The 81st Infantry Wildcat Division in World War II 1948 (PDF)

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Description

378 pages

Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1: The Wildcat Division of World War I

Chapter 2: Organization and Composition of the Division

Chapter 3: Basic Training Period

Chapler 4: Cadre for the 87th Division

Chapter 5: Unit Training Period

Chapter 6: Combined-Arms Training

Chapter 7: Tennessee Maneuvers

Chapter 8: The Desert

Chapter 9: Camp San Luis Obispo

Chapter 10: Camp Beale and POM

Chapter 11: Camp Stoneman and Embarkation

Chapter 12: Aloha, Hawaii!

Chapter 13: Preparations for Operation Stalemate

Chapter 14: En Route to Angaur

Chapter 15: Assault on Angaur

Chapter 16: Mopping up Angaur

Chapter 17: Action on Peleliu

Chapter 18: Ulithi to Fais

Chapter 19: Station Western Carolines

Chapter 20: Life on New Caledonia

Chapter 21 : Preparation for Operation Iceberg

Chapter 22: Leyte

Chapter 23: The Second Battle Star

Chapter 24 : Plans for Operation Olympic

Chapter 25: Switch to Operation Blacklist

Chapter 26: Target Japan

Chapter 27: Occupation of Japan

Chapter 28: Station Japan

Chapter 29 : Military Government

Chapter 30: Readjustment of Individuals

Chapter 31: Inactivation

Appendix I: The Deceased

Appendix II: Wounded in Action

Appendix III: Honors

Appendix IV: Commanders and Principal Staff Officers

Appendix V: Attached Units and Their Commanders

Pictorial History

 

Maps

1: The Pacific

2: Plan A, Preferred Plan for Attack on Angaur

3: Angaur Island

4: Japanese Fortifications on Angaur

5: Angaur, 0900, 17 September 1944

6: RCT 322 and RCT 321

7: Positions on Angaur, Night of 17-18 September 1944

8: Angaur, 18 September 1944

9: Angaur, 19 September 1944

10: “Island Secure.” Angaur at 1034, 20 September 1944

11: Angaur, 20 September 1944

12: Angaur, 21 September 1944

13: Angaur, 22 September 1944

14: Northwestern Angaur, 25 September 1944

15: Northwestern Angaur, 1400, 28 September 1944

16: Northwestern Angaur, 2400, 5 October 1944

17: Northwestern Angaur, 2400, 14 October 1944

18: Northwestern Angaur, 2400, 18 October 1944

19: The End of the Siege: Northwestern Angaur, 20 Octo ber 1944

20: Peleliu Island

21: Peleliu, 24 September 1944

22: Peleliu, 26 September 1944

23: Peleliu, 27 September 1944

24: Peleliu, 28 September 1944

25: Peleliu, 30 September 1944

26: Peleliu, 4-11 October 1944

27: Peleliu, 13-16 October 1944

28: Peleliu, 17 October 1944

29: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 18 October 1944

30: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 19 October 1944

31: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 21 October 1944

32: Peleliu: Central Combat Zone, 22 October 1944

33: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 26-31 October 1944

34: Peleliu: Defense Sectors and Outposts

35: Peleliu: Central Combat Zone, 2 November 1944

36: Ngeregong Island Operations

37: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 13 November 1944

38: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 22-23 November 1944

39: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 24 November 1944

40: Peleliu : Central Combat Zone, 27 November 1944

41: Occupation of Ulithi Atoll

42: Capture of Ngulu Atoll

43: Occupation of Pulo Anna

44: Occupation of Kayangel Atoll and the Fais Operation

45: New Caledonia

46: Okinawa: Possible Initial Combat Missions

47: Leyte

48: Northwestern Leyte

49: Kyushu: Pl anning for Olympic Operation

50: Aomori Prefecture