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Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 35-1-1. At head of title on title page: Staff Ride Guide. One of a series of "staff ride" booklets about Civil War battlefields. Discusses a battle which took place in Virginia on Oct. 20, 1861. The disastrous defeat of the Union forces resulted in the death of a United States senator, the arrest of a Union general, and the creation of a congressional oversight committee that would keep senior Union commanders looking over their shoulders for the remainder of the war. Includes Selected Biographical Sketches. Year/Pages: 2001: 92 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 70-25. Discusses how Union General Philip H. Sheridan rallied his men to turn defeat into victory on 19 October 1864. Year/Pages: 1990: 45 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 70-24. First in a planned series of military "staff ride brochures." At head of title on title page: Self-Guided Tour. Discusses a Civil War battle which was fought in 1864 in Virginia and won by the Confederate forces. Describes twelve sites which were important to the battle and which may be explored at the site through guided tours. Includes maps and sepia photographs. L.C. card 88-34357. Item 344. Year/Pages: 1988: 60 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 70-26. At head of title: Self-Guided Tour. 3d in a series of booklets on American battlefields intended to help soldiers use the past to enhance their understanding of the United States Army's future. Examines the Battle of Second Manassas in the form of a tour which goes to twelve locations important to aspects of the battle. Stops on the tour have been selected to help the visitor see the battle developing. L.C. card 89-48640. Item 344. Year/Pages: 1990: 76 p.; ill. Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: Publication measures 8 x 4 in. folded; 23 x 17 in. unfolded. This folder, organized yearly through maps and chronologies, shows the course of the war from Fort Sumter in 1861 to Appomattox Court House and beyond in 1865. Also describes the two principal theaters in which the major military operations took place: Eastern and Western theaters. At head of folder: Resource Topics for Parklands. Sold in packages of 100 copies only. Year/Pages: 1995: Folder; ill. Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service, Division of Publications Description: National Park Service Handbook 127. Describes the Confederate defenses of 1863-65 which kept Federal land and naval forces at bay for 587 days. L.C. card 84-600248. Item 649. Year/Pages: 1984: 64 p.; ill.
Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: Historical Handbook 9. Cover title reads: Gettysburg. Tells the story of the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. Describes the establishment of a cemetery at Gettysburg and the genesis of the Gettysburg Address. Also includes reproductions of 12 battle paintings by F. D. Briscoe. Item 649. Year/Pages: 1962: 64 p.; ill. revised ed. 1992-repr.
Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service, Division of Publications Description: National Park Service Handbook 137. Describes the 14 month defense of Vicksburg, Mississippi by Confederate forces and the 47 day siege of Vicksburg by Union naval and land forces, which led to the complete opening of the Mississippi River. This publication is based on a previous publication by William C. Everhart. Previously listed incorrectly under ISBN 0-16-003517-1. L.C. card 86-749. Item 649. Year/Pages: 1986: 80 p.; ill. Price: $8.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-65-1. By william T. Bowers, et al. Analyzes the operations of the all black 24th Infantry during the Korean War to determine how well the unit and its associated engineers and artillery performed. Asks whether deficiencies occurred. Seeks their military causes. Looks at how those influences and events intersected with the racial prejudices prevalent in that day. Gives a brief history of the service of black soldiers in the Civil War and World War 1. Year/Pages: 1966: 330 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: Army Historical Series. CMH Pub. 30-2. Originally published in 1954, the year following the close of the Korean War, this book describes combat actions of small Army units, squads and platoons, companies and batteries. The 1984 and later printings include a new foreword written in 1984. L.C. card 70-603408. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1970: 264 p.; ill. revised ed. 1987-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 22-1. U.S. Army in Action Series. Contains a collection of interviews with several hundred officers and enlisted men who served in the Korean conflict in all the arms and services of the U.S. Army, except Infantry, Artillery, and Armor. Year/Pages: 1987: 254 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 21-1. This volume briefly records, by text and photograph, the first six months of the Korean Conflict that began on June 25, 1950. Facsimile reprint of a 1952 publication. Contains copyrighted material. Item 344. Year/Pages: 1952: 281 p.; ill. 1989-repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 21-2. By John Miller, Jr., et al. This volume records briefly, by text and photograph, the Korean Conflict from Jan. 1951 to the cessation of hostilities in July 1953. Facsimile reprint of a 1956 publication. L.C. card 56-60005. Item 344. Year/Pages: 1956: 336 p.; ill. 1981-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 19-1. Design and layout: John Birmingham. Chronology: Beth Mackenzie. Text: John Elsberg. Describes the first phase of the Korean War using text, maps, illustrations, and a chronology of the war from June 25 to September 19, 1950. Year/Pages: 1997: Poster, 22x28 in.; flat.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 19-2. Poster measures 22 x 28 in. Text by John Elsbert. Chronology by Beth MacKenzie. Contains maps, pictures with captions, and a chronology of the UN Offensive from 16 September to 2 November 1950. Item 0344-B-01. Year/Pages: 1998: Poster, 22x28 in. flat.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 19-3. Design and layout: John Birmingham. Chronology: Beth Mackenzie. Text: John Elsberg. Describes the third phase of the Korean War using text, maps, illustrations, and a chronology of the war from 3 November 1950 to 24 January 1951. Year/Pages: 1999: Poster, 22x28 in.; flat.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 19-4. A commemorative poster focusing on the Korean War from January 25 through April 21, the first UN counteroffensive, to April 22 through July 5, 1951, the Chinese Communist forces (CCF) spring offensive. Year/Pages: Poster
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 19-5. Map measures 22 x 28 in. Layout: Teresa K. Jameson. Chronology: Beth Mackenzie. Text: John Elsberg. Describes the fifth phase of the Korean War using text, maps, illustrations, and a chronology of the war from 9 July 1951 to 27 July 1953. Year/Pages: 2000: Poster, 22x28 in.; flat.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 19-8. This brochure, one of a series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Korean War, covers the Chinese intervention in the Korean War, which led to near disaster at the Chosin Reservoir. Year/Pages: 2000: 32 p.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 19-9. This brochure, one of a series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Korean war, covers the period during which the UN forces in Korea recovered from the disastrous retreat that followed the Chinese military intervention in November 1950, endured two massive campaigns that threatened to push them off the peninsula, regrouped and counterattacked each enemy initiative, and finally established a strong defensive line. Year/Pages: 2001: 28 p.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center for Military History Description: CMH Pub. 19-10. U.S. Army in the Korean War. This brochure, one of a series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Korean war, covers the tacit acknowledgement by the Chinese, Soviet and American governments that the war was not winnable, the tortuous peace talks, and the two years of stalemated military engagement that ensued. Year/Pages: 2000: 40 p.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 30-3. Army Historical Series. Discusses the problems faced by U.S. military advisors as they tried to create an effective army in a politically divided, economically disorganized, and technologically underdeveloped country. KMAG stands for: Korean Military Advisory Group. Year/Pages: 1963: 216 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Marine Corps, History and Museums Division Description: Marines in the Korean War Commemorative Series. This commemorative pamphlet describes the Marine Corps role in the landing at Inchon during the Korean War and profiles a number of key participants. Year/Pages: 2000: 68 p.; ill. Price: $3.40
