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Author : R. L. Hanson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 9781411688490
Author : Jeffrey E. Geiger
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786478552
During World War II, hundreds of military training installations were built throughout the United States to prepare servicemen for the rigors of overseas combat. One such installation was Camp Cooke in California, which since 1957 has become an internationally recognized missile and rocket base renamed Vandenberg Air Force Base. This book examines the history of the camp, starting with its construction. Established some 150 miles north of Los Angeles, Cooke was designed for armored divisions, but by the end of the war hundreds of other specialized organizations trained there. It supported many USO clubs and attracted some of Hollywood's leading entertainers as well as many from radio and stage. With the outbreak of the Korean War, Cooke supported Army National Guard and reserve units. Its large hospital cared for war evacuees and Army medical cases from other parts of the globe. When it became an Air Force base, America's first spy satellite program was conducted from there. The intelligence data collected from these missions exploded the myth of a "missile gap" with the Soviet Union. At the height of the Cold War, America's first ICBM missile equipped with a nuclear warhead was based at Vandenberg.
Author : Anthony J. Sobieski
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781468525977
FIRE FOR EFFECT! is more than just a book about the Korean War. It is the untold history of the Korean War Artillery Forward Observer, told by the men themselves. From the earliest days of the war in 1950 through the harrowing battles of 1951 and on into the so-called stalemate period of the hill battles of 1952 and 1953, into the final climactic battles before the cease fire, the Forward Observer, or FO, was there. Korea was and is known as the Artillery War because more rounds were fired in Korea than in all of WWII, and it was the job of the FO to direct these rounds onto their targets. FOs are the eyes of the artillery, and the importance of their job in Korea has been largely overlooked until now. Serving as infantrymen, but not being considered one, Forward Observers lived, ate and slept on the front lines, ever ready to respond to an attack, or defend friendly troops and positions, and sometimes losing their lives doing it. The awesome responsibility and firepower that was placed on a 22 or 23 year-old lieutenant or sergeant was staggering, and after reading these first hand accounts, one can easily imagine what these young men faced on a daily basis. With over 100 interviews of Forward Observers, from all time periods and from all locations and battles of the war, the grittiness and reality of what these servicemen went through in the Forgotten War is brought to life so that their deeds may be remembered for future generations, so the battlefield known as Korea and its veterans will not be forgotten any more.
Author : Christopher M. Rein
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817321345
"Throughout its history, the United States has fought its major wars by mobilizing large numbers of citizen-soldiers. While the small, peacetime, regular army provided trained leadership and a framework for growth, the citizen-soldier, from the minuteman of the American Revolution to Civil War volunteers and the draftees of World War II, have successfully prosecuted the nation's major wars. But the Army, and the nation, have never fully resolved the myriad problems surrounding the mobilization and employment of reserve troops. National Guard divisions in World War II suffered from neglect during the interwar period and Great Depression, and regular Army commanders often replaced or relieved National Guard officers, which generated lingering resentment. At the same time, draftees from across the nation diluted the regional affiliations of many units, with a corresponding effect on morale and esprit de corps. Chris Rein's study of one division, recruited from the Gulf South and employed in the Southwest Pacific Theater in 1944 and 1945, highlights the challenges of reserve mobilization, training, and the combat deployment of National Guard units. His account demonstrates the still-strong connections between the local communities that hosted and supported National Guard companies before the war, even after an influx of new personnel nationalized the units and they shipped overseas. The 31st Division, reorganized after combat deployment in World War I, consisted primarily of infantry regiments from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and, until 1942, Louisiana. Mobilized for federal service in late 1940, the division participated in the critical Louisiana and Carolina Maneuvers in 1941, but then languished for the next two years as a training organization, though it provided trained cadres and replacements for other divisions the Army deployed to Europe and the Pacific. In 1944, the division finally shipped overseas, enduring the brutal conditions in the Southwest Pacific, but successfully conducting landings on the New Guinea coast in support of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "island hopping" campaign directed at liberating the Philippines. After a change in leadership, on the second day of the amphibious assault on Morotai, the division supported the liberation of Mindanao, the southernmost major island in the archipelago, before redeploying for demobilization at the end of 1945. Rein's study traces the division's decades of duty from the interwar period, when it contended with a series of devastating natural disasters, through its mobilization and combat deployment. However, within the 31st Division's story, there are several significant issues that remain highly relevant for reserve deployment today. The first centers on the issue of World War II-era National Guard leadership. The Army implemented a "purge" of overage and less competent National Guard division commanders in order to replace them with younger officers of the regular Army. Maj. Gen. John C. Persons, a pre-war Birmingham resident and Alabama National Guard officer, commanded the division throughout the peacetime mobilization and training and the first operation in New Guinea, only to be summarily fired on the second day of the Morotai landings, an action not adequately explained in the existing literature. The second issue concerns the Army's "nationalization" of regional units. While this policy has the benefit of spreading any casualties across the nation, rather than duplicate the horrific losses of the "Bedford Boys" of the 29th Infantry Division that devastated one small Virginia community, it also erodes regional identity and esprit de corps. This work is a case study of the strength and weaknesses of units with a regional identity and explores the connections with the home front once that identity erodes. It also examines the Dixie Division's operational and strategic evolution, but just as importantly details drawn from soldiers' correspondence and oral histories to show how their exposure to a larger world, including service alongside African-American and Filipino units, changed their views on race and post-war society"--
Author : Great Britain. Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2866 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1924-07
Category : Retired military personnel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211528679
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116498833
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : John B. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112040285550
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1646 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005662064
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11803609
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Africa
ISBN : IOWA:31858045121229
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010239981
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015084507782
Author : Hiram H. Hardesty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Ohio
ISBN : MINN:319510020696367
Author : A. Parsons Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Fulton County (Ohio)
ISBN : WISC:89073142895
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2840
