The war against Germany: Europe and adjacent areas

by Kenneth E. Hunter; United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History

Index

• Aachen, Germany, [217], [218–19]
• Aerial bombardment. See [Bombardment, aerial].
• Air attacks
• Allied, [8], [24], [26], [33]
• briefing for, [39]
• German, [34]
• Air bases. See [Airfields].
• Aircraft, Allied, [35]
• bombers, heavy, [8], [13], [19], [26], [32], [33], [59], [202], [399]
• bombers, light, [104], [116]
• bombers, medium, [76], [203]
• burning, [26]
• damaged, [399]
• fighters, [9], [48], [49], [59], [105], [338], [399]
• gliders, [29], [94], [95], [214], [390], [391], [393]
• identification of, [76], [95]
• liaison planes, [42], [248], [294]
• naval, [24]
• on fire, [105]
• transport planes, [94], [214], [345], [404], [435]
• wrecked, [393]
• Aircraft, German, [400]
• Airfields
• construction of, [18], [105]
• France, [391]
• Germany, [404]
• “Alligators,” [22].
• See also [Landing craft].
• Ambulances, [317]
• converted jeep, [204]
• American Red Cross, [25]
• Ammunition
• .30-caliber, [160]
• .50-caliber, [338]
• 240-mm. howitzer shells, [316]
• German, [263]
• mortar shells, [182], [245], [310]
• Ammunition dump, [160]
• Amphibian trucks, DUKW’s, [68], [257]
• Amphibious landings. See [Landing operations].
• Andernach, Germany, [350]
• Antiaircraft guns
• 40-mm., [60]
• 90-mm., [61], [102], [243]
• German, [343], [366]
• Antitank guns
• 3-inch, [102]
• 57-mm., [151], [217]
• British, [6], [115]
• damaged, [154]
• German, [154], [168], [348], [397]
• Ardennes Forest, [269], [270], [284]
• Argentan, France, [177]
• Armored vehicles, [198], [200].
• See also [Vehicles].
• German, [350]
• Army Post Office, England, [41]
• Artificial harbor, Omaha Beach, [118]
• Artillery
• 8-inch guns, [192], [206], [371]
• 8-inch howitzer, [192]
• 75-mm. howitzer (pack), [292]
• 105-mm. howitzers, [23], [42], [43], [114], [186], [232], [250], [327], [363]
• 155-mm. guns, [42], [43], [193], [299]
• 155-mm. howitzers, [103], [125], [270], [293]
• 240-mm. howitzer, [186]
• German, [366]
• mortars. See [Mortars].
• observation planes, [42], [248], [294]
• Artillery barrage, [364]
• Assault boats, [7], [428].
• See also [Landing craft].
• Assault guns, German, [215], [397]
• Autobahn, [384]
• Avranches, France, [156], [158–59]
• Azimuth instrument, [353]

• Bailey bridges, [193], [369]
• Ball-bearing factory, on fire, [31]
• Bangalore torpedo, [28]
• Barbed wire, [28], [110], [191], [207], [278], [302]
• Barrage balloons, [77], [92], [97], [107], [123]
• Bastogne, Belgium, [280–81], [308]
• “Bazookas,” [53], [185].
• See also [Rocket launchers].
• Beaches
• British sector, [76]
• Omaha, [78–79], [80], [81], [82], [84], [106], [118], [119]
• Utah, [86–87], [88], [89], [97]
• Belfast, Northern Ireland, [3], [4]
• Beurig, Germany, [330–31]
• Big Ben, V-E night, [436]
• Bingen, Germany, [364]
• Bitche, France, [372], [318–19]
• Bivouac area, [288]
• Bois du Mont du Roc, France, [126]
• Bomb, robot, [35]
• Bomb damage, [139], [151], [154], [156], [217], [344].
• See also [War damage].
• fortifications, [127]
• France, [125], [178]
• Germany, [339], [340], [354]
• railroad bridge, [98]
• Bomb strike, Schweinfurt, Germany, [30]
• Bombardment. See also [Air attacks].
• aerial, [8], [31], [33], [116], [202]
• artillery, [333]
• Bombers
• heavy, B-17, [8], [13], [19], [32], [33], [59], [202]
• heavy, B-24, [8], [26], [32], [399]
• light, A-20, [104], [116]
• medium, B-26, [76], [203]
• Bombs, 1,000-pound, [21]
• Boppard, Germany, [382]
• Breisach, Germany, [333]
• Bremen, Germany, [33]
• Bremen harbor, Germany, [421]
• Brest, France, [188–89], [207]
• Bridges
• Bailey, [193], [369]
• damaged, [98], [355], [356], [402]
• footbridges, [369], [417]
• ponton, construction of, [60]
• ponton, heavy, [387]
• railroad, [401]
• treadway, [161], [208], [240], [340], [357], [382]
• British troops, [4]
• Broderkons Berg, Germany, [358–59]
• Bulldozers, [129], [161].
• See also [Tractors].

