The History of the 26th Yankee Division, 1917-1919; 1941-1945
Author : Yankee Division Veterans Association
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : Yankee Division Veterans Association
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : Dennis A. Connole
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0786431423
Within hours of the strike against Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military sprang into action to implement a "contingency plan" previously drawn up to protect the coast against a full-scale German invasion or incursions by Nazi espionage agents and saboteurs. The War Department placed the 26th "Yankee" Division (YD) under the jurisdiction of the 1st Coast Artillery District, a subdivision of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps. Military leaders charged the division with securing the coast of New England and Long Island, later expanding its area to include the entire eastern seaboard. Focusing primarily on the unit's work in "home defense" from January 1942 through November 1943, this history begins with prewar activation and training and recounts in detail the two highly publicized incidents of saboteurs coming ashore in June 1942. Also included are reports of U-boat sightings and encounters with subversive agents by veterans of the YD while on patrol. Firsthand accounts by members of the division provide a look at day-to-day operations. Appendices contain a number of previously unpublished historical documents. Many period photographs complete this history of a previously undocumented chapter of World War II history.
Author : US Army Military History Institute
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1978
Category : United States
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Author : Jonathan D. Bratten
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2020
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Author : Richard D. Courtney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 143570181X
Basing this compelling war memoir on his original World War II diary, Pfc. Richard D. Courtney tells what it was like to be a combat infantryman in the greatest and most destructive war in history. Courtney relates a true first-person account of his travels across Europe as a front line soldier with the 26th Division of General Patton's Third Army.
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Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
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Includes the lineages and honors for all armies, corps, divisions, and separate combined arms brigades in order to perpetuate and publicize their traditions, honors, and heraldic entitlements, organized under Tables of Organization and Equipment that have been active in the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army of the United States since the beginning of World War II. Included in this edition is the 12th Infantry Division (formerly the Philippine Division), which did not appear in the earlier one. The lineages are current though 1 October 1997. Brigade headquarters and headquarters companies or headquarters, except for aviation and engineer brigades, organic to the above-mentioned combat divisions since ROAD (Reorganization Objective Army Divisions) in the early 1960s have also been incorporated. (Divisional aviation and engineer brigades are branch specific and therefore have been omitted.) The lineages and honors for Army National Guard divisions and separate combined arms brigades that were active on 1 October 1997 are also included.--Preface.
Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 1971
Category : United States
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Contains a bibliography of U.S. Army unit histories.
Author : Military History. Office of the Chief
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Mary Lee Stubbs
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Roy Barnard
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 1977
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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