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World War --- 1914-1918 --- Regimental histories --- Great Britain --- Campaigns --- Middle East
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World War --- 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- France --- Regimental histories --- Canada --- Canada. Canadian Army. French-Canadian Battalion --- 22nd
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World War --- 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- France --- Regimental histories --- Canada --- Canada. Canadian Army. French-Canadian Battalion --- 22nd
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Manpower is the lifeblood of armies regardless of time or place. In the First World War, much of Canada’s military effort went toward sustaining the Canadian Expeditionary Force, especially in France and Belgium. The job was not easy. The government and Department of Militia and Defence were tasked with recruiting and training hundreds of thousands of men, shipping them to England, and creating organizations on the continent meant to forward these men to their units. The first book to explore the issue of manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Filling the Ranks examines the administrative and organizational changes that fostered efficiency and sustained the army. Richard Holt describes national civilian and military recruitment policies and criteria both inside and outside of Canada; efforts to recruit women, convicts, and members of First Nations, African Canadian, Asian, and Slavic communities; the conduct of entry-level training; and the development of a coherent reinforcement structure. Canada’s ability to fill the ranks with trained soldiers ultimately helped make the Corps an elite formation within the British Expeditionary Force. Based on extensive research in British and Canadian archives, Filling the Ranks provides a wealth of new information on Canada"s role in the Great War.
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World War, 1939-1945 --- Tank warfare. --- Regimental histories --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- History. --- Armored troops --- History
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United States. Army. Machine Gun Battalion --- 102nd. Company D --- World War --- 1914-1918 --- Regimental histories --- United States
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"Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe "Rocky" Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's "air blitz" offensive in the Southwest Pacific. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit. The author uses Rocky's story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life, pranks, mishaps, and casualties, of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines."--Provided by publisher.
World War, 1939-1945 --- Flight radio operators --- Aerial operations, American. --- Regimental histories --- Boyer, Roscoe A. --- United States. --- Clinton County (Ind.)
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United States. Army. Machine Gun Battalion --- 102nd. Company D --- World War --- 1914-1918 --- Regimental histories --- United States
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