03047nam 2200601 450 991082025250332120200520144314.00-8131-8588-20-8131-6226-2(CKB)3710000000334531(EBL)1915735(SSID)ssj0001432469(PQKBManifestationID)11885145(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001432469(PQKBWorkID)11405908(PQKB)10239909(OCoLC)900345134(MdBmJHUP)muse44252(Au-PeEL)EBL1915735(CaPaEBR)ebr11007400(CaONFJC)MIL691457(MiAaPQ)EBC1915735(EXLCZ)99371000000033453120150128h19861986 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDraftee Division the 88th Infantry Division in World War II /John Sloan BrownLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1986.©19861 online resource (254 p.)Includes index.1-322-60175-5 0-8131-5152-X Bibliography: p. [213]-220.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Draftee Divisions: The Historical Roots; 2. Personnel and Personnel Utilization: Bureaucratic Roulette; 3. Training: Honing the Edge; 4. Logistics: The Strongest Card; 5. The Movement Overseas: Keeping the Edge; 6. Minturno: Baptism by Fire; 7. Diadem: The First Three Days; 8. Minturno to Rome: The Pursuit; 9. Rome to the Alps--and Beyond; Appendix 1. Cumulative Personnel-Induced Training Time Losses; Appendix 2. The Mythos of Wehrmacht Superiority: Colonel Dupuy ReconsideredAbbreviations and File NumbersNotes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; ZThe involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres. Much to his surprise and delight, Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall found that the 88th Infantry Division, his first draftee division, ""fought like wildcats"" and readily outclassed its German adversaries while measuring up to the best Regular Army divisions. Draftee Division is at once a history of the 8World War, 1939-1945Regimental historiesUnited StatesDrafteesUnited StatesHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945Regimental historiesDrafteesHistory.940.54/12/73Brown John Sloan1949-1086953MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820252503321Draftee Division4110656UNINA