First Blood in North Africa: Operation Torch and the U.S. Campaign in Africa in WWII (Stackpole Military Photo Series)Rowman & Littlefield, 14 ביוני 2023 - 216 עמודים A pictorial history of America’s first major military campaign in Africa during WWII. In November 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. launched Operation Torch, a multipronged attack on French North Africa—a region controlled by Germany through Vichy France. Led by Generals Eisenhower and Patton, it was America’s first major offensive against the Germans. Through rare wartime images, this book vividly chronicles the initial landings in Morocco and Algeria and the subsequent desert clashes in Tunisia as American forces battled the German Afrika Korps of Erwin Rommel, the famous “Desert Fox.”
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Chapter 2 Geography Terrain and the Invasion 25 | 25 |
Chapter 3 Commanders and Combatants 63 | 63 |
Photo Section | 108 |
Chapter 4 The Amphibious Landings 109 | 109 |
Chapter 5 Tunisian Warfare and Weapons 145 | 145 |
Chapter 6 Epilogue 191 | 191 |
Acknowledgments 201 | 201 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
First Blood in North Africa: The U. S. in Operation Torch and the Tunisia ... <span dir=ltr>Jon Diamond</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2017 |
First Blood in North Africa: Operation Torch and the U.S. Campaign in Africa ... <span dir=ltr>Jon Diamond</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2023 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
10th Panzer Division 1st Armored Division 1st Infantry Division 1st Ranger Battalion 9th Infantry Division aircraft airfields Alamein Algeria Algiers Allied Andalouses Army’s Arnim’s artillery piece assault attack Auchinleck Australian AUTHOR’S COLLECTION Axis forces battle Bizerte Brigade British First Army caliber captured Casablanca ceasefire Center Task Force Churchill coast combat command crew D-Day defensive destroyers east Eastern Task Force Eisenhower enemy February Fedala fighting fire German Panzer Guettar half-track infantrymen invasion Italian Kasserine Pass landing craft M3 medium Lee machine gun March Mareth Line medium tank miles Montgomery’s Eighth Army NARA NARA An American North Africa Northwest Africa November offensive Operation Torch Oran Panzer Army Panzer III Patton reinforcements retreat rifle Rommel Safi Sidi Bou Zid southern Tunisia terrain Tobruk transport troops Tunis Tunisia turret gun U.S. 1st Infantry U.S. Army U.S. II Corps units vehicles Vichy French Wavell weapon Western Task