America At War - Concise Histories Of U.S. Military Conflicts From Lexington To Afghanistan (45 page)

Roberts, Andrew,
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
, HarperCollins, New York, 2011.

Roskill, S. W.,
White Ensign: The British Navy at War, 1939–1945
, United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1960.

Ruge, Friedrich, translated by Commander M. G. Saunders, R.N.,
Der Seekrieg, The German Navy’s Story 1939–1945
, United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1957.

Sulzberger, C. L.,
The American Heritage Picture History of World War Two
, American Heritage/Bonanza Books, 1966.

Willmott, H. P.,
The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War
, revised edition, Potomac Books, Washington, 2008.

EIGHT—KOREA

Crane, Conrad C.,
American Airpower Strategy in Korea: 1950–1953
, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 2000.

Davis, Larry,
The 4th Fighter Wing in the Korean War
, Schiffer Military History, Atglen, 2001.

Fehrenbach, T. R.,
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History
,
Potomac Books, Dulles, Virginia, 2008.

Futrell, Robert F.,
The United States Air Force in Korea
, U. S. Air Force, Washington, 1982.

Golstein, Donald M., and Harry J. Maihafer,
The Korean War: The Story and Photographs
, Brassey’s, Washington, 2000.

Halberstam, David,
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
, Hyperion, New York, 2007.

Hallion, Richard P.,
The Naval Air War in Korea
, The Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, Baltimore, 1986.

Hastings, Max,
The Korean War
, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987.

Hickey, Michael,
The Korean War: The West Confronts Communism
, The Overlook Press, Woodstock and New York, 2000.

Lansdown, John R. P.,
With the Carriers in Korea: The Sea and Air War in SE Asia, 1950–1953
, Crecy, Wilmslow, 1997.

Sherwood, John Darrell,
Officers in Flight Suits: The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
, New York University Press, New York, 1996.

NINE—VIETNAM

Frankum, Ronald B. Jr.,
Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964–1975
, Bowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2005.

Goldstein, Donald M., Katherine V. Dillon, and J. Michael Wenger,
The Vietnam War: The Story and Photographs
, Brassey’s, Herndon, 1994.

Herring, George C.,
America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975
, second edition, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1986.

Karnow, Stanley,
Vietnam: A History
, Viking, New York, 1991.

Michel, Marshall L. III,
The 11 Days of Christmas: America’s Last Vietnam Battle
, Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2002.

Murray, Aaron R., editor,
Vietnam War Battles and Leaders
, DK, New York, 2004.

Nichols, John B., and Barrett Tillman,
On Yankee Station: The Naval Air War over Vietnam
, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2001.

Palmer, Bruce Jr.,
25 Year War: America’s Military Role in Vietnam
, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1984.

Palmer, Dave Richard,
Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective
, Presidio, Novato, 1982.

Rasimus, Ed,
When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over Vietnam
, Smithsonian, Washington, 2003.

Summers, Harry G. Jr.,
The Vietnam War Almanac
, Ballantine, New York, 1985.

Thompson, Wayne,
To Hanoi and Back: The United States Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966–1973
, Smithsonian, Washington, 2000.

Tucker, Spencer C., editor,
The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social and Military History
, Oxford, 1998.

Van De Mar, Brian,
Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991.

Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam
, The Military Institute of Vietnam, translated by Merle L. Pribbenow, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1994.

Willbanks, James H.,
The Tet Offensive: A Concise History
, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007.

TEN—THE GULF

Clancy, Tom, with General Fred Franks Jr.,
Into the Storm: A Study in Command
, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1997.

De La Billiere, General Sir Peter,
Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War
, Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 1992.

Finlan, Alastair,
The Gulf War 1991
, Osprey, Oxford 2003.

Friedrich, Otto, editor,
Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf
, Time Warner, New York, 1991.

Glosson, General Buster,
War with Iraq: Critical Lessons
, Glosson Family Foundation, Charlotte, 2003.

Jaco, Charles,
The Gulf War: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to
, Alpha Books, Indianapolis, 2002.

Macgregor, Douglas,
Warrior’s Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting
, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2009.

