Task Force Normandy Case Study

This battle in France was known as Operation Overlord. For 37 days after the initial invasion, the 319th GFAR provided continuous fire support for

The troops were divided into two great combat regiments, Regimental Combat Team 1 with 3rd Battalion/ 1st Marines, 3rd Battalion/5th marines, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion, 4th and 23rd Seabees and the US Army 2nd Battalion /7th Cavalry. The other regiment, the Regimental Combat Team 7 included the 1st Battalion/ 8th marine, 1st Battalion /8th Marines and the US Army 2nd Battalion/ 2nd Infantry. Assisting in the assault 2000 Iraqi soldiers were incorporated, and with the order to surround the city to avoid bandits escape, the task was assigned to the 1st Battalion of the British 850 regiment, all supported by air raids and heavy artillery strikes over the city.

Assigned to the famed 2nd Armored "Hell on Wheels" Division, he landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 9, 1944.

The planning of Operation Overlord and the invasion were both effected by the lack of equipment and landing crafts. Operation Overlord was a very advanced operation involving Americans, Canadians, British, and other allies. The allied forces were going to attack the beaches of Normandy in France, which was currently under Nazi Control. They attacked five different Beaches: Juno, Gold, Sword, Utah, and Omaha beach. This operation could lead to the end of World War 2 and the defeat of the Nazis.

Marine Helicopter Squadron One and Marine Corps schools developed Amphibious Operations-Employment of helicopters (Tentative) or Phib-31 which was the first manual for helicopter operations. In 1948, HMX-1 received its first helicopters: the Sikorsky HO3S-1 and the Piasecki HRP-1. The four seated HO3S-1 was a modified version of the Sikorsky S-51and was used for utility and training while the HRP-1 was used for trial and experimental purposes. Regrettably for HMX-1, it was not until 1955 that it received its first Sikorsky HR2S which was a helicopter capable of lifting heavy loads (by 1950s standards). The HR2S was crucial to the amphibious doctrine because it had a greater lifting capacity than its earlier predecessors. HMX-1’s secondary mission was to test observation helicopters for identifying enemy movement and the use of gunfire. For this mission, HMX-1 was given a small HTL-2 which is a small militarized version of the Bell 47D. The Marine Corps hopped on the opportunity for this mission and rapidly established an innovative reputation for its use of combat helicopters.

The objectives of the Allies were during the invasion of Normandy was eliminate all of the Germans capabilities of trying to organize a counterattack during the Allies amphibious assault. The Allies used their airborne capabilities to seize significant objectives like bridges, road crossings and terrain area’s mainly on the eastern and western flanks. The Allies also used their airborne infantry to land behind enemy forces on the beaches of Normandy to help egress the amphibious forces and also neutralize and destroy the Germans coastal defenses batteries.

The helicopters were used to hunt down enemy positions and eliminate them so that the United States ground forces could over run their position. Often times the north would use this to their advantage, shooting smoke signals and even tying up prisoners of war to expose the aircraft closer to the ground getting in range of fire. The AH-1B helicopter became the ground soldier's best friend during ground operations because it also could be used to extract soldiers if the situation on the ground became unmanageable. Whole squadrons of attack helicopters were used to precede any large-scale ground operations to reduce any hardened ground resistance, often the air raids would be seen by underground Viet Cong miles in advance. The USMC utilized a variant of the Huey attack helicopter, the AH-1G Cobra for close air support to the soldiers deployed on the ground. The air war over Vietnam began as a small, localized campaign and ended as a furious all out relentless bombing strikes from all sides. New weapons and tactics were introduced onto the battlefield like never before in the history of modern

Additionally, there are three main nations in the invasion of Normandy, and many other countries in different armed services. First, the U.S. was one of the three main nations. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Bernard Law Montgomery enlarge the size of the target zone and increased the divisions to five for the coastal attack (Ambrose, Stephen E. and Stults, Taylor). United States got two of the five beaches, Utah and Omaha; however, Omaha Beach had the highest difficulty and greatest casualties (Ambrose, Stephen E. and Stults, Taylor). Nazi defenses were positioned on high cliffs, which means their gunners could easily target the U.S. landing crafts before they reached the shore; therefore, more than 2,000 casualties occurred (“D-Day2”).

The 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, the lead element of the 1st Marine Division the Landing Force made the initial assault on Wolmi-do with the high tide at dawn on 15 September and crushed enemy resistance. Next, once Kimpo airport was retaken, the Air Force airlifted over 200 tons of supplies a day from

This article is talking more about the strategies and plans for the attacks, maps, and pictures. The book is from an American soldier, so the things in the book is more about the field. According to the book, Saddam Hussein was warned by United Nations Security Council to withdrawal his army, and if he did not, they will start taking action. After the due time passed, and the dictator Saddam was still refusing to withdrawal his force from Kuwait, Operation Desert Shield was already in the Persian Gulf to start the attack. Allied troops arrived to Kuwait to force Saddam Hussein withdrawal his army from Kuwait, and after for days they succeeded. A lot details of these four days, the attacks, who had more advantages, and so much more details.

Under the British Army headed by Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson, the Allied forces in the battle at Kasserine pass consisted of the II Corps of the U.S. Army and were commanded by Major- General Lloyd Fredenhall. It was on the 8th of November 1942 that the Operation Torch of British and American forces landed in Algiers by Eastern Task Force commanded by Major General Charles W. Ryder, Center Force commanded by Major General Lloyd Fredenhall in Oran, and Western Task Force

Not only did they have outlying areas with soldiers that were essentially cut off from every means of resupply but one, aviation, at any time there could be enemy forces in wait. Due to this precarious situation, or any other sustainment operation, security is critical factor. It can make the difference between a successful operation or a sustainment operation turned into a Fallen Angel rescue mission. An equally dangerous sustainment operation are operating bases inside or directly next to towns, or even worse cities. In this instance the enemy can literally be no more than 50 feet from the helicopter just outside the base walls waiting for the resupply to fly in and target the aircraft at its most vulnerable points, during takeoff and landing when airspeed is almost nonexistent. It is again of utmost importance that security, or defense, be established and is a must before sustainment operation be

On January 29, 1991 to February 1, 1991 the Iraqi 1st and 5th Mechanized divisions and 3rd Armored Division commanded by Major General Salah Aboud Mahmaud launched the only major ground attack since their invasion of Kuwait. The opposing force was comprised of The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. . The units involved were the 1st and 2ed Marine Divisions, the 2ed Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, the 2ed Armored Division, United States Army Special Forces and the Saudi National Guard and were commanded by General Norman Schwarzkopf (U.S.), Khalid Bin Sultan and Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz (both Saudi Arabian commanders).

The operation had four phases: it attacks the logistics infrastructure, and military communications systems and government electricity Iraqi; it attacks the Iraqi air force on Kuwaiti territory; it reaches targets as the Guard Republican Saddam Hussein and the rest of enemy weapons; and the ground invasion with the army of the Coalition to expel the invaders from Kuwait (Zarpelão, 2010).

The air force acted under all conditions, they took place in close contact to far and huge targets to small individual targets. As the war continued they were beginning to use the air force to increase the odds of the ground troops. They sent them after enemy tanks, artillery, and ground forces to be sure that the ground missions were a success and not alway a fail. Desert Storm was also the debut war for some of the military’s new air equipment.