The Italian Army WW-2
The Italian Army in World War Two
Woody Turnbow
Background and Preparations
A. The Italian armed forces were faced with a conflict between theories of employment. They had historically been structured for deployment in the mountainous terrain found in Italy and her...
Patton’s Desert Training Center
This archive - Georges S. Patton's Desert Training Center - was written by Col John Kennedy, US Air Force (Ret) Col John Lynch, and Mr. Robert L. Wooley. The monograph appeared originally as issue number 47 in the Journal...
A Brief Parachute History
(Right) On February 4 1912, Franz Reichelt, will jump off the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, wearing this crazy homemade flying suit created to slow down his fall to the ground. Tragically, Reichelt will fall to his death like...
Gen Lesley J. McNair’s Folly
While serving as an armor officer in the US Army during the cold war, I had access to considerable amounts of intelligence information about Soviet towed antitank guns. Minute details about the physical characteristics and capabilities of the guns...
US Armor in the Hürtgen Forest
Armor Against the Huertgen Forest
The Kall Trail and the Battle of Kommerscheidt by Captain Mike Sullivan.
The mission of Armor is to close with and destroy the enemy by means of fire, maneuver and shock effect. (FM-17-15, Tank Platoon, April...