Marolda, Edward J., and Robert J. Schneller Jr.,
Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War
, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2001.

Rottman, Gordon L.,
Armies of the Gulf War
, Osprey, Oxford, 1992.

Scales, Brigadier General Robert H. Jr., director, Desert Storm Study Project,
Certain Victory: The U. S. Army in the Gulf War
, Office of the Chief of Staff, United States Army, Washington, 1993.

Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, written with Peter Petre,
It Doesn’t Take a Hero: The Autobiography
(of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf), Bantam Books, New York, 1992.

Sweetman, Jack,
American Naval History: An Illustrated Chronology of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775–Present
, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1991.

Zaloga, Steven J.,
M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank 1982–92
, Osprey, Oxford, 1993.

Zaloga, Steven J.,
M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural: Operation Desert Storm 1991
, Osprey, Oxford, 2009.

ELEVEN—IRAQ

Fontenot, Gregory, E. J. Degen, and David Tohn,
On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom
, Naval Institute Press edition, 2005.

Fox, Robert,
Iraq Campaign 2003: Royal Navy and Royal Marines,
Agenda Publishing, London, 2003.

Gordon, Michael R., and General Bernard E. Trainor,
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
, Pantheon Books, New York, 2006.

Murray, Williamson, and Major General Robert H. Scales Jr.,
The Iraq War
,
A Military History
, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 2003.

Purdum, Todd S., and the staff of the
New York Times
,
A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq
, Times Books (Henry Holt and Company), New York, 2003.

Reynolds, Colonel Nicholas E.,
Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond: The U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War
, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2005.

Rumsfeld, Donald,
Known and Unknown: A Memoir
, Sentinel, New York, 2011.

Zucchino, David,
Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2004.

TWELVE—AFGHANISTAN

Jones, Seth G.,
In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan
, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2009.

Maley, William,
The Afghanistan Wars
, Palgreve, New York, 2002.

Neumann, Ronald E.,
The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan
, Potomac Books, Washington, D.C., 2009.

INDEX

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Aachen, Germany, 209

Abbottabad, Pakistan, 345–346

Abrams, Creighton, 279

Abrams tanks, 297, 307–308, 332, 334–335, 336

Abu al-Khasib, Iraq, 326

“aces,” 158–159, 161

Acheson, Dean, 240, 246

Adams, John, 12

Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, 328

Aden, Yemen, 344

Adriatic Sea, 134

AD Skyraiders, 250

aerial photography, 159

Afghanistan (2001-2014), xvi, 318, 341–353,
342,
365

Africa, 135, 136, 199

African-Americans, 76, 85, 147, 163, 194, 273

Afrika Korps, 189

Aguinaldo, Emilio, 116

Airacobras, 183

aircraft carriers, 178–179.
See also
specific aircraft carriers

aircraft used in war, 158–161, 169.
See also
specific aircraft

Air Force.
See
U.S. Air Force

air-to-air refueling, 251

Aisne River, 129

AK-47s, 351

Alabama, 42, 70, 76, 83, 95

Alamo, 51

Alaska, 183, 218, 228

Al Aziziyah, Iraq, 329

Albany, NY, 9, 10, 11

Albert (King of Belgium), 127

Aleutian Islands, 218–219, 228

Alexander, Sir Harold “Alex,” 189, 201

Alexandria, VA, 39

Al-Faw Peninsula, Iraq, 319, 325

Algiers, Algeria, 189

Allenby, Edmund, 133

Allied powers, WWII, 171–172, 184, 187, 233–234.
See also
America; Great Britain; Russia

Almond, Edward, 245

Almond, Ned, 250

al-Qaeda, 331, 344–345, 347, 348–349, 350, 351, 352, 353

Alsace, France, 125, 127, 128, 165, 166

al-Sahhaf, Mohammed Saeed “Baghdad Bob,” 333, 335

al-Saud, Khalid bin Sultan, 299, 310

Alvarez, Everett, 262–263

“Ambush Alley,” Iraq, 328

America at war, xv–xvii.
See also
casualties; U.S.;
specific foreign governments, geographic locations, and wars

American Expeditionary Force (AEF), 143, 144–148, 149, 152–154, 156–158, 163, 167, 171, 172

