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"History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid "

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1953

Here is your chance on the internet to see the many U.S. Army pieces of military equipment, action shots and exhibits at the many museums the 1st Tactical Studies Group (Airborne) has gone to in order to research/study warfare! Strap on your parachute and be prepared to jump!

Even after seeing these displays, don't forget to go in person! There is still no substitute for being there in person and seeing the artifacts in scale next to yourself to appreciate their utility on the past, present and future battlefields.

U.S. ARMY HISTORY: WE FOUND THE REPUBLIC 1636-1800

Minutemen: U.S. Army National Guard, first U.S. military service

I AM THE GUARD

Roger's Rangers, America's first special warriors

George Washington and Von Steuben on foot out-maneuver a British Army that is amphibious

First Blood: The War for Independance Begins

The Continuing Battle; Concord

Bunker Hill

General George Washington

War spreads from New England

Battle of Long Island and New York

Crossing the Delaware

Battle of Princeton

1777: critical war year

The Tide Begins to Turn

Valley Forge

Battle of Monmouth

The War in the South

Yorktown - Final Victory

I AM THE INFANTRY


1800-1860 WE EXPAND THE NATION

Our first frontier...

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Kearny, Lowe, Boone


1861-1865 THE UNION IS PRESERVED

One man on the road to Gettysburg, one nation today

Buford's Cavalry seizes the high ground at Gettysburg, battle for reconnaissance won

Sherman speed-marches to the sea, defeats the South by maneuever warfare not valorous battle

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Arthur MacArthur, Sherman, Grant, J.E.B. Stuart, Robert E. Lee, Sheridan


1866-1890 ACROSS THE WEST TO MEET OUR DESTINY

How the west was won

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Sherman, Grant, Sheridan, Miles


1890-1918 "CARRY A BIG STICK" AND "THE WAR TO END ALL WARS"

The birth of a superpower

LTC Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" take San Juan Hill, he becomes President

Autobiography of Teddy Roosevelt online!

U.S. Army first military service in America to use airplanes in combat; we chase Pancho Villa back into Mexico

First victory at Cantigny, France: 1st Infantry Division proves America can fight alone

Billy Mitchell invents American CAS, Patton leads the first American tank assault

U.S. Army leads in military bike use!

Is Mustang Major General Clarence Huebner, Sam Damon?

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Teddy Roosevelt, Pershing, MacArthur, Patton, Chaffee, Marshall, Stilwell, Krueger, Hunter-Liggett, Arnold


1919-1941 AMERICA ASLEEP, NATION IN PERIL, U.S. ARMY SAVES THE DAY

The prophets scorned, lessons not learned

CSA General MacArthur orders the horse cavalry to MECHANIZE

General MacArthur orders the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle into production--key to U.S. infantry firepower advantage in WWII

Pearl Harbor, necessary set-up?

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Pershing, MacArthur, Patton, Chaffee, Marshall, Stilwell, Krueger, Hunter-Liggett, Arnold shake up Army tactics

What the U.S. Army studied to perfect Airborne operations

How the U.S. Army trained for amphibious operations


1942-1945 U.S. ARMY TRIUMPHS OVER EVIL

We turn the tide in New Guinea

We save the marines at Guadalcanal

Patton lands with TORCH, defeats the "Desert Fox" across North Africa

1942: Mechanized Cavalry lessons learned: we must fight for reconnaissance

I SHALL RETURN: Gen MacArthur's Army returns to the Philipines

Beach landings and Street Fighting in Manila

U.S. Army Airborne smashes the Nazis, defeats the Japanese

Rangers reborn as amphibious Commandos

Darby's Rangers speed march across North Africa, Italy and France

Patton's Phantom Army fools the Germans and keeps their 65 Divisions away from the D-Day beaches

We Storm ashore at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944

History of U.S. Army Armored Divisions, forge the thunderbolt!

Patton's tankers save the day at Bastogne, the Bulge is closed

U.S. Army Cavalry Division's histories

Mechanized Cavalry Lessons Learned: 1942-44

U.S. Army the first to use helicopters in combat in the CBI theater of war

The Atomic bomb ends the war, project of U.S. Army MANHATTEN

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Gavin, Ridgway, MacArthur, Patton, Taylor, Krueger


1946-1953 COLD WAR THREATS, PEACETIME FANTASY

We didn't start the fire!

Where was the Mechanized Cavalry in Korea?

