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Steven J. Zaloga

US Amphibious Tanks of World War II

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The advent of combined arms operations in World War II created the need for specialized armored vehicles. In the case of amphibious attacks, the issue arose of how best to land tanks on a beach. Although a variety of specialized landing craft were developed, the Dieppe raid in 1942 encouraged the development of tanks that could be deployed from further off-shore to limit the vulnerability of the LCT craft. The deep-wading equipment that they developed was first used during Operation Husky on Sicily in July 1943, and subsequently for Operations Avalanche (Salerno, September 1943), Shingle (Anzio, January 1944) and Overlord (Normandy, June 1944… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Morshead, Henry (Illustr.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-78096-877-3
  • EAN: 9781780968773
  • Produktnummer: 14009488
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 48 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 10'874 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 30 b/w; 17 col

Über den Autor


Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union. He currently lives in Maryland.

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