American Foreign Ministry, 56

American Signal Corps, 109

American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 148

America’s Longest War
(Herring), 283

Amiens, France, 155–156

amphibious operations, 54, 192, 199, 223, 242, 300

Ampudia, Pedro de, 50, 51

Andrew Doria
(Continental brig), 12

Ankara, Turkey, 295

An Nasiriyah, Iraq, 323, 324, 327–328, 330

An Numaniyah, Iraq, 329

Ansar al-Islam, 331

Antietam, MD, xv, 79–80, 81, 87, 97

Antung, China, 243, 252

Antwerp, Belgium, 209

Anzio, Italy, 192, 193

Apache helicopters, 301, 321, 328, 329

Ap Bac, Vietnam, 260–261

Apennine Mountains, 192

Apollo Program, 208

Appomattox Court House, VA, 96

Archangel, Russia, 183

Arctic Circle, 183

Ardennes, 209

Argentia in Placentia Bay, 184, 185

Argonne, France, 162

Arista, Mariano, 50

Arizona, 49, 64, 162, 263

Arkansas, 71

armored warfare, 308

Armstrong, Neil, 251

Army.
See
U.S. Army

Army of Northern Virginia, 71, 73, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 92, 93, 94, 95–96, 96, 98, 99

Army of the Cumberland, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92

Army of the Potomac, 71, 72–73, 73–74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83–84, 87, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), 260, 261, 271, 273, 274, 275, 276, 279–280, 282, 283

Army of the Tennessee, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92

Arnold, Benedict, 5, 6, 10, 11, 16

Arnold, Henry H., 186–187, 292

Arras, France, 139–140

As Samawah, Iraq, 323, 324

Associated Press, 227

Atlanta, GA, 91, 92

Atlantic Charter, 184–185, 185–186

Atlantic Monthly,
333

Atlantic Ocean, 13, 64, 149, 195, 196, 197

“Atlantic Wall, the,” 202

atomic bombing, Japan, 230–231, 235–236

Attu, Aleutian Islands, 218–219

Auschwitz camp, Germany, 211

Australia/Australians

Afghanistan (2001-2014), 352

Gulf War (1990-1991), 296, 304, 352

Iraq (2003-2011), 319

Korea (1950-1953), 249, 352

Vietnam (1965-1975), 269, 352

World War I (1914-1918), 137, 155–156

World War II (1939-1945), 212, 213, 215, 221, 227, 229

Austria, 180

Austrian-Hungarian Empire, 124, 125, 132, 133, 134–135, 164, 166, 167

Avengers, 182

Axis powers, WWII, 187.
See also
Germany; Italy; Japan

B-17 Flying Fortresses, 192, 198, 199

B-24s, 192, 196, 198, 199

B-25s, 214

B-29s, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230, 235, 236

B-52s, 274–275, 278, 280, 281, 345

Baghdad, Iraq, 297, 301, 302, 312–313, 318, 319, 320, 323, 324–325, 327, 329, 330, 331–336, 337, 338, 340

Bahrain, 295

Bahr al Milh, Iraq, 332

Baker, James A., 295–296, 299, 300, 304

Balkans, 164, 166

Baltic states, 132

Baltimore, MD, 33, 34, 39, 42

Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 343

Bancroft, George, 54

Banks, Nathaniel P., 90

Barbary pirates, 32

Barry, Stephen, 335–336

Barton, Clara, 113

Basra, Iraq, 309, 319, 325, 326, 334

Bastogne, Belgium, 209

Bataan Death March, 213

Battle of Britain, 182

Battle of the Atlantic, 195, 196

Battle of the Bulge, 209, 210

Battle of the Saints, 21

battles.
See
specific battles (listed by geographic location)

Baylies, Frank, 160

Beatty, David, 149

Beaver Dam, Canada, 36

Beirut, Lebanon, 311

Belgium

1812, 41

Korea (1950-1953), 249

World War I (1914-1918), 124, 127, 128, 129, 130–131, 136–137, 140, 142, 150, 159, 162, 167, 169

