Author: American Battle Monuments CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
80th Division, Summary of Operations in the World War
Author: American Battle Monuments CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
77th Division, Summary of Operations in the World War
Author: American Battle Monuments CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
3d Division, Summary of Operations in the World War
Author: American Battle Monuments CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
80th Division Summary of Operations in the World War and Terrain Photographs
Author: Scott R. SchonerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781542861762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Reprint edition of "80th Division Summary of Operations in the World War" with added materials.
Summary of Operations in the World War
Author: 80th Division, Summary of Operations in the World War
Author: American Battle Monuments CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
4th Division, Summary of Operations in the World War
Author: American Battle Monuments CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
33d. Division, Summary of Operations in the World War
Author: American Battle Monuments CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
80th Infantry Division Operational History, Wwii
Author: Robert MurrellPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530563791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The complete Operational History of the 80th Infantry Division during WWII; covers from the Division's forming in July 1942 in Camp Forrest, TN through the end of the war in May 1945. Includes maps and casualty figures
You Can't Get Much Closer Than This
Author: A.Z. Adkins, Jr.Publisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1612003109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Andrew Z. Adkins, Jr., graduated from The Citadel in May 1943 and immediately attended the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School, where he was commissioned and sent on to the 80th Infantry Division, then undergoing its final training cycle in the California-Arizona desert. Upon reaching the division, 2d Lieutenant Adkins was assigned as an 81mm mortar section leader in Company H, 2d Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment. When the 80th Infantry Division completed its training in December 1943, it was shipped in stages to the United Kingdom and then on to Normandy, where it landed on August 3, 1944. There, Lieutenant Adkins and his fellow soldiers took part in light hedgerow fighting that served to shake the division down and familiarize the troops and their officers with combat. The first real test came on August 20, 1944, when the 2d Battalion, 317th Infantry, attacked high ground near Argentan during the Allied drive to seal huge German forces in the Falaise Pocket. While scouting for mortar positions in the woods, Andy Adkins ran into a group of Germans and shot one of them dead with his carbine. This baptism in blood taught him the answer to a question every novice combatant wants to hear: He was cool under fire, capable of killing when facing the enemy. He later wrote, "It was a sickening sight, but having been caught up in the heat of battle, I didn't have a reaction other than feeling I had saved my own life." Thereafter, the 2d Battalion, 317th Infantry, took part in a succession of bloody battles across France. Ineptly led through the tenures of several battalion commanders, the unit suffered grievous losses even as it took hills and towns away from brave and well-led German veterans. In the course of fighting graphically portrayed in this soldier's memoir, Andy Adkins acted with remarkable skill and courage, placing himself at the forefront of the action whenever he could. His extremely aggressive delivery of critical supplies to a cutoff unit in an embattled French town earned him a Bronze Star Medal, the first such award in his battalion. You Can't Get Much Closer Than This is at heart a young soldier's story of war. In vibrant, piercing terms, a junior officer's coming of age in battle is the compelling focus of page after page of action sequences that add up to a solid description of what modern warfare is really all about. Before his death in 19--, Andy Adkins was able to face his memory of war as bravely as he faced the war itself. He set it all down on paper, honest, unflinching, and straightforward. In 1944 and 1945, young Lieutenant Adkins did his duty to his men and his country, and much later he did his duty to his readers. Indeed, you really can't get much closer than this.