From Anzio To The Alps
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From Anzio To The Alps
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Author : Lloyd M. Wells
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2004-07-09
From Anzio To The Alps written by Lloyd M. Wells and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This compelling work is Lloyd M. Wells’s firsthand account of World War II based on a journal he kept during the war, letters he sent home, and personal records, as well as recollections of people and events. In June 1941, the twenty-one-year-old Wells was drafted into the army. He was commissioned second lieutenant after he attended O.C.S. and was later promoted to first lieutenant with the First Armored Division. He saw action in North Africa, Italy, and Germany and was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Purple Heart, and the Bronze Star. Wells offers the reader information that has never before been provided. He tells exactly what happened to 2/7 Queens on the night of February 21, 1944, when the troops came up to “the caves” at Anzio. He also depicts what happened during the last offensive in Italy and what armored infantry troops experienced on the perimeter of the attack. This book, however, is not just a story of battle actions. It is a personal story about the “old Army” and how young soldiers were transformed by it during one of the greatest upheavals in world history. Wells’s goal in writing this book was to leave behind “an account of a simpler time and of the funny, sad, terrorizing, and tender moments of a war which, with the death of each man or woman who lived through it, recedes just a little bit further into the nation’s past.” He accomplished that and so much more.
Byeways In The Southern Alps
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Author : Edwin J. Miles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Byeways In The Southern Alps written by Edwin J. Miles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Alps, Italian (Italy) categories.
Ghost Bombers
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Author : Nick Beale
language : en
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Ghost Bombers written by Nick Beale and has been published by Ian Allan Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
For the first time, author Nick Beale, tells the story of a Luftwaffe ground attack unit - NSG 9 - and its hazardous, pin-point bombing missions in Italy during the Second World War. NSG 9 was formed in late 1943 from veteran pilots drawn from the Eastern Front. Intended to use captured Italian aircraft for fighting partisans, it was rushed into action against the Anzio beachhead with just a handful of Fiat biplanes. Reequipped with the famous Ju 87 Stuka - and later the Fw 190 - the unit was heavily committed against the Anglo-American breakout in May 1944 and then operated over Rome and the Appenine Mountains during the summer of that year. It was the first German night attack unit to encounter modern Allied fighter defenses and suffered heavy losses, mainly at the hands of RAF Beaufighters. Ghost Bombers is based on interviews and correspondence with many former veterans of NSG 9. Much is told in the words of the men who fought on both sides in the night skies over Italy. Nick Beale is co-author of the widely acclaimed Air War Italy 1944-45: The Axis Air Forces from the Liberation of Rome to the Surrender. He was one of the first authors to use ULTRA material - deciphered German signals - in reconstructing the Luftwaffe's activities.
On To Rome
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Author : Jon Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-05-30
On To Rome written by Jon Diamond and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-30 with History categories.
Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of Eighth Army reinforcements from the Adriatic, every effort to capture Monte Cassino failed.Fifth Armys VI Corps amphibious landing at Anzio in January, while initially successful stalled in the face of formidable German counter-attacks and the beach-head was effectively besieged.The stalemate at Anzio and along the Gustav Line was finally broken in mid May by the Allied Spring offensive. After bitter fighting and the total destruction of the famous Benedictine Abbey, the Germans began their withdrawal towards Rome. Days later the reinforced VI Corps broke out of the Anzio bridgehead and linked up with Fifth Army units on 25 May. But by evading the Allied attempt to trap them south of Rome and despite Rome being occupied by the Allies in early June the bulk of the German 14th Army lived to fight another day. The Italian campaign had another nine costly months to run.This superbly researched account traces the course of the bitterly fought battles between January and June 1944 in words and images.
Italian Alps
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Author : Douglas W. Freshfield
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-08-03
Italian Alps written by Douglas W. Freshfield and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-03 with Fiction categories.
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United States Army In Wwii The Mediterranean Cassino To The Alps
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Author : Ernest F. Fisher Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
United States Army In Wwii The Mediterranean Cassino To The Alps written by Ernest F. Fisher Jr. and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
[Includes 16 maps and 94 illustrations] "Wars should be fought," an American corps commander noted in his diary during the campaign in Italy, "in better country than this." It was indeed an incredibly difficult place to fight a war. The Italian peninsula is only some 150 miles wide, much of it dominated by some of the world’s most precipitous mountains. Nor was the weather much help. It seemed to those involved that it was always either unendurably hot or bone-chilling cold. Yet American troops fought with remarkable courage and tenacity, and in company with a veritable melange of Allied troop... Despite the forbidding terrain, Allied commanders several times turned it to their advantage, achieving penetrations or breakthroughs over some of the most rugged mountains in the peninsula. To bypass mountainous terrain, the Allies at times resorted to amphibious landings, notably at Anzio...The campaign involved one ponderous attack after another against fortified positions: the Winter Line, the Gustav Line, the Gothic Line... It was also a campaign replete with controversy...Most troublesome of the questions that caused controversy were: Did the American commander, Mark Clark, err in focusing on the capture of Rome rather than conforming with the wishes of his British superior to try to trap retreating German forces? Did Allied commanders conduct the pursuit north of Rome with sufficient vigor? Indeed, should the campaign have been pursued all the way to the Alps when the Allies might have halted at some readily defensible line and awaited the outcome of the decisive campaign in northwestern Europe? Just as the campaign began on a note of covert politico-military maneuvering to achieve surrender of Italian forces, so it ended with intrigue and secret negotiations for a separate surrender of the Germans in Italy.
The Sonarman S War
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Author : H.G. Jones
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
The Sonarman S War written by H.G. Jones and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with History categories.
This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II. Born a North Carolina farmboy, Jones served as a U.S. Navy sonarman aboard a wooden submarine chaser operating from Africa and Sicily during the Allied invasions at Anzio and Southern France. He also served as sonarman and yeoman on two fleet mine sweepers in the Okinawa, Formosa and China operations. This memoir is drawn not only from memory, but from the author's surviving diaries from the conflicts, daily logs of the three ships upon which he served, and the secret reports of military commanders and other official records.
Camouflage And Markings Of German Armor In Italy
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Author : Jeffrey Plowman
language : en
Publisher: Model Centrum Progres
Release Date : 2022-04-19
Camouflage And Markings Of German Armor In Italy written by Jeffrey Plowman and has been published by Model Centrum Progres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with categories.
This book is an authoritative account of the armor deployed by the Germans in the latter stages of the war in Italy. The book includes a number of rare and unpublished photos. It includes PzKpfw IVs, StuG IIIs, Panthers, Tigers, Elefants, captured T34/76s and Italian P40s.
From Sicily To The Alps
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
From Sicily To The Alps written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Great Britain categories.
Beyond Rome To The Alps
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Author : Jon Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-08-30
Beyond Rome To The Alps written by Jon Diamond and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with History categories.
Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and British Eighth Armies drove across the Arno River, capturing Florence on 5 August. Once again The Wehrmachts Tenth and Fourteenth Armies eluded destruction, withdrawing into the Gothic Line in the Northern Apennines. The Eighth Army, advancing along the Adriatic coast and the Fifth Army in the mountains north of Florence penetrated this strong German defensive belt between 25 August and the end of September. Yet the Allied campaign stalled due to a lethal combination of supply and manpower shortages, the early onset of winter and the rugged terrain favouring the German defenders.The Allied April spring offensive saw Eighth Army breakthrough the Argenta Gap into the Po Valley, while Fifth Army captured Bologna.. After crossing the Po River the Allies fanned out across Northern Italy, before the Nazi surrender on 3 May 1945.These dramatic events are described in words and images in this superb Images of War book.