the american soldier in world war II

The American soldier in World War II

✍ Bernard C. Nalty, Chester G. Hearn 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Zenith Press 🌐 English

This fabulously illustrated history relates what daily life was really like for ordinary U.S. servicemen on the frontlines of World War II. Archival photos are accompanied by quotes from veterans and an authoritative history spanning the broad gamut of home sickness, coping with periods of boredom a

GI: the American soldier in World War II

📁 GI: the American soldier in World War II

✍ Kennett, Lee B 📂 Library 📅 1987 🏛 Scribner 🌐 English

Lee Kennett provides a vivid portrait of the American soldier, or G.I., in World War II, from his registration in the draft, training in boot camp, combat in Europe and the Pacific, and to his final role as conqueror and occupier. It is all here: the "greetings" from Uncle Sam; endless lines in indu

The GI's War: American Soldiers in Europ

📁 The GI's War: American Soldiers in Europe During World War II

✍ Edwin P. Hoyt 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 Cooper Square Press 🌐 English

The GI's War contains eyewitness accounts from ordinary young men, farm hands and factory workers, who had war thrust upon them and in the process became veteran soldiers. Their unsparing narratives, presented in their own words, capture the many emotions evoked by war. GIs and their com

The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Com

📁 The Deadly Brotherhood: The American Combat Soldier in World War II

✍ John McManus 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 English

In his book Men Against Fire, [historian S. L. A.] Marshall asserted that only 15 to 25 percent of American soldiers ever fired their weapons in combat in World War II. . . . Shooting at the enemy made a man part of the “team,” or “brotherhood.” There were, of cours

Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black America

📁 Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II

✍ Hondon B. Hargrove 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 🌐 English

The 92nd Infantry ("Buffalo") Division was the last segregated (all-black) U.S. Army division and the only black division to fight in World War II in Europe. The few media references to the division have reflected generally unfavorable contemporary evaluations by white commanders. The present wor

The German Soldier in World War II

📁 The German Soldier in World War II

✍ Michael Olive, Robert J. Edwards 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Stackpole Books 🌐 English

This collection of photographs presents a visual history of the German soldier’s experiences and challenges on the Eastern Front during World War II. Hundreds of photos depict army and Waffen SS soldiers, uniforms, weapons and equipment, tanks and other vehicles, aircraft, local villages, life on th