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Author : Anonim
Publisher : AK-INTERACTIVE, S.L.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jim Mesko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081404142
Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473840836
This pictorial history of the Indochina and Vietnam Wars captures the range of armored warfare used in the region through rare wartime photographs. The two conflicts that engulfed Indochina and Vietnam in the decades after World War II are generally thought of as infantry wars. But in fact, they both involved a significant amount of armored warfare. In this fully illustrated volume, military expert and Vietnam veteran Michael Green describes the many kinds of armored vehicles deployed and their contributions in combat. The ill-fated French Expeditionary Force of the Indochina War was largely equipped with World War II era American tanks—including M3 and M5 Stuart, M4 Sherman and M24 light tanks—as well as armored cars and half-tracks. Most of these eventually went to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, but were outdated and ineffective due to lack of logistics and training. The US Army and Marine Corps build-up in the 1960s saw vast quantities of M48 Pattons, M113 APCs and many specialist variants and improvised armored vehicles arrive in the theatre. The Australians also brought their British Centurion tanks. But it was the Russians, Chinese and North Vietnamese who won the day and their T-38-85 tanks, ZSU anti-aircraft platforms.
Author : Frederick Eugene Oldinsky
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786250162
Includes 24 maps This thesis begins with a brief history of armored vehicles from their earliest concepts to the modern battle tank of today. It critically examines the decision not to include tank units with the first American combat forces deployed in Vietnam and the irrationality of that decision in light of a similar decision made prior to the Korean conflict. Tanks were deployed in limited numbers in Vietnam in spite of a decision to the contrary and, once there, I proved their usefulness and their ability to perform in a tropical environment against an elusive enemy. Examples of the tank’s effectiveness in Vietnam are given and the feasibility of deploying major armored forces to that country is discussed. Problems created by insufficient armor are addressed as well as the limitations and vulnerabilities of tanks and other armored vehicles. Armor doctrine is traced from the tank’s role in breaking the stalemate of World War I through the formative years of World War II, and its application to the war in Vietnam. Since most armored weapons were designed primarily for conventional warfare, a number of modifications were required to adapt the weapons to an unconventional war. Some of the more significant modifications are described. Finally, lessons learned by the Vietnam experience and their future application are discussed. Concluding consideration in the paper is whether or not decision makers will need these lessons learned or continue to make the same mistakes.
Author : Al Hogue,Bill Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1661780172
Nearly all of the 150 photographs in this 8X10 Vietnam War pictorial book were made from slides. That is why they are so sharp. Most of them look as though they could have been taken yesterday.I arrived in Vietnam in the summer of 1968 with an Agfa 35mm camera that I had purchased while stationed in Germany. The camera only lasted about one week in Vietnam because it was the Monsoon season in the Central Highlands, and rust from the rain and high humidity ruined it. Since the unit I was in never went into the 4th Infantry Division basecamp, Camp Enari, in Pleiku where the PX was, I spent the first half of my Vietnam tour of duty without a camera to document the extraordinary events, places, and people I encountered. Then, early in 1969, I went on R&R, and while in basecamp on my way to Hong Kong, I bought an Olympus 35mm camera at the PX. So, it was only during the last half of my tour, the first half of 1969, that I took all of the photos that I have now.Al Hogue, who was in the same mechanized infantry scout squad that I was in, also took many pictures. Using his Canon Electra 35mm camera, his pictures were all shot during the last half of 1969. The majority of the pictures in this Vietnam pictorial were made by Al. Al has a good eye for photography and a talent for capturing a moment in time and creating pictures that say a lot.Our pictures bring back memories from more than fifty years ago and they mean a lot to us. We like to show them to our friends and family and other Veterans and tell them the stories associated with each one. Since most of the guys who served in Vietnam did not have cameras and therefore have no pictures, we decided to combine our photos to share with them and anyone else that might be interested in that extraordinary period of U.S. military history.
