The war against Germany: Europe and adjacent areas

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

• 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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