• Cameras
• moving picture, [349]
• still picture, [349]
• Camouflage, [103], [125], [314]
• 8-inch gun, [305]
• antiaircraft gun, [61]
• armored car, [285]
• German, [91], [117], [124]
• gun motor carriage, [285]
• helmet, [108]
• howitzer, [277]
• suits, [151]
• tanks, [150], [204]
• Canals
• Rhône-Rhine, France, [334–35]
• Vauban, France, [334–35]
• Vire-Taute, France, [112–13]
• Widensohlen, France, [334–35]
• Carbine M1, [184].
• See also [Small arms].
• Carentan, France, [112–13], [114], [115]
• Cargo planes. See [Transport planes].
• Casualties, [83], [84], [108]
• evacuation of, [138], [204], [253]
• German, [409]
• Causeway, floating, [119]
• damaged, [120]
• Celebration, V-E Day, [433]
• Champs Elysées, [191]
• Cherbourg, France, [128], [129], [130–31]
• enemy fortifications, [127]
• Civilians
• French, [191]
• German, [396], [401], [405], [414], [432]
• Clothing
• camouflaged, [151], [265], [284]
• decontamination suits, [11]
• German, [265]
• paratroop, [16]
• pilot, [12]
• repair of, [307]
• shoepacs, [283]
• winter, [11], [284], [292]
• Colmar, France, [332]
• Cologne, Germany, [354]
• Communications, [40], [166]
• equipment, [56]
• hand generator GN 45, [85]
• repair of, [375], [405]
• SCR 284, [85]
• SCR 536, [85], [352]
• short wave aerial kite, [27]
• switchboard BD71, [175]
• telephone lines, repair of, [303]
• Construction
• airfields, [18], [105]
• bridges, [369], [381]
• pipeline, [196]
• ponton bridge, [60]
• Convoy, motor, [155], [170], [308], [317], [357], [394], [424]
• Crane, truck-mounted, [161]
• Cub plane, [42]

• Dachau, Germany, [429]
• Danube River, [417]
• Debarkation of troops, Northern Ireland, [3]
• Depot
• Engineer, [44]
• Ordnance, [20], [22], [43]
• Distribution point, gasoline, [255]
• Domfront, France, [178]
• Dreux, France, [168]
• Duesseldorf, Germany, [401]
• DUKW’s, [68], [97]

• Enclosure, prisoner of war, [408]
• Evacuation
• of casualties, [138], [204], [361]
• of pilots, [96]
• Exercise fabius, [66], [67].
• See also [Training].

• Falaise, France, [176]
• Ferry, Rhino, [122]
• Fighter planes
• P-38, [9]
• P-47, [9], [59], [338]
• P-47, damaged, [399]
• P-47, on fire, [105]
• P-51, [9], [48], [49]
• British, [35]
• German, [400]
• Fire fighters, British, [34]
• First aid. See [Medical operations].
• Flak, [8], [202]
• Flooded area, [229], [248]
• Footbridges, [369], [417]
• Fort de Queuleu, France, [226–27]
• Fort du Roule, France, [130–31]
• Fort Saint Julien, France, [226–27]
• Fort Sebastian, France, [318–19]
• Fortifications, [216], [347]
• dragon’s teeth, [373]
• German, [91], [315], [332]
• German, damaged, [127]
• Foxholes, [142], [228], [328]
• Frankfurt, Germany, [384], [385]
• French Forces of the Interior, [190]
• Fuel tank, [48]

