United States Army In Wwii Europe Riviera To The Rhine

Author : Robert Ross Smith,Jeffrey J. Clarke
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894155

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United States Army in WWII - Europe - Riviera to the Rhine by Robert Ross Smith,Jeffrey J. Clarke Pdf

[Includes 35 maps and 77 illustrations] Riviera to the Rhine examines a significant portion of the Allied drive across northern Europe and focuses on the vital role played in that drive by the U.S. 6th Army Group, commanded by General Jacob L. Devers, and its two major components, the American Seventh Army, under General Alexander M. Patch, and the French First Army, under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. Had these forces not existed, Eisenhower’s two northern army groups, those commanded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and General Omar N. Bradley, would have been stretched much thinner, with their offensive and defensive capabilities greatly reduced. In such a case the German offensive of Dec. 1944 might have met with greater success, easily postponing the final Allied drive into Germany with unforeseen military and political consequences. Riviera thus should balance the greater public attention given to the commands of Montgomery and Bradley by concentrating on the accomplishments of those led by Devers, Patch, and de Lattre and, in the process, by highlighting the crucial logistical contributions of the southern French ports to the Allied war effort. Finally Riviera is the study of a combined, Franco-American military effort, one which frequently saw major combat units of each nation commanded by generals of the other on the field of battle. Although outwardly similar, each national component had its own unique style, and a deep appreciation of one another’s strengths and weaknesses was vital to the success of the combined force. National political considerations also played a significant role in the operations of the combined force as did personal conflicts within both chains of command, all of which had to be resolved primarily by the principal commanders in the field.

Author : Jeffrey J. Clarke,Robert R. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1084526276

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Riviera to the Rhine by Jeffrey J. Clarke,Robert R. Smith Pdf

Author : Jeffrey J. Clarke,Robert Ross Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UIUC:30112002866819

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Riviera to the Rhine by Jeffrey J. Clarke,Robert Ross Smith Pdf

Author : Robert Ross Smith,Jeffrey Clarke
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515233790

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Riviera to the Rhine by Robert Ross Smith,Jeffrey Clarke Pdf

With the publication of "Riviera to the Rhine", the Center of Military History completes its series of operational histories treating the activities of the U.S. Army's combat forces during World War II. This volume examines the least known of the major units in the European theater, General Jacob L. Devers' 6th Army Group. Under General Devers' leadership, two armies, the U.S. Seventh Army under General Alexander M. Patch and the First French Army led by General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, landing on the Mediterranean coast near Marseille in August 1944, cleared the enemy out of southern France and then turned east and joined with army groups under Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and General Omar N. Bradley in the final assault on Germany. In detailing the campaign of these Riviera-based armies, the authors have concentrated on the operational level of war, paying special attention to the problems of joint, combined, and special operations and to the significant roles of logistics, intelligence, and personnel policies in these endeavors. They have also examined in detail deception efforts at the tactical and operational levels, deep battle penetrations, river-crossing efforts, combat in built-up areas, and tactical innovations at the combined arms level.

Author : Mark Stout, Harry Yeide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1616739657

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First to the Rhine by Mark Stout, Harry Yeide Pdf

This is the story of the Allied forces--the U.S. 6th Army Group and French 1st Army--that landed in southern France on August 15th, 1944. The book follows the action from the French beaches to the Vosges Mountains, where the first Allied penetration along the entire Western front reached the Rhine River. First to the Rhine covers the vicious fighting during the German Nordwind counteroffensive in January 1945 and the French-American offensive to clear the Colmar Pocket. It then pursues the forces of the Third Reich across the Rhine to their ultimate destruction. Unlike the forces landing in Normandy, these American divisions were hard-bitten veterans of the war in Italy, and, in the case of the 3d Infantry Division, North Africa. The French units included many veterans of the Italian campaign and comprised Frenchmen and Africans in almost equal numbers. As the campaign went on, the French ranks were swelled by tens of thousands of Free French Forces of the Interior, the famous maquis. The German forces arrayed against the Allies included the famed 11th Panzer Division, an Eastern front veteran known as the "Ghost Division," which would hit the Allied advance time and again only to slip away before it could be pinned and destroyed. This is the harrowing story First to the Rhine tells, from the strategic plane-down through the corps, division, and regimental levels to the personal experience of the men in combat, including the likes of Audie Murphy, Americas most decorated infantryman of the war. The book features little-known battles, including one at Montelimar, when an ad hoc American armored command and the 36th Infantry Division came within a hairs breadth and several days of hard fighting of cutting off the entire German 19th Army. This is the first popular work in English to explore the French role in the fighting and the relationship between the U.S. Army and the French forces fighting under American command.

