Author: Gordon L. Rottman Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472802233 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 97
Book Description
This book examines the wide variety of airborne units that served in the Pacific Theater. Among the units covered are the 12,000-strong 11th Airborne Division; the elite 1st Special Service Force; the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Separate); and the 1st Marine Parachute Regiment. The nature of the enemy and the terrain in the PTO, and long distances that had to be covered, provided significant and diverse challenges to both Army and Marine Corps parachute units. Internal organization, weapons and equipment, command and control, training, combat missions, and combat operations including the 11th Division's fighting in the Philippines, and the 503rd PIR's legendary jump onto Corregidor and recapture of the island are all covered.
Author: Gordon L. Rottman Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472804651 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 185
Book Description
This book is the first of three to examine the genesis, organization and operational deployment of the US airborne divisions in World War II. It discusses early airborne units, detailing how and why they were formed. Task organization for combat, details of attached units, tactics, and weapons and equipment are examined, together with command relationships. The units discussed in this book include the 82d Airborne Division, 1st Special Service Force, 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team and 1st Airborne Task Force, and the operations in North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland, and in southern France are covered.
Author: Gordon L. Rottman Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1780961316 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
The two major Army units that operated in the Pacific – the 11th Airborne Division and the 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) launched small-scale operations on extremely difficult, if not, outright dangerous, terrain, while also conducting amphibious assaults, fighting on jungled hills, swamps and mud. The two units were very different, with the 503rd PRCT being reserved for special purpose missions and the 11th Airborne Division occupying a more traditional role. This title will deal with the background to these two units and their training, before detailing the specific equipment used in the theatre and, finally and most importantly, the combat experience at a personal level of the US Army Paratrooper in the Pacific.
Author: Gordon L. Rottman Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472804619 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
This book is the first of three to examine the genesis, organization and operational deployment of the US airborne divisions in World War II. It discusses early airborne units, detailing how and why they were formed. Task organization for combat, details of attached units, tactics, and weapons and equipment are examined, together with command relationships. The units discussed in this book include the 82d Airborne Division, 1st Special Service Force, 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team and 1st Airborne Task Force, and the operations in North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland, and in southern France are covered.
Author: David Campbell Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472828550 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 81
Book Description
The US Airborne force fielded some of the toughest, best-trained and most resourceful troops of World War II – all necessary qualities in a force that was lightly armed and which would in most operational circumstances be surrounded from the moment it landed on the battlefield. The German Wehrmacht grew to rely on a series of defensive measures to combat the airborne threat, including fortifications, localized reserves, and special training to help intercept and disrupt airborne troops both in the air and on the ground. Despite such methods it was cool-headed command and control that would prove to be the real key to blunting the Airborne's edge. Using specially commissioned artwork, this book examines the development of the American airborne forces that spearheaded the Allied effort in Sicily, Normandy and Operation Market Garden, and the German countermeasures that evolved in response to the threat of Allied airborne landings.
Author: Gordon A. Harrison Publisher: BDD Promotional Books Company ISBN: 9780792458562 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 552
Book Description
Discusses the Allied invasion of Normandy, with extensive details about the planning stage, called Operation Overlord, as well as the fighting on Utah and Omaha Beaches.
Author: William B. Breuer Publisher: St Martins Press ISBN: 9780312077617 Category : World War, 1939-1945 Languages : en Pages : 620
Book Description
Using the recollections of 562 former paratroopers, Breuer recreates the glory of World War II airborne battles. It covers the events from May of 1940, when America's understrength army did not have a single paratrooper, to the dramatic rise of the fledgling airborne service that would become the largest and most powerful in history.
Author: Christopher Richard Gabel Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
In the seventy years that have passed since the tank first appeared, antitank combat has presented one of the greatest challenges in land warfare. Dramatic improvements in tank technology and doctrine over the years have precipitated equally innovative developments in the antitank field. One cycle in this ongoing arms race occurred during the early years of World War II when the U.S. Army sought desperately to find an antidote to the vaunted German blitzkrieg. This Leavenworth Paper analyzes the origins of the tank destroyer concept, evaluates the doctrine and equipment with which tank destroyer units fought, and assesses the effectiveness of the tank destroyer in battle.
Author: Gordon L. Rottman
Author: Gordon L. Rottman
Author: Gordon L. Rottman
Author: Maurer Maurer
Author: Gordon L. Rottman
Author: Roger E. Bilstein
Author: David Campbell
Author: Gordon A. Harrison
Author: William B. Breuer
Author: Christopher Richard Gabel