Kelley, Ed
Kelley, James
Kenehan, David
Kennard, Richard
Kerins, Jack
Kerry, John
Khadr, Samir Ali
Kilcullen, David
Kiley, Michael
Kim Son Valley, Vietnam
Kind, John
King, Daniel
King, Ernest
Kinnard, Harry
Kinney, Charles
Kirkbride, William
Kiss, Joseph
Kitchens, Milton
Klug, Elmer
Koch, Craig
Kontum Province, Vietnam
Korean War
Kosovo War
Kraft, Rudolf
Krinkelt, Belgiummap
Krinkelter Wald, Belgiummap
Krivda, Eric
Krulak, Victor “Brute”
Krusewski, Tom
Kuhn, John
Kurds
Kuwaitmap
Kynoch, Joshu
La Drang Valley, Battle of
Lafley, Cedric
“LaLa Fallujah,”
Lambertson, Ken
Lampkin, Robert
Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) ships
Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel boats (LCVPs) (see Higgens boats)
Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVTs):
at Guam
at Peleliu
Lang, Dick
Langford, James
Lanier, Bill
Lantz, Peter
Laos
Lapinski, Stanley
Lauer, Walter
Laurence, John
Lausdell Crossroads, Belgium
Lawson, Scott
Leckie, Robert
Leo, Gerard
Leonard, Ron
Lewallen, Dennis
Lewis, Adrian
Lewis, Paul
Leyte, Philippines
Light infantry (“Eleven Bravo,” U.S. Army)
Little, Frank
Long, Lloyd
Long-range reconnaissance patrols (LRRPs)
Long-range surveillance equipment (L-RAS)
Lopez, Frank
Lopez, Manuel
Losheimergraben, Belgium/Germanymap
Lozada, Carlos
Luong Tho, Vietnam
Lynch, William
MacArthur, Douglas
Macay, Bernie
McCusker, Mike
McDade, Robert
MacDonald, Charles
McDonough, Bryan
McElwain, Thomas
McGahan, Mac
McGarity, Vernon
McGonigal, Richard
Macias, Joshua
McKinley, William
McLane, Darrin
McMahon, Robert
McMaster, H. R.
Maggart, Lon
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Mahdi Army militia
Malugin, James
Mansoor, Peter
Mansour, Ahmed
Mao Tse-tung
Marquez, Christopher
Marshall, Dick
Marshall, S. L. A.
Martin, John
Martin, Robert “Pepper,”
Martin, William
Mason, Robert
Mason, Stanhope
Mattis, James
Mechanized riflemen (“Eleven Mikes,” U.S. Army) map
Medical civic action projects (MEDCAPs)
Medics :
at Aachen
at Dak To
in Gulf War
Melesnich, John
Melton, Lane
Mertel, Kenneth
Metcalf, Jim
Metcalf, Lawrence
Metzger, Theodore
Mikel, Albert
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV)
Military occupation specialties (MOS)
Military Transition Teams (MITT)
Miller, Victor
Millspaugh, Cecil
Mindanao, Philippines
Mine-clearing line charges (MICLICs or “mick licks”)
Minefields, in Gulf War
Ministry of the Interior (Iraq) commandos
Mirus, John
Misa, Warren
Mitscher, Mark
Mize, James
Mobile combined action platoons (CAPs), U.S. Marine Corps
Moller, Nels Andrew
Montagnard tribesmen
Moore, Hal
Moore, Larry
Morgain, Carl
Morgan, William
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Morris, Mack
Morse, Lynn
Mozdiez, Sven
M29 Weasels
Muci, Michael
Muir, William
Mujahideen Shura
Muldoon, James
Mullin, John
Murai, Kenijiro
Murrey, Tracy
Myatt, Mike
Myers, Kenneth
My Thuy Phuong, Vietnam
Nadal, Raymond “Tony”
Najaf, Iraq
Nakagawa, Kunio
Napalm
Nasiriyah, Iraq
Natonski, Richard
Nawrocki, Ben
Nazi Germany
Nebelwerfer rocket launchers
Newbrough, Bob
Newell, Petemap
New York Times
Nichols, Bob
Nicoll, Alexander
Nimitz, Chester
9/11 terrorist attacks
99th Infantry Division (“the Battle Babies,” U.S. Army)map
9th Infantry Regiment (“Manchus,” U.S. Army) map
9th Marine Regiment
Nixon, Bill
North Vietnam
(see also Vietnam War)
North Vietnamese Army (NVA):
attrition vs. pacification strategy and
at Dak Tomap
Operation Masher/White Wing and
U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons (CAPs) and
Norton, Kevin
Nuclear weapons
Observatory Hill, Aachen, Germany
Oldendorf, Jesse
O’Leary, Bart
101st Air Assault Division (“Screamin Eagles,” U.S. Army)map
174th NVA Regiment (People’s Army of Vietnam)
173rd Airborne Brigade (“the Sky Soldiers,” U.S. Army)
O’Neill, John
1106th Engineer Combat Group (U.S. Army) map
Operation Al Fajr (The Dawn)
Operation Desert Storm (see Gulf War)
Operation Iraqi Freedom III
Operation Masher/White Wing
Operation Phantom Fury
(see also Operation Al Fajr [The Dawn])
Operation Stalemate
Operation Vigilant Resolve
Oribiletti, Bruno
Orona, Miguel
Orote Peninsula, Guam
Orr, Keith
Ortiz, Raymond
Owen, Charles
Pacification strategy in Vietnam War
