Military
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Gene Smith [Smith, Gene]

In the morning, by prearrangement, they met again. Surrounded by Yankee officers they sat their horses, Traveller and Cincinnati, just outside the village. Grant had been halted by Southern pickets ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 21,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Army

Figure 8-3. Sample of R&S task organization with scout and infantry platoon. D Company, Scout Platoon, and Ground Surveillance Radar Effort Augmented Figure 8-4 is a sample of an augmented ...
( Category: Engineering September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-27 | Author:Stone, Norman

chapter six | FANATICISM AND HATE, MUDDLE AND DELAY preceding page: US Navy Dauntless dive-bombers during the Battle of Midway, June 1942 (Bettmann/Corbis) The eventual end of the Third Reich ...
( Category: Military September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Peter Doyle [Doyle, Peter & Strachan, Sir Hew]

49 Kukri Country of origin: India Date of manufacture: 1915 Location: Private collection The kukri (or khukuri) is the traditional knife weapon of the Gurkha soldier. Intended primarily as a ...
( Category: Military September 21,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Philip Cooke

Chapter 7 The Netherlands Marjan Schwegman When German troops invaded the Netherlands (see Chapter 2, p. 34 for map) on 10 May 1940, the country was unprepared for war. There ...
( Category: Military September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Geoff Bridger

Equipmen tand its weight Shell weight Maximum range * * * 18-pdr(Mk1)1.25tons 18 lbs 6,525 yards 4.5"howitzer1.45tons 35 lbs 7,300 yards 4.7"field gun3.75tons 45lbs 10,000 yards 60-pdr(Mk1)4.5tons 60lbs 12,300 yards ...
( Category: Military September 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:David Higgins

The Brandenburgers seize Bataisk Bridge With Soviet resistance east of Rostov-on-Don evaporating, during the afternoon the 8./II Brandenburg Battalion of Hauptmann der Reserve Siegfried Grabert was directed through the city ...
( Category: Military September 21,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-07-16 | Author:Steven Vern [Vern, Steven]

CHAPTER 5: SOUTHEAST EUROPE AND AFRICA Benito Mussolini had come to power in Italy in the early 1920's, when Hitler and his party were meeting in basements in Munich. For ...
( Category: Military September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Carpenter, Stephen [Carpenter, Stephen]

“In January 1968, Project Delta was working the tri-border area out of Plei Djereng. A couple recon teams were already on the ground and Doc Simpson and I were scheduled ...
( Category: Military September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Read, Simon [Read, Simon]

An aerial reconnaisance photograph of Stalag Luft III. The white arrow is pointing to the railway station the escapees headed for once clearing the tunnel. BRITISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES: AIR 40/229 ...
( Category: Military September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-30 | Author:Sarah-Beth Watkins [Watkins, Sarah-Beth]

Seen in context, Hale was blaming Mr Skidmore (or Scudamore) for suggesting that Henry Carey was the King’s son. It was just one of many libellous statements that Hale made, ...
( Category: World September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Fenby [Fenby, Jonathan]

The JU-88 was the pride of the Luftwaffe, having only come into service in 1939. It had angled wings and a complicated hydraulic system. Able to dive at 425 miles ...
( Category: Europe September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Earl Swift

An episode later in the afternoon suggests that despite his resolute bearing, Barker had questions himself about the wisdom of returning. Lt. Col. William N. Peachey, the major’s former battalion ...
( Category: Military September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip F. Napoli

10 BECOMING VETERANS: EDELMAN, GERMAN, AND PAS In May 2005, at a small ceremony on a cold, blustery day, the former New York City mayor Edward I. Koch recalled the ...
( Category: Military September 20,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Bob Greene

“It could be pretty bleak out in Nebraska during the war,” said Mrs. Townsend, eighty-eight. “The towns we lived in were mostly very small, and there was not a lot ...
( Category: Job Hunting & Careers September 20,2017 )