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Author: David Doyle
Publisher: Schiffer + ORM
Published: 2023-12-15
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1507304242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe specific mission of the Marine Corps has led to the development of many unusual and innovative vehicles, amphibious landing craft in particular.
Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 1999-09-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781855328501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first prototype for the LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) was completed in July 1941, its design based on the Alligator, a tracked amphibious vehicle developed for rescue operations in the swamps of Florida. Though the early conception of amtrac operations envisioned using LVTs solely as supply vehicles, at Tarawa amtracs demonstrated their utility as assault vehicles to carry troops, leading to the development of new models. This book covers the evolution of amtracs, from the first LVT-1 to the LVT-7; their numerous variants; and their use throughout World War II and beyond.
Author: Dr. Jack Shulimson
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 1787200833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.
Author: Alfred Dunlop Bailey
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fred Crismon
Publisher: Motorbooks
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780879386726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ivan Eland
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2001-09-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0275973484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Challenges the prevailing interventionist mentality of the American foreign policy establishment, and presents the political and economic arguments for a policy of military restraint overseas.
Author: Lieutenant Colonel George Forty OBE
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2006-09-21
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0752495852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmploying a range of archive black and white photographs, this book examines the US Marine Corps' organisation and command structure, strategy, tactics and amphibious assault doctrine. Providing biographies of its most influential figures, it also surveys insignia, uniforms and equipment to provide a portrait of the US Marine Corps at war.
Author: David Doyle
Publisher: Schiffer + ORM
Published: 2023-12-15
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1507304234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe M42 was an anti-aircraft vehicle, which was pressed into ground combat during the war
Author: Michael R. Gordon
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-02-27
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 1400075394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq. A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency that followed. As Gordon and Trainor show, the brutal aftermath was not inevitable and was a surprise to the generals on both sides. Based on access to unseen documents and exclusive interviews with the men and women at the heart of the war, Cobra II provides firsthand accounts of the fighting on the ground and the high-level planning behind the scenes. Now with a new afterword that addresses what transpired after the fateful events of the summer of 2003, this is a peerless re-creation and analysis of the central event of our times.
