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Forum: TO&Es March 13th, 2023, 09:41 PM
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Views: 16,296
Posted By MarkSheppard
Re: US OOB 12 corrections/suggestions (v.6)

Fold3.COM has a June 1945 USFET Report on redeployment that gives us an inventory of the US ETO stockpile circa Mid-Summer 1945:

https://www.fold3.com/image/287322875/287322894...
Forum: TO&Es March 13th, 2023, 06:17 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 16,296
Posted By MarkSheppard
Re: US OOB 12 corrections/suggestions (v.6)

I did some research.

From Zaloga's "Pershing vs Tiger: Germany 1945", Hunnicutt's "Pershing" and Hanger's "The M26 Pershing: America’s Forgotten Tank - Developmental and Combat History":
...
Forum: TO&Es March 11th, 2023, 08:37 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 16,296
Posted By MarkSheppard
Re: US OOB 12 corrections/suggestions (v.6)

Is it possible to add a Heavy Tank Company to the US OOB from say May 1945?

By then, ETO had:

172 x on hand on 20 April 1945
229 x on hand on 20 May 1945
...
Forum: TO&Es February 8th, 2023, 04:40 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 16,296
Posted By MarkSheppard
Re: US OOB 12 corrections/suggestions (v.6)

Don, thanks -- I wasn't actually meaning to bug you about that. It was more of a case of me pulling at strings to run things down -- I just got a copy of TO&E 1-1087 from the US Air Force Historical...
Forum: TO&Es February 7th, 2023, 11:34 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 16,296
Posted By MarkSheppard
Re: US OOB 12 corrections/suggestions (v.6)

TO&E 1-1087 - AAF Helicopter Squadron (13 September 1944) was commanded by a Major, with 143 men in the squadron and 16 x Helicopters; 12 x Jeeps, and various trucks for technical duties; so the plan...
Forum: TO&Es December 29th, 2022, 11:28 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 16,296
Posted By MarkSheppard
Re: US OOB 12 corrections/suggestions (v.6)

I've confirmed that the R-5 would have been present in an invasion of Japan through looking at microfilm from the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

In June 1945, CINCAFPAC (aka MacArthur's HQ)...
Forum: TO&Es October 25th, 2015, 07:55 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 16,296
Posted By MarkSheppard
Re: US OOB 12 corrections/suggestions (v.6)

Request B-24 Liberators be added -- they were used in the ETO for carpet bombing support (COBRA) and in the PTO; they were the prime heavy bomber from 1942ish onwards.

I did some art for them; see...
Forum: TO&Es March 22nd, 2015, 09:23 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 16,296
Posted By MarkSheppard
Re: US OOB 12 corrections/suggestions (v.6)

Request addition of Sikorsky R-5 (aka H-5, S-51, HO2S-1, HO3S-1) to the US OOB.

According to THE AGE OF THE HELICOPTER: VERTICAL FLIGHT; on V-J Day, 65 R-5s had been delivered to the US military,...
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