TY - BOOK AU - CARAFANO James Jay TI - GI ingenuity: improvisation, technology, and winning World War II SN - 9780275986988 (hbk.) : PY - 2006/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Praeger Security International KW - UNITED STATES KW - SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS KW - HISTORY KW - 20TH CENTURY KW - WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 KW - TECHNOLOGY KW - SOLDIERS KW - INTELLECTUAL LIFE N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index N2 - GI Ingenuity is in large part an old-fashioned combat history, with mayhem and mass slaughter at center stage. It tells the story of death and destruction on the killing fields of Normandy, as well as on the battlegrounds that provide the prologue and postscript to the transformation of war in France in 1944 ER -