Jacksonville Public Library

Armor in battle, special edition for the Armored Force 75th anniversary, edited by Robert S. Cameron

eng

Includes bibliographical references

federal national government publication

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Armor in battle

bibliography

955235879

edited by Robert S. Cameron

special edition for the Armored Force 75th anniversary

Foreword -- Introduction -- Road to Armored Force -- Creating an Armored Force in Pictures. World War I ; Army tank development 1920s-1930s ; Mechanized cavalry development in the 1930s ; The Armored Force -- The Roots of Armor. The Seventh Cavalry Brigade in the first Army maneuvers -- World War II. Armor in North Africa ; Arracourt, September 1944 ; A tank battalion commander's experience in Europe ; Extract from an armored commander's narrative on the Italian Campaign ; Tank-infantry cooperation in Italy ; Tanks in the jungle ; Armored operations on Iwo Jima -- Stability and Security in Occupied Germany. US Army Constabulary -- Korean War. Early assessment of armor in Korea ; Task Force Fowler ; Busting the barricades: how armor was employed in the urban battle of Seoul ; Breakout and pursuit operations by Task Force Lynch ; Armored task force operations ; Tank-infantry coordination ; Armor breaks the Heartbreak Ridge stalemate -- Vietnam War. Ambush and destruction ; armored quick reaction force ; Armored relief operations ; One tank battalion's experience in Vietnam -- Panama. Armor in Panama -- Gulf War. A platoon leader's experience ; Armor battalion command and considerations ; Armored night attack ; Combined arms task force conducts night attack ; Armored brigade command and staff operations ; Armor lessons learned -- Armor in the Balkans. Armor and cavalry in Bosnia ; Armor tactics, techniques, and procedures for coping with mobs and refugees ; Armor in Albania (Task Force Hawk) ; Combined arms platoon outpost operations ; An armor battalion in Kosovo -- Global War on Terrorism. Air deployment of TF 1-63 Armor in northern Iraq ; Thunder Run ; Tank company urban assault ; Operations Smackdown: an armored task force in Kufa ; Armor battalion full spectrum operations ; Conversion of an armor company into a light, dismounted unit ; Employment of a tank platoon as a light motorized unit ; Night urban raid by reinforced tank platoon ; Armor battalion intervention in local dispute ; Hasty convoy security at Diwaniyah ; Employment of small kill teams in a tank platoon ; COIN success in Ramadi by an armored brigade combat team ; A motorized tank company in Operation New Dawn ; U.S. Marine Corps tank company in Afghanistan -- Armor Branch Medal of Honor recipients