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 20-4. Describes in great detail the tests of American military leadership and resources posed by the taxing retreat of the Eighth Army and X Corps across the frozen wastes of North Korea. Also examines the special problems posed to a fighting army during the deadly months of stalemate in the summer of 1951. L.C. card 89-600137. Item 344. Year/Pages: 1990: 569 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 20-4-1. Bottom of the cover reads: Korean War, 40th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Describes in great detail the tests of American military leadership and resources posed by the taxing retreat of the Eighth Army and X Corps across the frozen wastes of North Korea. Also examines the special problems posed to a fighting army during the deadly months of stalemate in the summer of 1951. L.C. card 89-600137. Item 344. Year/Pages: 1990: 569 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 20-1. A detailed examination of major policy decisions and planning actions in Washington and Tokyo through June 1951. A broad outline of combat operations is included to orient the reader. L.C. card 70-609930. Item 344. Year/Pages: 1972: 443 p.; ill., 9 maps. 1978-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 20-3. United States Army in the Korean War. A history of the intricate and frustrating truce negotiations between the UN forces and the Chinese Communists that continued from July 1951 until July 1953, of the bitter hill fighting that continued during those negotiations, and of the large-scale prisoner riots at Koje-do. Year/Pages: 1966L 571 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-19. Army Special Publication. In addition to providing a detailed chronology of Korean War mobilization and logistics, this study discusses the issues raised in the existing literature, both published and unpublished, and suggests paths for future research. Year/Pages: 1987: 126 p.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Air Force Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Chronicles the role of the United States Air Force in the Korean War. Year/Pages: 1996: 63 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Discusses the strategic bombing by the United States Air Force in the Persian Gulf War. Item 0422-M-01. Year/Pages: 1996: 87 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-74. Commemorative historical color map poster with accompanying graphics (24" X 30") depicting the role of the U.S. Army in Operations DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM. Year/Pages: Poster.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Publication 70-56-1. Describes how the United States Army, Europe (USAREUR), assembled, prepared and deployed the powerful forces it contributed to the coalition effort in the Persian Gulf and how USAREUR accomplished these challenging missions while maintaining its continuing security responsibilities on the Continent and preparing to execute its program of force reductions. Discusses the complicated planning for the deployment and the rapid-fire implementation. Year/Pages: 1998: 393 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Gulf War Air Power Survey Review Committee Description: Eliot Cohen directed the 5 volume survey. Richard L. Olson, et al. authored this V. 3. Consists of two reports. The first report, Logistics, discusses logistics in the Persian Gulf War as it applies to all military operations and in particular to air operations. Includes functions for maintaining an air base and support services. The second report, Support, captures and tells the stories of functional support areas. Focuses on those support areas that project air power. Item 424.NB1240 Year/Pages: 1993: 786 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-34. Publication measures 24 x 30 in. Shows a map of the forces in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm along with photographs of the United States Army in action. Year/Pages: 1997: Poster, 24x30 in. Supporting the Troops: The United States Army Corps of Engineers in the Persian Gulf War Publisher: Defense Dept., United States Army Corps of Engineers, Office of History Description: EP 870-1-50. Documents and evaluates the activities of the United States Army Corps of Engineers during the Persian Gulf War. Provides an overview of the Corps' critical missions during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Item 0338-B. Year/Pages: 1996: 260 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Marine Corps, History and Museums Division Description: United States Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991. Tells the story of more than 3,600 United States Marines who supported Operation Provide Comfort, an international relief effort in northern Iraq from 7 April to 15 July 1991. Focuses on Marine activities and contributions. Presents historical glimpses of the Kurds, modern Iraq, and non-Marine activities only to provide necessary background information. Defines Provide Comfort's place in the diplomatic history of the Middle East. Item 383-B. Year/Pages: 1995: 135 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Publication 70-30-1. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and Theresa L. Kraus. Discusses the role of the United States Army in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 through February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense of immediacy in its approach. Contains maps which were carefully researched and compiled as original documents in their own right. Includes an index. L.C. card 93-43205. Year/Pages: 1995: 328 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Publication 70-30-1. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and Theresa L. Kraus. Discusses the role of the United States Army in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 through February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense of immediacy in its approach. Contains maps which were carefully researched and compiled as original documents in their own right. Includes an index. L.C. card 93-43205. Year/Pages: 1995: 328 p.; ill.
Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: Publication measures 8 x 4 in. folded; 23 x 17 in unfolded. Describes in chronological order the story of the American Revolution from 1763-1783. Sold in packages of 100 copies only. Year/Pages: 2001: Folder; ill.
Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: By Wilma Dykeman. Illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman. Publication measures 9 x 6 in. Describes and illustrates the land and the people for which the Battle of Kings Mountain was fought in South Carolina on Oct. 17, 1780. Contains unnumbered pages. L.C. card 76-608326. Year/Pages: 1978: 80 p.; ill. 1991-repr. Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: Published in cooperation with the Sunday Times of London on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. Poster gives detailed information about United States naval vessels and their engagements with the British during the Revolutionary War. Item 646-S. Year/Pages: 1976: Poster, 29x39 in. Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: Published in cooperation with the Sunday Times of London on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. Poster gives detailed information about the British Army in America during the Revolutionary War. Item 646-S. Year/Pages: 1976: Poster, 29x39 in.
Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: Published in cooperation with the Sunday Times of London on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. Poster gives detailed information about the American Army during the Revolutionary War. Item 646-S. Year/Pages: 1976: Poster, 29x39 in.; 1984-repr. Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: Published in cooperation with the Sunday Times of London on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. Poster gives detailed information about London during the Revolutionary War. Item 646-S. Year/Pages: 1976: Poster, 29x39 in. Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service, Division of Publications Description: Published in cooperation with the Sunday Times of London on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. Poster gives detailed information about Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War. Item 646-S. Year/Pages: 1976: Poster, 29x39 in.
Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service, Division of Publications Description: National Park Service Handbook 120. On cover: Morristown, Official National Park Handbook. On spine: Morristown, National Historical Park. Describes and illustrates the history of Morristown, New Jersey during and after the Revolutionary War. Includes a guide to the present day site. Previously listed incorrectly under ISBN 0-16-003489-2. L.C. card 83-600148. Item 649. Year/Pages: 1983: 111 p.; ill. 1988-repr.
Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service, Division of Publications Description: Provides an informal study in text and cartoons of American troops in the Revolution, with particular emphasis on the life of the common foot soldier. Includes cartoon illustrations. Contains copyrighted material. L.C. card 78-606013. Item 648. Year/Pages: 1978: 64 p.; ill. 1995-repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: Indochina Monographs. CMH Pub 90-26. An account of the last two years of the Vietnamese Conflict. L.C. card 81-607989. Year/Pages: 1983: 190 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History Description: CMH Pub 70-4-1. By John A. Cash, et al. Includes accounts of various events in the Vietnam War from 1965 through 1968. Based on journals, reports, and interviews. L.C. card 70-605212. Item 344. Year/Pages: 1970: 167 p.; ill. 1984-repr. War Too Long: The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia 1961-1975 Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Air Force Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Discusses the United States Air Force's involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. Year/Pages: 1996: 111 p.; ill. War in South Vietnam: The Years of the Offensive, 1965-1968 (Paperbound) Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: United States Air Force in Southeast Asia. Documents the Air Force's support of the ground war in South Vietnam from 1965 to early 1968. Includes sections on the air campaign conducted during the Communists' siege of the Marine camp of Khe Sanh. Also contains several appendices, a glossary, and bibliographical notes. GPO ISBN 0-16-050137-7. L.C. card 88-14030. Item 422-J. Year/Pages: 1999: 424 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 91-3-1. U.S. Army in Vietnam Series. Describes the U.S. Army advisory effort to the South Vietnamese armed forces during the period when the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia was at its peak. Year/Pages: 1988: 561 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 91-5. United States Army in Vietnam. Focuses on the first 18 months of combat in Vietnam. Describes how the United States Army entered the war and fought its first battles north of Saigon and in the Central Highlands. Year/Pages: 2000: 430 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 91-5-1. United States Army in Vietnam. 8th in a series. Chronicles the first eighteen months of combat by the United States Army's ground forces. L.C. card 99-16962 Item 345. Year/Pages: 2000: 430 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-12-1. Describes the advantages and disadvantages of high technology in communications, as applied to battlefield operations during the Vietnamese Conflict. Emphasis is placed upon the building and installing of communications systems from 1965 through 1970. Transfer of the communications systems to the South Vietnamese from 1970 through 1973, is also discussed. L.C. card 85-26647. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1986: 535 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-13-1. Draws upon previously unavailable Army and Defense Department records to interpret the part the press played during the Vietnam War. Discusses the roles of the following in the creation of information policy: Military Assistance Command's Office of Information in Saigon; White House; State Department; Defense Department; and the United States Embassy in Saigon. L.C. card 88-931. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1988: 429 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: United States Army in Vietnam. CMH Pub. 91-2-1. Describes the efforts of the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, to manage relations with the news media during the Vietnam War. Follows the development of changes introduced into the program by General Creighton Abrams, General William C. Westmoreland's successor, through to the end of the war. Carries the story from just after the Tet Offensive through the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to the final withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam in 1973. L.C. card 94-35531. Year/Pages: 1996: 679 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air University Description: Examines the development of military night aviation from its origins through the 1st World War. Places emphasis on the evolution of night flying in those countries which fought on the Western Front, namely France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. L.C. card 98-44145. Item 0442-K. Year/Pages: 1998: 172 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH EM 0023. Includes: Learning Lessons in the American Expeditionary Forces, by Kenneth E. Hamburger, an analytical overview essay; United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919, volumes 1-17 of original documents originally compiled in 1919; Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War, V. 1-5 (also a reprint); American Armies and Battlefields in Europe, an extended guide to the battlefields of World War 1 first published in 1938; and Army Art of World War 1, 16 prints by Army artists, and the Guide to the Print Set. Item 344-J. Year/Pages: 2001: 3 CD-ROMs with booklet in plastic case.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 100-10. American Forces in Action Series. Discusses the landing of U.S. VI Corps at Anzio in an attempt to bypass German defenses blocking the approach to Rome, January-May 1944. Year/Pages: 1947: 122 p. maps. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-14. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe how Americans and Army personnel served in World War 2.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 22-2-1. U.S. Army in Action Series. Provides an account of the defense of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge based primarily on interviews with the participants. Year/Pages: 1946: 261 p.; ill. repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: Center of Military History CMH Pub 70-57. Brings together three installments of General George C. Marshall's wartime reports. Provides a comprehensive picture of global war as seen from the perspective of the Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Includes Marshall's comments on such topics as: technology; the "90-division gamble;" the replacement system; troop morale and the citizen-soldier; and demobilization. Year/Pages: 1996: 224 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 100-2. American Forces in Action Series. Provides an account of the Army operations against a determined enemy up through the Central Pacific. Year/Pages: 1946: 136 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 70-60. Addresses the First Army headquarters in the European theater from its activation in October 1943 to V-E Day in May 1945. Shows the army headquarters of World War 2 as a complicated organization with functions ranging from the immediate supervision of tactical operations to long-range operational planning and the sustained support of frontline units. Year/Pages: 2000: 376 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-53. A commemorative historical map with accompanying graphics (18"x24") and chronology of the Normandy Invasion. Year/Pages: Map, 18x24 in. