Military
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Marcus Luttrell [Luttrell, Marcus]

7 An Avalanche of Gunfire Down the mountain, from every angle. Axe flanked left, trying to cut off the downward trail, firing nonstop. Mikey was blasting away...shouting,...“Marcus, no options now, ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Alex Kershaw [Kershaw, Alex]

REMAGEN, GERMANY, MARCH 7, 1945 IT WAS AROUND 4 P.M. when Lieutenant Karl Timmerman and men from the 27th Armored Infantry of the 9th Division reached the approaches to the ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gray, Wesley R. [Gray, Wesley R.]

Insurgent Snipers Attack After three hours of dreamless sleep, I awoke to the sound of roaring generator engines and the sight of an Iraqi civilian snooping outside the building. Instinctively ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Laura Hillenbrand [Hillenbrand, Laura]

Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST DAYS OF OCTOBER 1944, LOUIE pushed a wheelbarrow over the Omori bridge, through the village at the bridge’s end, and into Tokyo. With ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Jordan, Paul [Jordan, Paul]

17. NIGHTMARE DAY ELEVEN Tuesday 3 June I can happily report that my fortress kept the rats out last night despite their visit at around 2.00 this morning. I didn’t ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Joshua Key

6 al-Habbaniyah NEAR THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST 2003, THE 43RD combat Engineer Company left Ramadi and moved about ten miles east to al-Habbaniyah. It was a small, dusty town of ...
( Category: Iraq March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Geoffrey Roberts [Roberts, Geoffrey]

The German attacks made some progress, but for the most part Soviet defenses held. The battle’s climax came at Prokhorovka on July 11–12 when General P. A. Rotmistrov’s 5th Guards ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Hampton, Dan [Hampton, Dan]

Photo Section Undergraduate Pilot Training graduation, 1987. Welcome to the USAF. TopGun clipping. All fighter wings have these competitions, and this was my first win. Germany, 1990. Every bachelor fighter ...
( Category: Iraq War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-06-01 | Author:Meyer, Kurt [Meyer, Kurt]

I had already been told at the outset of the invasion that the Allies did not take the Geneva Convention very seriously and the divisions that had already landed had ...
( Category: Veterans March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-13 | Author:William Manchester [MANCHESTER, WILLIAM]

Of course I was pissed off. Zepp had been inexcusably insubordinate. I had ordered him to avoid high ground and especially to stay away from Easy Company. Forgiveness is very ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Bradley [BRADLEY, JAMES]

General Tachibana’s temper grew hotter as the simmering summer of 1944 dragged on. Japanese military doctrine focused on taking the offensive, but on Chichi Jima there were no glorious battles ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Merrill B. Twining

CHAPTER 9 Abandoned Mission Immediately following the Battle of Edson’s Ridge, sweeping changes were made within the division. Recent promotions had made us overstrength in senior ranks, and the commandant ...
( Category: Life & Institutions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Andrew Roberts [Roberts, Andrew]

There was still much left to agree now that the grand strategy had been set out. At 10 o’clock the next morning, Tuesday 19 January, a revised programme of meetings ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2001-09-30 | Author:Charles Henderson [Henderson, Charles]

Operation Rio Blanco lasted three more days, ending at 6:00 P.M. on November 27, 1966. The United States Marines, the Republic of Korea Marines, and the Army of the Republic ...
( Category: War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Max Hardberger [Hardberger, Max]

The next morning I went to see Willem Bik at Belgisch Scheepssloperij. He’d delivered the Deletion Certificate to the ship a week earlier, and I hadn’t seen him since. As ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )