You don't have to purchase these resources. The vast majority of them are available in the Army's professional libraries or museum archives. The Army past is a treasure trove of great information that is well worth the time to mine. At the Army Transortation Museum we are using veteran volunteers to digitze materials to make it more readily avilable to the force. The information is being uploaded onto our museum sharepoint - USA-Transportation-Museum so the wider Army can readily access it.
I in no way intended to suggest that purchase should be a first option, and it's great to hear you all are digitizing your archives. It'd be great to do a case study using your source material, and I hope you're checking resources like Google scholar to make sure those materials are widely available.
In studying Operation Market Garden one author discovered that the Dutch Army had used an advance along that same road from the Belgian border towards Arnhem as a table top exercise for years, experience that if asked would have led them to telling the allies that this was not a good idea.
You don't have to purchase these resources. The vast majority of them are available in the Army's professional libraries or museum archives. The Army past is a treasure trove of great information that is well worth the time to mine. At the Army Transortation Museum we are using veteran volunteers to digitze materials to make it more readily avilable to the force. The information is being uploaded onto our museum sharepoint - USA-Transportation-Museum so the wider Army can readily access it.
To double-tap - University of Texas map library is a killer resource.
I in no way intended to suggest that purchase should be a first option, and it's great to hear you all are digitizing your archives. It'd be great to do a case study using your source material, and I hope you're checking resources like Google scholar to make sure those materials are widely available.
In studying Operation Market Garden one author discovered that the Dutch Army had used an advance along that same road from the Belgian border towards Arnhem as a table top exercise for years, experience that if asked would have led them to telling the allies that this was not a good idea.
Great example.
The rare 38G shoutout 👏
Gotta give some love to CA from time to time.
I can relate to rabbit holes.