Steeds of steel : a history of American mechanized cavalry in World War II /
When World War II broke out, the U.S. Cavalry was still mainly the horse-mounted force it had been since the nation's founding; within a year, the branch had lost its horses and very nearly its mission. This book follows the mechanized cavalry from its earliest days - in 1942 U.S. Army cavalrym...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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St. Paul :
Zenith Press,
2008
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| Summary: | When World War II broke out, the U.S. Cavalry was still mainly the horse-mounted force it had been since the nation's founding; within a year, the branch had lost its horses and very nearly its mission. This book follows the mechanized cavalry from its earliest days - in 1942 U.S. Army cavalrymen landed in North Africa - through the campaigns in the Mediterranean, Europe and the Pacific. The mechanized cavalry scouted and fought in tanks, armoured cars, and jeeps; battled on and from the sea in tracked amphibians; stormed beaches from landing craft; slipped ashore in rubber rafts from submarines; climbed mountains; battled hand-to-hand on foot like any GI; and even occasionally rode horses |
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| Physical Description: | 320 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index |
| ISBN: | 0760333602 (hbk.) 9780760333600 (hbk.) |