St Lo 7 July 19 July 1944

Author : U. S. Army Military History
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519176627

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St-lo by U. S. Army Military History Pdf

Twelfth in the series of studies on particular combat operations, "St-Lo" is the story of a corps in First Army during the bitter July battle that led up to and made possible the great breakthrough from the Normandy beachheads. This was the period of the most intense hedgerow fighting. XIX Corps' part in it has been chosen to illustrate this type of combat. The records of other First Army units in this operation have been covered only in outline. "St-Lo" is one of a series of fourteen studies of World War II operations originally published by the War Department's Historical Division and now returned to print as part of the Army's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of that momentous clash of arms. These volumes, prepared by professional historians shortly after the events described, provide a concise summary of some of the major campaigns and battles fought by American soldiers.

Author : United States. War Department. General Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Saint-Lô (France)
ISBN : UOM:39015003455329

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St-Lô (7 July-19 July 1944). by United States. War Department. General Staff Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Saint-Lô (France)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127347131

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St-Lô (7 July - 19 July, 1944). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Center of Military History,United States. War Department. Historical Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Saint-Lô (France)
ISBN : OCLC:847576433

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Saint-Lô (7 July - 19 July 1944) by Center of Military History,United States. War Department. Historical Division Pdf

Author : United States. War Department. General Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Saint-Lô (France)
ISBN : OCLC:224105669

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St-Lo (7 July-19 July 1944). by United States. War Department. General Staff Pdf

Author : United States. War Department. Historical Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Saint-Lô (France)
ISBN : OCLC:18057287

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St. Lo (7 July-19 July 1944) by United States. War Department. Historical Division Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:256373116

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St-Lo by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anon.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782892502

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St Lô (7 July - 19 July, 1944) [Illustrated Edition] by Anon. Pdf

Includes 54 contemporary photos illustrations and 26 highly detailed maps. ST-LÔ, capital of the department of Manche, can be used as one symbol for First U. S. Army’s victory in a most difficult and bloody phase of the Campaign of Normandy: the "Battle of the Hedgerows," during the first three weeks of July 1944. Other names figure in this battle. La Haye-du-Puits, Périers, Hill 192, like St-Lô, will be remembered by First Army soldiers from a background of stubborn struggle for gains too often measured in terms of a few hundred yards, or of two or three fields, conquered against a bitterly resisting enemy. Much more was at stake in the Battle of the Hedgerows than possession of a communications center on the Vire River. In June, First Army and British Second Army had won their beachheads and had captured Cherbourg (26 June). Supplies and reinforcements were building up for a powerful offensive, designed to break out of the Normandy pocket and scheduled to be mounted in the First Army zone. But more room and better jump-off positions for the crucial offensive were needed before this blow could be delivered. The attack that began in early July was planned to gain this ground, on a front of 25 miles. Four corps, employing ultimately 12 divisions, were involved in the effort. All these units faced similar problems of advance, and all contributed to the measure of success achieved. Therefore, in the larger tactical sense it would be unfair to identify the Battle of the Hedgerows with St-Lô and later military studies, treating the Campaign of Normandy in different scope, will give the operation in truer proportions. Here, one phase of the hedgerow battle can be used to illustrate, in tactical detail, the character of the larger action. A gripping account of the attempts by the Allies to break out from the Normandy bridgehead.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Saint-Lao (France)
ISBN : UIUC:30112047356354

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St-Lô (7 July - 19 July, 1944). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Dale Doubler
Publisher : Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Bocage normand (France)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082400412

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Busting the Bocage by Michael Dale Doubler Pdf

Author : David Garth
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 194?
Category : Saint-Lô (France)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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St Lo by David Garth Pdf

Author : United States. War Department. Historical Division
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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St-Lo by United States. War Department. Historical Division Pdf

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472816948

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St Lô 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga Pdf

Following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, the First US Army engaged in a six-week struggle to break out of the Normandy beach-head. The hedgerow country of lower Normandy, called the Bocage, presented unanticipated tactical problems since it proved to be ideal for German infantry defense. This book examines the brutal attritional struggle in June-July 1944 to overcome the determined German defense and secure St Lô. The city was the site of a crucial cross-roads and was thus a vital target for the invading Allied forces; the initial bombing attacks were so severe that the journalist and poet Samuel Beckett would later report that it had been 'bombed out of existence in one night'. The attack by ground forces turned into a brutal attritional struggle to overcome the determined German defense. Using full-colour artwork, photographs and maps, this is the engaging story of one of the key engagements in the Battle of Normandy.

Author : Leo J. Daugherty
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053368737

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The Battle of the Hedgerows by Leo J. Daugherty Pdf

Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings, was an unqualified success and in the days after the allied invasion of northern France, tens of thousands of troops were landed inland. General Omar Bradley's First Army has superior mobility, plus lavish quantities of stream-crossing and bridging equipment. However, as they headed inland, the Americans had to cope with terrain that largely negated their mobile superiority - the Bocage. The Battle of the Hedgerows is an account of the US First Army over seven gruelling weeks in June and July 1944. The book makes it clear that, although German defenders were outnumbered and out gunned, they had a crucial advantage: hedges. The Bocage is divided in a multitude of earthen-walled enclosures, all of which are surrounded by high, dense hedgerows. All but the most important roads are sunken lanes, with foliage arching over them. Each field and hedgerow was turned into a defensive position by the Germans, and their 88s, machine guns and mortars took a heavy toll of US troops in the fighting. In addition, many of the US soldiers and their commanders were inexperienced, Having never seen combat.Their opponents, on the other hand, the troops of II Parachute Corps, though deficient in air and artillery support, were seasoned veterans, especially the all important NCOs. As the book shows, the fighting consisted of thousands of field-by-field infantry battles that were sometimes disturbingly reminiscent of the western front in World War 1. The Bocage was a soldier's battle in every sense, as US troops embarked on a bloody learning curve to master the skills of close combat riflemen and nearly 150% casualties among its officers during the Period Although it is often perceived that there was an inevitability about the allied victory once D-Day proved successful, the reality of the Normandy campaign - as revealed through the pages of The Battle of the Hedgerows - shows that the ultimate Allied victory was wrought only after stern German defence. As such the book will be of interest to all military historians and those fascinated by the course of World War 2.

Author : Stephen Napier
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750964739

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The Armoured Campaign in Normandy by Stephen Napier Pdf

Beginning with the D-day landings, this is a brutally frank appraisal of the planned use and actual results of the deployment of armour by both German and Allied commanders in the major tank battles of the Normandy campaign including operations Epsom, Goodwood, Cobra and Totalize. The Armoured Campaign in Normandy is a critique of Montgomery's plans to seize territory and break out and describes how they failed in the face of German resistance. It details the poor planning and mistakes of British senior commanders and how the German Army's convoluted chain of command contributed to their own defeat; these were decisions taken which cost the lives of the tank crews of both sides ordered to carry them out. Official reports, war diaries, after action reports, letters, regimental histories, memoirs of generals and recollections of tank men are used to tell the inside story of the campaign from an armour point of view to give a different but detailed perspective of the Normandy campaign from the men who fought in it.