Reforger 75 Certain Trek, by Walter Bohm and Diego Ruiz Palmer

Reforger 75 Certain Trek, by Walter Bohm and Diego Ruiz Palmer
Published by Tankograd in 2022, 64 pages. Large A4 size softback, with dual English/German text (N8312)

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From the rear side cover: Exercise REFORGER 75 was the seventh ill the series since the USA started in 1969 the practice of reinforcing NATO with US Army forces stationed at home in peacetime, but which had their equipment kept in storage in Europe. Exercise Certain Trek was the FTX part of REFORGER 75 and involved nine combined-arms brigades (including one each from Canada and Germany) and three field artillery groups for a total of 57,000 troops belonging to the USA, Germany, Canada, France and the UK; equipped with 500 M60Al, M 48 A2 C and Centurion main battle tanks, 900 armoured personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, another 200 armoured vehicles and 250 helicopters. In this publication the vehicles of the units participating in Certain Trek are shown in many hitherto unpublished photos and the tactical aspects of the FTX are described in detail.

Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs