Marines Under Armor: The Marine Corps and the Armored Fighting Vehicle, 1916-2000

"Drawing on archival resources previously untouched by researchers and on interviews of both past and serving crewmen, Estes presents a unique and unheralded story that is filled with new information and analysis of the armored vehicles, their leaders, and the men who drove these steel chariots into battle. Such authoritative detail and documentation of the decisions to acquire, develop, and organize armored units in the U.S. Marine Corps assures the book's acknowledgment as a definitive reference."--BOOK JACKET.