Padgett, Ewart
Palace Hotel, Aachen, Germany
Palm, Edward
Palmer, Bruce
Palmer, Josh
Pantano, Ilario
Parker, Arthur
Parker, George
Pasula, George
Patton, George
Patzwell, James
Peers, William
Peleliu
Persian Gulf War (see Gulf War)
Peters, Ralph
Peterson, Eugene
Peto, George
Pfister, Jacob
Phu Bai, Vietnam
Phung Du, Vietnam
Pillboxes :
in Aachen
in Peleliu
Place, Ethan
Plankers, Dewey
Plumley, Basil
“Pogues,”
Point, The, Peleliu
Polonitza, Ed
Pope, Everett
Popular Force (PFs), South Vietnam (see also Combined action p
latoons [CAPs], U.S. Marine Corps)
Prakash, Neil
Predator (film)
Prince, Preston
Puller, Lewis “Chesty”
Rainey, Jimmap
Ramadi, Iraq
Ramsay, Frederick
Rashid district, Baghdad, Iraq
Read, Ben
Reagan, Ronald
Regimental Combat Team One (RCT-1)(U.S. Marine Corps)
Regimental Combat Team Seven (RCT-7) (U.S. Marine Corps)
Reid, Joe
Remington, Tom
Republican Guard (Iraqi Army)
Rheney, P. A.
Richter, Elwood
Rierson, Johnnie
Riggs, Wesley
Riley, Don
Rivera, Jose
Robbins, Douglas
Roberts, Charles
Robertson, Fred
Robertson, Walter
Robinson, Peter
Rocherath, Belgiummap
Rojas, Kenny
Roland, Charles
Rolfe, John
Romano, Anthony
Rommel, Erwin
Roosevelt, Franklin
Royer, Frank
Rubeor, Rip
Ruiz, John
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rupertus, William
Russell, John
Ryan, Joe
al-Sadr, Moqtada
Sallee, Ike
Sanchez, Ricardo
Sanders, E. J.
Sattler, John
Savard, John
Schaefer, Harold
Schaeffer, Dan
Schumacher, David
Schwarzkopf, Norman
Schweiter, Leo “Hank”
Scott, Jean
Screaming tactic, of Japanese soldiers
Seabees (U.S. Navy)
Sea power vs. ground power
Search-and-destroy efforts
2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army) map
2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)map
2nd BattalionInfantry Regiment (“Ramrods,” U.S. Army)map
2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army):
at Fallujahmap
in Operation Masher/White Wing
2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment (U.S. Army)
2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army) map
2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (U.S. Army)
2nd Infantry Division (“Indian Heads,” U.S. Army) map
2nd Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)
2nd VC Regiment (People’s Liberation Armed Forces)
Seitz, John
741st Tank Battalion (U.S. Army)
7th Infantry Regiment (“Cottonbalers,” U.S. Army)
7th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)
77th Infantry Division (“Statue of Liberty Division,” U.S. Army)
Sharia law
Shaw, Robert
Sheridan, Joseph
Sherman, David
Shiites
Shoemaker, William
Short, Jesse
Shupp, Michael
Siegfried Line
Sills, Ed
Simmons, Wenzlo
Sims, Sean
644th Tank Destroyer Battalion (U.S. Army)
634th Tank Destroyer Battalion (U.S. Army)
6th Panzer Army (German Army)
Skaggs, Michael
Skipper (war dog)
Skogler, Larry
Sledge, Eugene
SMAW gunners
Smith, Lee
Smith, Oliver
Snipers, U.S. Marine
Soderman, William
Sojda, Bill
Soluade, Adeolu
Sommers, Jeffrey
South Korea
South Vietnam (see also Vietnam War)
South Vietnamese Army (ARVN)
Souvenir hunting
Special Forces (U.S. Army)
Special Operations School (U.S. Army)
Spencer, Matthew
Stanzak, Jim
Star shells
Steele, Ralph
Steer, John
Stempniak, Daniel
Stevenson, Nikolai
Steverson, James
Stewart, Leroy
Stokes, Andrew
Stone, Rocky
Strabbing, Timothy
Stricklin, Greg
Suenaga, Tsunetaro
Sugdinis, Joel
Suicide bombers
Sunnis
Swint, Kelvin
Tada, Tokechi
Takashina, Takeshi
Takeda, Hideyuki
Tanks :
at Aachen
at Fallujah
at Guam
in Gulf War
at northern shoulder of the Bulge
at Peleliu
Tanner, Mike
Tan Thanh, Vietnam
Task Force 53 (U.S. Navy)
Task Force Black (U.S. Army)
Task Force Blue (U.S. Army)
Task Force Grizzly, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)
Task Force Papa Bear, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)
Task Force Ripper, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)
Task Force Shepherd, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)
Task Force Taro, 1st Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps)
Tawalkana Mechanized Division (Iraqi Army)
Taylor, George
Taylor, Jeffrey
Taylor, William
Techno-war vs. infantry soldiers
Tet Offensive
