Download or read book Index to Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey written by United States Strategic Bombing Survey and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Mine Warfare written by Norman E. Youngblood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) coordinated the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. As of mid-2005, 145 states had signed the agreement. The ICBL's efforts were in large part a response to the careless use of landmines in the previous fifty years. The history of mine use in warfare, however, goes back much further than the World Wars of the 20th century and includes both land and sea use. This first comprehensive study traces the technical, tactical, and ethical developments of mine warfare, from ancient times to the present. Beginning with mine warfare's roots in ancient Assyria and China, Youngblood takes the reader through the centuries of debate about how these hidden weapons should be used. A look at 19th-century developments explores the intertwined development of land and sea mines and the inventors behind them, including Robert Fulton, Samuel Colt, and Immanuel Nobel, father of Alfred Nobel. Subsequent chapters examine the use of mines in the American Civil War, the Russo-Japanese War, both World Wars, and the battlefields of the Cold War, and chart key battles and technical innovations, such as the development of air-delivered munitions. Finally, the author addresses the ethical concerns raised by the careless mining, namely the impact on civilians and the difficulties of de-mining, and the treaties that regulate landmine use.
Download or read book After Action Report 1 August 1944 9 May 1945 Volume II written by United States. Army. Army, 3rd and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains staff section reports of the U.S. 3rd Army on the Western Front during World War II.
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Okinawa 1945 written by Thomas M. Huber and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okinawa was the last campaign of World War II in the Pacific, a bloody affair that convinced the U.S. high command that an invasion of Japan would prove so costly that deployment of atomic weapons was a requirement. This tells the story from the Japanese side. From April to June 1945, U.S. forces fought fiercely for control of the island of Okinawa, against the well dug in 32nd Army of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The amphibious landing of four divisions of U.S. troops on 1 April 1945 confirmed IJA 32nd Army Staff's worst fears about the U.S. challenge. Within a few weeks, new tactical patterns evolved on Okinawa. U.S. tanks moved forward into dead spaces between cave port fire zones, escorted by infantry. The Japanese, to protect their cave openings, put infantry on the surface to drive back the tank-infantry teams. The result was searing clashes between small units of U.S. and Japanese infantry for the protection of tanks and cave fire ports respectively. Vigorous attacks by U.S. soldiers and marines, using flame-thrower tanks cut through IJA positions quickly after 9 June. The IJA rear-area headquarters were finally threatened so that by 22 June most major unit commanders had committed ritual suicide and ordered surviving soldiers to fight on as long as they could. then do the same, Some of these surviving IJA soldiers unfortunately committed atrocities against the civilian population. and only a small percentage surrendered. By the time the fighting stopped, U.S. casualties of all kinds, including wounded and non-combat injuries, were also high, exceeding 70,000. about equal to the number of IJA regular troops that had defended the island. Over 160 photos and numerous maps help illustrate the riveting narrative, telling the story of American heroism against a fanatical and desperate enemy.
Download or read book Toward Combined Arms Warfare written by Jonathan Mallory House and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Manual written by United States Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific 1941 1945 Organizations troops and training written by Hugh John Casey and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hitler s Spies written by David Kahn and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full account of Hitler's extensive intelligence network-and the dramatic story of how Germany lost the battle of the secret services in World War II.
Download or read book Evaluation of Soils and Permafrost Conditions in the Territory of Alaska by Means of Aerial Photographs written by Robert E. Frost and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eavesdropping on Hell written by Robert J. Hanyok and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This official government publication investigates the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. It explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. It also summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years.
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific 1941 1945 written by United States. Army. Forces, Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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