• Gas masks, wearing of, [4], [11]
• Glider pilots, evacuation of, [96]
• Gliders, [29], [94], [95], [214], [390], [391]
• British, [29], [94]
• wrecked, [94], [393]
• Gun crews
• antiaircraft, [102]
• naval, [77]
• Gun motor carriages, [200], [225], [233], [234], [285], [344], [374]
• Guns
• 8-inch, [192], [206], [304], [305], [371]
• 155-mm., [193], [299]
• antiaircraft, 90-mm., [102]
• antitank, 3-inch, [102]
• antitank, British, [115]
• German, [91], [124], [221]

• Half-tracks, [65], [217], [253], [414]
• on fire, [264]
• Hand grenades, [6], [142], [274]
• Harbors
• artificial, [118], [120]
• Antwerp, [256]
• Bremen, [421]
• Brest, [188–89]
• Cherbourg, [130–31], [132], [172]
• damaged, [120]
• Saint-Malo, [180–81]
• Saint-Nazaire, [422]
• Headquarters, ETO, London, [45]
• Hedgerow cutter, [133]
• Hedgerows, [134], [144], [149], [150], [165]
• Helmets, [163]
• camouflaged, [108]
• World War I, [4], [6]
• World War II, [16]
• Hill,
• Germany, [358–59]
• Hospitals
• England, [50]
• evacuation, [109]
• Howitzers. See also [Artillery].
• 105-mm., [114], [232], [250], [327], [363]
• 155-mm., [103], [125], [270], [293]
• Howitzer motor carriages, [23], [251], [277], [370]
• Huertgen Forest, Germany, [234], [235], [241]

• Infantrymen, [128], [129], [144], [152], [162], [163], [165], [179], [182], [187], [201], [205], [228], [238], [269], [274], [282], [376]
• aboard ship, [92]
• column of, [81], [89], [97], [167], [216], [249], [312], [372]
• German, [197], [263], [264], [265]
• in glider, [29]
• wounded, [197]
• Invasion. See [Landing operations].
• Invasion beaches. See [Beaches].
• Invasion operations, [96]
• Invasion preparations, [70], [75].
• See also [Training].

• Jeeps, [29], [244], [326]
• with wire cutter, [143]
• Juelich, Germany, [336–37]

• Kommerscheidt, Germany, [236–37]

• Landing craft
• assault boat, [7], [428]
• converted to rocket launcher, [63]
• LBK, [77]
• LBV, [77]
• LCI, [64], [92]
• LCR, [82]
• LCT, [55], [64], [65], [77], [81], [96]
• LGVP, [66], [69], [70], [80], [81], [380], [381]
• LST, [55], [70], [121]
• LST, deck loaded, [67]
• LVT, [22]
• Landing operations, [76], [78–79], [80], [81], [86–87], [88].
• See also [Beaches].
• Liaison plane, [42]
• equipped with skis, [294]
• Life preservers, [7], [12], [82]
• Life raft, [27]
• Living conditions, [228], [288], [322], [363]
• London, [34], [45]
• Lousberg, Germany, [218–19]
• Ludendorf Bridge, [355], [356]
• Lunéville, France, [221]

• Machine guns
• .30-caliber Browning, [11], [134], [179], [217]
• .45-caliber, [6]
• .50-caliber Browning, [389]
• .50-caliber Browning, aircraft, [13]
• German, [52]
• Magdeburg, Germany, [411], [412]
• Mail call, [152]
• Main River, Germany, [30], [385]
• Maneuvers, [29], [47], [64].
• See also [Training].
• Manhay, Belgium, [296–97]
• Map making equipment, [36], [37]
• Maps
• Central Europe, [378]
• Normandy, [72]
• Northern France, [146]
• Rhineland, [210], [324]
• Marshalling area, England, [69]
• Masks
• gas, [11]
• oxygen, [12]
• Medical aid, administering of, [19], [83], [108]
• Medical aid men, [19], [83], [108], [138], [197], [204], [253], [309], [360]
• Medical operations, [309], [360]
• immunization, [252]
• surgery, [109]
• Mess, [129], [238], [288], [295], [347]
• Metz, France, [224], [226–27]
• Military police, [171], [357]
• Mine detectors, [88], [93], [375]
• Mine exploder, [240]
• Mine field, German, [93]
• Mines
• antipersonnel, [93]
• antitank, [279]
• Montebourg, France, [125]
• Mortars
• 60-mm., [6], [53], [183]
• 81-mm., [6], [65], [182], [310]
• chemical, 4.2-inch, [245]
• Moselle River, [201], [204], [208], [220], [226–27], [244], [364]
• Motor carriages
• gun, [46], [64], [103], [135], [185], [194], [199], [207], [233], [234], [285], [344], [374], [412]
• howitzer, [150], [169], [199], [251], [277], [370]
• Mud, [213], [222], [231], [234], [345]
• Muenchen-Gladbach, Germany, [341]

