Forging The 10th Mountain Division For War 1940 45

Author : Justin J. Chabalko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940804552
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forging the 10th Mountain Division for War, 1940-45 written by Justin J. Chabalko and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the US Army faces new and uncertain challenges across the globe, the need to create new capabilities in organizations, doctrine, and equipment is critical. As new threats in the sea, air, land, space, and cyber domains appear, it is vital for the Army to produce capable and well-equipped formations that are prepared to adapt and meet any challenges. This work examines the relationship between peace-time innovation and combat adaptation. It uses the history of the 10th Mountain Division as a historical example of how the Army faced threats in multiple areas of the world. In response, it innovated to create a new capability to fight in the mountains. Using new techniques, it recruited highly experienced volunteers, then developed training and equipment to build a new capability for the US Army. As a result of this innovation, the 10th Mountain Division exemplified a highly adaptive and successful formation in combat. The War Department's ability to leverage innovation to create an adaptive organization is relevant to the contemporary Army and how it looks at the current challenges of multi-domain battle and Army War Fighting Challenges"--

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849088098
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book US 10th Mountain Division in World War II written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th was the only US mountain division to be raised in World War II, and still has a high profile, being involved in operations from Iraq to Somalia and from Haiti to Afghanistan. It did not arrive in Europe until winter 1944/45, but then fought hard in the harsh mountainous terrain of Northern Italy. The division was special in a number of ways. Its personnel were selected for physical fitness and experience in winter sports, mountaineering, and hunting, unlike the rest of the infantry. It was highly trained in mountain and winter warfare, including the use of skis and snowshoes, while its organization, field clothing, and some personal equipment also differed from that of the usual infantry division. The division made extensive use of pack-mules, and its reconnaissance unit was horse-mounted, conducting the last horse-mounted charge in US history in April 1945. Featuring full-color artwork and rare photographs, this is the gripping story of the US Army's only mountain division in action during the closing months of World War II.

Author : Flint Whitlock
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439677263
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale written by Flint Whitlock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, at the beginning of World War II, the US Army built its most unusual military post for its most unusual division in a high, remote, Rocky Mountain valley 100 miles west of Denver, Colorado. Located at 9,250 feet above sea level, Camp Hale was the training home of the famed 13,459-man 10th Mountain Division, which trained in mountain warfare techniques for two years--and almost missed the war. After they were finally deployed for combat in early 1945 in the Northern Apennine Mountains of Italy, the young men of the 10th never lost a battle or gave up a foot of ground. And, after the war, many of the veterans returned home to create America's ski and winter sports industry. Building Camp Hale was an incredible feat of wartime engineering and construction. To transform the wild, alpine meadow into an Army camp, 10,000 civilian construction workers were hired to scrape away the vegetation; level the valley floor; install roads and water and sewer lines; build 1,000 structures and two ski areas; and relocate a highway and railroad line--all within seven months and at a cost of $31 million (over a half billion dollars in today's money). Yet Camp Hale was demolished two years after it was built.

Author : John Imbrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Times and Bad Times written by John Imbrie and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Army. 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the 87th Mountain Infantry, Italy, 1945 written by United States. Army. 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Wolf
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1461706238
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ice Crusaders written by Thomas Wolf and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blend of memoir and history detailing the story of soldier-athletes who comprised the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.

Author : John B. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maneuver and Firepower written by John B. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Joseph Timothy Sweet
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811733519
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Arm written by John Joseph Timothy Sweet and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A detailed study of Italy's long-ignored tank force - Explores the intersection of technology, war, and society in Mussolini's Italy - Second only to Germany in number of tank divisions, first to create an armored corps Though overshadowed by Germany's more famous Afrika Korps, Italian tanks formed a large part of the Axis armored force that the Allies confronted--and ultimately defeated--in North Africa in the early years of World War II. Those tanks were the product of two decades of debate and development as the Italian military struggled to produce a modern, mechanized army in the aftermath of World War I. For a time, Italy stood near the front of the world's tank forces--but once war came, Mussolini's iron arm failed as an effective military force. This is the story of its rise and fall.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America, History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : Charles J. Sanders
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457109468
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boys of Winter written by Charles J. Sanders and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boys of Winter tells the true story of three young American ski champions and their brutal, heroic, and fateful transformation from athletes to infantrymen with the 10th Mountain Division. Charles J. Sanders's fast-paced narrative draws on dozens of interviews and extensive research to trace these boys' lives from childhood to championships and from training at Mount Rainier and in the Colorado Rockies to battles against the Nazis.