This action-packed and fact-filled series offers the reader the rare opportunity to compare, in each single volume, two well-known, related units that fought side-by-side or head-on against each other on land during World War II and Vietnam for, in the case of Bismarck and Coral Sea, two great naval battles). Each volume relates the origins and history of the units concerned, their organization and order of battle, their combat record, their weapons, equipment, and insignia, and the major commanders and other personalities. Contains about 250 illustrations including maps and photographs.