Author : Al Hogue,Bill Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1658731743
Nearly ninety percent of the 150 photographs in this 8X10 pictorial book were made from slides. That is why they are so clear and with such true color. Most of them look as though they could have been taken yesterday. I arrived in Vietnam with an Agfa 35mm camera that I had purchased while stationed in Germany. The camera only lasted about one week in Vietnam. It was the Monsoon season in the Central Highlands, and rust from the rain and high humidity ruined it. Since the unit I was in never went into the 4th Infantry Division basecamp, Camp Enari, in Pleiku where the PX was, I spent the first half of my Vietnam tour of duty without a camera to document the extraordinary events, places, and people I encountered. Then, I went on R&R, and while in basecamp on my way to Hong Kong, I bought an Olympus 35mm camera at the PX. Al Hogue, who was in the same mechanized infantry scout squad that I was in, also took many pictures. Using his Canon Electra 35mm camera, his pictures were all shot during the last half of 1969. The majority of the pictures in this Vietnam pictorial were made by Al. Al has a good eye for photography and a talent for capturing a moment in time, and creating pictures that say a lot. Our pictures bring back memories from more than fifty years ago and they mean a lot to us. We like to show them to our friends and family and other Veterans and tell them the stories associated with each one. Since most of the guys who served in Vietnam did not have cameras and therefore have no pictures, we decided to combine our photos to share with them and anyone else that might be interested in armored fighting vehicles in the Vietnam War during that extraordinary period of U.S. military history.The role of Armor in the Vietnam War -- Early in the Vietnam War Pentagon Officials believed Vietnam was no place for armor. They were wrong. The tanks, Armored Personnel Carriers, self-propelled howitzers and armored gun trucks played a vital role in in defending forward fire support bases, landing zones, bridges, and convoys. Moreover, the tanks, armored infantry and armored cavalry were very effective in search and destroy and reconnaissance missions, and were a formidable force in combat assault operations. In addition to the 150 photographs, there are official after-action reports, and contemporaneous articles detailing battles between American armored fighting vehicles and the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong. There are photos of one of the Soviet made T-76 Tanks that attacked Ben Het Special Forces Camp near the Laotian border, which was the only tank-to-tank battle between American and North Vietnamese tanks in the Vietnam War.
Author : Al Hogue,Bill Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1691709492
Early in the Vietnam War Pentagon Officials believed Vietnam was no place for armor. They were wrong. The tanks, APCs, Howitzers, and gun trucks played a vital role in defending fire support bases, landing zones, bridges, and convoys. They were highly effective in finding North Vietnamese Army basecamps and bunker complexes hidden in the heavily forested hills and valleys. In combat assault operations, known as "Jungle Busting" the tanks, and armored personnel carriers would overrun and crush the enemy forces. The 150 photos in this picture book were taken in 1968 and 1969 in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam by Al Hogue and Bill Miller. Both Al and Bill were in the 4th Infantry Division, 2nd/8th Infantry (Mechanized) Recon Platoon.
Author : Mike Guardia
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612008196
An illustrated history of the American tanks deployed to the Pacific theater during World War II and the conflicts they faced there. This volume in the Casemate Illustrated series explores American armor during the Pacific Campaign of the Second World War, from 1942 to 1945. In this period, there were over twenty major tank battles and operations in which tanks provided heavy support to infantry units. These operations included the Battle of Tarawa and the Bougainville Campaign. American Armor in the Pacific also features the strategies and tactics of the opposing forces, relying heavily on first-person accounts. This book examines the Pacific theater and how American armor was employed with great success in that theater of war. It also offers detailed information on American and Japanese armored forces, including development, equipment, capabilities, organization, and order of battle. Praise for American Armor in the Pacific “Packed with over 100 images . . . exactly what a reader interested in the armored battles fought between the Imperial Japanese war machine and U.S. military would want to see.” —Globe at War
Author : Ha Mai Viet
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612514338
When South Vietnam was abandoned by its American allies and consequently defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1975, all its military records were lost to the enemy. This has led to a paucity of factually based analyses of the war by South Vietnamese authors. In a project lasting some ten years, and financed by his own hard-earned resources, Colonel Viet has researched, documented, and analyzed the Vietnam War from the perspective of South Vietnamese armor forces, elements in which he himself played an important role as leader, teacher, and innovator. His travels to interview hundreds of people with first-hand knowledge of these matters took him back and forth across the United States (and to Canada, France and Australia) and enabled him to piece together the story as recalled by virtually every senior South Vietnamese who was involved, along with many of lesser rank but important experience, and many Americans as well. The result is a unique and invaluable work, one recounting from the early days of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam its organization and development, its combat operations, and its interaction with American advisors and then later with deployed American units. Viet tells this story as an historian would, not glossing over the shortcomings and failures of his fellow Vietnamese soldiers (or of the Americans), but also providing definitive accounts of their successes, their innovations, their courage and determination, and the hardships experienced and survived in the course of a long, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful struggle. In Colonel Viet's words: "In order to give the truth back to history, we did not hide anything, whether it be victory or defeat." Finally, in a very touching portion of the work, Colonel Viet memorializes his fallen comrades of the armored force and commemorates the service of all the American advisors to the armored force he was able to identify.
