Armor In Vietnam Illustrated Edition

Author : Frederick Eugene Oldinsky
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786250160
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armor In Vietnam [Illustrated Edition] written by Frederick Eugene Oldinsky and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 24 maps This thesis begins with a brief history of armored vehicles from their earliest concepts to the modern battle tank of today. It critically examines the decision not to include tank units with the first American combat forces deployed in Vietnam and the irrationality of that decision in light of a similar decision made prior to the Korean conflict. Tanks were deployed in limited numbers in Vietnam in spite of a decision to the contrary and, once there, I proved their usefulness and their ability to perform in a tropical environment against an elusive enemy. Examples of the tank’s effectiveness in Vietnam are given and the feasibility of deploying major armored forces to that country is discussed. Problems created by insufficient armor are addressed as well as the limitations and vulnerabilities of tanks and other armored vehicles. Armor doctrine is traced from the tank’s role in breaking the stalemate of World War I through the formative years of World War II, and its application to the war in Vietnam. Since most armored weapons were designed primarily for conventional warfare, a number of modifications were required to adapt the weapons to an unconventional war. Some of the more significant modifications are described. Finally, lessons learned by the Vietnam experience and their future application are discussed. Concluding consideration in the paper is whether or not decision makers will need these lessons learned or continue to make the same mistakes.

Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553343472
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armor written by James R. Arnold and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines some of the armaments--and their role--used during the Vietnam War

Author : Jim Mesko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armor in Vietnam written by Jim Mesko and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : General Donn A. Starry
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782893660
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam Studies - Mounted Combat In Vietnam [Illustrated Edition] written by General Donn A. Starry and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 1 chart, 17 maps, 6 diagrams and 38 illustrations] “The generally unsuccessful experience of French armored forces in Southeast Asia from the end of World War II to 1954 convinced American military men that armored units could not be employed in Vietnam. “It was not until 1967, however, when a study titled Mechanized and Armor Combat Operations, Vietnam...was sent to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Army, that the potential of armored forces was fully described to the Army’s top leaders. Despite the study’s findings that armored cavalry was probably the most cost-effective force on the Vietnam battlefield-there was little that could be done to alter significantly either the structure of forces already sent to Vietnam or those earmarked for deployment...The armored force of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, meanwhile had been successful enough in fighting the elusive Viet Cong that U.S. armored units had been deployed in limited numbers, usually as part of their parent divisions. “From early March 1965 until the cease-fire in Jan. 1973, U.S. armored units participated in virtually every large-scale offensive operation and worked closely with South Vietnamese Army and other free world forces. After eight years of fighting over land on which tanks were once thought to be incapable of moving, in weather that was supposed to prohibit armored operations, and dealing with an elusive enemy against whom armored units were thought to be at a considerable disadvantage, armored forces emerged as powerful, flexible, and essential battle forces. In large measure they contributed to the success of the free world forces, not only in close combat, but in pacification and security operations as well. When redeployment began in early 1969, armored units were not included in the first forces scheduled for redeployment, and indeed planners moved armored units down the scale time and again, holding off their redeployment until the very end.”

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147384083X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armoured Warfare in the Vietnam War written by Michael Green and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pictorial history of the Indochina and Vietnam Wars captures the range of armored warfare used in the region through rare wartime photographs. The two conflicts that engulfed Indochina and Vietnam in the decades after World War II are generally thought of as infantry wars. But in fact, they both involved a significant amount of armored warfare. In this fully illustrated volume, military expert and Vietnam veteran Michael Green describes the many kinds of armored vehicles deployed and their contributions in combat. The ill-fated French Expeditionary Force of the Indochina War was largely equipped with World War II era American tanks—including M3 and M5 Stuart, M4 Sherman and M24 light tanks—as well as armored cars and half-tracks. Most of these eventually went to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, but were outdated and ineffective due to lack of logistics and training. The US Army and Marine Corps build-up in the 1960s saw vast quantities of M48 Pattons, M113 APCs and many specialist variants and improvised armored vehicles arrive in the theatre. The Australians also brought their British Centurion tanks. But it was the Russians, Chinese and North Vietnamese who won the day and their T-38-85 tanks, ZSU anti-aircraft platforms.

Author : Ha Mai Viet
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612514332
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel and Blood written by Ha Mai Viet and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When South Vietnam was abandoned by its American allies and consequently defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1975, all its military records were lost to the enemy. This has led to a paucity of factually based analyses of the war by South Vietnamese authors. In a project lasting some ten years, and financed by his own hard-earned resources, Colonel Viet has researched, documented, and analyzed the Vietnam War from the perspective of South Vietnamese armor forces, elements in which he himself played an important role as leader, teacher, and innovator. His travels to interview hundreds of people with first-hand knowledge of these matters took him back and forth across the United States (and to Canada, France and Australia) and enabled him to piece together the story as recalled by virtually every senior South Vietnamese who was involved, along with many of lesser rank but important experience, and many Americans as well. The result is a unique and invaluable work, one recounting from the early days of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam its organization and development, its combat operations, and its interaction with American advisors and then later with deployed American units. Viet tells this story as an historian would, not glossing over the shortcomings and failures of his fellow Vietnamese soldiers (or of the Americans), but also providing definitive accounts of their successes, their innovations, their courage and determination, and the hardships experienced and survived in the course of a long, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful struggle. In Colonel Viet's words: "In order to give the truth back to history, we did not hide anything, whether it be victory or defeat." Finally, in a very touching portion of the work, Colonel Viet memorializes his fallen comrades of the armored force and commemorates the service of all the American advisors to the armored force he was able to identify.

Author : Otto J. Lehrack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Shining Armor written by Otto J. Lehrack and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Vietnam War, as seen by the American PFCs, sergeants and platoon leaders in the rivers and jungles and trenches. Into their stories, Lehrack has woven a narrative that explains the events they describe and places them into both a historical and a political context.

Author : Simon Dunstan
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841768335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam Tracks written by Simon Dunstan and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armor in Vietnam written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles regarding the use of armor during the Vietnam War, compiled by the Armor Committee of the Cadet Military Affairs Club.

Author : Michael D. Mahler
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 9780891416746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ringed in Steel written by Michael D. Mahler and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the height of the Vietnam war, the armored cavalry saw action in every hotspot on the map. From the terrifying New Year's Eve Mekong Delta ambush to the horrors of the Tet Offensive, here is Major Mahler's dramatic account of armored combat, when his cavalry squadron brought steel and death to the steaming jungles of Southeast Asia.