From Salerno To The Alps

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:861757763

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From Salerno to the Alps by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chester G. Starr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258826917

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From Salerno to the Alps by Chester G. Starr Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Keyes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813198743

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Patton's Tactician by Geoffrey Keyes Pdf

Nineteen months after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and forced the United States to enter World War II, boats carrying the 7th US Army landed on the shores of southern Sicily. Dubbed Operation Husky, the campaign to establish an Allied foothold in Sicily was led by two of the most noted American tacticians of the twentieth century: George S. Patton Jr. and Geoffrey Keyes. While Patton is the subject of numerous books and films, Keyes's life and achievements have gone unrecognized, but his anonymity is by no means an accurate reflection of the value of his contributions and dedicated service in World War II and the succeeding cold war. Patton's Tactician: The War Diary of Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes is the first transcribed edition of Keyes's personal diary to be published. Edited by James W. Holsinger Jr., the diary begins in October 1942, prior to the invasion of French Morocco and Keyes's engagement in World War II and the Cold War. Holsinger has integrated a variety of related sources, including correspondence between Keyes, Patton, and Eisenhower. A day-to-day chronicle of Keyes's experiences in the World War II Mediterranean Theater and the early days of the Cold War in occupied Germany and Austria, Patton's Tactician is an invaluable primary source that offers readers a glimpse into the mind of one of America's most important World War II corps commanders.

Author : Wilson A. Heefner
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826272126

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Dogface Soldier by Wilson A. Heefner Pdf

On July 11, 1943, General Lucian Truscott received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross, for valor in action in Sicily. During his career he also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Purple Heart. Truscott was one of the most significant of all U.S. Army generals in World War II, pioneering new combat training methods—including the famous “Truscott Trot”— and excelling as a combat commander, turning the Third Infantry Division into one of the finest divisions in the U.S. Army. He was instrumental in winning many of the most important battles of the war, participating in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, and southern France. Truscott was not only respected by his peers and “dogfaces”—common soldiers—alike but also ranked by President Eisenhower as second only to Patton, whose command he took over on October 8, 1945, and led until April 1946. Yet no definitive history of his life has been compiled. Wilson Heefner corrects that with the first authoritative biography of this distinguished American military leader. Heefner has undertaken impressive research in primary sources—as well as interviews with family members and former associates—to shed new light on this overlooked hero. He presents Truscott as a soldier who was shaped by his upbringing, civilian and military education, family life, friendships, and evolving experiences as a commander both in and out of combat. Heefner’s brisk narrative explores Truscott’s career through his three decades in the Army and defines his roles in key operations. It also examines Truscott’s postwar role as military governor of Bavaria, particularly in improving living conditions for Jewish displaced persons, removing Nazis from civil government, and assisting in the trials of German war criminals. And it offers the first comprehensive examination of his subsequent career in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as senior CIA representative in West Germany during the early days of the Cold War, and later as CIA Director Allen Dulles’s deputy director for coordination in Washington. Dogface Soldier is a portrait of a man who earned a reputation for being honest, forthright, fearless, and aggressive, both as a military officer and in his personal life—a man who, at the dedication ceremony for the Anzio-Nettuno American cemetery in 1945, turned away from the crowd and to the thousands of crosses stretching before him to address those buried there. Heefner has written a definitive biography of a great soldier and patriot.

Author : Robert B. Ellis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0786483423

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See Naples and Die by Robert B. Ellis Pdf

In 1943, 18-year-old Robert Ellis joined the elite U.S. Army Ski Troops of the 10th Mountain Division. This division has been called the most elite and publicized American military unit in World War II. While a member of the unit Ellis maintained a detailed battle diary and conducted extensive wartime correspondence. Upon their arrival in Italy, the U.S. Army Ski Troops played a major role in the defeat of the Germans in Italy. They also faced some of the bloodiest combat of the war; the 10th Mountain Division suffered the heaviest casualties relative to time-in-combat of any U.S. division in the Italian campaign. While the author details the exceptional service of the unit, he also explores the brutal reality of infantry service and reveals how the battles were falsely represented by the media.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211517458

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United States Army Combat Forces Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Sloan Brown
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813185880

