		Volume 9: Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, January 1943-June 1944 covers the period of the opening of the second front in the Mediterranean, focusing on three major amphibious operations: the march from North Africa to Sicily (Operation Husky), the campaigns at Salerno and Naples (Operation Avalanche), and the action at Anzio (Operation Shingle).
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s02/morison9.html (310 words)

	The United States PSYOP Organization in Europe During World War II
		As the war progressed, OSS became the de facto owner of fl propaganda and OWI of white, and this arrangement was formalized by an agreement between Donovan and Davis in June 1944.
		Operation Torch, which began 8 November 1942, was the first combined Allied military operation of the war.
		Cornflakes operations through March 1945 are described in an official report "The story of Cornflakes, Pig Iron, and Sheet Iron," prepared in April 1945 by the Morale Operations Unit of the Rome OSS.
	www.psywarrior.com /PSYOPOrgWW2.html (11272 words)

	WWII Jan/Feb 2005 Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In World War II the Royal Navy Commandos spearheaded British amphibious assaults in Europe and Asia.
		World War II saw its share of absurd weapons, but few failures were as visually spectacular as the Great Panjandrum.
		During the first hours of Operation Avalanche, the survival of the American beachhead at Salerno depended on the ability of the men of the Navy’s 4th Beach Battalion to bring order to the chaotic, fire-swept beaches.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/contents_01_05 (401 words)

	Military History Online
		As American capabilities and experience grew during World War II amphibious assaults evolved from the close run, shoestring operation at Guadalcanal (1) into the incredibly complex and massive invasions of Normandy and Okinawa involving thousands of ships, planes and men and vast supply chains.
		Typical of operations in the Third Reich part of the work was undertaken by Organization Todt, part by the Army, part by the Air Force and part by the Navy with no coordination of effort.
		During World War II German strategy went from a mobile defense, nearly succeeding at Gela and Salerno, to a defense at the waters edge at Normandy necessitated by the declining power of the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/articles/AmphibiousAssaults.aspx (7554 words)

	Index of Code Names
		ABDA World War II acronym for the 1942 cooperative American-British-Dutch-Australian defense of the Pacific and Indian Ocean theater
		DOVETAIL World War II rehearsal in Fiji of the operation to capture Guadalcanal and a lodgement in the southern Solomon Islands (a sub-task of PESTILENCE)
		HUDDLE World War II operation to occupy Ndeni (a sub-task of PESTILENCE)
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/reference/code.htm (6447 words)

	The U.S. Coast Guard At War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		World War I: History of USCGC Tampa, including convoy operations and her loss in action in 1918
		Chief Allen served during World War II and retired from active duty in 1965.
		The oral history of World War II Coast Guard veteran Marvin Perrett, who was a coxswain of a landing craft assigned to the USS Bayfield; he participated in the invasions of Normandy (D-Day!), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/h_militaryindex.html (1870 words)

	Luftwaffe Standoff Weapons. HMT Rohna is sunk in convoy. USS Savannah survives mighty blast.
		Both of the Luftwaffe standoff weapons were equipped with a bright colored flare so that the control operator in the mother plane could correct the trajectory.
		The control operator in the mother plane gave his weapon a "down elevator" signal just a moment too late and it exploded in the water just yards beyond the targeted LST.
		Facing no defensive night fighters, and night fighters were in their infancy in 1943, the mother plane with the guided glide bomb would hide in the dark side of sunset and use the bright side as illumination for prey.
	www.daileyint.com /wwii/picwar9.htm (667 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The subject of World War II has been an interest to me all my life.
		He has taught me so much, and I have used what he has taught me about World War II, to get information from the government on this era in time.
		Selected Readings Preperatory to Discussions of Operation Overlord and D-Day, 6 June 1944: The Plan - Document was requested from the Department of the Army.
	www.blackvault.com /wwii (306 words)

	eHistory.com - Glossary
		Below is a glossary of World War II terms.
		Built by Mitsubishi, it was the most famous Japanese aircraft of the War.
		Used extensively in the Pacific late in the War.
	ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/glossary.cfm (617 words)

	Salerno - TheBestLinks.com - History, Italy, Rome, University, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Salerno, History, Italy, Rome, University, World War II, 1943, Campania, Amalfi...
		The main town of the "Costiera Amalfitana" (the part of coast on the Tyrrhenian sea which includes famous towns like Amalfi, Positano, etc.), it is mostly known in history having hosted the king of Italy, who escaped from Rome in 1943 after Italy nogitiated a peace with the Allies in World War II.
		Some of the Allied landings during Operation Avalanche (the invasion of Italy) occurred near Salerno.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Salerno.html (257 words)

	Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Avalanche, Baytown, Slapstick, operation, Abdiel, Spartan, Janus, HMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The final plan is approved in mid-May and not much more than a month later the first US troop convoys are heading across the Atlantic for an operation even greater than the French North African landings the previous November.
		On the 25th Mussolini is arrested and stripped of all his powers.
		Marshal Badoglio forms a new government, which immediately and in secret seeks ways to end the war.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsSicilySalerno.htm (1395 words)

	Web-Grognards: wargames by period/subject
		World War II: the Struggle for Europe and Asia
		War in the Desert (GR/D) War in the East (SPI)
		World War II in the West (Eric Grenier)
	grognard.com /sub13.html (931 words)

	NATIONAL SECURITY & MILITARY PREPAREDNESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		The Coast Guard and the North Atlantic Campaign in World War II The Coast Guard and the European Theatre:
		The USCGC Tampa is sunk with all hands during World War I. [Historians' Office Home Page]
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/gifs/h_militaryindex.html (690 words)

	WWII CODES
		Here are some of the code names used during the war.
		Allied deception plan to convince Germans that D-Day landings would occur on Calais.
		Allied destruction of Japanese ships that survived the war (Feb 1946)
	www.angelfire.com /mi2/angela764/military/ww2_codenames.html (325 words)

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