Author: United States. Army. Infantry Division, 25th
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Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Category : Artillery, Field and mountain
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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This volume gathers in compact form the official historical records of field artillery units in the United States Army in order to perpetuate and publicize their traditions, honors, and heraldic entitlements. It includes the lineages and honors of Regular Army and Army Reserve field artillery commands, brigades, and groups, and corps and division artillery that have been active since 1965. It also includes the fifty-eight elements of each regiment that have been active since the inception of the Combat Arms Regimental System in 1957. This two-part second edition updates the lineages, honors, and heraldic items of the Regular Army's field artillery regiments and further expands them to include organizations above the regimental level, as well as Army National Guard units. All are current through September 1, 2003. This is the companion book of The Organizational History of Field Artillery, 1775-2003.

Author: John M. Carland
Publisher: Department of the Army
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Center of Military History Publication 91 5 1. United States Army in Vietnam. Focuses on the first 18 months of combat in Vietnam. Describes how the United States Army entered the war and fought its first battles north of Saigon and in the Central Highlands.

Author: John M. Carland
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160873102
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide describes a critical chapter in the Vietnam conflict, the first eighteen months of combat by the U.S. Army's ground forces. Relying on official American and enemy primary sources, John M. Carland focuses on initial deployments and early combat and takes care to present a well-balanced picture by discussing not only the successes but also the difficulties endemic to the entire effort. This fine work presents the war in all of its detail: the enemy's strategy and tactics, General William C. Westmoreland's search and destroy operations, the helicopters and airmobile warfare, the immense firepower American forces could call upon to counter Communist control of the battlefield, the out-of-country enemy sanctuaries, and the allied efforts to win the allegiance of the South Vietnamese people to the nation's anti-Communist government. Carland's volume demonstrates that U.S. forces succeeded in achieving their initial goals, but unexpected manpower shortages made Westmoreland realize that the transition from stemming the tide to taking the offensive would take longer. Bruising battles with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in the Saigon area and in the Central Highlands had halted their drive to conquest in 1965 and, with major base development activities afoot, a series of high-tempo spoiling operations in 1966 kept them off balance until more U.S. fighting units arrived in the fall. Carland credits the improvements in communications and intelligence, the helicopter's capacity to extend the battlefield, and the availability of enormous firepower as the potent ingredients in Westmoreland's optimism for victory, yet realizes that the ultimate issue of how effective the U.S. Army would be and what it would accomplish during the next phase was very much a question mark.

Author: Shelby L. Stanton
Publisher: Bookthrift
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Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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The first complete, illustrated reference to U.S. Army and Allied ground forces in Vietnam covers their organization, structure, and operations from 1961-1973.

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Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: US Army Military History Research Collection
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: US Army Military History Institute
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160869402
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Languages : en
Pages : 856

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Publisher: Department of the Army
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 860

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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.