BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

 

PUBLISHED SOURCES

 

 

Bryant, Arthur, The Turn of the Tide, Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York, 1957

Ambrose, Stephen E., D-Day, Simon & Schuster, 1994

Bennett, Aban L., Song and Service Book for Ship and Field - Army and Navy, A.S. Barnes and Company, New York, 1942

Beye, Mrs. Cudworth, Fifty Years of Self-Government, The Connecticut Junior Republic, 1954

Botting, Douglas, The Second Front, Time-Life Books, New York, 1978

Blum, John Morton, V Was for Victory, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1976

Blumenson, Martin, Sicily: Whose Victory?, New York, 1968

Blumenson, Martin, The Patton Papers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1974

Blumenson, Martin, Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945, New York, 1985

Bradley, Omar N., A Soldier's Story, Henry Holt and Company, 1951

Bradley, Omar N., A General's Life, Simon and Schuster, 1983

Butcher, Harry C., My Three Years with Eisenhower, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1946

Churchill, Winston S., The Second World War, The Reprint Society, London, 1954, Volume IV The Hinge of Fate, Volume V, Closing the Ring, Volume VI, Triumph and Tragedy

Dear, I.C.B. and Foot, M.D.R., The Oxford Companion to World War II, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995

D'Este, Carlo, Decision in Normandy, William Collins and Sons, New York, 1983

D'Este, Carlo, Bitter Victory, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1988

D'Este, Carlo, Patton - A Genius for War, Harper Collins, New York, 1995

Eisenhower, Dwight D., Crusade in Europe, Doubleday & Company, 1948

Essame, Major General H., Normandy Bridgehead, Ballantine Books, 1970

Fuller, Samuel, The Big Red One, Bantam Books, New York, 1980

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, No Ordinary Time, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994

Goldstein, Richard, America at D-Day, Dell Publishing, 1994

Harrison, Gordon A., Cross Channel Attack, Officer of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington, DC 1951

Heidenhelmer, Arnold J., Vanguard to Victory, United States Army, Aschaffenburg, Germany, 1954

Hibbert, Christopher, Benito Mussolini, The Reprint Society, London, 1962

Hoyt, Edwin, GI Story, Experiences of Lieutenant Downing, F Company, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1982

Hurkala, John, The Fighting First Division, Greenwich Book Publishers, New York, 1957

Johnson, Franklyn A., One More Hill, Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York, 1949

Katcher, Philip, US 1st Infantry Division 1939-1945, Osprey Publishing, London, 1978

Keegan, John, The Second World War, Penguin Books, 1989

Knickerbocker, H.R. and others, Danger Forward - The Story of the First Division in World War II, Society of the First Division, Washington, DC, 1948

Lash, Joseph P., Eleanor and Franklin, W.W. Norton Company, New York, 1971

Manchester, William, Controversy, Little, Brown and Company, Boston and Toronto, 1976

Maule, Henry, Normandy Breakout, Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1977

Milano, Normandiefront, Speiss Publishing, 1994

 

Montagu, Ewen, The Man Who Never Was, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York, 1954

Morgan, Kay Summersby, Past Forgetting, Simon and Schuster, 1975

Patton, General George S., War As I Knew It, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/New York, 1947

Province, Charles M., The Unknown Patton, Crown Publishers, 1984

Pyle, Ernie, Brave Men, Henry Holt and Company, 1944

Salmaggi, Caesare and Pallavisini, Alfredo, 2194 Days of War, Gallery Books, 1977

Shirer, William, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Reprint Society, London, 1959

Terkel, Studs, The Good War, Pantheon Books, New York, 1984

Toland, John, Adolf Hitler, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1976

Wilmot, Chester, The Struggle for Europe, The Reprint Society, London, 1952

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AND PUBLISHED BOOKS

1ST INFANTRY DIVISION

18TH REGIMENT

COMPANY H

 

 

AGAW-G Microfilm of World War II Official Records. (Originals in AGO World War II Operations Reports Collections RG 207, National Archives). Reel 35mm. USAMHI Microfilm Room, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Item 1512 1. Report of Operations, 1st Infantry Division, 15 Jan-8 Apr, 1943

2. Report of Operations, 1st Infantry Division, 15 Apr-7 May, 1943

3. Torch Operation, G-3 Report, 8-10 Nov 1942

Item 1605 1. G-3 Operations Report, 1st Infantry Division, 8-10 Nov 1942

Alexander, Harold R., Special Order of the Day, Headquarters, 18th Army Group, 21 April, 1943, USAMHI Archives

