Warrior's rage : the great tank battle of 73 Easting / Douglas Macgregor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macgregor, Douglas A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

73 Easting, Battle of, Iraq, 1991--Personal narratives, American.

73 Easting, Battle of, Iraq, 1991.

73 Easting, Battle of, Iraq, 1991--Influence.

Persian Gulf War, 1991--Tank warfare.

Persian Gulf War, 1991.

Command of troops.

Macgregor, Douglas A.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of "Cougar Squadron," the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the "73 Easting." Taken by surprise, the defending Iraqi armor brigade was swept away in salvos of American tank and missile fire in what became the U.S. Army's largest tank battle since World War II. Douglas Macgregor, the man who trained and led Cougar Squadron into battle, recounts two stories. On

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Introduction; one Unfinished War; two Getting Ready for the Fight; three This Is Going to Be Bad; four But We've Already Seized the Objective!; five Why Are We Stopping?; six Closing with the Enemy; seven Action Front!; eight Danger Close!; nine My God, It Looks Like Armageddon!; ten Squandering Victory; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-04959-7

9786613049599

1-61251-003-5

OCLC:

707067927