| Variant title |
US Army and World War Two |
| Variant title |
US Army and World War 2 |
| Contents |
I. The U.S. Army plans for war and enters the war. War planning at the U.S. Army War College, 1939-1940 : the road to rainbow / Henry G. Gole -- Travails of peace and war : field artillery in the 1930s and early 1940s / Boyd Dastrup -- "Through the looking glass" : Bradford G. Chynoweth as United States military attache in Britain, 1939 / Theodore Wilson -- The U.S. Bataan campaign, December 1941 to April 1942 / Thomas M. Huber. II. The U.S. Army on the home front 1940-1945. The development of the ammmunition industrial base : 1940-1942 / Robert H. Bouilly -- Women workers at chemical warfare service plants during World War II / Frances Martin -- Training linguists for the Pacific war, 1941-1942 / James McNaughton -- The San Francisco port of embarkation in World War II : a study in command and control / Mason Schaefer -- Race relations and the contributions of African-American troops in Alaska / Charles Hendricks. |
| Contents |
III. The U.S. Army at war : the war in Europe, 1944-1945. Eisenhower versus Montgomery : postwar memoirs as primary sources / Patrick Murray -- Normandy to the German border : Third Army logistics / James A. Huston -- American geographers and the OSS during World War II / Keir B. Sterling -- To hurdle the last barrier : the U.S. Army engineers and the crossing of the Rhine River, 1944-1945 / John T. Greenwood -- Tank detroyers in the European theater of operations / Christopher Gabel -- "The very model of a modern major general" : background of World War II American generals in V Corps / Charles E. Kirkpatrick. IV. The U.S. Army at War : the war in the Pacific, 1943-1945. Combined operations in the southwest Pacific : the Australian army in MacArthur's operations / David Horner -- MacArthur, Fuller, and the Biak episode / Harry A. Gailey -- The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Operational Group Burma : the "Arakan group" / Richard W. Stewart -- Everything old is new again : the American military effort in China, 1941-1945 / Monroe M. Horn -- Army advisers and liaison officers and the "lessons" of America's wartime experience in China / Marc Gallicchio -- Nisei linguists and new perspectives on the Pacific war : intelligence, race, and continuity / James McNaughton -- The ultimate dilemma of psychological warfare in the Pacific : enemies who don't surrender and GIs who don't take prisoners / Clayton D. Laurie -- Generals, admirals, and atomic bombs : ending the war with Japan / Robert James Maddox. |
| Abstract |
The U.S. Army and World War II is an anthology of selected papers from three international conferences held in 1990, 1992, and 1994 on the Army's role in the war. Taking the best from those meetings, Judith L. Bellafaire has organized the various presentations into four thematic categories₇prewar planning, the home front, the European theater, and the Asian-Pacific theaters₇reflecting the diversity of both the war and the interest of those seeking to understand its many facets. In these carefully edited papers, one will find the more conventional treatments of doctrine, strategy, and operations side by side with those focusing on military mobilization and procurement, race and gender, psychological warfare, and large-scale advice and assistance programs. Despite significant changes in military technology and the geopolitical landscape of the world since those desperate times, the human problems highlighted by the authors are not much different from many of those facing Army leaders today. Although the past can never provide the specific recipes needed for the future, experience has shown that both the basic ingredients and the manner in which they are prepared and processed have remained remarkably constant. Those grappling with the challenges of stability operations and other contingency missions in support of the Global War on Terrorism will find this collection of readings invaluable. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 97038399 |
| ISBN | 016049589X |
| ISBN | 9780160495892 |
| GPO item number | 0344 |
| Govt. docs number |
D 114.2:W 89 |
| Stock number | 008-029-00341-4 GPO |
