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The Big Red One : America's legendary 1st Infantry Division from World War I to Desert Storm / James Scott Wheeler.
LIBRA UA27.5 1st .W485 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler, James Scott.
- Series:
- Modern war studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st--History.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 1st.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 594 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2007]
- Contents:
- Lafayette, we are here : creation of the 1st Infantry Division
- Cantigny to Soissons
- Victory in Alsace-Lorraine : St. Mihiel and the Meuse Argonne
- Between the world wars : the twenty-year peace
- Mobilization for war : the expansion and training of the Big Red One, 1939 to November 1942
- Tunisia : the division comes of age
- Offensive operations : Gafsa to victory in Africa
- The invasion of Sicily
- Operation Overlord
- Crusade in Europe : the drive to Germany
- The battles of the German frontier
- The last offensive against Germany : January to May 1945
- The occupation of Germany and the Cold War
- The Vietnam War and the Big Red One : deployment and first battles
- The year of decision? : the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam, 1967
- Tet and the light at the end of the tunnel
- Conclusion : The journey continues.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700615520
- 0700615520
- OCLC:
- 153580069
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