Help with Research on M1 Abrams

[andrewlchadwick]

Gentlemen, I hope you find the two attachments helpful. The two documents were written immediately following the first month of PHANTOM FURY/AL FAJR and are an account of Company A, 2d Tanks in Fallujah. Feel free to write if you have any questions.

(Hope this works, this is my first time posting anything on SWJ).

Feel free to write with questions
CVM

Thanks for the material. I especially enjoyed this line: "Tanks are a morale booster to the infantry and a morale devastator to the enemy.”

My advisor will be quite pleased that I have some additional primary sources to add to my paper. Thanks!

[ganulv]

My advisor will be quite pleased that I have some additional primary sources to add to my paper. Thanks!

I don’t know whether you want to do archival research for your thesis or even if relevant material has yet been deposited there, but I have made one visit to the National Archives at College Park and a great many of the visitors were in uniform. Since you are at Maryland it wouldn’t be too much of a hike for you. The experience would make you feel like a real historian, in any case.

I visited the National Museum of the Marine Corps in December. Again, a good experience regardless of how topical it might or might not be to your research project.

[andrewlchadwick]

I don’t know whether you want to do archival research for your thesis or even if relevant material has yet been deposited there, but I have made one visit to the National Archives at College Park and a great many of the visitors were in uniform. Since you are at Maryland it wouldn’t be too much of a hike for you. The experience would make you feel like a real historian, in any case.

I visited the National Museum of the Marine Corps in December. Again, a good experience regardless of how topical it might or might not be to your research project.

As a student in the DC area, I am fortunate to have tons of great resources for military history reserach nearby. I have not ventured into the National Archieves at College Park, but it's definitely on my to do list.

I have been to the National Museum of the Marine Corps, which, as you said, is a great experience.

Thanks for the tips!

[Steve Blair]

What's amazing is how much of this had to be relearned from the experience of armor in Vietnam.

There was also a special issue of the "Armor and Cavalry Journal" a couple of years back that covered COIN in Iraq with a heavy focus on (obviously) armored elements along with some historical perspective articles. That might be of some use.

Linked from here, actually...SWJ post.

[andrewlchadwick]

What's amazing is how much of this had to be relearned from the experience of armor in Vietnam.

There was also a special issue of the "Armor and Cavalry Journal" a couple of years back that covered COIN in Iraq with a heavy focus on (obviously) armored elements along with some historical perspective articles. That might be of some use.

Linked from here, actually...SWJ post.

Yet another lesson from Vietnam that the Army forgot.