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 100-8. Armerican Forces in Action Series. Reprint of a book originally published in the 1940 as part of a series designed exclusively for wounded soldiers in hospitals to tell them the story of the campaigns and battles in which they had served. Narrates the actions of the American VI Corps, which served as the right flank of Fifth Army during the six weeks of the advance from the Volturno to the Winter Line. Bottom of cover reads: World War 2, 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1945: 129 p.; ill., map. 1990-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 100-5. American Forces in Action Series. Reprint of a book originally published in 1946. Tells the story of the Army's part in the seizure of Guam during World War II. Based upon a first narrative prepared in the field from military records and from notes and interviews recorded during the operation by Staff Sergeant James M. Burns. Covers: Objective: Guam; Assault Phase; Pursuit Phase; Barrigada; and Final Pursuit Phase. Also includes a Guam map, in color, on the inside of the back cover. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1946: 145 p.; ill., map. 1990-repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 70-32-1. By John H. Ohly. Edited by Clayton D. Laurie. Purports to tell the story of the War Department's participation in the emergency operation of private industrial facilities during world War 2. L.C. card 99-28479. Year/Pages: 1999: 408 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 100-4. American Forces in Action Series. Discusses the operations of the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) in north Burma from February to May 1944, part of the coordinated Allied offensive to retake north Burma. Year/Pages: 1945: 117 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-32. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the events in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Year/Pages: 23 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: Armed Forces in Action Series. CMH Pub. 100-11-1. Prepared by the 2d Information and Historical Service, attached to the First Army, and by the Historical Section, European Theater of Operations. Provides a historical narrative dealing with American military operations in France during the month of June 1944. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1945: 175 p.; ill., 16 maps in envelope. 1984-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 100-1. American Forces in Action Series Reprint or Exchange Stock. Provides an account of the joint American-Australian campaign to drive the Japanese out of New Guinea, November 1942-January 1943. Year/Pages: 1944: 105 p.; ill. 1990-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Office of the Air Force History and Army Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 93-7. Historical Analysis Series. Discusses the organization, doctrine, and equipment for close air support of ground forces in the United States military organization prior to World War 2. Explains how the Tunisian campaign demonstrated the need for tactical changes and describes the struggle by Allied air and ground leaders in North Africa to form a cooperative combat team. L.C. card 87-19335. Year/Pages: 1987: 104 p., 1 folded leaf; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 100-13. American Forces in Action Series. First issued August 21, 1946. Discusses the operations of a single corps in the First Army's offensive during the first three weeks of July 1944 designed to deepen the lodgment area preparatory to the breakout from Normandy. Year/Pages: 1946: 128 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 100-7. American Forces in Action Series. Reprint of a book originally published in the 1940s as part of a series designed exclusively for wounded soldiers in hospitals to tell them the story of the campaigns and battles in which they had served. Presents the account of the American forces who landed on the beaches in the Gulf of Salerno during World War II. Based on the best military records available. Bottom of the cover reads: World War 2, 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1944: 106 p.; ill., 4 maps. 1990-repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 100-14. Armed Forces in Action Series. Small Unit Actions, France: 2d Ranger Batallion at Point du Hoe; Saipan: 27th Division on Tanapag Plain; Italy: 351st Infantry at Santa Maria Infante; France: 4th Armored Division at Singling. Describes the following four battles in detail: Point du Hoe, June 6, 1944; The Fight on Tanapag Plain, July 6, 1944, Santa Maria Infante, May 11-14, 1944; and Singling, Dec. 6, 1944. Year/Pages: 1946: 226 p.; ill., plate. 1986-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: Army Historical Series. CMH Pub. 30-5-1. Describes the German-Soviet conflict in World War II and the events that resulted in the Soviet Union becoming a dominant military power in Europe. L.C. card 67-60001. Year/Pages: 1968: 561 p.; ill. 1987-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 100-6. American Forces in Action Series. Discusses the final push by II Corps under General Omar N. Bradley to destroy Axis forces in northern Tunisia, April-May 1943. Year/Pages: 1943: 64 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Air Force Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Chronicles the history of the United States Air Force from 1945 to 1947. Year/Pages: 1996: 38 p.; ill. Africa to the Alps: The Army Air Forces in the Mediterranean Theater Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Describes the participation of the Army Air Forces in the Mediterranean theater of operations in World War 2, as it developed in practical air-ground doctrine, established an effective interdiction strategy, and gained valuable experience in airborne operations and close air support of ground troops. Year/Pages: 1999: 35 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Examines the role of the Army Air Force in support of the activities of Yugoslavian partisans fighting the Axis powers in the Balkans in World War 2. Item 422-M-01. Year/Pages: 1995: 47 p.; ill. Leaping the Atlantic Wall: Army Air Forces Campaigns in Western Europe, 1942-1945 Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: United States Army Air Forces in World War 2. Tells the story of the allied air forces breach of the Atlantic wall of Hitler's "Fortress Europe". Item 422-M. Year/Pages: 1999: 36 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-11. Discusses the battle in North Africa, which took place from November 8, 1942 to November 11, 1942. Illustrated with color maps and black and white photographs. Includes suggestions for further reading. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1993: 32 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. CMH 72-6. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1992: 28 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 72-19. Discusses the military campaign in Anzio and Nettuno, Italy from January 22 to May 24, 1944. Illustrated with black and white photographs, color maps, and the reproduction of a painting. Includes suggestions for further reading. Item 0344-G. Year/Pages: 1994: 24 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-24. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1995: 28 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-21. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1995: 23 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-37. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1995: 24 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-4. U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-38. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1996: 26 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-39. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1996: 22 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-1. U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-22. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1993: 32 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-23. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1995: 26 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-13. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-5. Describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the India-Burma campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 72-28. Discusses the World War 2 liberation of the island of Luzon in the Philippines from Japanese forces from December 15, 1944 to July 4, 1945. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1995: 31 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-9. U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-18. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1994: 47 p.; ill. 2008-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-34. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-30. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1995: 32 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 72-10. Discusses Army operations in the Northern Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean from February 22, 1943 to November 21, 1944. The islands include New Georgia, Bougainville, and New Britain. They were also referred to as the Cartwheel Area of Operations. This booklet is illustrated with black and white photographs, color maps, and a color reproduction of a painting. Includes suggestions for further reading. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1993: 35 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-3. U.S. Army Campaigns of World War 2. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1992: 24 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 72-33. The Po River Valley is in Italy. Describes the Allied forces' offensive in the Po Valley in Northern Italy from April 5 through May of 1945. Year/Pages: 1996: 27 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-25. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-20. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 1994: 31 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-35. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Year/Pages: 2004: 31 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 72-16. Covers the Allied invasion of Sicily from July 9 to August 17, 1943. Sicily was the first piece of the Axis homeland to fall to the Allies during World War 2. Includes a color map, black and white photographs, and suggestions for further reading. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1993: 28 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-31. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 72-40. Discusses the liberation of the Southern Philippines islands by the United States Eighth Army during February 27 through July 4, 1945. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1996: 35 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 72-29. Covers campaigns in the Mariana and Palau Islands from June 15, 1944 to September 2, 1945. Illustrated with color maps, black and white photographs, and a color reproduction of an artwork. Includes suggestions for further readings. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1994: 36 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 70-41. Discusses pre-World War 2 mobilization maneuvers at General Headquarters that pitted entire field armies against each other in the summer and fall of 1941. Also includes battle maps, black and white photographs, an order of battle, biographical sketches of the principal officers, a bibliography, an index, and a glossary. On cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. L.C. card 91-17502. Year/Pages: 1991: 235 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 30-6. Discusses the role of the U.S. Army in the post-World War II occupation of Germany. Year/Pages: 1976: 493 p. maps charts repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of Chief of Military History Description: CMH Pub 2-2. By Robert R. Palmer, et al. L.C. card 50-13989. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1948: 696 p.; ill., 3 plates. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 11-2. Describes the expansion of and problems associated with the aircraft industry to meet the military requirements of the Army before and during the war. Year/Pages: 1964: 664 p.; ill. 1989-repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History Description: CMH Publication 9-2. United States Army in World War 2. Tells the story of General Stilwell's experiences in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater between October 1943 and his recall in October 1944. Chronicles the seizure of Myitkyina in Burma and the Salween River fighting in China. Includes tables, charts, maps, illustrations, bibliographical note, glossaries, and index. L.C. card 55-60004. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1956: 518 p.; ill., 4 maps. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 9-1. Provides an account of General Joseph W. Stilwell's work with the Chinese National Government in the execution of his orders from Washington to "support China" and to assist in "improving the combat efficiency of the Chinese Army." Covers related events from China's request for United States aid in Oct. 1940 through late 1943. Includes footnotes, bibliographical notes, a glossary of acronyms and abbreviations, and an index. L.C. card 53-60349. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1953: 465 p.; ill., 2 maps in pocket. Price: $9.40
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History Description: CMH Pub 9-3. Carrying the narrative from General Wedemeyer's assumption of command to the end of the war, this volume concludes with Americans still working to improve the Chinese Army while attempting to fly in sufficient supplies from India and Burma. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1959: 428 p.; ill., 8 maps. 1985-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: /28/08. CMH 7-4-1. This first European Theater of Operations tactical volume covers the prelude to the 6 June 1944 assault and combat operations of the First U.S. Army in Normandy to 1 July 1944. Year/Pages: 1951: 519 p.; ill. 2004-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 7-9-1. Focusing on the role of Five American armies and their tactical air support, with some account of the role of Allied forces, this book brings to an end the war in Europe. Year/Pages: 1973: 532 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 7-10. 1st printing. Provides a history of combat operations by the Sixth Army Group from its landing in France to its crossing of the Rhine River. Covers the period from August 1944 to March 1945. This work is the final volume of the United States Army's series of operational histories treating the activities of its combat forces during the Second World War. L.C. card 91-3180. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1993: 627 p.; ill. 35 maps Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 7-10-1. 1st printing. Provides a history of combat operations by the Sixth Army Group from its landing in southern France to the crossing of the Rhine River. Covers the period from August 1944 to March 1945. On cover: World War II 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. This work is the final volume of the United States Army's series of operational histories treating the activities of its combat forces during the Second World War. L.C. card 91-3180. Year/Pages: 1993: 627 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 6-4-1. Provides an account of operations in Italy from Operation Diadem and the capture of Rome to the negotiations for the surrender of German armies in Italy. Cover title reads: Cassino to the Alps. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Facsimile reprint of the 1977 edition with a new title page and paper cover. The maps are in a separate envelope with the label "A Portfolio of Maps Extracted From Cassino to the Alps." L.C. card 76-43097. Book and maps, sold as a set. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1977: 608 p.; ill., 16 maps in envelope. 1993-repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 6-3-1. Facsimile reprint of the 1969 edition with a new title page and a paper cover. Discusses operations from the invasion of the Italian mainland near Salerno through the winter fighting up to the battles for Monte Cassino, including the Rapido River crossing, and the Anzio beachhead. Includes an envelope of maps with the label: "A Portfolio of Maps Extracted From Salerno to Cassino. Cover title reads: Salerno to Cassino. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1969: 491 p.; ill., 7 maps in envelope. 