Allen, Terry de la Mesa (Compiler). "Citations for Decorations Awarded in World War II (to Terry de la Messa Allen and the 1st Infantry Division for service in North Africa and Sicily, November 1942-September, 1943) Folder 6, Box 1, Terry de la Mesa Allen Papers, USAMHI Archives

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, (Compiler), Letters to Mary France Allen, 1942-1943, USAMHI Archives, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, Combat Leadership, Folder 1, Box 1, Terry de la Mesa Allen Papers, USAMHI Archives, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, A Factual Situation and Operations Reports on the Combat Operations of the 1st Infantry Division during Campaigns in North Africa and Sicily during the Period 8 Nov., 1942 to 7 Aug., 1943, Mimeo, El Paso, Texas, 1950

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, Commendation of Unit, 11 November 1943

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, Night Attacks, Fort Bliss, Texas, U.S. Army Air Defense School, 1952

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, Situation and Operation Report of the First Infantry Division during the Period of Its Overseas Movement, North Africa, and Sicilian Campaign from 8 August 1942 to 7 August, 1943, Mimeo, El Paso, Texas, 1950

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, A Summary of the El Guettar Offensive (20 March to 6 April, 1943 during the North African Campaign of World War II, Mimeo, El Paso, Texas, 1950

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, A Summary of the Final Drive on Tunis during World War II, Mimeo, Folder 9, Box 4, Terry de la Mesa Allen Papers, USAMHI Archives, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, A Summary of the Sicilian Campaign during World War II, 10 Jul. to 16 Aug., 1943, Mimeo, Folder 9, Box 4, Terry de la Mesa Allen Papers, USAMHI Archives

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, A Factual Summary of Certain Citations and Unit Commendations, El Paso, 1950, USAMHI Archives

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, To All Members of the Fighting First, 7 August, 1943, USAMHI Archives

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, A Factual Situation and Operations Report on the Combat Operations of the 1st Infantry Division, El Paso, 1950, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report - Second Battalion, 18th Infantry, June 44 to May 45, 301-INF (18) 7-0.3, National Archives

After Action Report - Report of Longstop Hill Engagement, Tunisia, 20 March 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, Defensive Sector - Combat Team 18, Medjez-el-bab, Tunisia, 27 December 1942 to 16 February 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report - Operations of Combat Team 18 at Sbiba, Tunisia, 16 Feb 1943 to 9 March 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, The Gafsa Operation, 16-17 March 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, Operations of CT 18 at Gafsa, Tunisia, 17 March 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, Operations of CT 18 at El Guettar, Tunisia 20 March 1943 to 8 April 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, History of the Second Battalion, 18th Infantry from April 19 to May 6, 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, Record of Events, First Battalion 18th Infantry, 21 April 1943 to 8 May 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, Headquarters Third Battalion, 18th Infantry - Journal of 3rd Battalion 18th for period 10 April 1943 to 10 May 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, Operations of the 18th Infantry in Mateur Sector, 12 April 1943 to 8 May 1943, USAMHI Archives

After Action Report, Company History - Cannon Company 18th Infantry, 13 April 1943 to 8 May 1943, USAMHI Archives

American Traveler, History of the Fighting First, Division Special Services Office, 1944

Casualty Reports, 18th Infantry, 8/11/42 to 10/11/42, USAMHI Archives

Field Order Number 1, Copy No. 18, Boat Employment Plan, 10 October 1942, USAMHI Archives

Field Orders, Notes on the French Army in North Africa, 10 October, 1042, USAMHI Archives

Field Orders, Second Battalion, 18th Infantry, May 1944, 301-INF (18) 7-3.9, National Archives

Field Orders Nos. 2-3-4, First Infantry Division, 8 Nov 42, National Archives

General Orders, Citation of Unit, Headquarters 1st U.S. Infantry Division, APO 1, U.S. Army, General Orders No. 120, 11 November 1944

 

General Orders, Citation of Unit, Headquarters 18th Infantry APO #1, US Army, 17 June 1944

Headquarters 18th Infantry, Commemorative History of the 18th Infantry 1812 to 1944, Office of the Regimental Commander, George A. Smith, Jr., 8 November 1944

Headquarters, CT 16, Terrain Study - Arzew and Vicinity, 23 September 1942, USAMHI Archives

Headquarters, Second Battalion 18th Infantry, Record of Events for Month Ending 30 June 1944, APO 1, US Army, 30 June 1944

History, Battle of Oran - Combat Team 18, 10 Nov 42 to 11 Nov 42, USAMHI Archives

History of the 18th Infantry Regiment, n.p., call963, Mimeo M: 1963

Kenney, Fred A., Letter to General Terry Allen, 23 June 1943, Terry Allen Papers, USAMHI Archives