World War II (1939-1945), 182, 202, 208, 209

Belleau Wood, France, 154–155, 158

Belmont, MO, 86

Bennington, VT, 10, 23

Bentonville, NC, 92

Berlin, Germany, 141, 200, 212

Bermuda, 38, 75, 180

Between the States (1860-1865), 64–65, 67–100,
68,
69,
357

Biddle, Nicholas, 12

Bien Hoa, Vietnam, 263

“Big Week,” 200

Bin Laden, Osama, 344, 345, 346, 351

Bizerte, Tunisia, 190

Black Hawk Down
(Bowden), 334

“Black Rattlers,” 369th Infantry, 147, 163

Black Sea, 137

Bladensburg, MD, 38–39

Blair, Tony, 317

Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, 197

blockades

Between the States (1960-1865), 71, 74, 75, 85, 98

1812, 34–35, 37, 41, 42

Mexico (1846-1848), 49, 51, 55

Spain (1898), 104, 107, 111–112, 113

World War I (1914-1918), 141–142, 171

bloodiest day in American history, 80, 84

Blücher (German offensive), 153

Bolsheviks, 124, 132, 164

Bonhomme Richard,
16

Bonk, David, 153

Bordeaux, France, 128

Borneo, 215

Bosnia, 124, 125

Boston, MA, 3, 4, 5, 6, 34

Bougainville, New Guinea, 218, 221

Bouresches, France, 154

Bowden, Mark, 334

Bowdoin College, 83

Bradley, Omar, 207–208, 250, 320

Bradleys, 332, 335

Bragg, Braxton, 78, 87, 88, 89

Brandywine Creek, PA, 8, 9

Braun, Werner von, 208

Bravo, Nicolás, 59

Breed’s Hill, Boston, 4

Bremer, L. Paul, 338–339

Britain/British.
See
Great Britain

British East India Company, 42

British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 128, 130, 136, 137

Brock, Isaac, 30, 31

Broke, Philip, 37

Brooke, Sir Alan, 187, 200

Brooklyn, NY, 6

Brown, Jacob, 38

Brown, Noah and Adam, 35, 41

Brusilov, Alexei, 132

“Bubiyan Turkey Shoot, the,” 303

Buchanan, Franklin, 74

Buchanan, James, 56, 61

Bucharest, Romania, 133

Buchenwald camp, Germany, 211

Buckner, Simon, 218–219, 228, 229

Buddhist monks in Saigon, 261–262

Buell, Don Carlos, 78, 86–87

Buena Vista, Mexico, 51, 62

Buffalo Soldiers, 109, 110

Buford, John, 82

Bulgaria, 133, 134, 135, 164, 167

Bullard, Robert Lee, 156

Bull Run, VA, 71, 72, 77

Bulow, Karl von, 127, 128

Bunker Hill, Boston, 4

Burdick, Clinton, 161

Burdick, Howard, 161

Burgoyne, John, 4, 9–10, 11, 20, 22, 40

Burma, 198, 225, 236

Burnside, Ambrose E., 79, 81, 87, 95

Bush, George H. W., 228, 291, 292, 295, 296, 299, 304, 305, 309, 312

Bush, George W., 317, 318, 320, 321, 337, 339, 340, 345, 348, 349, 351

Butler, Benjamin, 90, 93

C-47s, 206

Caen, France, 207

California, 49, 53–54, 64

Cambodia, 214, 259, 261, 269, 272, 278, 279, 284

Cambrai, France, 128, 140

Cambridge, MA, 4

Camden, SC, 17, 19

Camels, 169

Cameroon, 136

Canada/Canadians

Afghanistan (2001-2014), 347

1812, 28, 29–30, 30–31, 33, 34, 35, 36–37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43

