"This study seeks to explore the roots of the successful innovation by examining the development of air ground doctrine, the early failures and efforts to revise it in the Mediterranean theater, and the stateside maneuvers that trained the bulk of the Army's higher-number infantry divisions originally from the National Guard and Reserves that carried much of the load in 1944 and 1945"--Provided by publisher.

The development of air-ground doctrine, 1914-1944 --Stateside doctrinal development, 1940-1944 -- Training to new doctrine, 1942-1944 -- Getting together : Ninth Army and XXIX TAC in Brittany, July-October 1944 -- Operation Grenade : closing up the Rhine, January-February 1945 -- Operation Flashpoint and the Ruhr, March-April 1945.