• Neckar River, [402]
• Negro troops, [10], [103], [107]
• Neuf Brisach, France, [334–35]
• Niederleuken, Germany, [330–31]
• Night firing, [316]
• Nuernberg, Germany, [416]

• Observation posts, [166], [353], [362]
• Obstacle, tank, [216], [373]
• Officer Candidates School, [11]
• Omaha Beach, [78–79], [118]
• Optical equipment, repair of, [14]
• Our River, [346]
• Oxygen mask, [12]
• Oxygen tank, [13]

• Pack howitzer, [292].
• See also [Artillery].
• Parachute jump suit, [16], [75]
• Parachutes, [58]
• Parade, Paris, [191]
• Paratroopers, [58], [306]
• Paris, [190]
• Pillbox, German, [332]
• Pipeline, gasoline, [132], [196], [254]
• Pistol, automatic, .45-caliber, [6]
• Plasma, administrating of, [19], [83]
• “Priest,” [23]
• Prisoners of war
• Allied, [268], [435]
• German, [84], [110], [128], [153], [239], [276], [300], [346], [383], [384], [386], [389], [408], [425], [429]
• Propaganda leaflets, German, [152]
• Pruem, Germany, [344]

• Queen Elizabeth, [25]
• Quonset huts, [50]

• Railroad
• bridge, [98], [401]
• destroyed, [173]
• equipment, [44], [54], [172], [173]
• French, [173]
• yards, [218–19], [405]
• Railroads
• Belgium, [256], [258]
• damaged, [339]
• France, [99], [112–13], [226–27]
• Germany, [339]
• Recreation, [184]
• Red Ball Highway, [170], [171].
• See also [Roads].
• Remagen Bridge, Germany, [355], [356]
• Repair shop, Ordnance, [14]
• Rescue launch, British, [27]
• Rescue operations, [82]
• Rheine, Germany, [339]
• Rhine River, [354], [356], [357], [380], [381], [382], [387]
• Rhino ferry, [122]
• Rhône-Rhine Canal, [334–35]
• Rifles. See also [Small arms].
• .30-caliber M1, [6], [7], [29], [144], [162]
• .30-caliber M1903, [6]
• .30-caliber M1903A3, [29]
• .30-caliber M1918A2, [6], [29]
• .30-caliber M1919A4, [6]
• M1 with rifle grenade, [271]
• German, [52]
• River crossings, [201], [244], [346], [364], [369], [380], [381], [387], [402], [409], [427]
• Rivers
• France, [98], [140–41], [161], [201], [204], [208], [220], [226–27], [244]
• Germany, [30], [330–31], [336–37], [340], [354], [356], [357], [364], [380], [381], [382], [385], [387], [402], [411], [417]
• Luxembourg, [346]
• Road signs, [286], [424]
• Roads
• Ardennes, [266–67], [271]
• Austria, [424], [426], [427]
• Belgium, [198], [280–81], [296–97], [312]
• France, [78–79], [86–87], [126], [136], [138], [150], [155], [157], [158–59], [167], [170], [185], [195], [226–27], [229], [247], [320]
• Germany, [216], [234], [235], [236–37], [264], [394], [398], [425]
• Rocket launcher site, German, [117]
• Rocket launchers. See also [Small arms].
• 2.36-inch, [29], [53], [185], [306]
• 4.5-inch, [241], [403]
• German, [174]
• Rocket projector, German, [343]
• Roer River, [336–37], [340]

