Download or read book Report of Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 20 Oct 1943 1 Aug 1944 annex no 12 to 14 written by United States. Army. Army, 1st and published by . This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Operations written by United States. Army. Army, 1st and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 20 Oct 1943 1 Aug 1944 annex no 3 to 11 written by United States. Army. Army, 1st and published by . This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Operations 20 October 1943 1 August 1944 and Annexes 1 20 written by United States. Army. Army, 1st and published by . This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The GI Offensive in Europe written by Peter R. Mansoor and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1999-06-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Wehrmacht was one of the most capable fighting forces the world has ever known, but in the end it was no match for the Allies. Some historians contend that the Allies achieved victory through brute force and material superiority. But, as Peter Mansoor argues, all of the material produced by U.S. industry was useless without trained soldiers to operate it, a coherent doctrine for its use, and leaders who could effectively command the formations into which it was organized. This book provides a comprehensive study of America's infantry combat performance in Europe during World War II, showing that the Army succeeded by developing combat effective divisions that could not only fight and win battles, but also sustain that effort over years of combat. While American industry admittedly enabled the U.S. to sustain its overseas armies, the effectiveness of those forces ultimately rested on their organizational capabilities and ability to adapt to combat in a variety of lethal environments and to learn from their mistakes. Mansoor analyzes the impact of personnel and logistical systems on the Army's strength, explaining how leaders used these systems to keep a small number of divisions at a high state of combat effectiveness. During the critical battles of 1944-45, American divisions were able to sustain this high level while their Wehrmacht counterparts disintegrated, demonstrating that the Army's endurance in extended combat was the most critical factor in its ultimate success. Mansoor also takes a close look at the personalities and capabilities of division commanders, infantry tactics and operations, logistics, and the benefits and weaknesses of stateside training. The American army won, asserts Mansoor, because unit for unit at the division level it was more effective than its adversaries. By showing how U.S. infantry developed more quickly and fought better than commonly believed, The GI Offensive in Europe contributes significantly to the history of the U.S. Army in the European theater and to our overall understanding of military effectiveness.
Download or read book Omaha Beach written by Adrian R. Lewis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reanalyzing military records and battle plans of the Normandy invasion, Lewis traces the evolution of combined operations (more than one nation) and joint operations (more than one service), as well as tactical doctrines from the inter-war period to 1944 to explain how the plan for swift victory at Omaha Beach went terribly wrong and turned into the bloodiest of the Allied invasions.
Download or read book A Command Post at War written by David W. Hogan and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the first Army headquarters in the European theater, from its activation in October 1943 to V-E Day in May 1945. Shows the Army headquarters of World War 2 as a complicated organization with functions ranging from the immediate supervision of tactical operations to long-range operational planning and the sustained support of frontline units. CMH Pub 70-60.
Download or read book The Signal Corps written by George Raynor Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nothing Less Than Full Victory written by Edward G. Miller and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the onset of World War II, the U.S. Army was a third-rate ground force of 145,000 with some generals who still believed in the relevance of horse cavalry. Its soldiers were untrained, its doctrine out of date, and its weapons hopelessly obsolete. Four years later, the U.S. Army was engaged in a global war with a force of more than 8 million men armed with modern weapons and equipment. Nothing Less than Full Victory is the story of how American ground troops in Europe managed to defeat one of the most proficient armies in history. The author, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, draws on his twenty years of experience in military logistics and eight years of scholarly research to examine the Army s remarkable transformation. Focusing on areas rarely considered in other books on World War II, Edward G. Miller analyzes the performance of American soldiers in the 1944 45 campaign in western Europe against a background of logistics, organization, training, and deployment. In doing so, this groundbreaking work refutes decades of assumptions to reset the historical framework for comparison of U.S. and German performance over the course of the campaign. Lieutenant Colonel Miller s skillful melding of little-known individual and small-unit combat action with the various facets of generating, deploying, and projecting power allows the reader to understand as never before the true significance of what took place. This book is published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.
Download or read book United States Army in World War II The techinical services written by United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Signal Corps The outcome mid 1943 through 1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Army Air Forces in World War II Services around the world written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Army in World War II written by United States. Military History, Office of the Chief of and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natives and Exotics written by Judith A. Bennett and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambitious in its scope and scale, this environmental history of World War II ranges over rear bases and operational fronts from Bora Bora to New Guinea, providing a lucid analysis of resource exploitation, entangled wartime politics, and human perceptions of the vast Oceanic environment. Although the war’s physical impact proved significant and oftentimes enduring, this study shows that the tropical environment offered its own challenges: Unfamiliar tides left landing craft stranded; unseen microbes carrying endemic diseases disabled thousands of troops. Weather, terrain, plants, animals—all played an active role as enemy or ally. At the heart of Natives and Exotics is the author’s analysis of the changing visions and perceptions of the environment, not only among the millions of combatants, but also among the Islands’ peoples and their colonial administrations in wartime and beyond. Judith Bennett reveals how prewar notions of a paradisiacal Pacific set up millions of Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, and Japanese for grave disappointment when they encountered the reality. She shows that objects usually considered distinct from environmental concerns (souvenirs, cemeteries, war memorials) warrant further examination as the emotional quintessence of events in a particular place. Among native people, wartime experiences and resource utilization induced a shift in environmental perceptions just as the postwar colonial agenda demanded increased diversification of the resource base. Bennett’s ability to reappraise such human perceptions and productions with an environmental lens is one of the unique qualities of this study. Impeccably researched, Natives and Exotics is essential reading for those interested in environmental history, Pacific studies, and a different kind of war story that has surprising relevance for today’s concerns with global warming.
Download or read book The Vision of Anglo America written by Henry Butterfield Ryan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study demonstrates the importance of the decline of British power in the creation of the Cold War.
