Military History
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Unknown

An impressive image of the USS Texas firing a salvo from its main gun battery turrets. The combined weight of the projectiles fired in a salvo from the battleship was ...
( Category: Military History August 24,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Coombes

Keith Tamblyn also recalled the time he spent at Denain alongside POWs from England and Canada. Initially, he worked in a ‘colossal foundry, about a kilometre long and half-a-kilometre wide,’ ...
( Category: Memoirs August 20,2021 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Thomas Geve [Geve, Thomas]

Soon after my return to Block 7a, I went to visit the school doctor. He wanted to know how I had fared at the hospital. I told him all the ...
( Category: Historical Biographies August 19,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2018-08-30 | Author:Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo

Birds All birds are edible. Try towing a bright piece of metal behind you to attract birds. It’s possible to catch birds with your hands or with a noose. Bait ...
( Category: Engineering August 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-14 | Author:David A. Borys

CHAPTER FOUR To Free or Feed the Netherlands “There never was a good war, or a bad peace.” – Benjamin Franklin The liberation of the Netherlands was the most complex ...
( Category: Military History August 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-22 | Author:Wrinn, Daniel

White Beach Selection The selection of northwestern beaches was considered the key to success in the Tinian operation. While credit for this decision has been debated, General Schmidt later wrote ...
( Category: Military History August 18,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Beatrice Heuser

6 Command of the Sea The origins of a strategic concept In 1609, the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius noted that ‘because the sea is fluid and ever changing, it cannot ...
( Category: Military History August 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-04 | Author:Wrinn , Daniel

“We estimate 4,000 civilians were killed in the bombardment of Tinian and the fighting on the island. On Saipan, Marines were helpless to prevent mass suicides among the civilian population. ...
( Category: Military History August 17,2021 )
epub, pdf, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-04-09 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

Fulbright did not challenge in Rusk’s evasion the false statement of fact on the “first step” of France. (Actually, the “first step” of France was to try a direct military ...
( Category: Military History August 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-01 | Author:Jeremy Black [Black, Jeremy]

5 Axis Responses, 1943–5 On 18 February 1943, Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda chief, delivered in Berlin’s large Sportpalast a statement of total war, one broadcast by radio across Germany. The ...
( Category: Military History August 5,2021 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Armed Force [Force, Armed]

Jerusalem “We’re clean and green, people, so let’s do it.” Yakov Katzenelenbogen glanced through the dirty windshield of the car at Jaffa Gate and the Citadel of David just beyond. ...
( Category: Military History August 3,2021 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-16 | Author:Dilip Sarkar

6 SQUADRON LEADER G. H. A. ‘BOY’ WELLUM DFC On 5 August 1941, The London Gazette published a list of airmen awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Among them was Flying ...
( Category: Military History August 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-15 | Author:Mark Lax

Chapter 8 ENTER THE CANBERRA In addition to their primary role, modern jet bombers can be used to earn their keep effectively on Cold War operations, demonstrating once again the ...
( Category: Military History August 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Unknown

German occupation of Montfaucon, circa 1916. (Author’s collection) American ambulances on their way to a base hospital. (Author’s collection) The next stage in the attack involved the liberation of Nantillois ...
( Category: Military History August 2,2021 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-29 | Author:William H. Garzke

SUCCESS Captain Brinkmann, still wanting to continue the two-ship operation and ignorant of Admiral Lütjens’s intentions, planned to send a semaphore message to Admiral Lütjens around 1800 on a proposed ...
( Category: Military History August 1,2021 )