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With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, were in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....
The Desert Training Center/California-Arizona Maneuver California-Arizona Maneuver Area, Area, 1942–1944, Volume 1: Historical and Archaeological Contexts for the California Desert (2009)
With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, was in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....
Land Use in North-Central Arizona: An Archaeological Survey of Navajo Army Depot, Coconino County, Arizona (1993)
In May and June, 1992, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resource survey of approximately 1,260 acres of land owned by the U.S. Army, in Bellemont, Arizona. The survey was performed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. The project areas are used by the military as training/bivouac sites and were not randomly selected for survey. The survey was conducted on two separate occasions by a crew of 4-5 including the project director. The field work documented four...