Author : General Donn A. Starry
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893660
[Includes 1 chart, 17 maps, 6 diagrams and 38 illustrations] “The generally unsuccessful experience of French armored forces in Southeast Asia from the end of World War II to 1954 convinced American military men that armored units could not be employed in Vietnam. “It was not until 1967, however, when a study titled Mechanized and Armor Combat Operations, Vietnam...was sent to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Army, that the potential of armored forces was fully described to the Army’s top leaders. Despite the study’s findings that armored cavalry was probably the most cost-effective force on the Vietnam battlefield-there was little that could be done to alter significantly either the structure of forces already sent to Vietnam or those earmarked for deployment...The armored force of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, meanwhile had been successful enough in fighting the elusive Viet Cong that U.S. armored units had been deployed in limited numbers, usually as part of their parent divisions. “From early March 1965 until the cease-fire in Jan. 1973, U.S. armored units participated in virtually every large-scale offensive operation and worked closely with South Vietnamese Army and other free world forces. After eight years of fighting over land on which tanks were once thought to be incapable of moving, in weather that was supposed to prohibit armored operations, and dealing with an elusive enemy against whom armored units were thought to be at a considerable disadvantage, armored forces emerged as powerful, flexible, and essential battle forces. In large measure they contributed to the success of the free world forces, not only in close combat, but in pacification and security operations as well. When redeployment began in early 1969, armored units were not included in the first forces scheduled for redeployment, and indeed planners moved armored units down the scale time and again, holding off their redeployment until the very end.”
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : OCLC:1128817796
A collection of articles regarding the use of armor during the Vietnam War, compiled by the Armor Committee of the Cadet Military Affairs Club.
Author : Simon Dunstan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081483245
Captioned front-line photos and text describe the role of the armored fighting vehicle and the troops in Vietnam.
Author : Keith W. Nolan
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610600750
Using firsthand accounts from Vietnam soldiers, this book “tells it like it is, warts and all . . . [an] honest account of a cavalry squadron’s experience” (Military Review). The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Armored Division deployed to Vietnam from Fort Hood, Texas, in August 1967. Search and Destroy covers the 1/1’s harrowing first year and a half of combat in the war’s toughest area of operations: I Corps. The book takes readers into the savage action at infamous places like Tam Ky, the Que Son Valley, the Pineapple Forest, Hill 34, and Cigar Island, chronicling General Westmoreland’s search-and-destroy war of attrition against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. Exploring the gray areas of guerrilla war, military historian Keith Nolan details moments of great compassion toward the Vietnamese, but also eruptions of My Lai-like violence, the grimmer aspects of the 1/1’s successes. Search and Destroy is a rare account of an exemplary fighting force in action, a dramatic close-up look at the Vietnam War. “Nolan’s research, his comprehension of the political as well as the military actions, his careful concern for those who were there, and, most of all, his writing, are superb.” —Stephen Ambrose
Author : Shelby L. Stanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014636503
Depicts the clothing and individual equipment of the American soldier in Vietnam. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Dale E. Wilson
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1612006671
A detailed account of the first use of armor in the U.S. Army during World War I, from the training of crews and building of tanks to the first great tank battles.
