Military History
epub |eng | 2020-10-04 | Author:Susan P. Hunter

INDULGING IN MY MOMENT of reflection, I was so impressed that even in his darkest periods, Bob never seemed to lose respect for his enemy and instead kept his perspective ...
( Category: Memoirs November 3,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-03 | Author:C.G. Sweeting [Sweeting, C.G.]

Parachute testing was conducted in the new vertical wind tunnel at Wright Field, beginning in 1944. This photo was taken in August 1945, during testing of the aneroid-activated parachute-opening device, ...
( Category: Military History November 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Tom Swift;His Air Glider

CHAPTER XV PURSUED Slowly the airship arose, almost too slowly to suit those on board who anxiously watched the oncoming officers. The latter had drawn their short swords, and at ...
( Category: Mysteries & Detectives November 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2020-04-11 | Author:Michael E. Wikan [Wikan, Michael E.]

INTERLUDE - R&R As the commercial airliner lifted off the Tan-Son-Nhut runway, the soldiers aboard broke into a cheer. We climbed steeply to avoid any possibility of gunfire, and I ...
( Category: Military History November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Niklas Zetterling & Michael Tamelander [Zetterling, Niklas & Tamelander, Michael]

CHAPTER 17 Battle in the Denmark Strait Lütjens had absolutely no knowledge about Holland’s presence until the British squadron was so close that battle was imminent. The first indication of ...
( Category: Military History November 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Major Dick Winters & Colonel Cole C. Kingseed

10 Surrounded Again Ask any veteran of the campaign in northwest Europe to identify his toughest single engagement, and you might expect him to say D-Day or some other day ...
( Category: Military Aviation History November 3,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-10-06 | Author:Brown, Francis W. [Brown, Francis W.]

To the release of MG.34 during the war years, five enterprises with high production precision were attracted: Mauser-Verke, Gustlov-Verke, Maget in Germany; and also taken without battle and destruction "Steir" ...
( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:J. Furman Daniel [Daniel III, J. Furman]

For the remainder of his life, Patton would highlight the Rhine crossing and the Palatine campaign as two of his greatest accomplishments. Despite this triumph, he was already anticipating an ...
( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Captivating History [History, Captivating]

When the Germans invaded the USSR in June 1941, they did so with an estimated 6,000 armored vehicles. The bulk of the German tanks were Panzer Mark Is and IIs, ...
( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-30 | Author:Andrew Boyd [Boyd, Andrew]

( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-15 | Author:Albrecht Wacker [Wacker, Albrecht]

Chapter 10 Worse than hungry foxes The German forces now regrouped, integrating Romanian units into their ranks. But the fighting force of their Romanian allies was so low, because of ...
( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-12 | Author:Iain Ballantyne [Ballantyne, Iain]

Friday 22 September ‘Wounding and death, burning towns and rotting bodies, the stench, the carnage and horror of war: all these could become as habitual and acceptable as commuting on ...
( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Zaloga

A column from the British 1st Division move along the Via Anziate from Peter Beach on 22 January 1944. (NARA) Paratroopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment with their distinctive ...
( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:James G. Burton [Burton, James G.]

10 More Dirty Games During the summer of 1985, I established a close relationship with the technicians, mechanics, and manual laborers who did most of the actual work at the ...
( Category: Military History November 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-21 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Four Encircling Leningrad "Early next year we enter the city (if the Finns do it first we do not object), lead those still alive into inner Russia or into ...
( Category: Military History November 1,2020 )