Task Force Smith

General MacArthur's Inchon masterpiece; U.S. Army vision that the other services doubted triumphant in turning the war around

Chronicles of the Korean War

Combat Actions in Korea

Rangers patrol forward through no-man's land in Korea

General Ridgway's firepower tactics stop the CHICOMs cold, south Korea remains free

U.S. Army pioneers use of helicopters in combat

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Gavin, Ridgway, Johnson, Westmoreland


1954-1964 THE LONG GRAY LINE

We field the world's first air-droppable, swimming, all tracked Armored Personnel Carrier: the M113 Gavin

Gavin's Airborne warfare: view of the future comes true Army Airborne looks into pod equipped airplanes

XC-120 pod equipped aircraft

General MacArthur's farewell speech: "Duty, Honor, Country"

Pentomic to Flexible Response

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Gavin, Ridgway, Johnson, Westmoreland


1965-1975 INNOVATION AND DESPAIR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

U.S. Army Air Assault transforms the battlefield

1st Cavalry Division (Air Assault)

U.S. Army Armored Fighting Vehicles

11th ACR kicks butt in Vietnam with M113A1 ACAVs, M48 tanks

Mechanized Cavalry triumphant in Vietnam

Rangers hunt the VC/NVA in the jungles of Vietnam

Bright Shining Light: LTC John Paul Vann

DePuy leads BIG RED ONE against VC and NVA in Vietnam

Operation Pegasus: U.S. Army Air Assault and Armored Cavalry units save marines trapped at Khe Sanh firebase

Colonel David Hackworth's Hard Core Battalion "out-guerrillas the guerrilla"

U.S. Army Special Forces raid Son Tay prison in North Vietnam

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Vann, Hackworth, Weyand, Depuy, Donlon, Starry, Moore


1976-1983 WE STOP THE SOVIET BEAR

Rangers and Delta hold the force together at Desert One when marine-piloted helicopters fail and crash into USAF C-130

U.S. Army Mustang Ronald Reagen becomes President and wins the Cold War

U.S. Army Airborne stops communism in Grenada

General William E. Depuy, Army tactical genius

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Goodpaster, Depuy, Starry and AirLAND Battle maneuver warfare


1984-1990 U.S. ARMY FLIES TO DANGER

U.S. Army Airborne jumps in, captures dictator Manuel Noriega, smashes PDF

"Official" U.S. Army Operation JUST CAUSE history

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Stiner, Thurman, Shelton, Powell, Schwartzkopf: AirLAND Battle fulfilled


1991-1999 THE VIOLENT PEACE

The Desert Storm: Iraq sent back to Baghdad

Whirlwind war: U.S. Army maneuver defeats Iraq in 100 hours

Combat Engineers in the Gulf war

Mana from the air: Kurds given hope

Blackhawk down! U.S. Army Rangers Air Assault/fast rope in and capture Somali warlord leaders

U.S. Army Airborne enroute to Haiti: discretion's finest hour

The Big Red One crosses the Sava river, secures the peace in Bosnia

Task Force Hawk: U.S. Army Airborne flies in by C-17 to be first ground combat troops into Albania-Kosovo

U.S. Army Hall of Heroes: Grange


2000-2002 WHAT THE U.S. ARMY MUST DO BECAUSE IT MUST BE DONE

Today's Army vision: Soldiers on point for America--persuasive in peace, dominant in war

The need for a Medium Armored Cavalry in tracked AFVs

Gavin's Paratroopers and all the U.S. Army's Airborne operations

U.S. Army improves Airborne warfare

The Triumph of the U.S. Airborne style of warfare

Digitized AirMECHSTRIKE!, the Medium Brigade Combat Team

The pattern of 4th generation war requires Airborne, not seaborne warfare

General Depuy on how technology determines tactics and how we need to be non-linear thinking


2003-PRESENT: TRANSFORMATION UNDER FIRE

The Battle for the soul of the U.S. Military:

Tofflerian "RMA" firepower versus Van Crevald's "4th Generation Warfare" Maneuver

Army World-wide Strategic Operational Maneuver (AWSOM): a low-cost plan to really transform the U.S. Army

The future battlefield? How to defeat Surveillance Strike Complexes: decisive MANEUVER

Proud Legions: U.S. Army battles second North Korean war

Armor Attacks!

Infantry combat: The Rifle Platoon

Combat Team: the Captain's war: interactive guide to war

Soldier's almanac

U.S. Army Soldier's magazine

12 Active Army Divisions

8 U.S. Army National Guard Divisions

U.S. Army Reserve commands

Infantry Division Histories 1-44

Infantry Division Histories 45-108

Armor Division Histories

Cavalry Division Histories


MUST SEE! U.S. ARMY MUSEUMS
Lets take a tour of the outside area

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Drop Zone Virtual museum

1st Infantry Division ("The Big Red One") museum at Cantigny Plantation, Wheaton, Illinois

Airborne/Special Operations Museum, Ft. Bragg, NC

82d Airborne War Memorial Museum, Ft. Bragg, NC

National Infantry Museum, Ft. Benning, GA

Korean War museum, Beaver, Utah

U.S. Aviation museums


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