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Tanks on the beaches : a Marine tanker in the Pacific war
Robert Neiman, perhaps the most experienced combat commander of the U.S. Marine Corps’ tank arm, was one of the rare USMC officers to serve in both Iwo Jima and Okinawa battles. In Tanks on the Beaches, Neiman and his coauthor, Kenneth Estes, relay vivid accounts of fighting in the Pacific War, as well as Marine Corps service during the entire World War II period, devoid of idolatry and mythmaking. The result is a war story told from the unique perspective of men fighting from armored machines in desperate battles against a determined enemy.
After the capture of Guadalcanal, Neiman endured Japanese bombardments there to gather information for his assignment as operations officer of a new tank school being formed in California. He eventually led his own tank company through four island battles culminating in the cauldron of Iwo Jima. Later, he finished the war as executive officer and commanding officer of the 1st Tank Battalion on occupation and security duty in North China in 1945–46.
Neiman and Estes take the reader from prewar training at Quantico and in North Carolina through the delights of a New Zealand bereft of men, the horrors of Saipan and Iwo, the peculiar situation in China after the war, and then the trip back to the States for Neiman’s successful postwar career as a lumber retailer.
Through it all, Estes translates Neiman’s eye for the interesting and the human into a multifaceted tale of a young Marine going to war. This is an adventure story with many novel turns that will attract the interest of military experts, military history aficionados, Marine Corps members in general, and veterans of armored fighting vehicle units. Neiman is not a USMC icon, just one of the unheralded thousands of officers who did the real fighting. This is their story, as much as it is his.
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A European Anabasis
In 'A European Anabasis', Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS.
eBook
Operation Vigilant Resolve: The First Battle of Al Fallujah
In his commander's comments of April 3, MajGen Mattis raised the difficulties of conducting offensive operations in Fallujah: \"My intent is to then enter the city from two directions, which will draw fire from guerillas and put us in a position to exploit our own well considered and conditions-based operation. Throughout the entire month of April, Battery A, 1st Battalion, 11th Marines, shot 30 counterfire missions against insurgent mortar and artillery rocket positions, and fired 14 missions to support the infantry. L. Paul Bremer III and the Coalition Provisional Authority had prevailed upon General Abizaid, head of Central Command, to order a cease-fire at the behest of the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) in Baghdad. [...]he probably decided to cut his losses.
Trade Publication Article
Operation Iraqi Freedom II: The Deployment
By 2004, however, the experiences of U.S. and Coalition forces had generated a comprehensive set of new equipment requirements. [...]the second deployment presented a range of new equipment requirements. The hope that I MEF could obtain special equipment needed for the 2004 deployment from units departing Iraq would fall far short of expectations despite a U. S. Central Command directive to leave all \"uparmored\" High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) humvee models Mil 14, Ml 116, and Ml 109-and all tactical vehicles fitted with bolt-on armor or ballistic doors. [...]distribution of the new Interceptor body armor system to the troops was only partially complete at the time of the 2003 invasion, and priorities of issue left large numbers of combat units with older design armor vests. [...]defective quality control and the delays in providing upgrades to Interceptor components (heavier insert plates and additional side and shoulder protection) exacerbated the political uproar. [...]some units procured locally fabricated steel plates to augment the m inimal protection offered by the unarmored humvee.
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News analysis: future U.S. defense priorities and strategic doctrine
Examines George W. Bush administration policy outlined in document entitled, \"National security strategy of the United States\" (Sept. 2002), indexed in PAIS International, 2003. Right of preemption, war on terrorism, unilateralist, and militarily dominant and irresistible armed forces.
Journal Article
Marine tanks see the light
\"Memo Dir., P&P Div to CMC 24 June 1940; CMC to QMMC 2 July 1940 orders 5 tanks M2A4 ($165,000) and 31 light tank, combat 13 - ton ($1,023,000); Ltr Ch BuOrd Navy Dept. 7 Aug. 1940, notes verbal orders of CMC 31 July 1940 modified above order to 36 M2A4 at $1,188,000; RG127/E140B/154. \"Pres MCEB to CMC 27 June 1940; SecNav to SecWar 8 July 1940, refers to both 11.5 ton and 13.5 ton models of the M2A4, but the latter already had been designated M3; RG 127/ E18/1229.
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Future amphibious landings: From the pages of the Gazette to OMFTS
Estes profiles Arthur Johnston Stuart, a Marine officer ahead of his time. Stuart foresaw the ship-to-objective maneuver (STOM) and the operational maneuver from the sea (OMFTS) over half a century ago.
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