A comparison between U.S. combat actions of WWII in North Africa and Operation Desert Shield, 29 Jan 1991.

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A comparison between U.S. combat actions of WWII in North Africa and Operation Desert Shield, 29 Jan 1991.

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General description of the collection: A comparison between U.S. combat actions of WWII in North Africa and Operation Desert Shield by Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Leonid Kondratiuk and LTC Doug Johnson was written for the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans. It focuses on "the political and military situation and the environment of the North African Campaign in comparison to Operation Desert Shield." The paper states that though there were similarities, there were "marked differences." It presents a brief history of how the United States (U.S.) Army and the British Army built cooperation and coordination in the North African Campaign in World War II (WWII). The paper reports that the environment encountered in Tunisia in World War II was nothing life the deserts of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, though media reports indicated otherwise. It concludes by briefly comparing the training and equipment of the early WWII Army and the Desert Shield Army.

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Kondratiuk, Leonid E.

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Johnson, Douglas (Vocalist)

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Douglas V. Johnson was born in 1900 and graduated from Virginia Military Institute (VMI)in 1922. He served in the Virginia National Guard (1922-1923); was commissioned 2nd lieutenant of field artillery, United States (U.S.) Army, in 1923 and advanced through the grades to major general in 1955. He served in various assignments in the U.S. and the Philippines (1923-1942); operations division, War Dept. General Staff (1942-1944); assistant G-3, VII (7th) Corps, United Kingdom and France (1944); co...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...