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Author : William B. Breuer
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 089141620X
Breuer's well-written, throughly researched, and balanced history...-- Booklist
Author : William B. Breuer
Publisher : Jove Publications
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0515090662
Here is the full, exciting story of the invasion that marked the beginning of the end of Hitler's hold on Europe. Special action photos tell how young, raw American paratroopers faced gale force winds to make the first regimental-scale airborne assault on Axis territory.
Author : Bart Hagerman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Parachute troops
ISBN : 9780938021902
Author : Stan Posner,Sandra Phillips-Posner
Publisher : Travelsmart
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Atlantic States
ISBN : 9781894979887
Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780961286
Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and dismissive view of the combat capabilities of the inexperienced US Army after the debacle at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia in February 1943. Sicily was a demonstration that the US Army had rapidly learned its lessons and was now capable of fighting as a co-equal of the British Army. The Sicily campaign contained a measure of high drama as Patton took the reins of the Seventh US Army and bent the rules of the theater commander in a bold race to take Palermo on the northern Sicilian coast. When stiff German resistance halted Montgomery's main assault to Messina through the mountains, Patton was posed to be the first to reach the key Sicilian port and end the campaign. The Sicily campaign contains a fair amount of controversy as well including the disastrous problems with early airborne assaults and the Allied failure to seal the straits of Messina, allowing the Germans to withdraw many of their best forces.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985-03
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112105112459
Author : Albert N. Garland,Howard McGaw Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015004771054
Author : Guy LoFaro
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306820243
From decorated veteran, acclaimed West Point lecturer, and inspirational military speaker Guy LoFaro, the first complete history of America's legendary World War II airborne division.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160899486
Historien om planlægningen, krigen og følgerne af USAs operationer i Middelhavet under 2. verdenskrig.
Author : Howard G. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Aircraft industry
ISBN : UCAL:B5547564
This dissertation shows how the history of the Waco Aircraft Company reflects the transformation of the American economy in the twentieth century. Beginning just after the First World War, its entrepreneur, Clayton J. Brukner, developed a network of relationships within the aviation industry. This allowed his company to develop significant competitive advantages in the private flying market. Those advantages and the popular appeal of aviation helped Waco to become the largest manufacturer of civilian aircraft by 1929. The transformation of business-government relations during the New Deal demanded changes in Brukner's business strategy. The depression significantly cut sales of its popular biplanes, but Waco kept its Troy, Ohio, factory open and earned some profits during the downturn. Brukner's involvement with the trade associations in the 1930s revealed the critical role the government, the military in particular, played in the development of aviation. His flawed leadership in the changing context led to decisions that degraded the quality of its network signals and diminished Waco's effectiveness in crafting appropriate policies. As the international situation grew increasingly tense throughout the 1930s, Waco, like other manufacturers, turned to exports to enhance sales. Contracts with foreign governments partially offset the setback the depression had caused domestically. They did not, however, drive Brukner to evaluate sufficiently Waco's potential participation in the U.S. military market. Only after the Munich Crisis in September 1938, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to call for increased military spending, did the Waco Aircraft Company position itself to receive defense contracts. It was almost three years, however, before the Army Air Forces directed the company to design and manufacture transport aircraft and cargo gliders. In the meantime Brukner had not developed the organizational capabilities needed to manage military contracts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Infantry
ISBN : MINN:30000010473530
Author : Ken Ford
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752495958
On the night of 9/10 July 1943, an Allied armada of 2,590 vessels launched one of the largest combined operations of the Second World War - the invasion of Sicily, Operation 'Husky'. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million British, Canadian, American and French soldiers, sailors, and airmen grappled with their German and Italian counterparts for control of this rocky outcrop of Hitler's 'Fortress Europe'. The Allied assault on Sicily featured airborne and amphibious landings; mountain warfare; international rivalry; poorly performing troops; tenacious German resistance; and, improvements in tactical air support and the ultimate Allied victory on the island. Almost the whole of the progress of the Second World War is illustrated by this one campaign. It was the only action where the whole Allied war effort was brought to bear on a single objective, with one army commanded by Patton and one army commanded by Montgomery. Both men were insufferable egoists and insubordinate commanders; they always chose to do their own thing, regardless of others' sensibilities and always with one eye on how history would see them.The seeds of rivalry between these two key Allied commanders that were sown in the Sicily campaign eventually grew to fruition in the battles for Normandy and the Ardennes.
Author : Ralph D. Bald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435012286068
Author : Bernd Horn,Michel Wyczynski
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550024708
This book traces the development of airborne forces from earliest mythology to their earth-shattering debut in the Second World War.
Author : United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120901835