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Author : Bruce A. Hanesalo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Tank warfare
ISBN : 1886848289
Author : Jeff Danby
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636240145
“With its focus on tank crew members and their commanders this is a unique addition to the literature on WWII.” —A. Harding Ganz, Associate Professor Emeritus of the Ohio State University at Newark, author of Ghost Division After the shocking fall of France in June 1940, the U.S. Army embarked on a crash program to establish a new armored force. One of the units formed was the 756th Tank Battalion (Light), activated at Fort Lewis in June 1941. Because of severe equipment shortages, the new battalion trained without tanks for several months, but by early 1942 were equipped with new M3 light tanks. While companies A and C took part in Operation Torch, B was withheld for lack of cargo space in the transport ships and rejoined the battalion two months later in North Africa. The units undertook reconnaissance missions following the landings in Salerno. In December 1943 the battalion was ordered to upgrade to a medium tank (Sherman) unit. Given less than a month to reorganize and train in M4s, the battalion was sent into the Mignano Gap and supported the 34th Infantry Division in the capture of Cervaro and Monte Trocchio. B Company also supported the troops of the 100th Battalion on bloody but ill-fated attempts to cross the Rapido river before finally establishing a secure bridgehead. The nearby town of Caira was also captured, opening an avenue for an attack on Cassino. Based on decades of research, and hours of interviews with veterans of the 756th Tank Battalion, Jeff Danby’s vivid narrative puts the reader in the turret of B Company’s Shermans as they ride into battle. “The level of detail is impressive.” —WWII History Magazine
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359171804
"This manual covers the tactical employment of the light and medium tank battalions both as part of a larger force and when acting independently. It is designed as a guide only and does not lay down a set of inflexible rules. Each tactical situation must be solved on its own merits and the initiative of individual commanders must be encouraged. Although not written specifically for the separate tank battalions, the fundamentals covered herein and formations shown are generally applicable to those units."
Author : Major Michael J. Volpe
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786256553
On 15 August 1944, an Allied army launched a second amphibious landing against the coast of southern France. The Allies, having shattered German defenses around the beachhead, decided to exploit the chaos in the enemy camp. On 17 August 1944, Major General (MG) Lucian K. Truscott Jr., with no mobile organic strike force assigned to his VI Corps, ordered the assembly of and attack by an ad hoc collection of units roughly equivalent to an armored brigade. This provisional armored group (Task Force (TF) Butler) experienced remarkable success despite a dearth of planning, no rehearsals, and no history of working together in either training or combat. This case study examines the success of TF Butler from the perspectives of doctrinal development in the United States (U.S.) Army, the unit’s unique task organization, and the leadership’s employment of the unit in combat. The use of ad hoc formations to meet unforeseen situations was not unique to World War II; American units currently serving in the Middle East are regularly assigned units they have no habitual relations with to conduct combat operations. This case study may prove useful in preparing contemporary military leaders for the types of challenges they will face conducting operations in the contemporary operational environment.
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Armored troops
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026310412
Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015034716590
Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849086264
Overshadowed by the United States Army's armored divisions, the separate tank and tank destroyer battalions had the difficult mission of providing armored support for US infantry divisions in the 1944–45 campaigns. This book details the organizational structures and deployment of these units: the standard tank battalions, tank battalions (light), tank battalions (mine exploder) and tank battalions (special), self-propelled and towed tank destroyer battalions. It also covers the tactics used by these units in their attempts to assist the infantry, as well as providing a listing of all the battalions that took part in the Northwest Europe campaign.
Author : Kevin C. Holzimmer
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700634040
He made his name in the jungles of the Pacific theater, was featured on the cover of Time magazine, was tapped by Douglas MacArthur to lead the invasion of Japan, and made crucial contributions to the army's tactical and operational doctrine. Yet General Walter Krueger is still one of the least-known army commanders of World War II. Kevin Holzimmer's book resurrects the brilliant career of this great military leader while deepening our understanding of the Pacific War. As head of the Sixth U.S. Army, Krueger exemplified the art of command at the operational level of war and played a pivotal role in the defeat of Japan that until now has not been fully recognized. To the public he was a "mystery man," and his abrasive personality may have sometimes caused problems for MacArthur, but his commander credited him as "swift and sure in attack, tenacious and determined in defense, modest and restrained in victory." And although Krueger left no diaries or memoirs-and stubbornly refused to record many of his personal views-Kevin Holzimmer has mined military archives on Krueger and his Sixth Army to produce a compelling biography that finally acknowledges his importance. Holzimmer first analyzes the experiences of Krueger's prewar career: testing the triangular infantry division in the late 1930s, serving in the War Plans Division, and participating in peacetime maneuvers. This training prepared him for the challenges of command in the Pacific, where he successfully forged and led a large combined-arms effort that effectively integrated infantry, armor, artillery, naval, and air forces. Holzimmer then details Krueger's remarkable leadership in the military campaigns against the Japanese. By placing Krueger's philosophy of command within the context of evolving military doctrine, Holzimmer shows how he produced tough victories against a determined enemy in an enormously difficult war zone. Unlike some overly cautious commanders of the war, Krueger was aggressive when the situated dictated, and even MacArthur admitted that "history has not given him due credit for his greatness." By showing how he breathed life into Pacific war strategy and made sure it was executed successfully, this book gives him that credit and fills a glaring gap in American military history.
Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030449670
Author : Steve Zaloga
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811704243
• Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II • Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger • Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor Some tank crews referred to the American M4 Sherman tank as a "death trap." Others, like Gen. George Patton, believed that the Sherman helped win World War II. So which was it: death trap or war winner? Armor expert Steven Zaloga answers that question by recounting the Sherman's combat history. Focusing on Northwest Europe (but also including a chapter on the Pacific), Zaloga follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.
Author : Gregory Fontenot
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274359
Loss and Redemption at St Vith closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. Most accounts of the Battle of the Bulge give short-shrift to the interval during which the German forward progress stopped and the American counterattack began. This narrative centers on the 7th Armored Division for the entire length of the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division and accounting for the reconstitution of the Division while in combat.
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : SRLF:A0009306093
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : MINN:30000010464562
The magazine of mobile warfare.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001765256
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080352904
