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Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050273197
Deals with the attack on France in 1944, the Normandy invasion, from its planning stages through July 1944. L.C. card 51-61669.
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN : PSU:000022471192
Author : Gordon Andrews Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN : LCCN:53063678
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894131
[Includes 4 charts, 31 maps and 62 illustrations] Cross-Channel Attack has been planned and written as the introduction to the history of those campaigns in 1944 and 1945 which led to the destruction of the German armies in the west. It provides necessary background for the study of all the campaigns in the European Theater of Operations. The narrative of operations ends on 1 July 1944, with the Allies firmly established in Normandy. The concluding chapters show the successful fruition of plans and preparations reaching back as far as January 1942; but the seizure of the Norman beaches and the establishment of a lodgment area are only a beginning, a point of departure for the drive to the Elbe and the Baltic. Although Cross Channel Attack includes discussion of certain problems of high command and logistics, a more complete treatment is accorded these subjects in two volumes now under preparation in this series: The Supreme Command and Logistical Support of the Armies. Whether the reader approaches the book with the justified pride that he was a member or supporter of the winning team, or whether he reads to learn, is a matter for him to decide. The victor tends to prepare to win the next war with the same means and methods with which he won the last. He forgets the difficulty of reaching decisions, the planning problems, his faltering, his unpreparedness. The vanquished is wont to search far afield for new and improved methods, means, and equipment. The accomplishments of those who fought in this period were indeed great, as were the sacrifices. But from the national viewpoint it would seem desirable to read this volume with the self-critical eye of the vanquished as well as with the pride of the victor, an approach which the thoughtful reader will not find difficult.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : MINN:31951002341469V
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530830028
Cross-Channel Attack, first published 1951 as part of the U.S. Army in World War II series is the official history of the D-Day invasion (Operation Overlord), from the earliest planning, to the buildup of men and equipment in England, to the beach landings in Normandy, and closing with the capture of Cherbourg. The book also examines the history of the German occupation of France and German plans to counter the Allied invasion, including the extensive defensive measures constructed along the Normandy coastline. Allied landings are discussed in detail, with an emphasis on American actions; however stories by individual soldiers are not included in this higher-level look at the planning and execution of the invasion. Appendices include the Overlord plans, important documents, table of equivalent ranks, divisional comparison, German deployments, recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross, glossary of key names and code words, a bibliography and index. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps.
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN : 1410201635
This book deals with the planning and the difficulties encountered incident to the mounting of the largest amphibious assault ever undertaken in military history. Much of the information it contains has not heretofore been a matter of public knowledge. For example, light is for the first time thrown upon the enemy's conflicting theories of defense against Allied air superiority and upon his paucity of first-class troops. This information is derived from the official records of the Wehrmacht and from signed statements of German participants. Many of the difficulties encountered in the planning, as well as in the execution stage of the operation, are here described to the public for the first time.
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1730994393
On 6th June 1944 Operation Overlord was launched. On the first day 1,200 planes provided an airborne assault, 5,000 ships battered the coastline with their shells and 160,000 men crossed the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy. This was the beginning of the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe; this was D-Day. No longer would the Axis forces have a stranglehold on Europe as the Allied forces created a much-need foothold on the shore of northern France after one of the most ambitious amphibious assaults in history. Gordon A. Harrison's brilliant account of this operation uncovers how the Allied commanders prepared for the assault from as early as 1941, and how German forces attempted to build their defenses in the expectation of the eventual attack. He then explores the details of combat operations of the Allied forces from 6th June to 1st July 1944. To do this he uses a wide-range of material including thousands of cables, memoranda, plans, journal entries and records from both the Allied and Axis forces. Cross-Channel Attack is the U.S. Army's official history of the D-Day invasion and should be essential reading for anyone interested in how this remarkable assault was planned and executed. "well arranged" Alfred Vagts, The American Historical Review Gordon A. Harrison was a former newspaper reporter and instructor at Harvard University, who holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree from that institution. During the war he served as a historical officer with the Third Army, taking part in five campaigns. His book Cross-Channel Attack was first published in 1951.
Author : Gordon a. Harrison
Publisher : St. John's Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1944961518
OVERLORD, the cross-Channel attack which hit the German-occupied coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944, was one of the last and by far the biggest of the series of amphibious operations by which the United States and the British Empire came to grips with the German-Italian- Japanese Axis in the course of World War II. But it was more than just another attack. It was the supreme effort of the Western Allies in Europe-the consummation of the grand design to defeat Germany by striking directly at the heart of Hitler's Reich. One of the last attacks, it was the fruition of some of the first strategic ideas.
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015009295844
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756737443
This volume in the U.S. Army' Center of Military History series, U.S. Army in World War II, is introductory to a series on the European Theater of Operations. The book deals with the development of strategy and planning for the attack on northwest Europe in 1944 and with the first month of operations establishing Allied armies in France. The first 7 chapters (c. 2/3) of the book are concerned with the prelude to the 6 June assault: the preparations and discussions of strategy on both the Allied and German sides from 1941 to 1944. The remaining 3 chapters describe the combat operations of the First U.S. Army in Normandy from 6 June to 1 July 1944. Includes black and white photos and a portfolio of maps.
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Normandy (France)
ISBN : PSU:000021696350
Author : Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160613116
Author : James Scott Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074076665
"No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great-Duty First!" For almost a century, from the Western Front of World War I to the deserts of Iraq, this motto has spurred the soldiers who wear the shoulder patch bearing the Big Red One. In this first comprehensive history of America's 1st Infantry Division, James Scott Wheeler chronicles its major combat engagements and peacetime duties during its legendary service to the nation. The oldest continuously serving division in the U.S. Army, the "Fighting First" has consistently played a crucial role in America's foreign wars. It was the first American division to see combat and achieve victory in World War I and set the standard for discipline, training, endurance, and tactical innovation. One of the few intact divisions between the wars, it was the first army unit to train for amphibious warfare. During World War II, the First Division spearheaded the invasions of North Africa and Sicily before leading the Normandy invasion at Omaha Beach and fighting on through the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the Ruhr Pocket, and deep into Germany. By war's end, it had developed successful combined-arms, regimental combat teams and made advances in night operations. Wheeler describes the First Division's critical role in postwar Germany and as the only combat division in Europe during the early Cold War. After returning to the United States at Fort Riley, Kansas, the division fought valiantly in Vietnam for five trying years, successfully protecting Saigon from major infiltration along Highway 13 while pioneering "air-mobile" operations. It led the liberation of Kuwait in Desert Storm and kept an uneasy peace in Bosnia and Kosovo. Along the way, Wheeler illuminates the division's organizational evolution, its consistently remarkable commanders and leaders, and its equally remarkable soldiers. Meticulously detailed and engagingly written, The Big Red One nimbly combines historical narrative with astute analysis of the unit's successes and failures, so that its story reflects the larger chronicle of America's military experience over the past century.
Author : Michael Detlef Krause,R. Cody Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UOM:39015064807194