Middleton, Drew, The Battle Saga of a Tough Outfit, Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Paris, 1944

Office of ACof S, G-2, Select Intelligence Reports - First United States Infantry Division, Cheb: State Print, 1944, National Archives

Operation Overlay, Combat Team 18 - Map of Arzew, 16 Oct 42, USAMHI Archives

Patton, George S., Commendation of 1st Infantry Division, Headquarters, II Corps, APO 302, 8 April 1943

S-1 Journal, Scotland to Arzew, 10-11-42 to 11-8-42, USAMHI Archives

S-1 Journal, Incidents, Messages, Orders, etc., 18th Infantry Regiment, 9 June 1944, The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Song of the Fighting First - Verses, The Terry Allen Papers, Box 1st Division and 104th Division Plus Miscellaneous, USAMHI

War Department, Service Summary of Terry de la Mesa Allen, Promotions, Decorations, USAMHI Archives

War Department, Service Summary of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Promotions, Decorations, USAMHI Archives

War Department, Service Summary of Frank U. Greer, Promotions, Decorations, 17 April 1946, USAMHI Archives

War Department, A Brief History of the "Fighting First Division and its Component Units, Washington, 1941

 

ARTICLES, NEWSPAPER STORIES

 

American Battle Monuments Commission, Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, 1987

Bridgehead Sentinel, First Division Monument - Messages From Commanders, The National Archives, August 1946

Dixon, Thomas W., Terry Allen, Army, April 1978

Hamilton, Maxwell, Junior in Name Only, The Retired Officer, June 1981

Hartford Courant, June 6, 1944 - The Day that Changed the Course of History, Howard L. Frohman, 6 June 1991

Junior Citizen, Father to Son by H.M. Pierce, Connecticut Junior Republic, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1937

Junior Citizen, Youth Court of Character, Editorial, The Connecticut Junior Republic, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1938

Junior Citizen, Republic Football - Republic Seconds Smash Canton Varsity, The Connecticut Junior Republic, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1938

Junior Citizen, Boy "Uncles," The Connecticut Junior Republic, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1937

New York Times, Theodore Roosevelt, 56, Dies On Normandy Battlefield, 14 July 1944

New York Times, General Terry Allen of First Division, World War II Leader Who Won Fame in Sicily Dies, 12 September 1969

New York Times, Normandy Historic Coast, 5 September 1993

Time, Major General Terry Allen of the 1st Division...The Infantry, the Infantry, with Dirt Behind Their Ears, 9 August 1943

USA Today, For Tiny Town, Innocence Lost, Andrea Stone, 28 April 1994

Washington Post, General Terry Allen Dies, Led Allied Forces in North Africa, 14 September 1969,

Washington Post, Casualty - Terry Allen, Jr., 10 October 1967

Waterbury Republican-American, Family Remembers Hero, 14 February 1994

 

PERSONAL SURVEYS

ORAL HISTORIES

 

Alff, Pfc. Edward P., Company H, Personal Survey at USAMHI

Baumer, Edwin H., Oral History to author, 1992 to 1997

Baumer, Jean F., Oral History to Author, 1992 to 1997

Bennet, Major Robert T., Company E, Personal Survey at USAMHI

Conley, Lt. Colonel Richard, 18th Infantry, Personal Survey, USAMHI

Duck, Clair, Company H, Oral History to Author, 5 February 1997

Jacobs, Albert, Company H, Oral History to Author, 5 February 1997

Kamerzel, Lt. Mary Jane, Oral History, Letters from Pfc. Baummer to Family, Personal Notes, 1992 to 1997

Lords, Clarence R, Company F, Second Battalion 18th Infantry, Personal Survey at USAMHI

Paradise, Pfc. Rene A., Company E, Second Battalion, 18th Infantry, Personal Survey at USAMHI

Salcito, Anthony, Oral History to author, 1995

Stegall, Paul E., Company H, Oral History to author, 5 February 1997

 

 

 

PFC. ROBERT A. BAUMMER

RELEVANT LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE

 

 

Alderson Funeral Homes, Inc., Funeral Services for Pfc. Robert A. Baummer, Naugatuck, Connecticut, 4 May 1948

Army Effects Bureau, Letter to Edwin H. Baummer, 29 December 1945, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., 11012180, Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Army Service Forces, Office of the Quartermaster General, Letter to Viola K. Baummer, 29 January 1949

Army Service Forces, Office of Dependency Benefits, Newark, New Jersey, Letter to Viola K. Baummer, 19 July 1944

Army Service Forces, Office of the Fiscal Director, Special Settlement Accounts, New York, New York, Letter to Viola K. Baummer, 8 August 1944