• Saale River, [411]
• Saare River, [330–31]
• Saarrbourg, Germany, [330–31]
• Saint-Lô, France, [139], [140–41]
• Saint-Malo, France, [179], [180–81]
• Saint-Nazaire harbor, France, [422]
• Schweinfurt, Germany, [30], [31]
• Seatrain, [172]
• Seine River, [98]
• Serrig, Germany, [362]
• Shell fire, German, [90]
• Small arms, [6], [29]
• carbine, [184]
• German, [52]
• machine guns, [134], [179], [217], [291]
• rifles, [162], [271]
• rocket launcher, 2.36-inch, [53]
• Thompson submachine gun, [75]
• Smoke screens, [68], [242]
• Street fighting, [205], [217], [224], [407]
• Cherbourg, [128]
• Submachine guns, .45-caliber, [29], [75].
• See also [Small arms].
• Submarine pens, German, [422]
• Submarines, German, [421]
• bombing of, [24]
• Supply operations, [122], [132], [170], [171], [256], [257], [258], [308], [404]
• aerial, [95], [345]
• German, [99]
• Normandy, [123]
• Utah Beach, [97]

• Tank destroyer, [412]
• Tanks
• damaged, [136], [137]
• French, [157]
• German, [136], [137], [268], [301]
• light, [47], [133], [150], [247], [289], [314], [367]
• medium, [15], [22], [47], [62], [137], [149], [156], [160], [164], [168], [195], [204], [221], [230], [231], [233], [244], [307], [332], [342], [351], [367], [388], [398], [403], [414], [419], [423]
• on fire, [351]
• waterproofed, [62], [388]
• with hedgerow cutter, [133], [149]
• with rocket launcher, [403]
• with track extensions, [230], [231]
• Tanks, containers
• fuel, [48]
• oxygen, [13]
• water, [50]
• 10 Downing Street, London, [45]
• Tents, [50], [109]
• Terrain
• Ardennes, [266–67]
• Austria, [426], [430], [431]
• Belgium, [280–81], [296–97]
• England, [35]
• flooded, [229]
• France, [78–79], [86–87], [95], [98], [100–101], [126], [140–41], [158–59], [176], [177], [220], [226–27], [318–19], [330–31], [334–35]
• Germany, [236–37], [336–37], [358–59], [362], [373], [409]
• Thanksgiving Day dinner, [228]
• The Stars and Stripes, V-E edition, [433]
• Tractors
• diesel, [161]
• high-speed, 18-ton M4, [192]
• Train, German, wrecked, [99]
• Training
• England, [6], [23], [28], [29], [42], [46], [53], [58], [60], [65], [66], [68], [69]
• Northern Ireland, [5], [17], [52]
• Officer Candidate School, [11]
• Scotland, [7]
• Transport planes, C-47, [94], [345], [404], [435]
• Transport ship, British, [25]
• Treadway bridges, [208], [240], [340], [357], [382]
• construction of, [161]
• Trench, [251]
• Trévières, France, [100–101]
• Troops. See also [Infantrymen].
• German, [420]
• Russian, [418]
• 20 Grosvenor Square, London, [45]

• Utah Beach, [86–87], [88]

• Vauban Canal, France, [334–35]
• V-bomb, German, [400]
• Vehicles
• ambulances, [19], [109], [317], [326]
• amphibian trucks, [68], [97], [123]
• armored car, [156], [157], [198], [200], [285]
• bulldozers, [44], [129], [161]
• burning, [407]
• cargo carrier, [253]
• damaged, [395]
• French, [190]
• German, [115], [195], [420], [426]
• gun motor carriages, [46], [103], [135], [185], [200], [207], [225]
• half-tracks, [46], [65], [217], [414]
• horse-drawn, [420], [426]
• howitzer motor carriages, [150], [169], [199]
• jeeps, [29], [326]
• on fire, [195]
• semitrailer, [258], [404]
• tank recovery, [65], [216]
• tractor, [20], [21], [44], [192]
• trailer, [170]
• trucks, [18], [121], [123], [170]
• weapons carrier, [122]
• Vire River, France, [161]
• Vire-Taute Canal, France, [112–13]

• Waldenburg, Germany, [415]
• War damage, [129], [155], [364], [385], [389], [411], [412], [415], [416]
• Water tanks, [50]
• “Weasel,” [253]
• Weather conditions, [5], [228], [229], [249], [250], [253], [255], [266–67], [288], [295], [320], [326], [430]
• Weather forecasting equipment, [38]
• Widensohlen Canal, France, [334–35]
• Women
• American Red Cross, [25]
• Army Auxiliary Corps, [25]
• Army Corps, [40]
• Army nurse, [51]
• Wuerzburg, Germany, [413]

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