epub |eng | 2013-05-05 | Author:Robin L. Rielly

LCI(G) 441 comes alongside Nevada BB 36 to transfer her wounded. She was hit by Japanese artillery at Iwo Jima on 17 February 1945. NARA 80G 307124. LCI(G) 441 transfers ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Hobbs, David

SLR0015 The group of five 12-pounder guns mounted aft in the scout cruiser Forward. As a scout for the battle fleet she was expected to become involved in a close-quarter ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-19 | Author:Hew Strachan

Although the French and British developed better tanks than other armies, they were not alone in experimenting with armoured vehicles. Armoured cars lacked tracks and so were not capable of ...

epub |eng | 1990-01-11 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey]

Richmond. February 11th. Some idea may be formed of the scarcity of food in this city from the fact that, while my youngest daughter was in the kitchen today a ...

epub | | 1994-02-14 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose [Unknown]

The burst scattered the column. "Prisoners" and "paratroopers" alike dove into the ditches and returned fire, the perfidious Frenchman pedaled madly away, and the two self-propelled (SP) guns that had ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-25 | Author:Richard Brooks

The Norman arch through which Edward’s men marched out of Lewes Castle. Even the small numbers described in the text would need a couple of hours to defile through the ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Ian Sumner

Near Saint-Thomas-en-Argonne (Marne), July 1915. This shallow trench is protected by a wall of gabions, a feature of field fortifications since medieval times. The wicker baskets were light to transport ...

epub |eng | 2001-08-31 | Author:Kirchner, Paul

Kansas State Historical Society On February 25, 1881, an altercation arose between Luke Short and gambler Charlie Storms, another friend of Masterson. Fearing that Storms might make the mistake of ...

mobi |eng | 1988-02-24 | Author:McPherson, James M. [McPherson, James M.]

Events 300 miles away in Mississippi had influenced both Bragg’s decision to retreat and Lincoln’s decision to appoint Rosecrans. Just after the battle of Perryville, Bragg received word of the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1988-06-06 | Author:James M. McPherson [McPherson, James M.]

15 Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues I In May 1862, prospects for the Confederacy's survival seemed bleak. Most of the Mississippi Valley had fallen to the enemy. In Virginia, McClellan's army ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1988-02-25 | Author:James M. McPherson

44. Leonard P. Curry, Blueprint for Modern America: Nonmilitary Legislation of the First Civil War Congress (Nashville, 1968); Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-05-02 | Author:James Bradley & Ron Powers

Nine D-DAY PLUS TWO Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem. —RONALD REAGAN A STORM LASHED IN FROM THE OCEAN; ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Smithsonian Institution [Kagan, Neil]

80 PORT HUDSON BURIAL POST IN MAY 1863, AS ULYSSES GRANT’S ARMY BESIEGED Vicksburg, Union troops under General Nathaniel P. Banks encircled Port Hudson, a strategically vital Louisiana town on ...