The Fighting 30th Division

Author : Martin King,Michael Collins,David Hilborn
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612003023

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The Fighting 30th Division by Martin King,Michael Collins,David Hilborn Pdf

The full story of the legendary US infantry division and their remarkable service in WWII, told through interviews with surviving servicemen. The 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division in World War I. In World War II, it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee, they were some of the hardest-fighting soldiers in Europe. They possessed an intrinsic zeal to engage the enemy that often left their adversaries in awe. Their US Army nickname was the “Old Hickory” Division. But after encountering them on the battlefield, the Germans called them “Roosevelt’s SS.” The Fighting 30th Division chronicles the exploits of this illustrious unit through the eyes of those who were actually there. From Normandy to the Westwall and the Battle of the Bulge, each chapter is meticulously researched with accurate timelines and after-action reports. The last remaining veterans of the 30th to see action firsthand relate their experiences here for the first time, including previously untold accounts from survivors.

Author : Robert W. Baumer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811765718

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Old Hickory by Robert W. Baumer Pdf

The best U.S. division at war, from Normandy to the Bulge and beyond The 30th Infantry Division, drawn from the hill country of Tennessee and the Carolinas, was regarded during World War II as the cream of the crop of U.S. fighting units. The Germans agreed, calling the division “Roosevelt’s SS” for its tenacity and skill. The 30th fought in Normandy, along the Siegfried Line (where it conducted “the perfect infantry attack”), at the Battle of the Bulge, and in the final operations inside Germany. Baumer relies on primary sources to tell the story of this remarkable unit and its men in what is sure to become a classic World War II division history.

Author : Alwyn Featherston
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070027029

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Saving the Breakout by Alwyn Featherston Pdf

Describes the five days in August, 1944 when the Allied campaign in Normandy hinged on the refusal of a few men to give up the tiny village of Mortain despite a massive German counterattack there.

Author : American Battle Monuments Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : IND:30000061385534

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30th Division, Summary of Operations in the World War by American Battle Monuments Commission Pdf

Author : Robert L. Hewitt
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257628

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Work Horse Of The Western Front; The Story Of The 30th Infantry Division by Robert L. Hewitt Pdf

Includes over 25 maps and 50 photos. More than 60 American divisions participated in the defeat of Germany in 1944-45. This is the story of one of the best of them, a division which fought continually from the Normandy beachhead to the banks of the Elbe River in the heart of Germany. Work Horse of the Western Front is as accurate and honest an account as the writer could make it under the circumstances. Waging war is an exacting business undertaken under conditions which make for confusion and “snafu.” The writer has taken the facts as he saw them, the bad as well as the good, with the conviction that he would slight the very real achievements of the Division if he attempted to present a saccharine picture of inevitable triumphs. The measure of a great fighting unit is not that it never runs into difficulties but that it minimizes its errors and gains by experience. By these standards, Old Hickory was a great division—as is evidenced by the caliber of the tasks it was called upon to perform.

Author : Alwyn Featherston
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Avranches (France)
ISBN : 0891416625

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Battle for Mortain by Alwyn Featherston Pdf

From its very first page, the American infantryman is the hero of this magnificent account of men at war. Specifically, the heroes are a handful of National Guardsmen of the Carolinas' 30th Infantry Division who, for five days in August 1944, withstood the full fury of a massive Nazi counterattack that threatened to cut off and defeat the Allies' breakout from the Normandy beaches. 12 maps. 24 photos.

Author : Mitchell A. Yockelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806155609

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Borrowed Soldiers by Mitchell A. Yockelson Pdf

The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.

Author : The 30th Division
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781493779

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A Brief History of the 30th Division by The 30th Division Pdf

Formed originally as the 37th Division in December 1914, mainly through the efforts of the Earl of Derby, whose crest, the Eagle and Child on the Cap of Maintenance was adopted as the divisional sign, the division was renumbered 30th in April 1915. It was the senior division of Kitchener's Fourth New Army and was an entirely Lancashire division: the infantry came from the King's (Liverpool) and the Manchesters, all Pals battalions, while the artillery, engineers and signals were all designated County Palatine. The division went to France in November 1915 and on the opening day of the Somme it recorded one of the few successes of that awful day by securing all its objectives, including Montauban. For the next two years it fought on the Western Front but by May 1918 its casualties were such that it was reduced to cadre and ceased to exist in its original form. It was reconstituted in June/July with nine new battalions and re-entered the line in September 1918, and it is at this point that this history takes up the story. It begins with the Order of Battle of the reformed division and the list of staff and commanders down to unit level and follows this with a very cursory review of the activities of the original, pre-reform division, and background notes on the battalions of the new division. The narrative consists of a series of short accounts of the operations in which the division was involved, each covering a specified period and each followed by a list of immediate awards made in connection with those operations. At the end is a list of the awards made to the division in the 1919 New Year’s Honours list. Total casualties throughout the war amounted to 35,182; two VCs were won, both before the division was reformed.

