St Lô 7 July 19 July 1944 Illustrated Edition

Author : Anon.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Saint-Lô (France)
ISBN : OCLC:758741080

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St.-Lô by Anonim Pdf

Author : Center of Military History,United States. War Department. Historical Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : U. S. Army Military History
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Didier Lodieu
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 2352500354

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Dying for Saint-Lo by Didier Lodieu Pdf

From 5 to 20 July 1944 American invasion forces ran into fierce resistance around the French town of Saint-Lô, an important railway and road communications center in Normandy. As well as the Heer divisions such as the Panzer Lehr, GIs had to fight the redoubtable paratroopers and Waffen-SS who made them pay a heavy price for each hedgerow and each village they managed to take.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Saint-Lô (France)
ISBN : UCR:31210023607243

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

Author : United States. War Department. General Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Captain Michael Doubler
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893806

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Busting The Bocage: American Combined Arms Operations In France, 6 June-31 July 1944 [Illustrated Edition] by Captain Michael Doubler Pdf

[Includes 59 photos/illustrations and 30 maps] The hedgerow country of northwestern France-the Bocage presented a trying challenge to the U.S. Army in 1944. During the Normandy invasion, U.S. forces faced a stubborn German Army defending from an extensive network of small fields surrounded by living banks of hedges bordered by sunken dirt lanes. German forces fighting from these ready-made defensive positions were, at first, able to curb most of the American advances and make the attempts very costly. For the U.S. Army, busting through the difficult Bocage country required tactical, doctrinal, and organizational ingenuity. Busting the Bocage: American Combined Arms Operations in France, 6 June-31 July 1944 shows how the U.S. Army identified and overcame the problems of fighting in difficult terrain. The adoption of new tactics combined with technical innovations and good small-unit leadership enabled American forces to defeat a well-prepared and skillful enemy. In the hedgerow country, the U.S. Army eventually brought the separate components of the combined arms team-infantry, armor, and artillery-to bear on the enemy simultaneously. The resulting successes were costly but effective. Combat in the Bocage demonstrated the U.S. Army’s capability to fight and win in a new and hostile environment.

Author : Russell F. Weigley
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944-1945 by Russell F. Weigley Pdf

Jointly published by Plunkett Lake Press and Indiana University Press This study of the American-led campaign in Europe in World War II analyzes command decisions at both the strategic and tactical levels. All the complex ingredients of armies at war — the burdens of history, the impact of technology, the roles of personalities, the confusions of the battlefield — are presented based on extensive scholarship. Field Marshal Montgomery and Ike's lieutenants, Generals Omar N. Bradley, Jacob L. Devers, Courtney H. Hodges, George S. Patton, Jr., Alexander M. Patch, William H. Simpson, Leonard T. Gerow, J. Lawton Collins, and Matthew B. Ridgway, and others appear in the book. All major strategic and tactical decisions in the battles of the American offensive against Nazi Germany are covered, with descriptions of key terrain features and many personal insights drawn from various diaries. The book provides an assessment of the leadership and fighting capabilities of the Allied forces in the key European battles of World War II. “The publication of Eisenhower’s Lieutenants is an event of significance in American military writing... admirable... clearly the product of exhaustive, painstaking research.” — Drew Middleton, The New York Times “Eisenhower’s Lieutenants is an outstanding and highly recommended work. It offers the wealth of information, superb research and presentation, comprehensive treatment, and challenging reinterpretation one has come to expect from Weigley. It also points out once again that his reputation as one of our outstanding military historians is well deserved.” — Mark A. Stoler, Journal of American History “... outstanding book... highly professional study of command and operations in northwest Europe, 1944-45... the best account we have of the World War II campaigns from Normandy to the Elbe.” — Forrest C. Pogue, American Historical Review “The fullest account yet of the climactic campaign in northwestern Europe, from the planning of D-Day through the German surrender, with an interesting focus on the personalities involved in shaping the Allied forces, plans, and operations... precisely informative and broadly rewarding.” — Kirkus Reviews “... an excellent book.” — Calvin B. Peters, Journal of Political and Military Sociology “... by the dean of American military historians...” — Washington Post “I had thought I knew everything about World War II that I would ever want to know. I was wrong. Reading Eisenhower’s Lieutenants was a wonderfully enriching experience. I learned more than I ever would have thought possible. This will unquestionably become one of the great classics of American military history.” —Stephen E. Ambrose

Author : Stephen Napier
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112047012536

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

Includes the lineages and honors for all armies, corps, divisions, and separate combined arms brigades in order to perpetuate and publicize their traditions, honors, and heraldic entitlements, organized under Tables of Organization and Equipment that have been active in the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army of the United States since the beginning of World War II. Included in this edition is the 12th Infantry Division (formerly the Philippine Division), which did not appear in the earlier one. The lineages are current though 1 October 1997. Brigade headquarters and headquarters companies or headquarters, except for aviation and engineer brigades, organic to the above-mentioned combat divisions since ROAD (Reorganization Objective Army Divisions) in the early 1960s have also been incorporated. (Divisional aviation and engineer brigades are branch specific and therefore have been omitted.) The lineages and honors for Army National Guard divisions and separate combined arms brigades that were active on 1 October 1997 are also included.--Preface.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160869404

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

Author : A. A. Evans,David Gibbons
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448847952

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The Illustrated Timeline of World War II by A. A. Evans,David Gibbons Pdf

An overview of World War II, from the events leading up to the war, to the war crimes trials after the war, in a timeline format.

Author : Georges Bernage
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473858572

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Objective Saint-Lô by Georges Bernage Pdf

“A collection of eyewitness accounts of the heavy fighting that took place in this part of France after the Omaha landings . . . excellent and gripping.”—FSAddon This book provides a day-by-day account of the forty-two days of fighting from Omaha Beach to Saint-Lô. Follow Lt. Allsup from the beaches at Hill 108 (the “bloody hill”), where he was injured, and Lt. Jones, who was among the first to enter Saint-Lô; a town destroyed by bombs, which was to become the graveyard of hundreds of Normans. On the opposing side, discover the fate of the fearsome “green devil” paratroopers of General Schimpf and follow in the footsteps of paratroopers Erwin Schmieger and Rudi Frühbeisser, as they defend their armed camp, ensuring that every hedge will only be taken at the highest price. Objective Saint-Lô takes the reader along the little or unknown routes from the horrors of Omaha Beach to Trvires, La Cambe, Isigny, through the Aure valley to Hill 108, (“Purple Heart Hill”) and Hills 192 and 122. As well as authentic eyewitness testimony, the book also acts as a field guide, including maps and both contemporary and modern photographs. “Lavishly illustrated with sketch maps, then and now images and numerous personal accounts from US and German sources, this is an excellent campaign overview, ideal for tour planning.”—Guild of Battlefield Guides “An exciting story with insights from those who were there and an amazing collection of photographs, drawing and maps—Highly Recommended.”—Firetrench