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United States Army In World War II. For The 32nd Division, The
Papua Campaign Was A Military Nightmare, Its Men Living Under
Intolerable Conditions, Plagued By Disease, Short Of Equipment,
Ill-Prepared For Jungle Fighting, And Pitted Against A Skilled And
Resolute Foe.
United States Army In World War II, War In The Pacific. This
Account Of The First Victory Over Japanese Ground Forces, Told At
The Level Of Companies, Platoons, And Even Individuals,
Demonstrates The Relationship Between Air, Ground, And Surface
Forces In Modern Warfare.
United States Army In World War II. Additional Contributor Is Leo
J. Meyer. Told From The Point Of View Of The Commanding General Of
The Army Service Forces, ASF, This Study Focuses On The
Organizational Experience Of The ASF, Detailing The Many
Controversies Surrounding This Administrative Experiment.
United States Army In World War II. For The 32nd Division, The
Papua Campaign Was A Military Nightmare, Its Men Living Under
Intolerable Conditions, Plagued By Disease, Short Of Equipment,
Ill-Prepared For Jungle Fighting, And Pitted Against A Skilled And
Resolute Foe.
United States Army In World War II. Additional Contributors Are
John H. Stokes And Hugh M. Cole. The Reemergence Of French National
Forces In The War Against The Axis Powers, And The Role Of Large
Scale American Aid.
United States Army In World War II, War In The Pacific. This
Account Of The First Victory Over Japanese Ground Forces, Told At
The Level Of Companies, Platoons, And Even Individuals,
Demonstrates The Relationship Between Air, Ground, And Surface
Forces In Modern Warfare.
United States Army In World War II. Additional Contributors Are
John H. Stokes And Hugh M. Cole. The Reemergence Of French National
Forces In The War Against The Axis Powers, And The Role Of Large
Scale American Aid.
The present volume consists of six studies dealing with basic
organizational problems of the ground forces. The first study
concerns the antecedents of the Army Ground Forces, during the
years 1940-42, as represented by General Headquarters, U.S. Army,
from which the Army Ground Forces and its policies in respect to
the organization and training of the ground troops developed. Given
the limited objective inherent in the mission of the authors as
members of the Historical Section, Army Ground Forces, the study of
General Headquarters is not an exhaustive treatise on that
organization, but emphasizes its exercise of those functions and
activities which were later assumed by the Army Ground Forces.
Nevertheless, such subjects as the activities of GHQ in planning
and directing operations and the steps involving GHQ which led to
the reorganization of the Army high command in March 1942 are
included, not only to round out the picture, but also to contribute
to the understanding of larger questions the information found in
the records of GHQ. The next four studies in this volume give an
account of the principal problems and decisions of the Army Ground
Forces regarding the size, internal organization, and armament of
the ground troops deployed in World War II. The last study explains
the part played by the Army Ground Forces in the redeployment and
reorganization of the ground forces for the final assault against
Japan. The point of view represented in the studies is that of
General Headquarters and of the Army Ground Forces, and only their
decisions are fully documented. In general, research was carried
beyond the records of these two organizations only so far as seemed
necessary to explain their views and decisions. No effort was made
to explore facts not known to them at the time when action was
recommended or taken. It is recognized that a knowledge of other
facts and circumstances is necessary for a balanced judgment of
their recommendations and decisions, a knowledge which will be
attainable only when the history of the war, and of the part played
by the War Department and the U.S. Army in winning it, has been
written.
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