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GI Ingenuity - Improvisation, Technology, and Winning World War II (Hardcover)
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GI Ingenuity - Improvisation, Technology, and Winning World War II (Hardcover)
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World War II saw the first generation of young men that had grown
up comfortable with modern industrial technology go into combat. As
kids, the GIs had built jalopies in their garage and poured over
glossy, full-color issues of Popular Mechanics; they had read Buck
Rogers in the Twenty Fifth Century comic books, listened to his
adventures on the radio, and watched him pilot rocket ships in the
Saturday morning serials at the Bijou. Tinkerers, problem-solvers,
risk-takers, and day-dreamers, they were curious and outspoken--a
generation well prepared to improvise, innovate, and adapt
technology on the battlefield. Since they were also a generation
which had unprecedented technology available to them, their ability
to innovate with technology proved an immeasurable edge on the
field of combat. This book tells their story through the experience
of the battle of Normandy, bringing together three disparate brands
of history: (1) military history; (2) the history of science and
technology; and (3) social, economic, cultural, and intellectual
history. All three historical narratives combine to tell the tale
of GI genius and the process by which GI ingenuity became an
enduring feature of the American citizen-soldier. GI Ingenuity is
in large part an old-fashioned combat history, with mayhem and mass
slaughter at center stage. It tells the story of death and
destruction on the killing fields of Normandy, as well as the
battlegrounds that provide the prologue and postscript to the
transformation of war that occurred in France in 1944. This story
of GI ingenuity, moreover, puts the battles in the context of the
immense social, economic, scientific, and technological changes
that accompanied theevolution of combat in the twentieth century.
GI Ingenuity illustrates the great transition of the American
genius in battle from an industrial-age army to a postmodern
military. And it does it by looking at the place where the
transition happened--on the battlefield.
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