The Special Service Company
Author | : United States. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Soldiers |
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Author | : United States. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Soldiers |
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Author | : Robert D. Burhans |
Publisher | : Washington : Infantry Journal Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : United States. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 1944 |
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Author | : Joseph Adam Springer |
Publisher | : Pacifica, Calif. : Pacifica Military History |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
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In these interviews, veterans of the First Special Service Force tell their stories. They describe their experiences being recruited to the unit, in training, and in combat. They tell of battles in the Aleutian Islands, Italy, and France. Numerous maps and photographs are included. Appendices featur
Author | : Col Francis J. Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781944961947 |
As long ago as 1957, U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers were in the Republic of Vietnam. going about their business of training, advising, and assisting members of the Vietnamese Army. Despite the old Army witticism about never volunteering for anything, the Special Forces soldier is. in fan, a double volunteer, having first volunteered for airborne training and then again for Special Forces training. From a very meager beginning but sustained by a strong motivation and confidence in his mission, the Special Forces soldier has marched through the Vietnam struggle in superb fashion. In 1957 some fifty-eight Vietnamese soldiers were given military training by Special Forces troops. Ten years later the Special Forces were advising and assisting over 40,000 paramilitary troops, along with another 40,000 Regional Forces and Popular Forces soldiers. This monograph traces the development and notes the progress, problems. successes, and failures of a unique program undertaken by the U.S. Army for the first lime in its history. It is hoped that all the significant lessons learned have been recorded and the many pitfalls of such a program uncovered. I am responsible for the conclusions reached, yet my thought processes could not escape the influence of the many outstanding officers and men in the Special Forces who joined in the struggle. Particularly, I must lake note of the contributions of the Special Forces noncommissioned officers, without question the most competent soldiers in the world. With the withdrawal of the Special Forces from Vietnam in 1971, the Army could honestly lay claim to a new dimension in ground warfare-the organized employment of a paramilitary force in sustained combat against a determined enemy. I know I speak for my predecessors and successors in claiming that the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) was the finest collection of professional soldiers ever assembled by the U.S. Army, anywhere, anytime. Francis John Kelly Colonel, Armor 1972
Author | : John Nadler |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307414418 |
It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the world’s first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy. 1942. When the British generals recommend an audacious plan to parachute a small elite commando unit into Norway in a bid to put Nazi Germany on the defensive, Winston Churchill is intrigued. But Britain, fighting for its life, can’t spare the manpower to participate. So William Lyon MacKenzie King is contacted and asked to commit Canadian troops to the bold plan. King, determined to join Roosevelt and Churchill as an equal leader in the Allied war effort, agrees. One of the world’s first commando units, the First Special Service Force, or FSSF, is assembled from hand-picked soldiers from Canadian and American regiments. Any troops sent into Norway will have to be rugged, self-sufficient, brave, and weather-hardened. Canada has such men in ample supply. The all-volunteer FSSF comprises outdoorsmen — trappers, rangers, prospectors, miners, loggers. Assembled at an isolated base in Helena, Montana, and given only five months to train before the invasion, they are schooled in parachuting, mountain climbing, cross-country skiing, and cold-weather survival. They are taught how to handle explosives, how to operate nearly every field weapon in the American and German arsenals, and how to kill with their bare hands. After the Norway plan is scrapped, the FSSF is dispatched to Italy and given its first test — to seize a key German mountain-top position which had repelled the brunt of the Allied armies for over a month. In a reprise of the audacity and careful planning that won Vimy Ridge for the Canadians in WWI, the FSSF takes the twin peaks Monte la Difensa and Monte la Remetanea by storming the supposedly unscalable rock face at the rear of the German position, and opens the way through the mountains. Later, the FSSF will hold one-quarter of the Anzio beachhead against a vastly superior German force for ninety-nine days; a force of only 1,200 commandos does the work of a full division of over 17,000 troops. Though badly outnumbered, the FSSF takes the fight to the Germans, sending nighttime patrols behind enemy lines and taking prisoners. It is here that they come to be known among the dispirited Germans as Schwartzer Teufel (“Black Devils”) for their black camouflage face-paint and their terrifying tactic of appearing out of the darkness. John Nadler vividly captures the savagery of the Italian campaign, fought as it was at close quarters and with desperate resolve, and the deeply human experiences of the individual men called upon to fight it. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with veterans, A Perfect Hell is an important contribution to Canadian military history and an indispensable account of the lives and battlefield exploits of the men who turned the tide of the Second World War.
Author | : Anna Simons |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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An in-depth account of anthropologist Anna Simon's year in the inner world of a Special Forces unit.
Author | : United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps |
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Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Release | : 1944 |
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Author | : Morris J. MacGregor |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160019258 |
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.