1993-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 11-1. United States Army in World War 2. Chronicles primarily the tactical events of World War 2, from theattack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, to the surrender of Japan in Aug. 1945,with emphasis on ground action by United States armed forces. L.C. card 59-60002. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1960: 660 p. 1984-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 11-4. Tells the history of an important national question: the service of African-American soldiers in the Army during World War II and the integration of the Army after the war. It covers problems in the development and application of policy with some attention to the results, both public and military. Year/Pages: 1966: 760 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 11-4-1. Tells the history of an important national question: the service of African-American soldiers in the Army during World War II and the integration of the Army after the war. It covers problems in the development and application of policy with some attention to the results, both public and military. Year/Pages: 1966: 700 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 11-8. Discusses the experience of female soldiers both at home and overseas as their new Corps struggled against tradition and administrative hurdles. Reprint or exchange stock. Year/Pages: 1954: 841 p.; ill. repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 10-22. By Alfred M. Beck, et al. Describes in detail the role of the Army Corps of Engineers in various military campaigns throughout North Africa and Italy as well as in Western and Central Europe, from 1941 through 1944. L.C. card 84-11376. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1985: 626 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History Description: CMH Pub 10-6. Discusses engineer activities in the Pacific war, with particular emphasis on those in General MacArthur's Southwest Pacific area. L.C. card 66-60004. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1966: 759 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Office of the Chief of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 10-11. Concentrates on Ordnance operations in the Mediterranean, European, and Southwest Pacific theaters. Also covers the central Pacific theater as a background for the Okinawa campaign. L.C. card 67-60000. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1968: 543 p.; ill., 3 maps in pocket. Publisher: Defense Dept.. Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 10-14. United States Army in World War 2. Tells the story of Quartermaster supply and service in the war against Japan in the Pacific. Concentrates on the many problems which were inevitable in a distant and strange environment. Reflects the viewpoint of the troops and the commanders in the field. Year/Pages: 1956: 376 p.; ill. 1995-repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 10-20. Discusses troop and supply movements within the zone of interior to overseas commands, the organization and training of personnel, and the development, procurement, and distribution of corps materiel. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1956: 584 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 1-5. Discusses United States Army logistics, primarily of ground forces, in its relation to global strategy. Told from the viewpoint of the central administration in Washington, Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff, the War Department General Staff, and the Services of Supply. L.C. card 55-600001. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1955: 780 p.; ill., 5 maps. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 1-4. This volume deals with strategic planning in the midwar era from January 1943 through the summer of 1944. This is the story of the hopes, fears, struggles, frustrations, and triumphs of the Army strategic planners coming to grips with the problems of the offensive phase of coalition warfare. Basic to this story is the account of planning by General George C. Marshall and his advisers in the great debate on European strategy which followed the Allied landings in North Africa and continued to the penetration of the German frontier in September 1944. Year/Pages: 1959: 660 p.; ill. 1970-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 5-7. Describes joint Army, Naval and Marine operations to capture Saipan, Tinian, and Guam and the final development of these islands as bases for further American joint operations against the Japanese homeland. L.C. card 60-60000. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1960: 505 p.; ill., 8 maps. 1985-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 5-7-1. Describes the fight for the islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. Includes an account of Navy and Marine participation. Cover title reads: Campaign in the Marianas. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Facsimile reprint of the 1960 edition with a new title page and paper cover. The maps are in a separate envelope with the label "A Portfolio of Maps Extracted From Campaign in the Marianas." L.C. card 60-60000. Book and maps, sold as a set. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1960: 525 p.; ill., 7 maps in envelope. 1993-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center for Military History Description: CMH Pub 5-5. Year/Pages: 434 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 5-3. This account of the first victory over Japanese ground forces, told at the level of companies, platoons, and even individuals, demonstrates the relationship between air, ground, and surface forces in modern warfare. It attempts to show the contribution of all services to the first victory on the long road to Tokyo. Year/Pages: 1949: 431 p.; ill. maps. 1965-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 5-11-1. By Roy E. Appleman, et al. Facsimile reprint of the 1948 edition with a new title page and paper cover. Cover title reads: Okinawa, the Last Battle. Also on cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. The maps are in a separate envelope that is sold with the book. Discusses the final battle in the Pacific in World War 2. The battle is also called Operation Iceberg. Okinawa is the most important island in the Ryukyu Islands group. Year/Pages: 1948: 556 p.; ill., 48 maps in envelope.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 5-1. Analyzes organization and logistics as well as strategy and command, covering the coming of World War 2, Japanese policy and American strategy before Pearl Harbor, Japanese victories in the first six months of the war, first efforts in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to stem the Japanese tide, and the limited offensive in the summer of 1943. L.C. card 61-60001. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1962: 787 p.; ill., 4 maps. 1989-repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 4-2. By Stetson Conn, et al. Discusses the deployment and operations of the Army forces in defense of the continental United States and its outposts, from the Aleutians through Hawaii to the Galapagos in the Pacific, from Iceland through Bermuda to Trinidad in the Atlantic, and the Panama Canal. Also includes three chapters on the "evacuation" of Japanese Americans from California, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Arizona. L.C. card 62-600067. Item 345. Year/Pages: 1964: 611 p.; ill., 4 maps. 1989-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 11-9. Compiled and edited by Richard C. Adamczyk and Morris J. MacGregor. Contains a brief analytical description of each volume in the "United States Army in World War 2" series published to date or to be published in the near future. Most of these volumes are currently available from GPO under separate stock numbers. On cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. L.C. card 47-46404. Year/Pages: 1992: 183 p.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-42. Army Special Publication. Discusses a variety of commando and guerrilla operations that were conducted on the plains of Europe and in the jungles of the Pacific to harass the Axis armies, to gather intelligence, and to support the more conventional Allied military efforts, yet their significance was a matter of dispute. Hogan examines the critical issues underlying special operations and shows how American leaders employed commandos - rangers in Army parlance - and guerrillas extensively, if not systematically, during the war. Year/Pages: 1992: 158 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 93-10. 