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itary History, 1963; reprint, U. S. Army Center of Military History,
1993), 23, 36, 280–320, 590–91, Map III and VIII.
12. Hugh M. Cole, The European Theater of Operations: The Ardennes:
The Battle of the Bulge, United States Army in World War II (Washington,
DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1965; reprint, U. S.
Army Center of Military History, 1993), 80–86, 423–27; Charles B.
MacDonald, A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the
Bulge (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985),
632–33.
13. Charles B. MacDonald, The European Theater of Operations: The Last
Offensive, United States Army in World War II (Washington, DC: U.S.
Army Center of Military History, 1973), 156–66, 401–6, Maps III,
VII, IX; Mason, Danger Forward, 384–403.
14. Donn A. Starry, Armored Combat in Vietnam, Vietnam Studies (New
York: Arno Press, 1980), 54–58, 228.
15. Keliher, The History of the Fourth Cavalry.
16. Peter S. Kindsvatter, “The Army-of-Excellence Divisional Cavalry
Squadron—A Doctrinal Step Backward?”(Monograph, School of
Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and Staff College,
1995); Personal note from Kindsvatter, former 2nd Brigade
Executive Officer and Division Plans officer.
17. CPT Douglas Morrison, interview by John Burdan. HHT, 1st
Squadron, 4th Cavalry, tape recording, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 31
March 1994.
18. CPT Michael A. Bills, interview by John Burdan. B Troop, 1st
Squadron, 4th Cavalry, tape recording, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 26
August 1995. Old unit organizations are from U. S. Army Field
Manual 17-36, Divisional Armored and Air Cavalry Units, 1968.
Chapter 2
1. LTC Robert Wilson, interview by Thomas A. Popa. 1st Squadron,
4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division, Ft. Riley, KS, 28 July 1991. One
of the authors accompanied this group to Europe. An army corps
is a flexible organization that can have any number of divisions
and combat units. For Operation Desert Shield, the XVIII Airborne
Corps, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, consisted of the 82d
Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile), 24th Infantry
Division (Mechanized), 1st Cavalry Division, 12th Aviation
Brigade, 18th Aviation Brigade, and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
For OPERATON DESERT STORM in February, it would
lose the 1st Cavalry Division and gain the 6th (French) Light Armored
Division. See Charles Lane Toomey, XVIII Airborne Corps in