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Dresden and the Heavy Bombers by Musgrove Frank;
epub |eng | 2005-04-20 | Author:Musgrove, Frank; [Musgrove, Frank;]

The former pupils of the secondary grammar schools, with their Matric and perhaps HSC, rose magnificently, at times heroically, to their country’s challenge. The challenge called for great technical skill ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb by Frank Settle
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Frank Settle

CHAPTER NINE Japan’s Response to the Potsdam Declaration, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki At the end of July 1945 the leaders of the governments of the United States and Japan remained deadlocked ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
Embarrassing Confessions of a Marine Lieutenant: Operation Branding Iron 2.1A by Donny O'Malley
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-06-28 | Author:Donny O'Malley [O'Malley, Donny]

My brain tried desperately to hold onto the mission, which was the people, but it was a hard fight, because holding onto that mission meant waiting to be shot at ...
( Category: Afghan War March 2,2020 )
1962: The War That Wasn't by Shiv Kunal Verma
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2016-01-07 | Author:Shiv Kunal Verma [Verma, Shiv Kunal]

THE FIGHTING AT KIBITHU The Chinese had first intruded into the Lohit Frontier Division in October 1957 when troops had come downriver all the way to Walong. On being challenged, ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
Spitfires, Thunderbolts, and Warm Beer: An American Fighter Pilot Over Europe (The Warriors) by Philip D. Caine
epub |eng | 2011-02-12 | Author:Philip D. Caine [Caine, Philip D.]

All of these issues took time to resolve, hut by early Septem- her all was in readiness and transfers began. For Lee, as for most of the other members of ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
God and Sea Power by Geissler Suzanne
epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Geissler, Suzanne

Mahan in his fifties (U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive) It is certainly something, not unparalleled but I fear rare, not only to have had twenty five years of happiness, but ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
Missing Believed Killed: The Royal Air Force and the Search for Missing Aircrew 1939-1952 by Stuart Hadaway
epub |eng | 2008-09-21 | Author:Stuart Hadaway [Hadaway, Stuart]

By the end of December it was beginning to look as if the constraints placed on travelling by the civil war would not matter. Preliminary searches showed that the behaviour ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
Voices from the Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe in Combat 1939-45) by Bob Carruthers
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Bob Carruthers [Carruthers, Bob]

The Ju-52 was the workhorse of the Luftwaffe for logistics transport and logistics missions. The aircraft was easy to maintain and carried a reasonable payload. It could take great punishment, ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia by Bill Hendon & Elizabeth A. Stewart
epub |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Bill Hendon & Elizabeth A. Stewart [Hendon, Bill]

October 15 THE VOTE ON THE PEROT BILL Tighe led off the October 15 hearings by testifying that he was even more convinced than he had been in 1981—when he ...
( Category: Vietnam War March 2,2020 )
Quiet Hero by Rita Cosby
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Rita Cosby

12 OPERATIONS OVER The days that followed remain a painful blur. I drifted in and out of consciousness, unsure what was a dream and what was really happening around me. ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
Somme Success by Peter Hart
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Peter Hart [Hart, Peter]

1.) Lt Evans, who fired half a drum into a Roland from 25 yards. 2.) Lt McKay, who attacked a Roland which ceased to fire and was seen to fall ...
( Category: World War I March 2,2020 )
Lincoln and Grant by Edward H. Bonekemper III
epub |eng | | Author:Edward H. Bonekemper, III [Bonekemper, Edward H.]

These numbers reflect the Eastern soldiers’ support for Lincoln, Grant and their aggressive efforts to bring the war to a successful close. The next day (November 10) Grant sent his ...
( Category: American Civil War March 2,2020 )
Eastern Front From Primary Sources [00] The Wehrmacht Experience in Russia by Bob Carruthers
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Bob Carruthers [Carruthers, Bob]

THE SITUATION IN THE CAUCASUS: SECOND HALF OF AUGUST 1942 On 19th August Army Group A headquarters estimated the situation in the Caucasus as follows: Russian resistance in the northwestern ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
First Entrepreneur by Edward G. Lengel
epub |eng | 2015-12-12 | Author:Edward G. Lengel

MOUNT VERNON’S MOST WELCOME VISITOR wasn’t human. His name was Royal Gift, a magnificent Spanish jackass sent by King Charles III of Spain. Washington accepted him ecstatically. For many years ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 2,2020 )
Unearthing Churchill's Secret Army: The Official List of SOE Casualties and Their Stories by John Grehan & Martin Mace
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:John Grehan & Martin Mace

NORMAN, Gilbert Maurice Date of death: 6 September 1944 Place of death: Mauthausen, Germany Rank: Major Parent unit: Durham Light Infantry Service number: 156759 Decorations: Mentioned in Despatches Date joined ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )

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