Armor Branch Historian Historic Documents The historian ensures the integration of Armor history and heritage into current and future activities. The historian collects documentation concerning branch activities, manages an archives that preserves this data, and uses this data to support the full range of Armor activities, including the primary areas of combat development, training, and doctrine.
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War Department Summary of Mechanized Development 1928-1940
The Army's New Mechanization Policy 1931
Mechanization Policy Refinement 1935
Mechanization Policy Refinement 1938
Major General Daniel Van Voorhis and Mechanization, 1938
Brigadier General Adna R. Chaffee Jr. and Mechanized Cavalry, 1939
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"Greasy Automatons" and "the Horsey Set": the U.S. Cavalry and mechanization, 1928-1940 by Vincent Tedesco
Evolution of the armored force, 1920-1940 By Edward J. O'Shaughnessy
Armor Development in the Soviet Union and the United States By Arthur Alexander
The evolution of the tank in the U.S. Army by LTC Kenneth Steadman
Armor Combat Development 1917-1945 by Robert Cameron
The Birth of Armored Forces by Arthur Bergeron
The Making of a General: Ike, the Tank, and the Interwar Years by LTC Thomas Morgan
The Dawn of American Armor: The U.S. Army Tank Corps in World War I by Eric Anderson
The Tank Corps by Clough Williams-Ellis
Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Frederick Fuller
Life in a Tank by Richard Haigh
The Tactical Employment of Cavalry (tentative)
Tactical Employment of the Mechanized Division
Tactical Principles and Logistics for Cavalry
Cavalry Field Manual Volume II Mechanized Cavalry
