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273rd Military Police Company; 274th Military Police Company; 275th Military Police Company; 276th Military Police Company; District of Columbia National Guard: National Guard 8th Military Police Brigade. 728th Military Police Battalion Schofield Barracks, HI . 630th Military Police Company (Bamberg, Germany) 57th Military Police Company
The 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (551st PIB) was, for many years, a little-recognized airborne forces unit of the United States Army, raised during World War II, that fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Originally commissioned to take the French Caribbean island of Martinique, they were shipped instead to Western Europe. With an initial ...
All military installations in Heidelberg were handed over to the German state by 2015 for conversion to civilian use. [4] Installations of U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg included Campbell Barracks (the former Wehrmacht Großdeutschland-Kaserne) where headquarters for several units were located until 2013, including U.S. Army, Europe (USAREUR).
The 4th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army that earned distinction while spearheading General Patton's Third Army in the European theater of World War II. The 4th Armored Division, unlike most other U.S. armored divisions during World War II, did not officially adopt a nickname for the division during the war.
0–9. 12th Engineer Battalion (United States) 15th Brigade Support Battalion (United States) 19th Engineer Battalion; 82nd Chemical Battalion; 184th AAA Battalion (United States)
Colonel (USA) and Israeli Army Major General ; lawyer; World War II civil affairs officer, parachuted into the Battle of Normandy, helped draw up the surrender terms for Italy and Germany and became part of the occupation government in Berlin; portrayed by Kirk Douglas in Cast a Giant Shadow; organized, trained, and led Israeli forces during ...
The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed. • Battle of Peleliu: A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific. • Battle of Aachen: Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during World War II. • Battle of the ...
The U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939–1945 (payment required) contains the names of many American servicemen executed by military authority overseas. These people are generally identified in the Rosters as GP (or General Prisoners) and were interred under the category of Administrative Decision .