US Airborne Units in the Mediterranean Theater 1942-44
Series: Battle Orders
Publisher: Osprey Publishing; Osprey
Published: 2006-10-31
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781841769202
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; World history: Second World War; Military - World War II; History; History - Military / War; Military; USA; History / Military / World War II; Airborne troops; Army; Campaigns; Mediterranean Region; Parachute troops; United States; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: The various multi-division airborne operations conducted in the European Theater of Operations (ETO), Normandy, the Netherlands, and the Rhine crossing, are better known than the operations conducted in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO).
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: 4; label: Combat mission
title: 6; label: Unit status
title: 8; label: Training
title: 18; label: Doctrine
title: 24; label: Unit organization
title: 28; label: Tactics
title: 44; label: Weapons and equipment
title: 52; label: Command, control, communications, and intelligence
title: 59; label: Combat operations
title: 63; label: Lessons learned
title: 89; label: Chronology
title: 91; label: Bibliography
title: 92; label: Abbreviations
title: 94; label: Index
title: 95