Armored Thunderbolt

Author : Steve Zaloga
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811704246
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Thunderbolt written by Steve Zaloga and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II • Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger • Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor Some tank crews referred to the American M4 Sherman tank as a "death trap." Others, like Gen. George Patton, believed that the Sherman helped win World War II. So which was it: death trap or war winner? Armor expert Steven Zaloga answers that question by recounting the Sherman's combat history. Focusing on Northwest Europe (but also including a chapter on the Pacific), Zaloga follows the Sherman into action on D-Day, among the Normandy hedgerows, during Patton's race across France, in the great tank battle at Arracourt in September 1944, at the Battle of the Bulge, across the Rhine, and in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563110261
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 11th Armored Division, Thunderbolt written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50th Anniversary Volume provides the clearest view yet of the 11th. This volume includes a history of each individual unit of the Thunderbolts, all-new photos and biographies, plus unit insignias.

Author : Steven Zaloga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811771887
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Thunderbolt written by Steven Zaloga and published by . This book was released on 2025-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of photos, including many never published before with riveting accounts of armored warfare in World War II. Compares the Sherman to other tanks, including the Panther and Tiger. Author is a world-renowned expert on the Sherman tank and American armor.

Author : Steven Zaloga
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811772144
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Attack 1944 written by Steven Zaloga and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic, now available in paperback, includes all varieties of American armor in Europe from D-Day, to Normandy, to southern France, the Siegfried Line, the push to the Rhine, and finally, the Battle of the Bulge. Shermans, Hellcats, and many more American and German tanks are covered in nearly 1200 photos along with Steven Zaloga’s expert captions. Perfect for modelers and World War II enthusiasts.

Author : M. H. Gillie
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 081174843X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forging the Thunderbolt written by M. H. Gillie and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a detailed look at the career of Gen. Adna Romanza Chaffee, the "Father of the Armored Force." Careful study of the battles fought during and between the wars for the armored forces' very survival. Photos of the men and machines that made the American Armored Corps a legend.

Author : Mildred Hanson Gillie
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811733432
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forging the Thunderbolt written by Mildred Hanson Gillie and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the military history of the rise of America's armoured forces from their humble beginnings in borrowed tanks on the battlefields of France in World War I to a thundering crescendo of tactical prowess and lethal power as they spearheaded the liberation of Western Europe in World War II.

Author : David Barno
Publisher : Bridging the Gap
ISBN 13 : 0190672056
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adaptation Under Fire written by David Barno and published by Bridging the Gap. This book was released on 2020 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adaptation Under Fire looks at the essential importance of military adaptation in winning wars. Every military must prepare for future wars despite inevitably having little confidence about the precise shape that those wars will take. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once noted: "We have a perfect record in predicting the next war. We have never once gotten it right." Despite this uncertainty, military organizations still must make choices. They must determine the nature of doctrine they will need to fight effectively, the type of weaponry and equipment they must procure to defeat their potential foe, and the kind of leaders they must select and develop to guide the force to victory. Since the U.S. military has global security responsibilities, it will have to make these choices without knowing when, where, or how the next war will unfold, nor even who the enemy may be. It will need to adapt quickly and successfully in the face of the unexpected in order to prevail. The book starts by providing a framework for understanding adaptation, and includes several historical examples of success and failure. The second section examines U.S. military adaptation during the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and explains why certain forms of adaptation have proven so problematic. The final section argues that the U.S. military must become more adaptable in order to successfully address the fast-changing security challenges of the 21st century, and concludes with some recommendations on how it should do so. "--

Author : George Forty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616732644
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 4th Armored Division in World War II written by George Forty and published by . This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Zaloga
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811761134
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Champion written by Steven Zaloga and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armor expert Zaloga enters the battle over the best tanks of World War II with this heavy-caliber blast of a book armed with more than forty years of research. • Provocative but fact-based rankings of the tanks that fought the Second World War • Breaks the war into eight periods and declares Tanker's Choice and Commander's Choice for each • Champions include the German Panzer IV and Tiger, Soviet T-34, American Pershing, and a few surprises • Compares tanks' firepower, armor protection, and mobility as well as dependability, affordability, tactics, training, and overall combat performance • Relies on extensive documentation from archives, government studies, and published sources—much of which has never been published in English before • Supported by dozens of charts and diagrams and hundreds of photos

Author : Martin Caidin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387590723
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunderbolt! written by Martin Caidin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunderbolt! is the incredible true life story of Robert S. Johnson, one of America's leading fighter pilot aces in World War II. His memoir is an action-packed account of how a young man from Lawton, Oklahoma went on to amass 28 enemy kills, the first U. S. Army Air Force pilot in the European theater to surpass Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I tally of 26 enemy planes destroyed. Johnson's detailed, vivid descriptions of close-scrapes with Goering's elite fighters and his numerous other skirmishes makes Thunderbolt! essential reading for World War 2 buffs.