Military
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 )
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 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Gilbert Nobbs [Nobbs, Gilbert]

CHAPTER XIX THE JAWS OF DEATH LONELINESS, DARKNESS, AND SILENCE A LAST EFFORT I PREPARE FOR DEATH I DID NOT know at the time, of course, what had become of ...
( Category: Historical March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Gordon, Arthur

Seeking Work Aviation, the romantic military branch of the war, found itself regarded as a useless curiosity in peacetime. Barnstormers drew crowds at county fairs in America, and stunt fliers ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:A C Reynolds [Reynolds, A C]

While we were there, it was obviously deserted and every morning our Artillery Spotters would go up into the steeple, each morning there was an SP Gun (self-propelled), would open ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-01 | Author:Peter Kilduff

During the 2 June attack, Billy Bishop may have encountered a sleek Albatros C.VII two-seater and mistaken it for an Albatros D.II scout. (Arthur Rahn album via National Museum of ...
( Category: Historical March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-07 | Author:Steve Stone [Stone, Steve]

CHAPTER NINE – AFGHAN WAR Afghanistan War and Islamic Fundamentalism In the late 1970s the Afghan government faced increasing opposition to its social policies. By 1979 guerrilla opposition forces, popularly ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Tonie & Valmai Holt [Holt, Valmai & Tonie]

At 1500 hours Meyer launched a counter-attack on Buron, hoping to drive to the sea in conjunction with 21st Panzer Division. Late in the afternoon the Canadians lost Buron and ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Department of the Army

79. Escape From One-Arm Strangle Hold From the Rear When your opponent attacks as shown in figure 70 ①, reach up with your left hand and grasp his clothing at ...
( Category: Martial Arts March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 1998-03-01 | Author:David A. Thomas

ORTEGAL – see BAY OF BISCAY 1805 OSTEND 1918 10 May World War 11914–18 The Ostend element of the combined attack on Zeebrugge and Ostend on 22–23 April 1918 was, ...
( Category: Engineering March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-21 | Author:Burt, R A

LION: STEAM TRIALS Contractors’ trials, 11 January 1912. Measured mile, Polperro, 24 fathoms LION: GM AND STABILITY Based on inclining experiments, 1 June 1912 *Fully equipped plus 200 tons coal ...
( Category: Engineering March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Don Berliner [Berliner, Don]

Other countries made considerable use of the M.S.406, or at least tried. Poland ordered 160, of which 50 had been sent but not received by the time Poland fell. The ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Jack Holroyd

‘We ought to have that mountain’ were the words of General Pershing when he first viewed Mont Sec; towering 380 metres above the Woevre lowland. From Mont Sec, which the ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Vice Admiral B.B. Schofield

Draught: 29½ft (8.9m) Propulsion: Parson’s geared turbines on 2 shafts SHP 85,000 Speed: Designed 22 knots, but after reconstruction 27 knots Armament: Ten 12.6in (320mm) 44 cal (3x2 and 2x2), ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-07 | Author:Paul Rockwell [Rockwell, Paul]

Exhausted Legionnaires Sleeping During a Ten-Minutes Halt 'A little farther along, a number of Germans tried to get out of a dugout to set up a machine gun. We drove ...
( Category: Military March 2,2020 )