Author : Lt. Donald G. Taggart
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786258762

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History Of The Third Infantry Division In World War II by Lt. Donald G. Taggart Pdf

Few units in the U.S. Army can boast as proud a unit history as the Third Infantry Division; it fought on all of the Europe and North African fronts that American soldiers were engaged against the Axis forces during World War II. The 3rd Infantry Division saw combat in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Germany and Austria for 531 consecutive days. In this official division history written by the officers who served with the unit at the time serves as a fascinating memorial and a detailed history of the “Marne Division” during World War II. The 3rd Inf. Division made landfall in Fedala on the 8th November 1942 as part of Operation Torch during the Allied invasion of North Africa and was engaged in heavy fighting before the German and Italian troops were finally levered out of the continent. The division was back in the thick of the fighting in Sicily under the command of such famous leaders as Generals Lucien Truscott, Omar Bradley and George S. Patton. As part of General Mark Clark’s U.S. Fifth army it engaged in some of the bloodiest engagements of the Italian campaign at Salerno beaches, Volturno river, Monte Cassino and Anzio. Under their old division commander General Truscott they formed part of the force that landed in Southern France and battled into the heart of Germany before the eventual capitulation of the Nazi High command in 1945. Richly illustrated with maps and pictures throughout.

Author : Gordon Russell Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022444585

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The Army Almanac by Gordon Russell Young Pdf

Amerikansk militærhistorie, amerikanske hær's historie. Army Almanac for 1959. Udkom første gang i 1950 (dette ex. er på DEPOT I-1159). KGB har1959-udgaven med ajourførte oplysninger på Læsesalen. En form for grundbog om US Army. Indeholder alle mulige nyttige oplysninger og informationer om den amerikanske hær, organisation, opdeling, enheder, uddannelse, officerskorpset, veteraner, material, våben, uniformer, udrustning, efterretningsvirksomhed, logistikområdet, militærlove, dekorationer og belønninger, oversigt over generaler, hærens relationer til det civile, m.m. samt afsnit om USA's deltagelse i krige og væbnede konflikter fra Uafhængighedskrigene i 1775 til Koreakrigen i 1950, væbnede konflikter, "småkrige", m.m.

Author : Stephen L. Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698164949

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Rock of the Marne by Stephen L. Harris Pdf

The stirring account of the Third U.S. Infantry Division in the Second Battle of the Marne—where the tide of World War I was finally turned… The soldiers of the Third U.S. Infantry Division in World War I were outnumbered and inexperienced young men facing hardened veterans, but their actions proved to be a turning point during the last German offensive of World War I. In stopping three German divisions from crossing the Marne River, these heroic American soldiers blocked the road to Paris east of Château-Thierry, helped save the French capital and, in doing so, played a key role in turning the tide of the war. The Allies then began a counteroffensive that drove the enemy back to the Hindenburg Line, and four months later the war was over. Rock of the Marne follows the Third Division’s Sixth Brigade, which took the brunt of the German attack. The officers, many of them West Pointers and elite Ivy Leaguers, fighting side-by-side with enlisted men—city dwellers and country boys, cowboys and coal miners who came from every corner of America along with newly planted immigrants from Europe—answered their country’s call to duty. This is the gripping true account of one of the most important—yet least explored—battles of World War I. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D02703977C

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The Ardennes by Hugh Marshall Cole Pdf

Author : Robert W. Baumer
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811714822

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Aachen by Robert W. Baumer Pdf

By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the Allies and the Third Reich's industrial heartland was the city of Aachen, once the ancient seat of Charlemagne's empire and now firmly entrenched within Germany's Siegfried Line fortifications. The city was on the verge of capitulating until Hitler forbade surrender. • Dramatic story of the American battle for Aachen, the first city on German soil to fall to the Allies in World War II. • Chronicles the six weeks of hard combat for the city, culminating in eight days of fighting in the streets • Details the involvement of some of the U.S. Army's finest units, including the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One"), the 30th Infantry Division ("Roosevelt's SS"), and the 2nd Armored Division ("Hell on Wheels")

Author : Alexander Wasil Benko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:11540176

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The 30th Infantry Division of the United States Army by Alexander Wasil Benko Pdf

Author : Infantry School (U.S.)
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Infantry drill and tactics
ISBN : 9781428916913

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Infantry in Battle by Infantry School (U.S.) Pdf