1st printing. On cover: World War 2 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Spine title reads: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941. Describes the planning process that Major Albert Coady Wedemeyer used in the summer of 1941 to write the plan that became the outline for mobilization and operations during World War 2. Includes an appendix, "The Army Portion of the Victory Plan, Ultimate Requirements Study, Estimate of Ground Forces." Also includes photographs, footnotes, a bibliography, and an index. L.C. card 90-34984. Year/Pages: 1990: 170 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 100-12. Armed Forces in Action Series. Includes accounts of landings at corps level and below and relates the course of VII Corps combat operations which resulted in the capture of Cherbourg on June 27, 1944. This is the last of three narratives dealing with American military operations in Normandy. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1947: 225 p.; ill., 20 maps in envelope. 1984-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Center for Air Force History Description: Wings at War Series, No. 4 Commemorative Edition. Originally written and published by the Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, in the 1940s. Discusses the role of air power as the Allies attempted to penetrate German defenses at the Siegfried Line in 1944. Year/Pages: 1992: 57 p.; ill. repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Center for Air Force History Description: Wings at War Series, No. 3 Commemorative Edition. Originally written and published by the Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence, in the 1940s. Tells the story of the Battle for Guadalcanal in 1942, focusing on the operations of the 11th Bombardment Group and the 67th Fighter Squadron. Item 424. Year/Pages: 1992: 56 p.; ill. repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 72-15. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-47. Contains 10 full-color 11 X 15 1/2 reproductions of paintings by Army artists of World War II. Each of the prints includes the name of the work, the general location it depicts, and the name of the artist. The extended caption on each print provides background information on the subject matter illustrated. The artists whose work is represented here actually witnessed the scenes they portrayed, and in some cases the words in the captions are those of the creator of the artwork. In others the caption simply helps put the scene in context. 10 posters, sold as a set. Year/Pages: 10 posters, 11 in. x 15.5 in.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-48. 10 full-color 11 X 15 1/2 reproductions of paintings by Army artists of World War II. Each of the prints includes the name of the work, the general location it depicts, and the name of the artist. The extended caption on each print provides background information on the subject matter illustrated. The artists whose work is represented here actually witnessed the scenes they portrayed, and in some cases the words in the caption are those of the creator of the artwork. In others the caption simply helps put the scene in context. 10 posters, sold as a set. Year/Pages: 10 posters, 11 x 15.5 in. Air Force Roles and Missions: A History Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Traces the usage of- and meaning given to- the terms "roles and missions" relating to the armed forces and particularly to the United States Air Force, from 1907 to the present. L.C. card 98-44142. Item 422-M-01. Year/Pages: 1998: 344 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air University, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Air Force 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Commemorates the golden anniversary of the establishment of the United States Air Force as an independent service. Presents a chronology of the events which shaped the Air force during the Cold War from 1947 to 1997. Item 0422-M-01. Year/Pages: 1997: 169 p.; ill. Price: $8.50
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Presents the history of the United States Air Force. Year/Pages: 1997: 88 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Traces how the Air Force built its enlisted cadre in the key, early years of the service when it was itself a new and unsettled organization. Presents valuable perspective to decision-makers today as they grapple with force drawdown and maintaining appropriate standards of training and professionalism. L.C. card 96-33468. Item 0422-M-01. Year/Pages: 1997: 312 p.; ill. HAP: Henry H. Arnold, Military Aviator Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Also advertised with the title: General Hap Arnold. Presents a biography of General Arnold's military life as an army aviator. Item 461-D-05. Year/Pages: 1997: 40 p.; ill. Wings of Hope: The United States Air Force and Humanitarian Airlift Operations Publisher: Defense Dept., Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program Description: Air Force Fiftieth Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Describes the humanitarian airlifts which the United States Air Force participated in from Post-World War 2 through the early nineties. Includes an appendix listing selected Air Force overseas humanitarian operations from 1947-1994. Item 422-M-01. Year/Pages: 1997: 56 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 69-6-1. Provides an illustrated historical compendium or anthology about Army biographies and traditions. Originally developed for use in training soldiers and other Army personnel. Year/Pages: 1998: 284 p.; ill. 2001-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 60-7-1. Army Lineage Series. Compiled by John B. Wilson. Includes the lineages and honors for all armies, corps, divisions, and separate combined armed brigades, organized under Tables of Organization and Equipment, that have been active in the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army of the United States since the beginning of World War 2. Lineages are current through October 1, 1997. Includes 88 color plates of heraldic emblems. Also provides bibliographies. L.C. card 98-52151. Item 344-G. Year/Pages: 1999: 761 p., 88 plates.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 60-14. Army Lineage Series. Traces the evolution of divisions and brigades in the United States Army. Gives a systematic account of the way these two organizations evolved, highlighting the rationales behind that evolution and the many factors that played a part in bringing those changes into reality. L.C. card 94-21031. Year/Pages: 1998: 489 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 30-8-1. Army Historical Series. Discusses medical activities in the U.S. Army from the inception of the modern Army Medical Department through the Civil War, with emphasis both on medical service in the far West and on clinical, scientific, and organizational advances. Year/Pages: 1987: 371 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 70-50. Includes 10 prints of paintings by Seth Eastman. Contains prints of these forts: Mackinac in Michigan; Mifflin in Pennsylvania; Trumbull in Connecticut; Tompkins and Wadsworth in New York; Scammel and Gorges in Maine; Delaware in Delaware; Snelling in Minnesota; Taylor in Florida; Defiance in New Mexico; and Rice in North Dakota. Also provides a booklet, "The Eastman Forts, A Guide to the Print Set". The actual paintings are in the collections of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. 10 prints and booklet, sold as a set. Year/Pages: 1993: 10 posters, 17x24 in. and booklet.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-68-1. Chronicles the Inspector General's Department and its corps of inspectors during the growth years from 19903 to 1939. This period was a time of revolutionary reform and reorganization , with the department shifting to the detail system and adapting to the newly created General Staff.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub 50-1-1. Defense Studies Series. Discusses the evolution of the services' racial policies and practices between World War II and 1965 during the period when black servicemen and women were integrated into the Nation's military units. Year/Pages: 1981: 647 p.