Gulf War (1990-1991), 296

Independence (1775-1783), 5–6, 10, 18

Korea (1950-1953), 249

World War I (1914-1918), 140, 155–156

World War II (1939-1945), 206, 207, 209, 219

cannons, 6, 160, 168

Cantigny, France, 153, 155, 156, 158

Cape Charles and Cape Henry, 20, 22

Cape Cod, 195

Cape Gloucester, 221

Cape Horn, 33

Caporetto, Italy, 135

Caribbean, 13, 21, 29, 32, 39, 103, 180, 195

Caroline Islands, 136

Carter, Jimmy, 291

Casablanca, Morocco, 189, 190, 194

Casa Mata, Mexico, 59

Cassady, Thomas, 160

Cassino, Italy, 192–193

casualties, xv–xvi

Afghanistan (2001-2014), 344, 345, 350, 352

Between the States (1860-1865), 73, 77, 78, 79–80, 81, 83, 84, 87, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 99–100

1812, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42

Gulf War (1990-1991), 301, 305, 306, 309, 310, 312, 313

Independence (1775-1783), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20

Iraq (2003-2011), 319, 322, 323, 324, 326, 327, 329, 333, 334–335, 337, 339, 340

Korea (1950-1953), 239, 241, 246, 247, 249, 251

Mexico (1846-1848), 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60

Spain (1898), 103, 104, 106, 110, 111, 114, 115, 118

Vietnam (1965-1975), 257, 262, 263, 264, 267, 268, 270–271, 271–272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 280, 281, 282

World War I (1914-1918), 124, 128, 129, 130, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 145, 150, 151, 152, 154–155, 156, 157, 159, 161, 162, 163, 165, 167–168, 172

World War II (1939-1945), 178, 188, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 234–235

Caucasus Mountains, 132, 135

Celebes, 215

Cemetery Ridge, PA, 82

Central Command, 292, 293, 298, 299, 300, 301, 308, 310, 318, 322

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 267, 269, 321, 345, 351–352

Central Pacific, WWII,
177,
221, 223

Cerro Gordo, Mexico, 55, 60, 62

Cervera y Topete, Pascual, 105, 111, 112

Ceylon, 229

Challenger 2 tanks, 326

Chamberlain, Joshua, 83

Chancellorsville, VA, 81, 93

Chapultepec, Mexico, 59–60, 62

Charleston, SC, 14, 17

Charlotte, NC, 18

Châteauguay, Canada, 36

Château Thierry, France, 153–154, 158

Chattanooga, TN, 87, 89, 91

Chauncey, Isaac, 36, 38

chemical weapons (WMDs), 293, 301, 312, 318, 320, 332, 339, 340

Chemin des Dames, France, 151

Cheney, Dick, 290, 291, 296, 318

Chennault, Claire, 225–226

Cherbourg, France, 75

Cherry Hill Massacre, 15

Chesapeake Bay, 8, 19, 20, 21,
27,
37–38, 39, 40

Chiang Kai-shek, 225, 226, 248, 259

Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, 196

Chickahominy River, 93

Chickamauga, GA, 87, 89, 91

Chickasaw Bluffs, MS, 88

Chile, 141

China/Chinese

Korea (1950-1953), 239, 242–243, 243–245, 245–246, 247–249, 250, 252, 253, 257, 284

Vietnam (1965-1975), 257, 258, 259

World War I (1914-1918), 135, 136, 141

World War II (1939-1945), 181, 212, 214, 225–226, 232, 234, 236

Chippawa, Canada, 38

Chosin Reservoir, Korea, 243, 244

Christmas Bombings, 281

Churchill, Winston, 142, 181, 182, 184–185, 185–186, 187, 188, 190–191, 194, 195, 197, 200, 201, 233

Churubusco, Mexico, 57–58, 60

Civil War (1860-1865), 64–65, 67–100,
68,
69,
357

Clark, George Rogers, 15–16

Clark, Mark, 191–192, 193

Clay, Henry, Jr., 52

Clinton, Bill, 344

Clinton, Sir Henry, 4, 14–15, 17, 18, 19, 22

Coalition forces, Gulf War, 295–296, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 309, 310, 312, 313

Cochrane, Sir Alexander, 37, 38, 39

Cockburn, Sir George, 37–38

Coffman, Edward M., 104

Cold Harbor, VA, 93–94

Cold War, xvi

Colorado, 49, 64

Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCOS), 186–187

Communism, 239, 240, 242, 246, 248, 257, 258, 259, 260, 269, 273–274, 276, 277, 280, 282, 284