Grunts (87 page)

in Gulf War

Melesnich, John

Melton, Lane

Mertel, Kenneth

Metcalf, Jim

Metcalf, Lawrence

Metzger, Theodore

Mikel, Albert

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV)

Military occupation specialties (MOS)

Military Transition Teams (MITT)

Miller, Victor

Millspaugh, Cecil

Mindanao, Philippines

Mine-clearing line charges (MICLICs or “mick licks”)

Minefields, in Gulf War

Ministry of the Interior (Iraq) commandos

Mirus, John

Misa, Warren

Mitscher, Mark

Mize, James

Mobile combined action platoons (CAPs), U.S. Marine Corps

Moller, Nels Andrew

Montagnard tribesmen

Moore, Hal

Moore, Larry

Morgain, Carl

Morgan, William

Morison, Samuel Eliot

Morris, Mack

Morse, Lynn

Mozdiez, Sven

M29 Weasels

Muci, Michael

Muir, William

Mujahideen Shura

Muldoon, James

Mullin, John

Murai, Kenijiro

Murrey, Tracy

Myatt, Mike

Myers, Kenneth

My Thuy Phuong, Vietnam

Nadal, Raymond “Tony”

Najaf, Iraq

Nakagawa, Kunio

Napalm

Nasiriyah, Iraq

Natonski, Richard

Nawrocki, Ben

Nazi Germany

Nebelwerfer rocket launchers

Newbrough, Bob

Newell, Pete
map

New York Times

Nichols, Bob

Nicoll, Alexander

Nimitz, Chester

9/11 terrorist attacks

99th Infantry Division (“the Battle Babies,” U.S. Army)
map

9th Infantry Regiment (“Manchus,” U.S. Army)
map

9th Marine Regiment

Nixon, Bill

North Vietnam

(
see also
Vietnam War)

North Vietnamese Army (NVA):

attrition vs. pacification strategy and

at Dak To
map

Operation Masher/White Wing and

U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons (CAPs) and

Norton, Kevin

Nuclear weapons

Observatory Hill, Aachen, Germany

Oldendorf, Jesse

O’Leary, Bart

101st Air Assault Division (“Screamin Eagles,” U.S. Army)
map

174th NVA Regiment (People’s Army of Vietnam)

173rd Airborne Brigade (“the Sky Soldiers,” U.S. Army)

O’Neill, John

1106th Engineer Combat Group (U.S. Army)
map

Operation Al Fajr (The Dawn)

Operation Desert Storm (
see
Gulf War)

Operation Iraqi Freedom III

Operation Masher/White Wing

Operation Phantom Fury

(
see also
Operation Al Fajr [The Dawn])

Operation Stalemate

Operation Vigilant Resolve

Oribiletti, Bruno

Orona, Miguel

Orote Peninsula, Guam

Orr, Keith

Ortiz, Raymond

Owen, Charles

Pacification strategy in Vietnam War

Padgett, Ewart

Palace Hotel, Aachen, Germany

Palm, Edward

Palmer, Bruce

Palmer, Josh

Pantano, Ilario

Parker, Arthur

Parker, George

Pasula, George

Patton, George

Patzwell, James

Peers, William

Peleliu

Persian Gulf War (
see
Gulf War)

Peters, Ralph

Peterson, Eugene

Peto, George

Pfister, Jacob

Phu Bai, Vietnam

Phung Du, Vietnam

Pillboxes :

in Aachen

in Peleliu

Place, Ethan

Plankers, Dewey

Plumley, Basil

“Pogues,”

Point, The, Peleliu

Polonitza, Ed

Pope, Everett

Popular Force (PFs), South Vietnam (
see also
Combined action platoons [CAPs], U.S. Marine Corps)

Prakash, Neil

Predator
(film)

Prince, Preston

Puller, Lewis “Chesty”

Rainey, Jim
map

Ramadi, Iraq

Ramsay, Frederick

Rashid district, Baghdad, Iraq

Read, Ben

Reagan, Ronald

Regimental Combat Team One (RCT-1)(U.S. Marine Corps)

Regimental Combat Team Seven (RCT-7) (U.S. Marine Corps)

Reid, Joe

Remington, Tom

Republican Guard (Iraqi Army)

Rheney, P. A.

Richter, Elwood

Rierson, Johnnie

Riggs, Wesley

Riley, Don

Rivera, Jose

Robbins, Douglas

Roberts, Charles

Robertson, Fred

Robertson, Walter

Robinson, Peter

Rocherath, Belgium
map

Rojas, Kenny

Roland, Charles

Rolfe, John

Romano, Anthony

Rommel, Erwin

Roosevelt, Franklin

Royer, Frank

Rubeor, Rip

Ruiz, John

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rupertus, William

Russell, John

Ryan, Joe

al-Sadr, Moqtada

Sallee, Ike

Sanchez, Ricardo

Sanders, E. J.

