Order of Battle is a detailed study of the Allied ground combat units that served in Operation Desert Storm. It lists the U.s. Army, Marine Corps, British, French and Arab units that served and depicts the command relationships between the units before and during Operation Desert Storm. Also identifies the major types of materiel used by the various units and compares the Army and Marine Corps forces deployed to the Gulf. Includes reproductions of unit patches, medals and ribbons from all states and countries involved.

Order of Battle: Allied Ground Forces of Operation Desert Storm

History

Dinackus, Thomas D.

Military

Hellgate Press

1942 -- the mention of it still evokes images of our once-proud fleet sinking into Pearl Harbor's watery graveyard, and Nazis goose-stepping through the Arc de Triomphe. Leon Weckstein had just turned 21 and figured he'd be drafted. After being rejected by the Navy for poor eyesight, he found himself drafted into the 91st Infantry Division. He became dependent on his vision for survival as he led his platoon through dangerously crucial assignments -- including a direct order to level the Tower of Pisa. From his forward observation post, he held the Tower's fate in his hands...

Through My Eyes: 91st Infantry Division in the Italian Campaign (Hellgate Memories World War II)

Biographies & Memoirs

Weckstein, Leon

Leaders & Notable People

This is the story of thousands of Melanesian, Australian, New Zealand, Japanese and American men who fought for a poor insignificant island in a faraway corner of the South Pacific Ocean. For the men who participated, the real battle was of man against jungle. This is the account of land, sea and air units covering the entire six-month battle-stories of ordinary privates and seamen, admirals and generals, who survived to claim the victory that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

Green Hell: The Battle for Guadalcanal (Hellgate Memories series)

Owens, William J.

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor Charley Romine rushed to join the marines and was soon fighting for his life and his flag on the islands in the Pacific. is a factual account of the war as well as the personal side of the Author and his fellows as they died laughed suffered and persevered. This is really the story of the U.S. Marine Corps in the second World War told through the eyes of one dedicated to doing his duty. It is an interesting and funny look inside the minds of the marines on the front lines

Where Duty Calls: Growing Up in the Marine Corps (Memories Series)

Romine, Charlie

In 1941, the brutal war raged in its third year, but from an aristocratic boys school, it seemed like an exciting time for seventeen-year-old Sellier and his friends. They lived in the country that, by all indications, was winning the war. Newspaper headlines told of the latest victories, and pictured a proud Adolf Hitler pinning medals on war heroes. Sellier and his classmates didn`t see this as propaganda, and swelled with pride. Typical of many teenage boys at the time, Sellier`s fears revolved around the fact that he might miss out on the thrill of victory and glory of being a soldier. When draft cards arrived, the boys hollered for joy. Sellier was thrilled at the thought of becoming a decorated war hero. The future seemed bright, not to mention that he would escape final exams. The reality of being a soldier, however, would nearly devastate Sellier. Yet somehow, through the harsh conditions and brutality that he would experience, Sellier would find himself a hero in a losing battle.

Walking Away From the Third Reich: A Teenager in Hitler's Army (Memories Series)

Sellier, Claus

Historical

This is a story of an American POW taken from his memories, his fellow POW's recollections, and a secret diary that he kept in the margins of his Bible. It is a gut-renching tale of how these infantrymen kept hope alive through terror, lonliness, filth and the shattering of their pride. Years later, a package would arrive for Sam Higgins in the summer of 1955. It would be sent by a business associate who had recently visited Stalag IXB in the mountains near Bad Orb, Germany -- the place Higgins had been taken as a POW in WW II. For him, the recollections, the pictures brought back were too much. The package would remain unexamined. Upon the insistence of his family, Higgins would eventually go back to this dark place. He was a Browning automatic rifleman in an infantry company overrun by a battle-hardened SS Waffen German division. With its sub-zero temperatures, winter in the Alsace Mountains of France was unbearable. After five days of fighting, the company would find itself surrounded without a way out. Once captured, Higgins would be harassed, interrogated, and forced to walk for three days through the icy terrain to a 10 by 33 foot cattle car that would take him and 80 other POWs to the infamous Stalag IXB.

Survival: Diary of an American POW in World War II (Memories Series)

Higgins, Samuel G.

Well-crafted, this lively and engaging history will rejuvenate one's pride in the American military with its little-known details of the Coast Guard's involvement in Vietnam.

Coast Guard Action In Vietnam: Stories of Those Who Served

Scotti, Paul C

Asia

The true story of a WWII air combat B-17 crew's amazing courage, touching camaraderie, uplifting faith and indomitable spirit as they fought and died over the skies of Germany.

A Dying Breed: The Courage of the Mighty Eighth Air Force

Dillon, Neal B.

The book describes the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) using primitive mountain tribes (Montagnards) to fight against the North Vietnamese and the Vietnamese Communists (Viet Cong). It reveals how easy it was for well-trained U.S. soldiers to exploit innocent tribes and how the tribes were destroyed in a losing struggle for other's freedom. It shows how the U.S. Army was restricted in fighting the Vietnam War by political decisions in Washington.

Honor And Sacrifice (Hellgate Memories Series)

Blondell, Anthony J

By the author of K-9 Soldiers: Vietnam and After, this book divulges secret insertion techniques and information about President Nixon's secret war that the government still refuses to acknowledge.

Parrot's Beak: U.S. Operations in Cambodia

MORGAN, Paul

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