Battle Of The Bulge Internet Archive

[Elisabetta Buendia]

Freeand open to the public, the display is located in the East Rotunda Gallery of the National Archives Museum and runs through January 5, 2015. The Museum is on the National Mall at Constitution and 9th St., NW.

By December 1944, Allied generals felt confident that victory over Nazi Germany was near. Their armies had raced across France and were now approaching the Rhine River. No one thought the German Army could launch such a large-scale winter offensive.

Tuesday, December 16, at noon, William G. McGowan Theater

The National Archives will present the film The Battle of the Bulge a compelling chronicle of this bloody battle that includes newsreel footage and film from German and American archives. (2004; 90 mins.)

Sixty years ago this holiday season, the German army tried to push the Allies back one last time, as World War II neared its end in Europe. Earlier in 1944, the Allied army fought its way ashore at Normandy.

But in December, German leader Adolf Hitler surprised the Allies with an offensive across Belgium and Luxembourg. By Christmas Eve, German forces had pushed the American defense line back 60 miles and trapped the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne.

This punch was the "bulge" of the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler's plan was to reach the Meuse River, move north and capture the port at Antwerp, then offer terms for an armistice. The Germans never reached the Meuse.

Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite was with Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army that Christmas and covered the American counter-offensive for the wire service then known as United Press. Cronkite reflects on what remains the largest pitched battle in the history of American arms.

There were no "mobile artillery divisions." I located your father's unit. It was the 174th Field Artillery Battalion (Self-Propelled). The battalion was one of only a handful of 155mm Self Propelled Gun battalions in WWII.

An internet search for "We Did, From The Combat Records Of The 174th Field Artillery Battalion, World War II" by Snyder, Harry P

will take you to archive.org where you can download a copy free of charge. That will help get you started on the journey of learning more about your father's service during WWII.

A Potential Solution: Might be with the Internet Archive. It's funded by a foundation and they seem to be relatively durable; so they're the closest thing to archival on-line storage we might see for some time.

With that in mind, I've been slowly working on a project for the last month to quasi bring back the old Wargamer.com scenario archive back from the dead -- and that's morphed into a general archiving program for old game mods and such.

in an attempt to archive as many of the old Combat Mission 1 (Beyond Overlord/Barbarossa to Berlin/Afrika Korps) mods as possible to safeguard against the probability of greenasjade.net disappearing in the near future.

I have included more CMBO scenarios from around the internet. There's likely to be massive duplication between all of the different packs and sources, but put together, I think this corpus constitutes most CMBO scenarios made.

I've tried to include everything I can; there's too many to describe here; from the Stalingrad Pack, Kursk Pack, Russian Training Set, Denhost CMBB Pack, Philippe CMBB Pack, a Boots & Tracks site rip (scenarios and AARs).

BONUS:

I have included a Combat Mission Beyond Overlord Scenario Pack with this for completeness. It was put together from an old CMMODS v4.03 database that I downloaded years ago; combined with a trawl through ( ).

5 items relating to President Abraham Lincoln, some issued immediately after his assassination: a very small framed photograph of Lincoln attached to a ribbon, a card depicting the "Union Commanders," a memorial ribbon, a memorial handout issued by the San...

This collection is a handwritten abstract of Thomas A Sanchez's deposition on behalf of the land claims of Andres Pico to the Rancho San Fernando, as remembered, ca. 1868. The deponant's recollections of the early days of the Rancho San...

The George W. Nilsson collection contains a typed article (manuscript), "In, Through and Across the Grand Canyon," and photographs, which document Nilsson's trip across the Grand Canyon, August 28-30, 1921. Most of the photographs show scenes from the journey itself...

12 manuscript letters from Addison Newell of Sacramento, and later Pleasant Valley, California, to his brother Charles in Maine and in New York, speaking of mining, agriculture, a projected railroad project, the State Legislature, and general business conditions in California.

