Escorting American War Dead
Author | : United States. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of |
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Author | : United States. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of |
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Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1947 |
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Author | : Mary Louise Roberts |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2013-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226923096 |
How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways. That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.
Author | : Maurer Maurer |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1428915850 |
Author | : Judith Bellafaire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Electronic government information |
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Author | : Donald A. Carter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : 9780160946516 |
The St. Mihiel salient, created during the initial German invasion in 1914, had withstood multiple French efforts to regain the territory. Yet even though the Germans had established strong defensive positions around St. Mihiel and its neighboring villages and towns, the salient was highly vulnerable to attack and was an optimal target for a potential American operation. Until this point in the war, members of the American Expeditionary Forces had not fought in a formation larger than a corps, and then only under French or British leadership. Now, as part of the American First Army under General John J. Pershing, they prepared to launch an offensive that would demonstrate to the Allies and the Germans alike that the Americans were capable of operating as an independent command. The AEF's successful efforts in the St. Mihiel Offensive, and the hard-won operational and tactical lessons that it learned during the battle, helped set the stage for the grand Allied offensive that would seize the initiative on the Western Front and blaze a path toward ultimate victory in the war.
Author | : Chris Dickon |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786485019 |
Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites of American war dead exist all over the world—in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, most of Europe and as far north as the Russian Arctic. This is the history of American soldiers buried abroad since the American Revolution. It traces the evolution of American attitudes and practices about war dead and provides the names and locations of those still buried abroad in non–ABMC locations.
Author | : United States. Department of the Air Force |
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Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : United States Department of the Army |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
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