Armoured Warfare In The Vietnam War

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 Most of these eventually went to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, but were outdated and ineffective due to lack of logistics and training.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 : Donn Albert Starry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mounted Combat in Vietnam written by Donn Albert Starry and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Major Kevin S. Wimmer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782895922
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armored Warfare In The Jungle Environment written by Major Kevin S. Wimmer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines armored warfare in a jungle environment. The focus is to determine if there is a role for ground mounted armored forces in jungle warfare. This study explains how armor was used in past jungle conflicts and examines current doctrine and applicability of employment of armor in the jungle. The first portion of the research focuses on discerning how armor was used in past jungle conflicts. The Pacific campaign of World War II and the Vietnam War are examined to determine the historical role of armor in a jungle environment. Early employment of armor in these two conflicts is examined to determine the criteria for use of armored forces in the jungle and examines the tactics, techniques, and procedures that were developed during these conflicts. The second portion of this study focuses on the feasibility of current employment of armor in a jungle environment. Current Army and Marine armored doctrine is examined and interviews are conducted to determine if current armored systems could and should be employed in jungle warfare. Additionally, officers from foreign countries are interviewed to determine how armored forces are employed in the jungle areas of their countries.

Author : Simon Dunstan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472832027
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Armour in Vietnam 1945–54 written by Simon Dunstan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French experience with armour in Indo-China dated back to 1919, when it sent FT-17s to the colony, followed by a variety of armoured cars. After World War II, French troops were equipped with a motley collection of American and cast-off British equipment until the outbreak of war in Korea saw an increase in military aid. This included large numbers of the M24 Chaffee light tank, along with amphibious vehicles such as the M29C Weasel and LVT4 Buffalo, to conduct operations in coastal and inland areas that the Viet Minh had previously thought immune to attack. France's armour was a key part of the battle against the Viet Minh right up until the last stand at Dien Bien Phu.

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178303534X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armoured Warfare in the Korean War written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated history explores the unique role of armored vehicles in the Korean War with more than 180 wartime photographs. After World War II, military analysts thought that the only place significant armored forces were ever likely to confront each other again was in central Europe where the NATO alliance would fend off the Soviet Red Army. But then during the Korean War of 1950-53, large numbers of armored fighting vehicles were deployed by both sides. This neglected aspect of the conflict is the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones’s photographic history. Korea, with its rugged mountains, narrow passes, steep valleys and waterlogged fields. was not ideal tank country so the armor mainly supported the infantry and rarely engaged in battles of maneuver. Yet the wide variety of armor supporting UN and North Korean forces played a vital if unorthodox role in the swiftly moving campaigns. More than 180 contemporary photographs have been selected to show Soviet-built T-34/85s and Su-76s, American M4 Shermans, M26 Pershings and M46 Pattons, as well as British Cromwells and Centurions in one of the defining conflicts of the Cold War.

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781593817
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( 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 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian and collector Michael Green shows in this fascinating and graphically illustrated book that the two wars that engulfed Indochina and North and South Vietnam over 30 years were far more armoured in nature than typically thought of. By skilful use of imagery and descriptive text he describes the many variants deployed and their contribution.??The ill-fated French Expeditionary Force was largely US equipped with WW2 M3 and M5 Stuart, M4 Sherman and M24 light tanks as well as armoured 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 armoured vehicles arrive in theatre. The Australians 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 and BTR-40 and -50 swept the Communists to victory.??This fine book brings details and images of all these diverse weaponry to the reader in one volume.

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 : J. P. Harris
Publisher : Batsford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armoured Warfare written by J. P. Harris and published by Batsford. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.P.Harris and F.H.Toase present a documented account of armoured warfare worldwide and look towards its future. Armoured forces have played dramatic roles in the 20th century and their operations have helped shape today's world. This contemporary and wide-ranging analysis, with contributions by eight experts on military affairs, shows what a crucial role armour continues to play today.

Author : Williamson R. Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521637602
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Innovation in the Interwar Period written by Williamson R. Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s.

Author : Dwight W. Birdwell
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hundred Miles of Bad Road written by Dwight W. Birdwell and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Birdwell's experiences in the tank warfare of the Vietnam War, from his early, confident days in 1967, through the nightmare of the Tet Offensive, to the demoralization in 1968 when he rotated out.