Author : Jeffrey J. Clarke,Robert Ross Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0756764866

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Riviera to the Rhine by Jeffrey J. Clarke,Robert Ross Smith Pdf

A WW2 anniversary commemorative ed. Examines a significant portion of the Allied drive across N. Europe & focuses on the vital role played in that drive by the U.S. 6th Army Group, commanded by Gen. Jacob Devers, & its 2 major components, the Amer. 7th Army, under Gen. Alex. Patch, & the French 1st Army, under Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. Had these forces not existed, Eisenhower's 2 northern armies, would have been stretched much thinner. Covers the period from Aug. Ô44 to early March Ô45 & details the Allied landings in S. France, the capture of Toulon & Marseilles, the drive north through the Rhone River valley, & following the junction of the Riviera forces with those moving east from the Normandy beachhead. Maps & photos.

Author : Jeffrey J. Clarke,Robert Ross Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : LCCN:91003180

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Riviera to the Rhine by Jeffrey J. Clarke,Robert Ross Smith Pdf

Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OSU:32435069582872

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The Lorraine Campaign by Hugh Marshall Cole Pdf

This account focuses on the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units between 1 September and 18 December 1944.

Author : Simon Forty,Leo Marriott
Publisher : WWII Historic Battlefields
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Operation Dragoon, 1944
ISBN : 161200623X

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From the Riviera to the Rhine by Simon Forty,Leo Marriott Pdf

From the Riviera to the Rhine details the invasion of France in 1944 from the French Riviera to Strasbourg, using a mixture of media to provide a complete overview of the campaign.

Author : Charles Brown MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : PSU:000059701545

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The Siegfried Line Campaign by Charles Brown MacDonald Pdf

Author : Charles B. MacDonald
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894193

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United States Army in WWII - Europe - the Last Offensive by Charles B. MacDonald Pdf

[Includes 26 maps and 92 illustrations] The American armies that absorbed the shock of the German counteroffensives in the Ardennes and Alsace in the winter of 1944-45 were the most powerful and professional that the United States had yet put in the field. That this was the case was abundantly demonstrated as the final campaign to reduce Nazi Germany to total defeat unfolded. The campaign was remarkably varied. As it gathered momentum in the snows of the Ardennes and the mud and pillboxes of the West Wall, the fighting was often as bitter as any that had gone before among the hedgerows of Normandy and the hills and forests of the German frontier. Yet the defense which the Germans were still able to muster following the futile expenditure of lives and means in the counteroffensives was brittle. The campaign soon evolved into massive sweeps by powerful Allied columns across the width and breadth of Germany. That the Germans could continue to resist for more than two months in the face of such overwhelming power was a testament to their pertinacity but it was a grim tragedy as well. To such an extent had they subjugated themselves to their Nazi leaders that they were incapable of surrender at a time when defeat was inevitable and surrender would have spared countless lives on both sides. It was a dramatic campaign: the sweep of four powerful U.S. armies to the Rhine; the exhilarating capture of a bridge at Remagen; assault crossings of the storied Rhine River, including a spectacular airborne assault; an ill-fated armored raid beyond Allied lines; the trapping of masses of Germans in a giant pocket in the Ruhr industrial region; the uncovering of incredible horror in German concentration camps; a dashing thrust to the Elbe River; juncture with the Russians; and a Wagnerian climax played to the accompaniment of Russian artillery fire in the Führerbunker in Berlin.

