Author: Brandon Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 111
Book Description
Could you survive combat in a desert? In 1941, few Americans could. In "World War II: General George Patton's Desert Training Center," young readers ages 8-12 will discover how in the months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, over a million Americans were quickly needed to fight Hitler's tank battalions in the sands of North Africa. Learn how General George S. Patton pieced together the largest military complex in US history, the Desert Training Center in the American Southwest. Too, understand how soldiers and personnel adapted to some of the harshest and most unforgiving terrain in the world in order to protect free men and women everywhere from Axis control. The story of the DTC is one of the least known, but most epic of World War II. Read and become a part of it!
Author: Brandon Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 74
Book Description
Could you survive combat in a desert? In 1941, few Americans could. In "World War II: General George Patton's Desert Training Center," young readers ages 8-12 will discover how in the months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, over a million Americans were quickly needed to fight Hitler's tank battalions in the sands of North Africa. Learn how General George S. Patton pieced together the largest military complex in US history, the Desert Training Center in the American Southwest. Too, understand how soldiers and personnel adapted to some of the harshest and most unforgiving terrain in the world in order to protect free men and women everywhere from Axis control.The story of the DTC is one of the least known, but most epic of World War II. Read and become a part of it!
Author: Martin Gitlin Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9781604539646 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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Profiles the life and military career of George S. Patton, discussing his schooling, his roles in World War I and World War II, his rise to the rank of general, and his death.
Author: Matt C. Bischoff Publisher: Statistical Research ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, was in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment. As a result, the Army Ground Forces designated more than 18,000 square miles of the Arizona and California desert as an armored training facility. Maj. Gen. George S. Patton. Jr., was placed in charge of establishing this facility and served as its first commanding officer. The facility would thereafter reflect his tough image and relentless training doctrines.
Author: Matt Bischoff Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365054527 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 252
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Once it became clear that the U.S. Army would be fighting the Axis powers in the deserts of North Africa -- a suitable place to train was needed. Assigned the task of finding and developing such a place, General George S. Patton, Jr. found it in southeastern California. The Desert Training Center as the facility became known proved its mettle in combat overseas. Amazingly, much remains today of this massive training grounds. This book describes in detail the historic context for the DTC, and explains the value that it played in the war. Also provided are detailed descriptions of the sites, features, and artifacts left behind by the troops that trained there over 70 years ago.
Author: Robert Corns Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1796082635 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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SAVING GENERAL PATTON is a story inspired by events of World War ll, Pearl Harbor. The era of nuclear weapons that led the world to Cold war. The story starts with the mobilization and training of General Patton’s tank forces in the Mojave Desert. Patton’s mission, in part, was to defeat the German General Rommel, aka The Desert Fox, in North Africa.
Author: Eugene G. Schulz Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477141448 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
Eugene G. Schulz was born on a farm in Clintonville, Wisconsin in 1923. He graduated from high school in May, 1941, and worked on his father's farm and at a truck manufacturing plant until he was drafted into the army in January 1943. Schulz received his basic training at Camp Young, California at the Desert Training Center, and later at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. He was assigned to the IV Armored Corps (later named the XX Corps) where he was a typist in the G-3 Section. His duties included the typing of battle orders developed by Colonel W. B. Griffith, the G-3 of XX Corps Headquarters. The XX Corps sailed to England in February 1944 on the Queen Mary with 16,000 soldiers on board, completing the voyage in five days. After final training in England, the XX Corps landed on Utah Beach in Normandy on D+46. His unit was attached to General Patton's Third Army and spearheaded the drive across France, through Germany and into Austria where they met the Russian Army on V-E Day. Schulz was awarded the Bronze Star medal when the war ended. He served in the Army of Occupation in Germany, then returned to the States and was discharged on December 1, 1945. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin Madison taking advantage of the GI Bill of Rights, and earning Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Business Administration. Schulz met his wife, Eleanore, at the University and they were married in 1949. Schulz worked as an investment research officer at the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee for 36 years. The Schulz's have been retired since 1988 and continue to live in Milwaukee. They are world travelers. They have five sons, all married, and sixteen grandchildren.
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