Sattler, John

Savard, John

Schaefer, Harold

Schaeffer, Dan

Schumacher, David

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Schweiter, Leo “Hank”

Scott, Jean

Screaming tactic, of Japanese soldiers

Seabees (U.S. Navy)

Sea power vs. ground power

Search-and-destroy efforts

2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)
map

2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)
map

2nd BattalionInfantry Regiment (“Ramrods,” U.S. Army)
map

2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army):

at Fallujah
map

in Operation Masher/White Wing

2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)

2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
map

2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (U.S. Army)

2nd Infantry Division (“Indian Heads,” U.S. Army)
map

2nd Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)

2nd VC Regiment (People’s Liberation Armed Forces)

Seitz, John

741st Tank Battalion (U.S. Army)

7th Infantry Regiment (“Cottonbalers,” U.S. Army)

7th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

77th Infantry Division (“Statue of Liberty Division,” U.S. Army)

Sharia law

Shaw, Robert

Sheridan, Joseph

Sherman, David

Shiites

Shoemaker, William

Short, Jesse

Shupp, Michael

Siegfried Line

Sills, Ed

Simmons, Wenzlo

Sims, Sean

644th Tank Destroyer Battalion (U.S. Army)

634th Tank Destroyer Battalion (U.S. Army)

6th Panzer Army (German Army)

Skaggs, Michael

Skipper (war dog)

Skogler, Larry

Sledge, Eugene

SMAW gunners

Smith, Lee

Smith, Oliver

Snipers, U.S. Marine

Soderman, William

Sojda, Bill

Soluade, Adeolu

Sommers, Jeffrey

South Korea

South Vietnam (
see also
Vietnam War)

South Vietnamese Army (ARVN)

Souvenir hunting

Special Forces (U.S. Army)

Special Operations School (U.S. Army)

Spencer, Matthew

Stanzak, Jim

Star shells

Steele, Ralph

Steer, John

Stempniak, Daniel

Stevenson, Nikolai

Steverson, James

Stewart, Leroy

Stokes, Andrew

Stone, Rocky

Strabbing, Timothy

Stricklin, Greg

Suenaga, Tsunetaro

Sugdinis, Joel

Suicide bombers

Sunnis

Swint, Kelvin

Tada, Tokechi

Takashina, Takeshi

Takeda, Hideyuki

Tanks :

at Aachen

at Fallujah

at Guam

in Gulf War

at northern shoulder of the Bulge

at Peleliu

Tanner, Mike

Tan Thanh, Vietnam

Task Force 53 (U.S. Navy)

Task Force Black (U.S. Army)

Task Force Blue (U.S. Army)

Task Force Grizzly, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)

Task Force Papa Bear, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)

Task Force Ripper, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)

Task Force Shepherd, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)

Task Force Taro, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)

Tawalkana Mechanized Division (Iraqi Army)

Taylor, George

Taylor, Jeffrey

Taylor, William

Techno-war vs. infantry soldiers

Tet Offensive

Thi, Nguyen Chanh

3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)
map

3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)
map

3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

3rd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

3rd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
map

3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment (“Rakkasans,” U.S. Army)

3rd Battalion, 394th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (U.S. Army)

3rd Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, 1st Infantry Division (U.S. Army)

3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (U.S. Marine Corps)

3rd Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)
map

Provisional War Dog Company

3rd Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps):

at Guam

in Gulf War

3rd NVA Sao Vang Division (People’s Army of Vietnam)

III Marine Amphibious Corps (U.S. Marine Corps)

III Marine Amphibious Force (U.S. Marine Corps)

30th Infantry Division (U.S. Army)

38th Infantry Regiment (“Rock of the Marne,” U.S. Army)
map

38th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)

36th Commando Battalion (Iraqi Army)

Thompson, David

Thompson, Nathaniel

Thompson, Richard “Buck,”

Thornberg, John

305th Regimental Combat Team, 77th Infantry Division (U.S. Army)

395th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
map

394th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
map

393rd Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
map

321st Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

323rd Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

Tikrit, Iraq

Tilley, Kevin

Time

Toolan, John

Torres, Daniel

TOW missiles (Tube-launched, optically-tracked, Wire-guided)

Townsend, James

Trahan, John

Trainer, Joseph

Travalini, Savino

Tregaskis, Richard

Trullinger, James

Truong, Ngo Quang

Truppner, Stephen

Tucker, Craig

Turpen, Dustin

Tuttle, Paul

12th Armored Division (Iraqi Army)

12th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

12th NVA Regiment (People’s Army of Vietnam)

12th SS Panzer Division (German Army)

12th Volksgrenadier Division (German Army)
map

21st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) (U.S. Army)

22nd Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)

22nd NVA Regiment(People’s Army of Vietnam)

26th Infantry Regiment (“Blue Spaders,” U.S. Army)
map

23rd Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)

246th Volksgrenadier Division (German Army)

277th Volksgrenadier Division (German Army)
map

Umurbrogol mountain, Peleliu
map

Underwater demolition teams (UDTs):

at Guam

at Peleliu

Undiemi, Al

U.S. Air Force

budget appropriations for

at Dak To

at Fallujah

in Operation Masher/White Wing

U.S. Army:

at Aachen

budget appropriations for

at Dak To

de-emphasis of counterinsurgency studies by

at Fallujah, Iraq
map

at Guam

in Gulf War
map

at north shoulder of the Bulge

Operation Masher/White Wing of

at Peleliu

at Tikrit, Iraq

U.S. Department of Defense budget

U.S. Marine Corps:

budget appropriations for

combined action platoons (CAPs) of, Vietnam

at Fallujah
map

at Guam

in Gulf War
map

manpower devoted to infantry in

at Peleliu

U.S. Navy:

budget appropriations for

corpsmen (
see
Corpsmen, U.S. Navy)

at Fallujah

at Guam
map

in Operation Masher/White Wing

at Peleliu

Urbanization, global

Urban warfare

Aachen

Baghdad, Iraq

Fallujah, Iraq, 2004

Tikrit, Iraq

USS
Crescent City

USS
Pennsylvania

USS
Wasp

USS
Yorktown

Vassalotti, Michael

Viebig, Hans

Viet Cong (VC):

attrition vs. pacification strategy and

Operation Masher/White Wing and

Popular Force (PFs) and

U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons (CAPs) and

Viet Minh

Vietnamese civilians, cultural differences between American soldiers and

Vietnam War

attrition strategy in

Dak To

ground force combat fatalities in

Operation Masher/White Wing