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Draftee Division by John Sloan Brown Pdf

The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres. Much to his surprise and delight, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall found that the 88th Infantry Division, his first draftee division, "fought like wildcats" and readily outclassed its German adversaries while measuring up to the best Regular Army divisions. Draftee Division is at once a history of the 88th Division, an analysis of American unit mobilization during World War II, and an insight into the savage Italian Campaign. After an introduction placing the division in historical context, separate chapters address personnel, training, logistics, and overseas deployment. Another chapter focuses upon preliminary adjustments to the realities of combat, after which two chapters trace the 88th's climactic drive through the Gustav Line into Rome itself. A final chapter takes the veteran 88th to final victory. Of particular interest are observations concerning differences connected with mobilization between the 88th and less successful divisions and discussions of the contemporary relevance of the 88th's experiences. Draftee Division is especially rich in its sources. John Sloan Brown, with close ties to the division, has secured extensive and candid contributions from veterans. To these he has added a full array of archival and secondary sources. The result is a definitive study of American cadremen creating a division out of raw draftees and leading them on to creditable victories. Its findings will be important for military and social historians and for students of defense policy

Author : Edward L. Bimberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313030314

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The Moroccan Goums by Edward L. Bimberg Pdf

Bimberg provides a military history of the Moroccan Goums, the knife-wielding irregular troops who distinguished themselves, fighting under French command in Tunisia, Italy, France and Germany during World War II. Recruited from the hill tribes of Morocco's Atlas Mountains, the Goums were garbed throughout the war in the traditional djellaba of their homeland and were armed with long sharp knives, in addition to rifles, machine-guns and mortars. They terrified the enemy not only by their ferocity, but by their odd appearance. Their particular skill in mountain warfare prompted General Patton to request their participation in his Sicilian campaign, and they fought brilliantly in this and many other key campaigns. This account follows these forces from their native North African mountains across the battlefields of World War II to their final triumph in the Austrian Alps. It recounts their tactics and their strange traditions, as remarkable Beau Geste type French officers led them into battle. In Italy, 12,000 strong, they swarmed over the forbidding Aurunci range, which no one thought could possibly be penetrated by any sizable force under combat conditions, to spearhead the French forces in turning the German flank in Operation Diadem, the final drive on Rome. Their later exploits in the capture of Marseilles, in the Vosges Mountains, and on the drive to the Rhine were equally sensational.

Author : Rebecca R. Raines,Center of Military History
Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037845263

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Getting the Message Through: A Branch History of the U.S. Army Signal Corps (Paperback) by Rebecca R. Raines,Center of Military History Pdf

CMH Pub. 30-17. Army Historical Series. Traces the history of the United States Signal Corps from its beginnings on the eve of the American Civil War through its participation in the Persian Gulf conflict during the early 1990s. Shows today's signal soldiers where their branch has been and points the way to where it is going.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210006423634

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Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : Crown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307888006

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The Liberator by Alex Kershaw Pdf

The untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War—now a Netflix original series starring Jose Miguel Vasquez, Bryan Hibbard, and Bradley James “Exceptional . . . worthy addition to vibrant classics of small-unit history like Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers.”—Wall Street Journal Written with Alex Kershaw's trademark narrative drive and vivid immediacy, The Liberator traces the remarkable battlefield journey of maverick U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks through the Allied liberation of Europe—from the first landing in Italy to the final death throes of the Third Reich. Over five hundred bloody days, Sparks and his infantry unit battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against the die-hard SS on the Fatherland's borders. Having miraculously survived the long, bloody march across Europe, Sparks was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria, where he and his men experienced some of the most intense street fighting suffered by Americans in World War II. And when he finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Sparks confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason—and put his humanity to the ultimate test.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000140708870

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Signal Corps by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160867169

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Signal Corps (Paperbound) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160869404

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Armies, Corps, Divisions, and Separate Brigades by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas A. Popa
Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210023607169

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Po Valley by Thomas A. Popa Pdf

Center of Military History Publication 72 33. The Po River Valley is in Italy. Describes the Allied forces' offensive in the Po Valley in Northern Italy from April 5 throughMay of 1945.