The Second Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt.
The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino,was a series of four military assaults made by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The objective was to break through the Winter Line and facilitate an advance towards Rome.
The Mormon Battalion was the only religious unit in United States military history in federal service,recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation. The volunteers served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 and 559 Latter-day Saint men,led by Mormon company officers commanded by regular U.S. Army officers. During its service,the battalion made a grueling march of nearly 2,100 miles from Council Bluffs,Iowa,to San Diego,California.
First Army is the oldest and longest-established field army of the United States Army. It served as a theater army,having seen service in both World War I and World War II,and supplied the US army with soldiers and equipment during the Korean War and the Vietnam war under some of the most famous and distinguished officers of the U.S. Army. It now serves as a mobilization,readiness and training command.
John Williams Gunnison was an American military officer and explorer.
The 8th Infantry Division,("Pathfinder") was an infantry division of the United States Army during the 20th century. The division served in World War I,World War II,and Operation Desert Storm. Initially activated in January 1918,the unit did not see combat during World War I and returned to the United States. Some units would serve in the American Expeditionary Force to Siberia. Activated again on 1 July 1940 as part of the build-up of military forces prior to the United States' entry into World War II,the division saw extensive action in the European Theatre of Operations. Following World War II,the division was moved to West Germany,where it remained stationed at the Rose Barracks in Bad Kreuznach until it was inactivated on 17 January 1992.
5th Panzer Army was the name of two different German armoured formations during World War II. The first of these was formed in 1942,during the North African campaign and surrendered to the Allies at Tunis in 1943. The army was re-formed in France in 1944,fought in Western Europe and surrendered in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.
Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay on the Pacific Ocean coast in California,which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action. Most of the fort's land now makes up the Fort Ord National Monument,managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Conservation Lands,while a small portion remains an active military installation under Army control designated as the Ord Military Community.
Much of the focus of the discussion about Nazi gold concerns how much of it Nazi Germany transferred to overseas banks during World War II. The Nazis looted the assets of its victims to accumulate wealth. In 1998,a Swiss commission estimated that the Swiss National Bank held $440 million of Nazi gold,over half of which is believed to have been looted.
The Monuments,Fine Arts,and Archives program (MFAA) under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. The group of approximately 400 service members and civilians worked with military forces to safeguard historic and cultural monuments from war damage,and as the conflict came to a close,to find and return works of art and other items of cultural importance that had been stolen by the Nazis or hidden for safekeeping. Some of them are portrayed and honored in the 2014 film The Monuments Men.
Merkers-Kieselbach is a former municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia,Germany. Since 31 December 2013,it is part of the municipality Krayenberggemeinde.
The 382d Bombardment Group is a former United States Army Air Forces unit. It was last stationed at Camp Anza,California,where it was inactivated on 4 January 1946. The group was active from 1942 to 1944 as a heavy bomber training unit. It was reorganized as a very heavy bomber unit and trained for deployment overseas. However,it arrived at its overseas station too late to see combat,and returned to the United States,where it was inactivated.
The Battle of El Agheila was a brief engagement of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. It took place in December 1942 between Allied forces of the Eighth Army and the Axis forces of the German-Italian Panzer Army,during the long Axis withdrawal from El Alamein to Tunis. It ended with the German-Italian Panzer Army resuming its retreat towards Tunisia,where the Tunisia Campaign had begun with Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942).
The Battle of Mersa Matruh was fought from 26 to 29 June 1942,following the defeat of the Eighth Army at the Battle of Gazala and was part of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle was fought with the German–Italian Panzer Army Afrika (Panzerarmee Afrika. The Eighth Army comprised X Corps and XIII Corps.
The Utah Territory during the American Civil War was far from the main operational theaters of war,but still played a role in the disposition of the United States Army,drawing manpower away from the volunteer forces and providing its share of administrative headaches for the Lincoln Administration. Although no battles were fought in the territory,the withdrawal of Union forces at the beginning of the war allowed the Native American tribes to start raiding the trails passing through Utah. As a result,units from California and Utah were assigned to protect against these raids. Mineral deposits found in Utah by California soldiers encouraged the immigration of non-Mormon settlers into Utah.
Mining in the United States has been active since the beginning of colonial times,but became a major industry in the 19th century with a number of new mineral discoveries causing a series of mining rushes. In 2015,the value of coal,metals,and industrial minerals mined in the United States was US $109.6 billion. 158,000 workers were directly employed by the mining industry.
Keswick Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sacramento River about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Redding,California. Part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project,the dam is 157 feet (48 m) high and impounds the Keswick Reservoir,which has a capacity of 23,800 acre⋅ft (29,400,000 m3). The dam's power plant has three turbines with a generating capacity of 117 megawatts (MW),which,in 1992,was uprated from its original 75 MW. The dam and reservoir serve as an afterbay to regulate peaking power releases from the Shasta Dam upstream.
The Monuments Men is a 2014 war film directed by George Clooney and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov. The film stars an ensemble cast including Clooney,Matt Damon,Bill Murray,John Goodman,Jean Dujardin,Bob Balaban,Hugh Bonneville,and Cate Blanchett.
The Mines in the Battle of Messines comprised a series of underground explosive charges which were fired during the First World War at the start of the Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) by the British Second Army near the village of Mesen in Belgian West Flanders. The mines,secretly planted and maintained by British tunnelling units beneath the forward position of the German 4th Army,killed approximately 10,000 German soldiers and created 19 large craters. Their joint explosion ranks among the largest non-nuclear explosions of all time.
The German Nazi Party protected art,gold and other objects that had been either plundered or moved for safekeeping at various storage sites during World War II. These sites included salt mines at Altaussee and Merkers and a copper mine at Siegen.
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