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China, Burma, India (also Thailand, French Indochina) China Burma India Theater ( CBI) was the United States military designation during World War II for the China and Southeast Asian or India–Burma (IBT) theaters. Operational command of Allied forces (including U.S. forces) in the CBI was officially the responsibility of the Supreme ...
The Services of Supply or "SOS" branch of the Army of the USA was created on 28 February 1942 by Executive Order Number 9082 "Reorganizing the Army and the War Department" and War Department Circular No. 59, dated 2 March 1942. Services of Supply became one of the three autonomous components of the Army of the United States on 9 March 1942. [1]
Zauberflöte ("Magic Flute") (1942) – return of damaged Prinz Eugen from Trondheim to Germany. Stonewall (1943) – Allied operation to intercept blockade runners in the Bay of Biscay. Teardrop (1945) – anti U-boat operation. Tungsten (1944) – carrier-borne air attack on Tirpitz.
American services and supply played a crucial part in the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the pursuit of the German armies from Normandy in mid-September 1944 until December 1944, when the American forces were engulfed by the German Ardennes offensive. In August 1944, the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight ...
USS LST-21 unloads railway cars in Normandy in June 1944. American logistics played a key role in the success of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northwest Europe during World War II. The campaign officially commenced on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and ended on 24 July, the day before the launch of Operation Cobra.
Red Ball Express. The Red Ball Express was a famed truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy in 1944. [1] To expedite cargo shipment to the front, trucks emblazoned with red balls followed a similarly marked route that was closed to civilian traffic.
Brad Lendon, CNN. July 8, 2024 at 4:52 AM. Philippine Coast Guard. China anchored one of its two “monster” coast guard ships inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) last week ...
Burma Campaign 1943–1944; Part of the Burma campaign, the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II: A C-47 transport aircraft drops supplies by parachute to Allied troops in action against Japanese forces; a common event during the fighting in Burma and India during 1944.