Death Traps by Cooper, Belton Y. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Praise Foreword Preface Introduction Maps Chapter 1

On Board the LST to Normandy Crossing the Atlantic The Bocage and the Hedgerows Combat Command A: ...

Chapter 2

Combat Command B Actions at Airel, ... Tragic Inferiority of the M4 Sherman Tank Tree Snipers Thoughts on the Reality of Combat More Tank Losses The German Counterattack: ... The Gas Attack

Chapter 3

Preparation: The Hedge Chopper Planning Operation Cobra ... The Danger of Smoking in a Foxhole The Bombardment New Mission for Air Support Operation Spark Plug Lessons from Operation Cobra

Chapter 4

Breakthrough Becomes Breakout The Battle of Mortain Northeast Toward Falaise General Rose Assumes Command Closing the Falaise Pocket Regrouping After Falaise Tank Recovery in Combat A New Commanding Officer To Paris and Across the Seine

Chapter 5

Logistic Innovations Ordnance Innovations Advance from Paris to the Northeast Soissons and Laon: ... The Roadblock at Maubeuge A Meeting Engagement at Mons Attack on Charleroi Liège: The Heaviest ... Verviers to the Siegfried Line

Chapter 6

The Siegfried Line Attack Through the Dragons’ Teeth The Division Regroups The Battle of Aachen Buildup to the Breakout ... The Assault to the Roer River The Failure of the November Offensive

Chapter 7

Status of the Division Prior to the German Attack The German Attack The American Defense Stavelot–Trois Ponts ...

Chapter 8

The Germans Regroup 3d Armored Division at Hotton-Manhay German Air Attack My Driver, White, Is Wounded A Problem with Frostbite The (VT) Proximity Fuse The American Counterattack Casualties On Leave to Reims

Chapter 9

Return to Aachen Trading with the Enemy The Western Front: February 1, 1945 Ordnance Problems The First New M26 Tanks Arrive The Roer River Line Sleeping on a UXB New Maps of Germany

Chapter 10

Attack Across the Rhineland The Super Pershing M26A1E2 Tank Arrives The Assault on Cologne

Chapter 11

The Western Front, March 23, 1945 The Remagen Bridgehead Envelopment of the Ruhr Pocket Major General Maurice Rose ... Annihilation of a Task Force Closing the Ruhr (Rose) Pocket

Chapter 12

The Tragedy at Nordhausen The V2 Rocket Factory The Final Assault

Chapter 13

V-E Day Darmstadt and the Army of Occupation The First Industrial Survey ... Reflections on the Aftermath

Chapter 14

The French Riviera The Bomb The Survivors

Epilogue: The Coin Appendices

Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III

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