Military & Wars
epub |eng | 2022-10-31 | Author:William P. Collier

NOON–1500 HOURS During infrequent lulls in small arms and sniper fire, I began burning seven years of sensitive and classified Vietnamese operational and advisory reports detailing all aspects of American ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-03 | Author:Worth Books

PART V Thirty-four: The Shimmering Girl Louie was thrilled to be back with the family in Torrance. They’d saved his Christmas presents over the years, kept his car in shape, ...
( Category: World War II January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:John Sadler

It was now daylight. Heavy black clouds clustered in the sky, while a driving drizzle was quickly turning the boggy earth into a series of large lakes of water, through ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Steve Bond

“When I finished on 208 I went, against my will, to CFS and then to Cranwell as an instructor on Vampires. I picked up the Clarkson Aerobatic Trophy at CFS ...
( Category: Cold War January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:V.J. Downie

Operation Avalanche Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack: But those behind cried ‘Forward!’ And those before cried ‘Back!’ Lord Macaulay, commemorating an obstacle on the ...
( Category: Army January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Sean Rayment

†One of the ‘originals’ of the SAS, who first served in L Detachment in1941. ‡ A covert British unit of German-speaking Jews from Palestine. § The second lowest point ...
( Category: World War I January 29,2023 )
epub | | | Author:Robert Schapiro

Chapter 15 Near Misses I had barely completed a year on 727s when SAA stopped operating the type and sold them to another carrier. Typical of a state-run enterprise, they ...
( Category: Air Force January 28,2023 )
epub | | | Author:Barbara Coombes

Get up at 6 am chop fire wood. Bath breakfast 8 am, sweep rooms and drains. Pick rice for eating and rolling, coffee (we were burning the rice and pouring ...
( Category: World War II January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-11 | Author:David Wherrett

As a footnote to this episode, Commodore Dowding was eventually to receive a CBE in recognition of his valiant efforts on this east bound Arctic convoy, and the subsequent homeward ...
( Category: World War II January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-05 | Author:Unknown

Another significant incident in which I was not involved took place on October 14, 1968. Rodd had previously picked up Tho as the interpreter for team Florida after RT Ohio ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Bill Barry

Late 1966—The author at his Mactan cot. The day after that, we were again deep into support of the army operations around Tay Ninh. We hauled three mixed loads of ...
( Category: Air Force January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-28 | Author:Peter Cornwell

P/O Wells has apparently been shot down in flames. At any rate he is found in his hotel bedroom, apparently dead and lying amidst a heap of charred pyjamas, silk ...
( Category: World War II January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-20 | Author:Jennie Gray

We crossed the Rhine using the main bridge for which so many lives had been sacrificed. I could see many marks of the bloody fighting which had taken place as ...
( Category: World War II January 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-24 | Author:W.D. Ehrhart

Cassidy and Bobby McKinstry finished 1–2 in the 500 yard freestyle, with Cassidy setting another college record. At this point, the gleaming gun crew had to be removed after they ...
( Category: Vietnam War January 10,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bayard & Holmes

15 John Cairncross The One That Got Away John Cairncross is known as “The Fifth Man,” as he was the fifth of the Cambridge Five to be publicly identified. He ...
( Category: World War II January 8,2023 )