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The Battle of the Coral Sea, a major engagement of the Pacific Theatre of World War II, was fought 4–8 May 1942 in the waters east of New Guinea and south of the Bismarck Islands between elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States (U.S.) and Australia. To extend their empire in the Pacific to ...
Battle of Iwo Jima order of battle. Map of Iwo Jima showing landing beaches. Landing craft approaching Iwo Jima; looking southwest toward Mt. Suribachi. On February 19, 1945, men of the United States Marine Corps invaded the island of Iwo Jima, part of the Volcano Islands chain, in the North Pacific.
1st Brigade. Col Alexander Cummings McWhorter Pennington, Jr. 1st Connecticut Cavalry: Cpt Edwin W. French. 3rd New Jersey Cavalry: Ltc Charles C. Suydam. 2nd New York Cavalry: Cpt Andrew S. Glover. 5th New York Cavalry: Maj Abram H. Krom [13] 2nd Ohio Cavalry: Ltc George A. Purington.
New Orleans American order of battle. The following units and commanders of the American armed forces under Andrew Jackson fought at the Battle of New Orleans during War of 1812. The British order of battle is shown separately.
Clausewitz defined the 'order of battle' as "that division and formation of the different arms into separate parts, or sections, of the whole Army, and that form of general position or disposition of those parts which is to be the norm throughout the whole campaign or war." Division comes from the permanent peacetime organization of the Army ...
This is a list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are listed in chronological order by starting date (or planned start date).
Battle of Saipan order of battle. On 15 June 1944, United States Marine forces landed on the southwest coast of the island of Saipan in the central Marianas chain; these were followed a day later by US Army forces. This invasion was part of Operation Forager, an effort to recapture the entire Marianas chain from the Empire of Japan.
Animated map of the battle, 6–8 May U.S. B-17 bombers based in Australia [41] and staging through Port Moresby attacked the approaching Port Moresby invasion forces, including Gotō's warships, several times during the day on 6 May without success.
The Battle of Long Island was a significant British victory in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War over American forces under the command of General George Washington, and the opening battle in a successful British campaign to gain control of New York City in 1776.
Korean War Order of Battle: United States, United Nations, and Communist Ground, Naval, and Air Forces, 1950-1953. Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-275-97835-8. Mossman, Billy C. (1990). UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE KOREAN WAR EBB AND FLOW NOVEMBER 1950-JULY 1951. WASHINGTON, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History.