United States Army In Wwii Europe The Lorraine Campaign

Author : Charles B. MacDonald
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 570 pages
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Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782894179

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

[Includes 51 maps and 71 illustrations] This volume deals with the campaign waged by the Third Army in Lorraine during the period 1 September-18 December 1944. The present volume is concerned with the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units. The story of command and decision in higher headquarters is told only when it has a direct bearing on the campaign in Lorraine. The logistics of this campaign likewise have been subordinated to the tactical narrative. The basic unit in the present narrative is the infantry or armored division. The story of the division has been told in terms of its regiments and battalions, but swerves on occasion to the company or the platoon, just as the operations themselves turned on the exploits of these smaller units. Attention has been focused throughout the volume on the combat formations actually in the line. It is hoped, however, that the reader will gain some impression of the vital combination of arms and services which in the long run bring the infantry and the tanks to victory.

Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Hugh M. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1407635412

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“The” Lorraine Campaign by Hugh M. Cole Pdf

Author : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Lorraine (France)
ISBN : LCCN:94137942

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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 : Dr. Christopher R. Gabel
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257543

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The Lorraine Campaign: An Overview, September-December 1944 [Illustrated Edition] by Dr. Christopher R. Gabel Pdf

Illustrated with over 20 maps and diagrams The Lorraine Campaign: An Overview, September-December 1944 originated at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College as an introductory lesson to a course on corps operations. It is an adaptation of a narrated slide presentation used to provide students with a historical context on which to base their studies of current doctrine. The Lorraine Campaign, which included failures as well as successes, was chosen because it encompassed a variety of operations that involved such factors as logistics, intelligence, and weather. This overview serves as a point of departure for more in-depth studies, sets the stage for the analysis of unit operations from platoon to corps, and furnishes a useful reference for studying branch operations in battle. Repeated reference to this overview will give students an insight into specific operations or single branch actions. This study also provides a concise summary of Third Army operations in one of the World War II European campaigns.

Author : Hugh M. Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632599740

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The Lorraine campaign by Hugh M. Cole Pdf

Author : Center of Center of Military History United States Army,Hugh M. Hugh M. Cole,Center of Military History United States
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1507633068

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The Lorraine Campaign by Center of Center of Military History United States Army,Hugh M. Hugh M. Cole,Center of Military History United States Pdf

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

Author : Charles Brown MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Hugh Marshall Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : PSU:000059701552

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The Ardennes by Hugh Marshall Cole Pdf

Author : Hugh Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515238334

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The Lorraine Campaign by Hugh Cole Pdf

(Includes maps) In 1946 the Historical Division of the War Department made plans for the preparation of a nine-volume series recounting the history of the European Theater of Operations. There was no precedent in the experience of the United States Army for an official narrative account of military operations on the grand scale. Careful study of the official histories produced by the European combatants after World War I showed that these histories could offer little in the way of a pattern for recording the European campaigns of 1944 and 1945. The drastic change from the trench warfare of 1914-18 to the mobile operations of 1944-45 had complicated the task of the military historian. In World War I, a tactical situation represented by three divisions rising from the trenches in simultaneous attack on a narrow front permitted a reasonable unity in treatment and allowed the historian to write at the level of the army corps. Thirty years later, that same frontage might be held by a single reinforced regiment. The fluid condition of the combat zone in World War II and the wide dispersion of troops over the battle area resulting from the impact of the tank, the plane, the machine gun, the truck, and the radio telephone inevitably induced a degree of fragmentization and an unavoidable lack of sequence in the narrative of events on the battlefields of 1944 and 1945. It was decided, therefore, that the common denominator in the present series would be the division, since the division represents the basic tactical and administrative unit of the combined arms. Although emphasis is placed on the division, organization by chapters generally will follow the story of the army corps as a means of achieving narrative and tactical unity. "The Lorraine Campaign" is the first volume to be published in the projected series embracing the history of the American armies in the European Theater of Operations. This volume deals with the campaign waged by the Third Army in Lorraine during the period 1 September-18 December 1944. Since it has been impossible to organize the writing of individual volumes so that they may be published in the chronological sequence followed by military operations, the reader interested in the history of the Third Army before or after the events here set forth must wait until the appropriate volumes are completed. The present volume is concerned with the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units. The story of command and decision in higher headquarters is told only when it has a direct bearing on the campaign in Lorraine. The logistics of this campaign likewise have been subordinated to the tactical narrative. The basic unit in the present narrative is the infantry or armored division. The story of the division has been told in terms of its regiments and battalions, but swerves on occasion to the company or the platoon, just as the operations themselves turned on the exploits of these smaller units.

Author : United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : MINN:30000010469447

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United States Army in World War II. by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History Pdf

Author : Martin Blumenson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1333927991

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Breakout and Pursuit (Classic Reprint) by Martin Blumenson Pdf

Excerpt from Breakout and Pursuit 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 deter mined German efforts to contain the Normandy beachhead; it entered its decisive stage when the breach of German defenses permitted full exploita tion of the power and mobility of u.s. Army ground tr00ps; 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 August 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 \vall and delay surrender for another eight months. In the European Theater subseries the backdrop for this volume is Cross Channel Attack, which carries the story to 1 July. Breakout and Pursuit follows the u.s. First Army through 10 September (where The Siegfried Line Campaign picks up the narrative), and the u.s. Third Army through 31 August (where The Lorraine Campaign begins). The logistical factors that played so large a part in governing the pace and extent of combat operations are described in much greater detail in Volume I of Logistical Support of the Armies. The tremendous scope of this campaign, and its partially improvised character, have left a heritage of controversies to which no final answers can be given. The author has had free access to the records and to many of the leading players in the drama, and his account should have wide appeal to the general reader as well as to the serious military student of grand tactics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Rickard
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047456960

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Patton at Bay by John Rickard Pdf

For General George S. Patton, Jr., the battle for Lorraine during the fall and winter of 1944 was a frustrating and grueling experience of static warfare. Plagued by supply shortages, critical interference from superiors, flooded rivers, fortified cities, and the highly-determined German army, Patton had little opportunity to wage a fast armored campaign. Rickard examines Patton's generalship during these bitter battles and suggests that Patton was unable to adapt to the new realities of the campaign, thereby failing to wage the most effective warfare possible. By the beginning of the Ardennes offensive, Patton had crippled his worthy opponent, but had suffered the highest casualties of any campaign that he conducted during the war. Until now, his better known exploits in Sicily and Normandy have overshadowed this campaign. Relying on a broad range of sources, this treatment of Patton's operational performance in Lorraine goes beyond the official history. It describes Patton's philosophy of war and explains why it essentially failed in Lorraine. Supplemented by full orders of battle, casualty and equipment losses, and excellent maps, Patton at Bay is a penetrating study of America's best fighting general.

Author : Charles B. MacDonald
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Charles B. MacDonald
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.