Author: Donald Gilbert Taggart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258521486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Additional Contributors Are Jonathan W. Anderson, Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., And John W. O'Daniel. Preface By Frederick C. Spreyer. Illustrations By Richard Gaige And Henry McAlear.
History of the Third Infantry Division in World War Ii
Author: Donald Gilbert Taggart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258521486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Additional Contributors Are Jonathan W. Anderson, Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., And John W. O'Daniel. Preface By Frederick C. Spreyer. Illustrations By Richard Gaige And Henry McAlear.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258521486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Additional Contributors Are Jonathan W. Anderson, Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., And John W. O'Daniel. Preface By Frederick C. Spreyer. Illustrations By Richard Gaige And Henry McAlear.
History of the Third Infantry Division
Author: Philip A. St. John
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563110601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563110601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Takedown
Author: James G. Lacey
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Over time the impression has grown that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met with little resistance and that, with few exceptions, the Iraqi army simply melted away. As this book clearly shows, nothing could be further from the truth. In its drive to capture Baghdad, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was in nearly constant combat for twenty-one days. While Americans were watching Saddam's statue being torn down on TV, a brigade of the 3rd ID was on the verge of being overrun by Iraqi Republican Guard units trying to escape north. Told to hold two bridges in his sector, a brigade commander had to blow up one of them because he did not have the combat power to hold it. The company commander holding the other bridge was so hard pressed that he called on the artillery to fire their final protective fires a command made only when a unit is in mortal danger and one that had not been given since Vietnam. Every one of the division's armored vehicles was hit by rockets some taking more than a dozen hits and the fighting was so fierce at times that entire battalions ran out of ammunition. Nevertheless, when the fighting was finally over, the 3rd ID had destroyed two Iraqi Regular Army divisions and three divisions of the much vaunted Republican Guard. Takedown tells the little-known story of what happened to the 3rd ID during its struggle to win Baghdad, a campaign that some call one of the most vicious in American military history. To offer this firsthand account, Jim Lacey, a former Time magazine reporter embedded with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, draws on extensive interviews that he conducted with the American soldiers involved as well as access to personal papers and war memoirs. This story is also enriched through his extensive use of interview transcripts of senior Iraqi army officers along with their personal written recollections. From the Kuwaiti border to the streets of Baghdad, these dramatic eyewitness descriptions of what went on give readers an accurate look at the brutal engagements in which the division fought for its life. In making use of such a wealth of primary source material, Lacey has succeeded in writing a fast paced narrative of the conflict, backed up by verifiable facts, that shows how modern wars are really fought.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Over time the impression has grown that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met with little resistance and that, with few exceptions, the Iraqi army simply melted away. As this book clearly shows, nothing could be further from the truth. In its drive to capture Baghdad, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was in nearly constant combat for twenty-one days. While Americans were watching Saddam's statue being torn down on TV, a brigade of the 3rd ID was on the verge of being overrun by Iraqi Republican Guard units trying to escape north. Told to hold two bridges in his sector, a brigade commander had to blow up one of them because he did not have the combat power to hold it. The company commander holding the other bridge was so hard pressed that he called on the artillery to fire their final protective fires a command made only when a unit is in mortal danger and one that had not been given since Vietnam. Every one of the division's armored vehicles was hit by rockets some taking more than a dozen hits and the fighting was so fierce at times that entire battalions ran out of ammunition. Nevertheless, when the fighting was finally over, the 3rd ID had destroyed two Iraqi Regular Army divisions and three divisions of the much vaunted Republican Guard. Takedown tells the little-known story of what happened to the 3rd ID during its struggle to win Baghdad, a campaign that some call one of the most vicious in American military history. To offer this firsthand account, Jim Lacey, a former Time magazine reporter embedded with the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, draws on extensive interviews that he conducted with the American soldiers involved as well as access to personal papers and war memoirs. This story is also enriched through his extensive use of interview transcripts of senior Iraqi army officers along with their personal written recollections. From the Kuwaiti border to the streets of Baghdad, these dramatic eyewitness descriptions of what went on give readers an accurate look at the brutal engagements in which the division fought for its life. In making use of such a wealth of primary source material, Lacey has succeeded in writing a fast paced narrative of the conflict, backed up by verifiable facts, that shows how modern wars are really fought.
