Naval
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-14 | Author:Robert Gardiner

As soon as France actively entered the war in 1778, the Navy began building 32s again, emphasising that the 12pdr frigate was primarily intended for fleet and oceanic trade war ...
( Category: History September 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Keith McCloskey

6 GIANT WAVE1 Before considering the giant wave theory, one possibility considered by NLB Superintendent Robert Muirhead is that the three men were possibly on the cliff edge at the ...
( Category: Great Britain September 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-29 | Author:David Childs

Across the waters of Pamlico Sound, Lane began work on the first English fort to be built on mainland America. It was soon done, with work beginning on 27 July ...
( Category: Naval September 2,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Barry Strauss [Strauss, Barry]

At first sight, Themistocles’ words are disappointing. Then, on a second look, they reveal the eloquence of simplicity. There may have been no better way to tell the men how ...
( Category: Greece August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:David Miller

CHAPTER 14 Active Operations Phase II: Indian Ocean Narrative Graf Spee underwent replenishment from Altmark on the morning of 28 October in a position some 100 miles north-east of Tristan ...
( Category: World War II August 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-30 | Author:Pfarrer, Chuck [Pfarrer, Chuck]

* * * LOSING THE BUBBLE IN WAR, BIGGER IS BETTER, and the battleship New Jersey was both. By the end of September she had completed a transatlantic voyage and ...
( Category: Medical August 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Theodore P. Savas [Savas, Theodore P.]

approaching danger. Before U-513 could even open fire with her automatic weapons or change course and speed, let alone dive, four bombs bracketed the doomed boat. One of the charges ...
( Category: World War II July 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:W. Craig Reed

THE BEGINNING OF THAT END STARTED when Captain Kaye, at McNamara’s bidding, promoted Reed to one of the most prestigious positions in A22: head of field operations. In short, he ...
( Category: Naval June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Alex Kershaw & Richard Poe [Kershaw, Alex & Poe, Richard]

AT 180 FEET BELOW, a last group was gathering at the steps to the escape trunk. It included Doc Larson, the husky six-foot-tall Iowan, and the steward, Howard Walker—O’Kane’s favorite ...
( Category: World War II June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Greitens [Greitens, Eric]

The men at BUD/S wanted to be SEALs for a wide variety of reasons. Some were inspired by relatives, some were inspired by movies, some had played "special operations" video ...
( Category: Military June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Stephen Budiansky [Budiansky, Stephen]

A MONO THE inheritances left by Paul Hamilton to his successor was the ironic one of having finally persuaded Congress to approve the first new warship construction in a decade. ...
( Category: Naval June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:Geoffrey Bennett [Bennett, Geoffrey]

* For details of the battlecruisers of both sides involved in this battle see Appendix E on p. 173. APPENDIX E Particulars of Battlecruisers at the Dogger Bank Battle 9 ...
( Category: World War I June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

Marine Corps Historical Center In the end, victory was achieved at Okinawa by well-trained assault troops on the ground, like this Marine flamethrower operator and his watchful rifleman. At this ...
( Category: Naval June 5,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Bowman, Martin W [Bowman, Martin W]

Footnotes 80 Rogers later gained a DFM and he was commissioned. He was KIA on 8/9 April 1943 flying as second pilot of a Halifax II on 76 Squadron. 81 ...
( Category: History June 1,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Phil Keith [Keith, Phil]

2200, MAY 6, 1942 ADMIRAL’S QUARTERS, USS LEXINGTON Fitch was alone with his thoughts. He idly wondered what his classmate “Jack” Fletcher was doing on board Yorktown, just three miles ...
( Category: Aviation June 1,2015 )