Автор: Albert N. Garland, Howard McGaw Smyth
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 1993
Количество страниц: 638
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
United States Army in World War II. This volume integrates the Sicilian Campaign with the complicated negotiations involved in the surrender of Italy. The Sicilian Campaign was as complex as the negotiations, and is equally instructive. On the Allied side it included American, British, and Canadian soldiers as well as some Tabors of Goums; major segments of the U.S. Army Air Forces and of the Royal Air Force; and substantial contingents of the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy. Opposing the Allies were ground troops and air forces of Italy and Germany, and the Italian Navy. The fighting included a wide variety of operations: the largest amphihious assault of World War II; parachute jumps and air landings; extended overland marches; tank battles; precise and remarkably successful naval gunfire support of troops on shore; agonizing struggles for ridge tops; and extensive and skillful artillery support. Sicily was a testing ground for the U.S. soldier, fighting beside the more experienced troops of the British Eighth Army, and there the American soldier showed what he could do. The negotiations involved in Italy's surrender were rivaled in complexity and delicacy only by those leading up to the Korean armistice. The relationship of tactical to diplomatic activity is one of the most instructive and interesting features of this volume. Military men were required to double as diplomats and to play both roles with skill. The authors were uniquely qualified to undertake this difficult volume. Rare indeed is the collaboration of an authority on Italian, German, and diplomatic history with an experienced infantry officer who is a Master of Arts in history.
Автор: David W. Hogan, Jr.
Издательство: Center of Military History Department of the Army
Год издания: 1992
isbn: 0756719631
Количество страниц: 168
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Special operations-in this context, commando or guerrilla activities-conducted by the V.S . Army in World War II have been the subject of a good many thrilling adventure stories but little sober, historical analysis. Only a handful of works have examined the critical issues underlying special operations, and the Army's historical series on World War II treats the subject only in passing. Yet special operations had a significant role that should not be ignored. Ranger units captured positions critical to the success of amphibious landings in the Mediterranean, France, and the Philippines. Partisans advised by American military personnel provided essential intelligence to American forces and harassed enemy troops in support of American operations in Italy, France, the Philippines, and Burma. As special operations forces grow in importance within the V.S. Army, we need to look at our experience with such activities in World War II. I recommend this study as an overview for Army leaders and other interested parties of an important, but often misunderstood subject. It fills a gap in the Army's history of World War II and honors individuals whose efforts, frequently unsung, nevertheless made a major contribution to the American and Allied victory in that war. HAROLD W. NELSON, Brigadier General, USA, Chief of Military History
Автор: Robert S. Cameron
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 016079417X
Количество страниц: 562
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Dr. Robert Cameron’s Mobility, Shock, and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch, 1917–1945 captures the multifaceted development of the Armored Force from its inauspicious beginnings in World War I to its fully mature, operational status at the close of World War II. Through analysis of the Armor Branch’s early years, it provides an excellent case study in force transformation. The development of new armor doctrines and organizations to exploit emerging technologies, concepts, and missions is the heart of this work.
Автор: Earl F. Ziemke
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 2002
Количество страниц: 562
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Save for the introduction of nuclear weapons, the Soviet victory over Germany was the most fatelul development of World War II. Both wrought changes and raised problems that have constantly preoccupied the world in the more than twenty years since the war ended. The purpose of this volume is to investigate one aspect of the Soviet victory - how the war was won on the battlefield. The author sought, in following the march of the Soviet and German armies from Stalingrad to Berlin, to depict the war as it was and to describe the manner in which the Soviet Union emerged as the predominant military power in Europe.
Автор: Ryszard Woźniak, Przemysław Kupidura, Mirosław Zahor
Издательство: Dom Wydawniczy Bellona i Agencja Wydawnicza CB
Год издания: 1998
isbn: 8311089841
Количество страниц: 36
Язык: другой
Формат: PDF (scan)
Автор: Alfred M. Beck, Abe Bortz, Charles W. Lynch, Lida Mayo, Ralph F. Weld
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 1985
Количество страниц: 627
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
United States Army in World War II. The Technical Services. In this, the last volume dealing with the performance of the Corps of Engineers during World War II, the Corps' support of the war in the European and North African theaters is recounted in detail. This narrative makes clear the indispensible role of the military engineer at the fighting front and his part in maintaining Allied armies in the field against European Axis powers. American engineers carried the fight to enemy shores by their mastery of amphibious warfare. In building and repairing road and rail nets for the fighting forces, they wrote their own record of achievement. In supporting combat and logistical forces in distant lands, these technicians of war transferred to active theaters many of the construction and administrative functions of the peacetime Corps, so heavily committed to public works at home. The authors of this volume have reduced a highly complex story to a comprehensive yet concise account of American military engineers in the two theaters of operations where the declared main enemy of the war was brought to unconditional surrender. The addition of this account to the official U.S. Army in World War II series closes the last remaining gaps in the history of the technical services in that conflict. DOUGLAS KINNARD, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.), Chief of Military History
Автор: Lenore Fine, Jesse A. Remington
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 1989
Количество страниц: 776
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
United States Army in World War II. The Technical Services. In World War II the Corps of Engineers superintended the largest construction program in the nation's history, providing the home base for a United States Army that grew to more than eight million men and women. The Corps-related construction work included development of the facilities for making atomic bombs. In telling the story of these herculean efforts the authors set unprecedented standards: no detailed and scholarly history on the subject of construction has ever before been undertaken in this country. JAMES L. COLLINS, JR., Brigadier General, USA, Chief of Military History
Автор: Karl C. Dod
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 1987
Количество страниц: 776
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
United States Army in World War II. The Technical Services. Contributions of the Corps of Engineers to victory in war, and to our country's peacetime history, are well known and appreciated. The skill and versatility of this talented body of soldiers met a supreme test in operations against the Japanese, many of which were conducted in the most primitive and undeveloped regions of the world. Engineers built the Alaska Highway, Canol, and the Ledo Road in Burma. They cleared the jungles to build airfields for heavy bombers and supervised the work of Filipinos, Chinese, and Melanesians as they built runways by hand. They built ports, roads, and docks where none had existed. Indeed, one of the most familiar recollections of the U.S. veteran of the war against Japan is the ubiquitous engineer operating a bulldozer. Dr. Dod's subject is vast and varied, and he has worked hard and capably to fit it into the confines of a single volume. He has made an original contribution to knowledge in the highly technical areas of Engineer problems, organization, equipment, supply, administration, and operations. HAL C. PATTISON, Brigadier General, USA, Chief of Military History.
Автор: Blanche D. Coll, Jean E. Keith, Ph.D. Herbert H. Rosenthal
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год издания: 1988
Количество страниц: 641
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
United States Army in World War II. The Technical Services. The world-wide operations of the U.S. Army in World War II involved an enormous amount of construction and the performance on a comparable scale of many other missions by the Corps of Engineers. This is the first of four volumes that will describe the participation of the Engineers in the war and the contribution they made toward winning it.
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