The Devil's Sandbox

Author: John R. Bruning
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 0760323941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Citizen soldiers have played a unique role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and their extended deployment and role in the wars battles have changed the towns, cities, and states they hail from as well. The Devil's Sandbox - a nickname for Iraq - is the story of the 2nd Battalion of Oregon's 162nd Infantry Regiment (2/162), and provides readers an intimate look at the reality of National Guardsmen at war. Follow the 2/162 from their call-up in the summer of 2003 to their return home in the spring of 2005. Witness some of the fiercest fighting of the Iraq War and some of the most rewarding and forward-looking civil affairs projects aimed at rebuilding the broken nation of Iraq. Read how the town in Oregon struggles to do without the people - the accountants, lawyers, mechanics, et. al. - who went to serve in the war. The Devil's Sandbox offers a rare insight into what this war means for the citizen-soldier at home and abroad, and chronicles a battalion that earned the respect of the regular Army soldiers who fought alongside them in some of the toughest battles in the Iraq war.

Green Shadows

Author: G. M. Byrnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description

Purple Over Green

Author: Stan Wick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855810214
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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The Second United States Infantry Division in Korea: 1951-1952, by J. R. May and others

Author: United States. Army. 2d Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description

Infantry in Battle

Author: Infantry School (U.S.)
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428916911
Category : Infantry drill and tactics
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Bristol's Bastards

Author: Nicholas P. Maurstad
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1616732326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Minnesota’s toughest farm boys take on Iraqi insurgents in one of the most irreverent and outrageous memoirs to come out of the Iraq War. When they deployed for Iraq, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard, was mostly composed of farm kids from the Midwest. But make no mistake—these boys could replace a tank track on the side of the road using nothing but a crescent wrench, Zippo lighter, and a two-by-four. Once they arrived, they fought alongside the Marine Corps in Anbar province through the deadliest period of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Bravo Company earned the nickname “Bristol’s Bastards” after USMC Colonel George Bristol, commanding officer of the IMEF Headquarters Group, adopted this band of fierce warriors as one of his own. Specialist Nick Maurstad, a member of Bristol’s Bastards, brings to life the experience of fighting in Iraq: kicking down doors, dodging IEDs, battling insurgents in the small towns surrounding Fallujah, and trying to help one another survive in the deadliest place on earth.

An Infantryman in Stalingrad

Author: Adelbert Holl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975107614
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
The author, Adelbert Holl was a 23-year-old infantry Leutnant when he rejoined his unit in Stalingrad in September 1942 after recovering from a severe wound he suffered in April 1942. Upon returning to Infanterie-Regiment 276 of 94. Infanterie-Division, he discovered that many of the officers and men who had been with the unit barely 5 months earlier were now dead or wounded, and the unit was embroiled in tough city-fighting in central Stalingrad. This book records his experiences as a junior infantry commander during Stalingrad from September 1942 until the very last day in February 1943.

Combat History of the Second Infantry Division in World War II.

Author: United States. Army. Division, 2nd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Kampberetning fra 2. infanteridivision (US) under 2. Verdenskrig. Normandiet 7/6 1944, Brest 21/8-18/9, Paris 29/9, St. Vith 4/10-12/12, Giessen 29/3 1945. Returfra Le Havre 13/7. God og fyldig beretning med mange billeder og fornødne kortskitser

The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1861-1865

Author: F. Mikell Harper
Publisher: Indigo Custom Publishing LLC
ISBN: 0976287536
Category : Burke County (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment fought in all of the most famous and important campaigns of the Eastern theater of the American Civil War. This written and pictorial history is told by or on behalf of the men who comprised the unit.

A History of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry, 1861-65

Author: Mac Wyckoff
Publisher: Sergeant Kirkland's Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Examines the role the 2nd South Carolina Infantry played in the great battles of the American Civil War. Includes a detailed roster.