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Task Force 31 (TF 31) was a US Navy task force active with the United States Third Fleet during World War II, and still ready to be activated today with today's Third Fleet. . Task Force numbers were in constant use, and there were several incarnations of TF 31 during World War
German infantry weapons in the Askifou War Museum, Crete Lists of World War II military equipment are lists of military equipment in use during World War II (1939–1945). ). They include lists of aircraft, ships, vehicles, weapons, personal equipment, uniforms, and other equi
Consolidated OA-10 Catalina Army PBY flying boat/patrol bomber; Consolidated Vultee XP-81 fighter; Vultee XA-41 prototype ground attack aircraft; Culver PQ-8/A-8 radio-controlled target aircraft; Culver PQ-14 Cadet radio-controlled target aircraft; Curtiss A-12 Shrike attack bomber; Curtiss XA-14/Curtiss A-18 Shrike attack bomber
Task Force 4–31 deployed again to Iraq for 15 months, beginning 16 August 2006. The 809 member task force was their brigade's main effort and was given the daunting task of establishing the first permanent coalition force presence in the Sunni region south of Baghdad frequently referred to as "The Sunni Triangle of Death" . [ 10 ]
Distinctive unit insignia for U.S. Army armored groups during World War II. The group's numerical designation would be superimposed on the flag in the middle of the insignia. An Armored group was a command and control headquarters in the United States Army equivalent to the headquarters of an armored division combat command during World War II. [1]
Task Force 1-41 Infantry was a U.S. Army heavy battalion task force which took part in the Gulf War of January–March 1991. Task Force 1-41 Infantry was the first coalition force to breach the Saudi Arabian border on 15 February 1991 and conduct ground combat operations in Iraq engaging in direct and indirect fire fights with the enemy on 17 ...
[1] [2] In the immediate emergency following Pearl Harbor, the United States had hurriedly sent a task force to defend New Caledonia against a feared Japanese attack. This division was the only division formed outside of United States territory during World War II (a distinction it would repeat when reformed during the Vietnam War). [3]
The division, now commanded by Brigadier General Fred L. Walker, a Regular Army officer from Ohio and a distinguished veteran of World War I, then returned to Camp Bowie on 2 October 1941, where it was reorganized from a square division into a triangular division on 1 February 1942 and redesignated the 36th Infantry Division, just weeks after ...