Thi, Nguyen Chanh
3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)map
3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)
3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)map
3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
3rd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
3rd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army) map
3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment (“Rakkasans,” U.S. Army)
3rd Battalion, 394th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (U.S. Army)
3rd Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, 1st Infantry Division (U.S. Army)
3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (U.S. Marine Corps)
3rd Marine Division (U.S. Marine Corps) map
Provisional War Dog Company
3rd Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps):
at Guam
in Gulf War
3rd NVA Sao Vang Division (People’s Army of Vietnam)
III Marine Amphibious Corps (U.S. Marine Corps)
III Marine Amphibious Force (U.S. Marine Corps)
30th Infantry Division (U.S. Army)
38th Infantry Regiment (“Rock of the Marne,” U.S. Army)map
38th Infantry Regiment (Imperial Japanese Army)
36th Commando Battalion (Iraqi Army)
Thompson, David
Thompson, Nathaniel
Thompson, Richard “Buck,”
Thornberg, John
305th Regimental Combat Team, 77th Infantry Division (U.S. Army)
395th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)map
394th Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)map
393rd Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)map
321st Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
323rd Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
Tikrit, Iraq
Tilley, Kevin
Time
Toolan, John
Torres, Daniel
TOW missiles (Tube-launched, optically-tracked, Wire-guided)
Townsend, James
Trahan, John
Trainer, Joseph
Travalini, Savino
Tregaskis, Richard
Trullinger, James
Truong, Ngo Quang
Truppner, Stephen
Tucker, Craig
Turpen, Dustin
Tuttle, Paul
12th Armored Division (Iraqi Army)
12th Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)
12th NVA Regiment (People’s Army of Vietnam)
12th SS Panzer Division (German Army)
12th Volksgrenadier Division (German Army) map
21st Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)
24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) (U.S. Army)
22nd Marine Regiment (U.S. Marine Corps)
22nd NVA Regiment(People’s Army of Vietnam)
26th Infantry Regiment (“Blue Spaders,” U.S. Army) map
23rd Infantry Regiment (U.S. Army)
246th Volksgrenadier Division (German Army)
277th Volksgrenadier Division (German Army) map
Umurbrogol mountain, Peleliu map
Underwater demolition teams (UDTs):
at Guam
at Peleliu
Undiemi, Al
U.S. Air Force
budget appropriations for
at Dak To
at Fallujah
in Operation Masher/White Wing
U.S. Army:
at Aachen
budget appropriations for
at Dak To
de-emphasis of counterinsurgency studies by
at Fallujah, Iraqmap
at Guam
in Gulf Warmap
at north shoulder of the Bulge
Operation Masher/White Wing of
at Peleliu
at Tikrit, Iraq
U.S. Department of Defense budget
U.S. Marine Corps:
budget appropriations for
combined action platoons (CAPs) of, Vietnam
at Fallujahmap
at Guam
in Gulf Warmap
manpower devoted to infantry in
at Peleliu
U.S. Navy:
budget appropriations for
corpsmen (see Corpsmen, U.S. Navy)
at Fallujah
at Guammap
in Operation Masher/White Wing
at Peleliu
Urbanization, global
Urban warfare
Aachen
Baghdad, Iraq
Fallujah, Iraq, 2004
Tikrit, Iraq
USS Crescent City
USS Pennsylvania
USS Wasp
USS Yorktown
Vassalotti, Michael
Viebig, Hans
Viet Cong (VC):
attrition vs. pacification strategy and
Operation Masher/White Wing and
Popular Force (PFs) and
U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons (CAPs) and
Viet Minh
Vietnamese civilians, cultural differences between American soldiers and
Vietnam War
attrition strategy in
Dak To
ground force combat fatalities in
Operation Masher/White Wing
pacification strategy in
U.S. Marine Corps combined action platoons (CAPs)
Vigil, Bill
Wachtler, Walter William
Wahlerscheid, Germanymap
Walkowiak, Bob
Walt, Lew
Walters, Duanne
Ware, Michael
Warfare :
human propensity for
techno-war vs. infantry soldiers
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