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-77. Army Special Publication. This first narrative history to examine how Army lawyers enhanced mission success during both traditional combat operations and military operations other than war looks at the years between 1959 and 1996 - when the first judge advocate reported for duty in Vietnam - and when the last one serving in Haiti returned home to the United States. Year/Pages: 2001: 413 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 60-13. By John Patrick Finnegan. Lineages compiled by Romana Danysh. Presents an organizational history of Military Intelligence in the United States Army from its beginnings to the present. Includes the lineages and heraldic items of military intelligence brigades, groups, and battalions organized under tables of organization and equipment. Year/Pages: 1998: 457 p.; ill. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 70-20. Publication measures 10 x 12 in. Editor: General Gordon R. Sullivan. Art Editor: Marylou Gjernes. Presents a book of full color paintings from the Army Art Collection. Also provides a brief history of the Army Art Collection and biographical information about the artists. L.C. card 91-32098. Year/Pages: 1991: 191 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 30-15. Army Historical Series. 2nd of three planned volumes on the history of Army domestic support operations. This volume encompasses the period of the rise of industrial America with attendant social dislocation and strife. Major themes are: the evolution of the Army's role in domestic support operations; its strict adherence to law; and the disciplined manner in which it conducted these difficult and often unpopular operations. L.C. card 94-13148. Year/Pages: 1997: 491 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: Army Historical Series. CMH 30-4. Provides a record of the Army's experience in developing a workable and effective logistical system against the background of changing conditions in both peace and war. Year/Pages: 1966: 789 p.; ill. repr. Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH Pub. 70-61. Publication measures 9 x 12 in. Editor: General Gordon R. Sullivan. Art Editor: Marylou Gjernes. Consists chiefly of color reproductions from the Army Art Collection. The pictures are organized into geographic categories: The Americas; Europe; The Pacific and Asia; and Africa and the Middle East. Also includes a section on the artists and a brief history of the Army Art Collection. Although a few of the pictures depict the Civil War and World War 1, most of the art shows American soldiers during World War 2 or later wars. L.C. card 94-48597. Year/Pages: 1995: 203 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 70-66-1. First of a two-volume work. Examines how the Army had performed two of its most important unconventional missions: the suppression of insurgent or other irregular forces and the conduct of overseas constabulary and contingency operations in the years 1860 to 1941. L.C. card 97-26216. Year/Pages: 1998: 331 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History Description: CMH 30-14-1. Army Historical Series. Chronicles thirty-three years of WAC history from V-J Day 1945 to 1978, when the Women's Army Corps was abolished by Public Law 95-584 and discontinued by Department of the Army General Order 20, with the WAC officers assimilated into the other branches of the Army (except the combat arms). Year/Pages: 1990: 543 p.; ill. repr. History of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531 Publisher: Defense Dept., Marine Corps Headquarters, History and Museums Division Description: Traces a half century of active service by Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531. Draws from primary sources in command diaries and chronologies and from interviews, base newspapers, published historical works, and valuable information from the files and helpful personnel of the Reference Section at the Marine Corps Historical Center. Year/Pages: 2001: 108 p.; ill. Just Cause: Marine Operations in Panama, 1988-1990 Publisher: Defense Dept., Marine Corps, History and Museums Division Description: Written by Nicholas E. Reynolds. Researched and documented by Benis M. Frank. Tells the story of the Marines who served in Panama around the time (1988 to 1990) of Operation Just Cause. Item 383-B. Year/Pages: 1996: 58 p.; ill.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Marine Corps Description: Provides a history and lineage of the 2nd Marine Division and its regiments, including lists of commanding officers, battles, honors, and more. Year/Pages: 2001: 77 p.; ill. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, V. 4, L-M Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval History Division Description: Cover title reads: American Naval Fighting Ships. This volume gives historical sketches of ships whose names begin with L and M. Includes appendices on: amphibious warfare ships, aviation auxiliaries, destroyer tenders, ships of the line, classification of naval ships and service craft, and errata to Volume 3. L.C. card 60-60198. Item 399-A. Year/Pages: 1969: 771 p.; ill. 1988-repr. Price: $26.00 Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval History Division Description: Edited by James L. Mooney. Volume 6 of an eight volume set. This volume covers ship whose names start with the letters "R" and "S", and in the case of submarines, the "R Boats" and the "S Boats." Appendices provide data on submarine chasers and Eagle boats, two types initially designed for antisubmarine operations in World War 1. L.C. card 60-60198. Item 399-A. Year/Pages: 1976: 777 p.; ill. 1987-repr.
Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval Historical Center Description: James L. Mooney, editor. Cover title reads: American Naval Fighting Ships. This volume gives historical sketches of ships whose names begin with T through V. Includes an appendix on tank landing ships. L.C. card 60-60198. Item 399-A. Year/Pages: 1981: 755 p.; ill. 1991-repr. Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, V. 1 Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval Historical Center Description: William S. Dudley, Editor, Michael J. Crawford, Associate Editor. Provides a detailed chronology of events leading to and various battles during the War of 1812. Introductory material describes the early development of the American Navy from 1775 through 1811. The chapters that follow include battle by battle descriptions of the war in the Atlantic, the Northern Lakes (Great Lakes), and the Gulf Coast. The document concludes with the USS Constitution's victory over the HMS Java on Dec. 29, 1812. L.C. card 85-600565. Year/Pages: 1985: 772 p.; ill. Price: $62.00 Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, V. 2, 1813 Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval Historical Center Description: William S. Dudley, editor. Provides transcripts of over 500 documents. Many of these are from naval records held by the National Archives and Records Administration. Includes an index, footnotes, and notes on sources. Navy ISBN 0-945274-06-8. L.C. card 85-600565. Item 399-A-02. Year/Pages: 1992: 825 p.; ill. Price: $75.00
Publisher: Defense Dept., Navy, Naval Historical Center Description: Traces the modern research and development center from its dual origin when David Taylor and George Melville brought science and technology to the emerging steam-driven steel fleet, through a full century of modernization and several reorganizations. Details the constant work to transform vision into reality, and to keep innovation flowing from cutting-edge science and technology into the Navy's ships and submarines. Year/Pages: 1998: 689 p.; ill. Artillery Through the Ages: A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service, Division of Publications Description: Interpretive Series History 3. Consists of a historical narrative of the types of cannons used in America from the ancient catapult to modern artillery. Also, includes a glossary and bibliography. Year/Pages: 1949: 96 p.; ill. 1985-repr. Publisher: Interior Dept., National Park Service Description: National Park Service Handbook 35. Describes the historic features to be seen at Fort Union and exposes a cross section of the entire sweep of 19th century history in the Southwest. As a base of operations for both military and civilian ventures in New Mexico for 40 years, 1851 to 1891, Fort Union played a key role in shaping the destiny of the Southwest. Also includes appendix 1: Commanding Officers of Fort Union, 1859-61; Appendix 2: Regiments whose components were assigned to Fort Union. Item 649. Year/Pages: 1962: 72 p.; ill. repr. [ Top ]
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