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Artillery Officer Badge

An attack to wipe out a German salient on one sector of the 8th Army Front was made by Italian infantry supported by British Tanks.

Collar Tag

Item is a stapled booklet.

Item is a typed report.

Presentation notes. U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Extensive comparison of the standardised casualty rates sustained of different Germans bombs used in air-raids in the United Kingdom. Content includes "Standardised casualty rate and vulnerable area" , "material analysed" , "results of analysis" plus appendices "Details of Raids studied" , "Methods of determining standardised casualty rates" , "Vulnerable areas of dwelling houses for bombs of different sizes" , "Standardised casualty rate of exploding incendiary bomb (I.B.E.N.)". Includes calculations, figures and references. Authored by P. M. Blade, J. W. B. Douglas, F. Yates, and S. Zuckerman.

Report with appendices, based on observations of Normandy beachead defenses concentrating on the British beaches from D-Day +6 to early July 1944. Document subtitles: "COHQ Special Observer Party," "Report on Special Observer Party investigating the effect of fire preparation in operation 'Neptune,'" "Appendix I Description of assault beaches and immediate hinterland and general notes on the effect of fire preparation," "Appendix No. 2 Details of Strong Points and Damage," "Appendix III Notes on Pro-Forma," "Appendix 4 Batteries," "Appendix VI [copies of photos] Massive Concrete Positions , Examples of Heavy Concrete Beach Defenses , Examples of 5cm A.T.K. Positions , Open Gun Pits , "Tobruk" Type Emplacements , Concrete Positions Under Construction , Examples of Camouflaged Strong Points , Examples of Houses Damaged by Gun Fire , Beach Obstacles , Miscellaneous"

Item consists of numerical calculations on tank attacks.

A report stressing the need for a 600 bed psychiatric hospital to deal with an increasing number of mental health patients. The report recommends a site near Cairo.

Canadian Army Training Pamphlet No. 1

Here is the scene of the War Room of General Dwight Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters of Allied Expeditionary Forces in a schoolhouse in Rheims, France. Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl, new Chief of Staff of the German army under the Doenitz Regime, (with back to camera, center,) signs the document under which all remaining forces of the German army are bound to lay down their arms in unconditional surrender. On Gen. Jodl's left is Gen. Admiral von Friedeburg, of the German navy, and on his right is Maj. Wilhelm Oxinius, of the German General Staff. Allied officers across the table are, left to right: Lt. Gen. Sir F.E. Morgan; Gen. Francois Sevez; Admiral H.M. Burroughs; Lt. Gen. W.S. Smith; Maj. Gen. Ivan Susloparoff; Gen. C.A. Spaatz; Air Marshall J.M. Robb; Maj. Gen. H.R. Bull; Lt. Col. Ivan Zenkovitch.

The 11th Armoured Division during Second World War