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Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War de G. J. Michaels

Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War

Autor G. J. Michaels
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2007
Gives an account of the Marines of Alpha Company of the 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion as they pushed forward at the "tip of the spear" on the drive to Baghdad during the Persian Gulf War. This work describes the infamous attack at Az-Zabr, in which eleven Marines were killed by friendly fire and accidents.
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ISBN-13: 9781591144984
ISBN-10: 1591144981
Pagini: 253
Dimensiuni: 150 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: US Naval Institute Press

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Images of U.S. Marines assaulting Pacific beaches in World War II have stereotyped the service's roles and personnel for more than fifty years. This frank firsthand account of Marines sweeping over sands of a different sort in fast armored vehicles retires that popular legend and recasts the Corps as the modern, professional fighting force it was in Desert Storm. Battling a savage environment, an unknown enemy brandishing threats of nuclear, gas, and biological attacks, and a host of technological and tactical snafus, Alpha Company of the 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion pushed forward at the "tip of the spear" past burning oil fields, hundreds of Iraqi tanks and vehicles, and heartrending friendly casualties to help liberate Kuwait City and drive the Iraqis back to Baghdad. Here G. J. Michaels, a section leader and vehicle commander, provides a vivid, personal chronicle of events as they unfolded. Michaels further draws on his thirteen years of LAV experience to examine lessons learned from the war as well as its controversies, including the confusion over use of the LAV as both recon scout and infantry support and the lack of effective identification/friend-or-foe systems.