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Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972
This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored battles of the Easter Offensive. Wearied by years of fighting against Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese regulars, the United States had almost completely withdrawn its forces from Vietnam by early 1972. Determined to halt the expansion and improvement of South Vietnamese forces under the U.S. “Vietnamization” program, North Vietnam launched a major fourteen-division attack in March 1972 against the South that became known as the “Easter Offensive.” Hanoi's assault was spearheaded by 1,200 tanks and was counteracted on ...
Soviet Tanks at Kursk 1943
Illustrated throughout, this book explains the composition and qualities of the Soviet tank force that fought Germany's mighty Panzers at the biggest tank battle in history. In the summer of 1943, Hitler's army had rebuilt its Panzer forces after defeat at Stalingrad and retreat from the Caucasus. New types, including the Panther, Tiger, and Elefant, at last added technical superiority to the traditional tactical edge enjoyed by the Panzer divisions. The plan was to begin offensive operations by striking from the north and south to cut off Soviet forces in the Kursk salient. In this book, Soviet military specialist William E. Hiestand explores the armor that met this Panzer force, in the big...
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Allied Tanks at El Alamein 1942
Examines Eighth Army's 1,000-strong tank force – rebuilt, reorganized, and equipped with brand-new Sherman and Churchill tanks – that secured victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein. When Eighth Army retired into the defensive line at El Alamein on 30 June 1942, it was tired, dispirited and had lost almost all its tanks during a string of defeats at Gazala, Tobruk and Mersa Matruh. After savage defensive fighting at First Alamein, the reinforced Desert Rats defeated Rommel's last offensive in a tank-to-tank clash at Alam Halfa in September. The next month, a completely rebuilt and reorganized Eighth Army, equipped with over 1,000 tanks including the American M4 Sherman, launched the o...
Hiestand Family History
The Hiestand surname originated in Richterswil, Switzerland, before 1401. Some descendants were in Germany by the mid-seventeenth century. Several Hiestands had emigrated to America by the early eighteenth century, settling in Pennsylvania. One emigrant ancestor was Henry ("John" Hans Heinrich) Hiestandt (1704-1779), who was probably born in Alesheim, Germany, and is buried in Dunmore, Shenandoah Co., Virginia. He and his wife (name not known) had six children born between ca. 1732 and 1752 in Hempfield Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa. and in Orange Co. (now Page Co.), Va. Solomon Hiestand (1813-1885), son of Abraham and Susannah Bretz Hiestand, was born in Fairfield Co., Ohio. Solomon moved to Marion Co., Illinois in 1840, and there married Martha Pruett (d. 1898) in 1841. Family members and descendants live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Illinois and elsewhere.