History Of The Third Infantry Division In World War II
Author: Lt. Donald G. Taggart
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786258765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
Few units in the U.S. Army can boast as proud a unit history as the Third Infantry Division; it fought on all of the Europe and North African fronts that American soldiers were engaged against the Axis forces during World War II. The 3rd Infantry Division saw combat in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Germany and Austria for 531 consecutive days. In this official division history written by the officers who served with the unit at the time serves as a fascinating memorial and a detailed history of the “Marne Division” during World War II. The 3rd Inf. Division made landfall in Fedala on the 8th November 1942 as part of Operation Torch during the Allied invasion of North Africa and was engaged in heavy fighting before the German and Italian troops were finally levered out of the continent. The division was back in the thick of the fighting in Sicily under the command of such famous leaders as Generals Lucien Truscott, Omar Bradley and George S. Patton. As part of General Mark Clark’s U.S. Fifth army it engaged in some of the bloodiest engagements of the Italian campaign at Salerno beaches, Volturno river, Monte Cassino and Anzio. Under their old division commander General Truscott they formed part of the force that landed in Southern France and battled into the heart of Germany before the eventual capitulation of the Nazi High command in 1945. Richly illustrated with maps and pictures throughout.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786258765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
Few units in the U.S. Army can boast as proud a unit history as the Third Infantry Division; it fought on all of the Europe and North African fronts that American soldiers were engaged against the Axis forces during World War II. The 3rd Infantry Division saw combat in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Germany and Austria for 531 consecutive days. In this official division history written by the officers who served with the unit at the time serves as a fascinating memorial and a detailed history of the “Marne Division” during World War II. The 3rd Inf. Division made landfall in Fedala on the 8th November 1942 as part of Operation Torch during the Allied invasion of North Africa and was engaged in heavy fighting before the German and Italian troops were finally levered out of the continent. The division was back in the thick of the fighting in Sicily under the command of such famous leaders as Generals Lucien Truscott, Omar Bradley and George S. Patton. As part of General Mark Clark’s U.S. Fifth army it engaged in some of the bloodiest engagements of the Italian campaign at Salerno beaches, Volturno river, Monte Cassino and Anzio. Under their old division commander General Truscott they formed part of the force that landed in Southern France and battled into the heart of Germany before the eventual capitulation of the Nazi High command in 1945. Richly illustrated with maps and pictures throughout.
Dogface Soldiers
Author: Daniel R. Champagne
Publisher: Merriam Press
ISBN: 1576383091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher: Merriam Press
ISBN: 1576383091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Army Almanac
Author: Gordon Russell Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : da
Pages : 826
Book Description
Amerikansk militærhistorie, amerikanske hær's historie. Army Almanac for 1959. Udkom første gang i 1950 (dette ex. er på DEPOT I-1159). KGB har1959-udgaven med ajourførte oplysninger på Læsesalen. En form for grundbog om US Army. Indeholder alle mulige nyttige oplysninger og informationer om den amerikanske hær, organisation, opdeling, enheder, uddannelse, officerskorpset, veteraner, material, våben, uniformer, udrustning, efterretningsvirksomhed, logistikområdet, militærlove, dekorationer og belønninger, oversigt over generaler, hærens relationer til det civile, m.m. samt afsnit om USA's deltagelse i krige og væbnede konflikter fra Uafhængighedskrigene i 1775 til Koreakrigen i 1950, væbnede konflikter, "småkrige", m.m.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : da
Pages : 826
Book Description
Amerikansk militærhistorie, amerikanske hær's historie. Army Almanac for 1959. Udkom første gang i 1950 (dette ex. er på DEPOT I-1159). KGB har1959-udgaven med ajourførte oplysninger på Læsesalen. En form for grundbog om US Army. Indeholder alle mulige nyttige oplysninger og informationer om den amerikanske hær, organisation, opdeling, enheder, uddannelse, officerskorpset, veteraner, material, våben, uniformer, udrustning, efterretningsvirksomhed, logistikområdet, militærlove, dekorationer og belønninger, oversigt over generaler, hærens relationer til det civile, m.m. samt afsnit om USA's deltagelse i krige og væbnede konflikter fra Uafhængighedskrigene i 1775 til Koreakrigen i 1950, væbnede konflikter, "småkrige", m.m.
The History of the 43rd Infantry Division, 1941-1945
Author: Joseph E. Zimmer
Publisher: Merriam Press
ISBN: 157638151X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Merriam Press
ISBN: 157638151X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Beyond the Beachhead
Author: Joseph Balkoski
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811741451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811741451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign.
The Brigade: A History, Its Organization and Employment in the US Army
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428910220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This work provides an organizational history of the maneuver brigade and case studies of its employment throughout the various wars. Apart from the text, the appendices at the end of the work provide a ready reference to all brigade organizations used in the Army since 1917 and the history of the brigade colors.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428910220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This work provides an organizational history of the maneuver brigade and case studies of its employment throughout the various wars. Apart from the text, the appendices at the end of the work provide a ready reference to all brigade organizations used in the Army since 1917 and the history of the brigade colors.
History of the Third Infantry Division in World War II.
Author: Donald Gilbert Taggart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description