Majority of correspondence concerns the building of Sutro Tunnel. Includes newspapers seeking information and offering support on Tunnel project, contact with a manufacturing firm regarding building of mining railroad cars, etc. Last letter concerns excavation work being done on beach...

Letter dated December 26, 1904 from the law firm of Tabor and Tabor to J. G. Maithes, and his response on verso. Tabor and Tabor write to Maithes of Butcher's Ranch asking his opinion of the Adolph Weber murder case...

There are thirty items in the African Methodist Episcopal Church ephemera collection, including flyers, calling cards, tickets, etc. Some are annotated with names, dates and miscellaneous notes. Provenance of the collection is unknown but likely the collector was in some...

Commitment orders, and other materials relating to Agnews Asylum including biennial reports, property deeds, and photographs. The majority of the commitment orders date back to the 30 years before Agnews opened, and are likely those for patients originally committed to...

Pacheco Pass Wagon Road Company employed George H. Jones and William Price to complete a section of road. Jones and Price contracted with Ah Tem for laborers. Various parties went to court concerning payment of wages for those laborers.

The bulk of the collection consists of financial documents, primarily payment receipts, for the period ca. 1887-1911 and scattered later dates. The receipts document most aspects of the corporation: payroll, legal fees, purchases of building materials, advertising costs, etc. In...

This collection has been arranged into the following series: HAIKU MATERIALS: Correspondence with haiku poets; Writing -- haiku and tanka, renga (with Christopher Heron, Francine Porad), haibun, rengay (with John Thompson); Articles; Presentations; Awards; Correspondence as President of the Haiku...

2 Sentiment Books-Mental Photographs and Album of Beauty-belonging to Anna Houseman of San Francisco. The former consists of a questionnaire filled out by Anna's family and friends; the latter contains messages, signatures, a family tree, and the 1870 Girls' High...

Small diary written by an unknown serviceman from Bakersfield, CA who was apparently involved or acquainted with the U. S. Army's 54th Battalion, but at the time of this diary was a U. S. Navy Machinist's Mate. He maintained PT...

This collection consists of one letter, written at San Diego, April 17, 1908. The greeting is "Dear Father", the signature is "Yours, Henry." The letter contains a detailed description including small sketches of 4000 "bluejackets" (Navy) and 1000 marines formed...

Son of California Supreme Court Justice Jessie W. Carter, he was born in San Francisco and raised in Redding. In early years practiced law in Redding and spent eight years as State Senator for Shasta and Trinity counties. In 1950...

Scrapbook consists of newspaper and magazine clippings; postcards; typescript histories of sanatorium; original typescript and carbon copies of reports of board meetings, treasurer's reports, articles of incorporation, etc.; invitations to exhibitions of pottery; pamphlets and brochures advertising sanatorium; original checks;...

Two proposals documenting articles of agreement between financeers and prospective gold miners. The financeers agree to finance the would-be miners in return for a share of the profits from their mining activities once they reach the California gold fields. Neither...

Two letters from Charles Aull to F.I. Vassault (addressed as F.J. in one letter), dated Aug. 28 and Aug. 29, 1890. Letters are on stationery with the letterhead: Office of the Warden, State Prison at Folsom. They are typescript copies...

Letters written by Lorain Bachtal and other family members in Nevada City, California to her sister, Mrs. Margaret Humbert in Green Spring, and, later, Elmore, Ohio. Other family members include Margaret's nieces Natilda Hecker, Lillie E. Hecker, Amanda Wagner, and...

The Banks of Wheatland Collection (c. 1870 1930) contains an assortment of wills, deeds, insurance policies, and mortgages done through, or for, The Farmers Bank of Wheatland and The Bank of Italy, Wheatland Branch. Alongside these documents are also a...

Seven letters to and from Billy & Nellie Barnum in Alpine County. Mostly family letters with some references to Mr. Barnum's job with the "Pacific Rural Press" of special interest. Also of note is a letter to Nellie from her...

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