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Buttoned up : American armor and the 781st Tank Battalion in World War II
- Author
- Robeson, Westin Ellis, 1984- author.
- Title
- Buttoned up : American armor and the 781st Tank Battalion in World War II / Westin Ellis Robeson.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- First edition.
- Published
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2017]
- Description
- xii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Uniform series
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 157.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index. GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
- Contents
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- Origins through 1939
- An introduction
- Dawn of the tank
- The Great War and its wake
- American armor during the interwar years
- Guderian and the German attack on Poland
- Panzers in France
- Summer 1940-Fall 1944
- Creating the US armored force
- African desert, British troops, American tanks
- World War
- El Alamein
- Disaster in Tunisia
- Lessons from the desert
- The 781st Tank Battalion, Fall 1944-VE day
- The Mediterranean and France
- The separate tank battalion
- Battalion operations, October-December 1944
- Hunting tanks, improving tanks
- Battalion operations, January 1945
- Battalion operations, February-March 1945
- Battalion operations, April-May 1945
- Postwar and review.
- Subject headings
- United States. Army. Tank Battalion, 781st--History. United States. Army--Armored troops--History--World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Tank warfare.
- Genre heading
- History.
- ISBN
- 9781623495664 hardcover alkaline paper 1623495660 hardcover alkaline paper 9781623495671 electronic book