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Mayo, Lida.
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United States. Army. Ordnance Department.
United States. Army. Ordnance Department -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
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The Ordnance Department : on beachhead and battlefront / by Lida Mayo.
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Mayo, Lida.
Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, U.S. Army : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2009.
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United States. Army. Ordnance Department.
United States. Army. Ordnance Department -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
ISBN:
9780160841781 (hardback)
016084178X
Series:
United States Army in World War II. Technical services.
CMH pub ; 10-11.
Description:
xix, 523 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Contents:
I. The Military missions -- The Special Observer Group -- Ordnance plans for Iceland -- The Lend-lease missions to the Middle East and China -- Initiation into coalition warfare -- II. Middle East kaleidoscope -- The OMET's -- Militarization -- The Desert proving ground -- Applying lessons -- III. Early arrivals in Australia -- The Pensacola convoy -- Last-ditch efforts to aid MacArthur -- Planning the American base -- Port operations -- IV. The Base in Australia -- Rounding up weapons and ammunition -- Ship arming -- Ordnance forces spread thin -- Geelong and the Ordnance Service Centers -- Working with the Australians -- USAAS ordnance -- Midsummer 1942 : new responsibilities -- Preparations to support the move northward -- Responsibility for motor vehicles -- V. Supporting the Papua Campaign -- The Ordnance officer arrives at Port Moresby -- The Crisis in mid-September -- The Sea route to Buna -- The Attack begins -- and stalls -- I Corps takes over -- The Foreword bases -- Captured Japanese matérial -- "A Poor man's war" -- VI. The Base in the British Isles -- Ordnance troops in Magnet -- Planning for Bolero -- Preparations for Torch -- VII. Oran and the Provisional Ordnance Group -- Tactical plans -- Ordnance service : the group concept -- The Landing at Oran -- The Provisional Ordnance Group -- The Move to Northern Tunisia -- Planing for Central Tunisia -- VIII. With II Corps in Tunisia -- The Supply crisis -- "Miracles of maintenance" -- Niblo leaves II Corps -- Supporting the thrust through Gafsa -- The March to Bizerte -- "The End of the beginning" -- IX. The Short campaign in Sicily -- Plans for Husky -- New matérial -- The Invasion fleets depart -- The Landings -- Colonel Nixon's problems -- "A Black eye on ordnance" -- The Evidence at the end -- X. Salerno and the growth of Fifth Army Ordnance Service -- Niblo's group organization -- "Hell in the dunes" -- "Uninterrupted" ordnance service -- The Search for better organization.
XI. Anzio and artillery -- The Ammunition dumps -- Anzio Annie and the clamor for heavier artillery -- The 240-mm. howitzer and the 8-inch gun -- "Balanced artillery firepower" -- XII. Rome and "the forgotten front" -- The Allies enter Rome -- "The Forgotten front" -- Lessons of the Mediterranean campaigns -- XIII. Arming for the grand campaign -- New methods of supply -- Motor vehicle assembly -- Preparations for a short sea voyage -- Bomb disposal -- The Ordnance plan for Neptune -- "The Best-equipped fighting force" -- XIV. The Far shore of Normandy -- Omaha Beach -- Utah Beach -- Frustrations in the hedgerows -- Expansion after Cobra : Third Army -- XV. The Race across France -- The Campaign in Brittany -- To the Seine and beyond : First Army Ordnance -- Third Army Ordnance in the dash to the Moselle -- Seventh Army in Southern France -- XVI. At the Siegfried Line in Belgium -- The Supply famine -- First Army improvises -- Frustrations at the ports and depots -- The Battle of the Ardennes -- Bastogne and Third Army Ordnance -- XVII. Lessons of the Roer and the Ardennes -- Ninth Army Ordnance -- The Tank duels on the Roer Plain -- Attempts to provide a better tank -- The Zebra mission of February 1945 -- XVIII. Victory in Germany -- Supplies for the last campaign -- Across the Rhine -- Captured enemy matérial -- Ordnance technical intelligence -- After V-E Day.
XIX. From Papua to Morotai -- Developing the bases -- New weapons for jungle warfare -- The Move northward begins with dexterity -- Support of Brewer in the Admiralties -- Hollandia and Aitape -- The Geelvink Bay operations : Wakde, Biak, Noemfoor -- The Sansapor area in the Vogelkop -- Morotai -- XX. The Philippines : Leyte -- The Ordnance Navy : the shop and depot barges -- Planning for Leyte -- A-Day and after -- The Costly base at Leyte -- Eighth Army Ordnance arrives -- Success on Mindoro -- XXI. The Philippines : Luzon -- Ordnance plans for Luzon -- Supporting the Lingayen landings -- The Advance inland -- Clearing the Visayan passages -- XXII. The Philippines : the southern islands -- Palawan and Zamboanga -- The Central Visayan Islands -- Mindanao -- XXIII. Boldly aiming at Okinawa -- A Strongly fortified island -- The Advance in the Central Pacific -- The Hawaiian base -- Tenth Army plans and preparations -- The Landings on Kerama Retto -- XXIV. Crescendo on Okinawa -- The Landings on Hagushi -- Supporting the assault on the Shuri Defenses -- Siege warfare with a difference : the cave positions -- The Ordnance build-up in the mud -- Supply by water -- Bloody finale -- Preparing for Japan -- XXV. The Guns fall silent -- Bibliographical note -- Glossary -- Code names -- Basic military symbols -- Index.
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