Author : Charles B. MacDonald
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894186

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United States Army in WWII - Europe - the Siegfried Line Campaign by Charles B. MacDonald Pdf

[Includes 19 maps and 82 illustrations] Some who have written of World War II in Europe have dismissed the period between 11 Sept. and 16 Dec. 1944 with a paragraph or two. This has been their way of gaining space to tell of the whirlwind advances and more spectacular command decisions of other months. The fighting during Sept., Oct., Nov., and early Dec.belonged to the small units and individual soldiers, the kind of warfare which is no less difficult and essential no matter how seldom it reaches the spectacular. It is always an enriching experience to write about the American soldier-in adversity no less than in glittering triumph. Glitter and dash were conspicuously absent in most of the Siegfried Line fighting. But whatever the period may lack in sweeping accomplishment it makes up in human drama and variety of combat actions. Here is more than fighting within a fortified line. Here is the Hürtgen Forest, the Roer plain, Aachen, and the largest airborne attack of the war. The period also eventually may be regarded as one of the most instructive of the entire war in Europe. A company, battalion, or regiment fighting alone and often unaided was more the rule than the exception. In nuclear war or in so-called limited war in underdeveloped areas, of which we hear so much today, this may well be the form the fighting will assume. As befits the nature of the fighting, this volume is focused upon tactical operations at army level and below. The story of command and decision in higher headquarters is told only when it had direct bearing on the conduct of operations in those sectors under consideration. The logistics of the campaign likewise has been subordinated to the tactical narrative. It is a ground story in the sense that air operations have been included only where they had direct influence upon the ground action.

Author : Martin Blumenson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894148

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United States Army in WWII - Europe - Breakout and Pursuit by Martin Blumenson Pdf

[Includes 33 maps and 97 illustrations] The campaign in the summer of 1944 related in this volume included some of the most spectacular ground action of the U.S. Army during World War II. It began with the slow and costly hedgerow fighting against determined German efforts to contain the Normandy beachhead; it entered its decisive stage when the breach of German defenses permitted full exploitation of the power and mobility of U.S. Army ground troops; and it reached the peak of brilliance with successive envelopments of principal German forces and the pursuit of their remnants north and east to free most of France, part of Belgium, and portions of the Netherlands. By late Aug. the war in the west appeared to be almost over, but the tyranny of logistics gave the enemy time to rally at the fortified West Wall and delay surrender for another eight months. Covering the period 1 July to 11 Sep. 1944, Breakout and Pursuit takes up the story of the European campaign at the time when the Allies considered their cross-Channel beachhead well established on the Continent. How the Allies exploited the initial success of their landings and drove from the shores of Normandy to the German border is the subject of the volume. The events of the period comprise a rich variety of military experience. Virtually every sort of major operation involving co-ordinated action of the combined arms is found: the grueling positional warfare of the battle of the hedgerows, the breakthrough of the main enemy position, exploitation, encirclement, and pursuit, as well as a number of actions falling under the general heading of special operations--an assault river crossing, the siege of a fortress, and night combat, among others. In their variety and complexity, these operations frequently bring into sharp focus the delicate problems of coalition warfare.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : PURD:32754060104738

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United States Army in World War II.: The European theater of operations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles B. MacDonald
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515233715

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The Last Offensive by Charles B. MacDonald Pdf

(Includes maps) Recovering rapidly from the shock of German counteroffensives in the Ardennes and Alsace, Allied armies early in January 1945 began an offensive that gradually spread all along the line from the North Sea to Switzerland and continued until the German armies and the German nation were prostrate in defeat. This volume tells the story of that offensive, one which eventually involved more than four and a half million troops, including ninety one divisions, sixty-one of which were American. The focus of the volume is on the role of the American armies - First, Third, Seventh, Ninth, and, to a lesser extent, Fifteenth - which comprised the largest and most powerful military force the United States has ever put in the field. The role of Allied armies - First Canadian, First French, and Second British - is recounted in sufficient detail to put the role of American. armies in perspective, as is the story of tactical air forces in support of the ground troops. This is the ninth volume in a subseries of ten designed to record the history of the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations. One volume, The Riviera to the Rhine, is the final volume to be published.