Army Service Forces, Headquarters First Service Command, Boston, Massachusetts, Letter to Viola K. Baummer, 23 August, 1944

Army Service Forces, Effects Quartermaster, Memorial Division, Planning and Registration Branch, Washington, DC, from Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., 11012180, Pfc. Inf. Eur. Ar., Memo Routing Slip, 14 December 1945, The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Army Service Forces, Kansas City Quartermaster Post, Letter to Edwin H. Baummer, 14 January 1947, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., Pfc., 11012180, Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Baummer, Pfc. Robert A, Letters to Viola K. Baummer, 1942

Baummer, Pfc. Robert A., Letter to Mrs. H.A. Baummer, 26 Jan 1943

Baummer, Edwin H., Letter to Pfc. Robert A. Baummer, 1 June 1944

Baummer, Edwin H., Letter to Pfc. Robert A. Baummer, 10 June 1944

Baummer, Edwin H., Letter to Quartermaster General, 5 December, 1944, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Baummer, Edwin H., Letter to Army Effects Bureau, 1 January 1946, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., 11012180, Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Department of the Army, Authorization for Issuance of Awards, 12 May 1993

Department of Veteran's Affairs, Office of Advocacy and Assistance, Letter from Author, 6 August 1992

Department of Veteran's Affairs, Office of Advocacy and Assistance, Letter to Author, 17 August 1992

Department of Veteran's Affairs, Office of Advocacy and Assistance, Letter to Author, 17 September 1992

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter from Author, February 13, 1997.

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter to Author from Lois Santiago for CJD, 10 May, 1996

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter from Author, 16 April, 1996

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter to Author. 5 September, 1996

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter from Author, 4 January, 1993

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter to Author from Lois Santiago, 3 February 1993

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter from Author, 26 March, 1993

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter to Author, 23 March, 1993

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter from Author, 14 May 1993

Dodd, United States Senator Christopher J., Letter to Author from Lois Santiago, 20 May 1993

Graves Registration Form No. 1, Report of Burial, 17 June 1944, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., 11012180, Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Graves Registration Form No. 54, Inventory of Effects, Baummer, Robert A. 11012180, 23 August 1944, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., 11012180, Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Graves Registration, Disinterment Directive, 10 September 1947, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Graves Registration, Record of Custodial Transfer, 15 November 1947, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., Pfc., Inf., Eur., Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Headquarters, New York Port of Embarkation, Brooklyn, NY, Receipt of Remains, 16 December 1947, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Headquarters, New York Port of Embarkation, Brooklyn, New York, Letter to Viola K. Baummer - Certificate for Internment Expenses, 11 February 1948

Microsoft Internet Explorer, People Query Results, Ms. Judith Clark, 8 Jan 1997

National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Missouri, Informal Information Reply - Records, 22 September 1992

National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis Missouri, Certificate of Military Service - Robert A. Baummer, 22 September 1992

National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Missouri, Letter to Christopher Dodd forwarded to Author, 3 May, 1996

National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Missouri, Letter to Christopher Dodd forwarded to Author, 11 March 1993

Quarter Master General, Letter to Edwin H. Baummer, 14 December 1945, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., Pfc., Inf., Eur., Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Record of Events, Company H Morning Report, Morning Report Branch, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 June 1944 to 31 August 1944

Veterans Administration, Washington DC, Letter to Viola K. Baummer, 12 August 1944

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, DC, Letter to Viola K. Baummer, 8 July, 1944

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, DC, Letter to Viola K. Baummer, 27 July 1944

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, DC, Report of Death - Robert A. Baummer, 1 August 1944

War Department, Office of the Quartermaster General, Washington, DC, Letter to Viola K. Baummer, 1 October 1946, from Casualty File, The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland.

War Department, The Quartermaster General, Washington, DC, Disposition of Remains and Enclosed Pamphlet "Disposition of World War II Armed Forces Dead," Letter to Viola K, Baummer, 5 March 1947, from Casualty File, The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland.

Waterbury Republican-American, Pfc. Baummer's Rites Held, Naugatuck, Connecticut 17 Dec 1947

Western Union, Telegram Reporting Death of Pfc. Robert A. Baummer, 25 July 1944

Western Union, Telegram to Viola K. Baummer Announcing Transportation of Remains, 15 November 1947, from Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland

Western Union, Telegram to Alderson Funeral Home Announcing Arrival of Body, 10 December 1947, Casualty File 293, Baummer, Robert A., 11012180, Pfc., Inf., Eur. Ar., The National Archives, Suitland, Maryland