Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq

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by John C. McManus


  Warlock system

  Warnic, Ben

  Watkins, Bruce

  Watson, David

  Watters, Charles

  Wayment, Jason

  W-day, Guam

  Weidner, Mel

  Welch, Steven

  Welch, William

  Wert, Alexander

  Wertheimer, Philip

  Wessel, Kevin

  West, Bing

  West, Owen

  Western Gunfire Support Group (U.S. Navy)

  Westmoreland, William “Westy”

  attrition strategy of

  big-unit operations of

  Dak To and

  Operation Masher/White Wing and

  U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons and

  Weyrauch, Kevin

  Wheeler, Earl

  Wheeler, Edwin

  Wilck, Gerhard

  Wildagel, Richard

  Wilkins, George

  Willhite, Arliss

  Williams, Charlie

  Williams, Maury

  Willis, William

  Winslow, Joe

  Wise, Alvin R.

  Wiseman, Earl

  Wolf, Francis

  Wood, Todd

  Woodford, Matt

  World War I

  World War II

  Aachen, Germany, 1944

  advent of nuclear weapons at end of

  ground force combat fatalities in

  Guam

  north shoulder of the Bulge

  Peleliu

  techno-war vs. infantry soldiers and

  Yamato-damashii (Japanese fighting spirit)

  Zaccone, Raymond

  al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

  Zitko, Leo

  Zoot Suit

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Dedication

  Introduction

  CHAPTER 1 - Guam, July 1944: Amphibious Combat Against a Self-Destructive Enemy

  CHAPTER 2 - Peleliu, September 1944: Amphibious Combat Against a Clever, ...

  CHAPTER 3 - Aachen, 1944: Knocking ’Em All Down on a Politically Unrestrained ...

  CHAPTER 4 - Scenes from the Northern Shoulder of the Bulge: Men Against Tanks ...

  CHAPTER 5 - Operation Masher/White Wing: Air Mobility, Attrition, and the ...

  CHAPTER 6 - Counterinsurgency from the Barrel of a Gun: The Marine Combined ...

  CHAPTER 7 - Attrition and the Tears of Autumn: Dak To, November 1967

  CHAPTER 8 - Eleven Mikes and Eleven Bravos: Infantry Moments in the Ultimate Techno-War

  CHAPTER 9 - Grunts in the City: Urban Combat and Politics—Fallujah, 2004

  CHAPTER 10 - “Watch Out for IEDs!” Twenty-First-Century Counterinsurgent ...

  EPILOGUE

  Acknowledgements

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  ENDNOTES

  INDEX

 

 

 


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