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Battles that Changed History by Spencer C. Tucker
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Spencer C. Tucker

References Barker, A. J. The War against Russia, 1854-1856. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Barthorp, Michael. Heroes of the Crimea: The Battles of Balaclava and Inkerman. London: Blandford, ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
Eyeing the Red Storm by Robert M. Dienesch
epub |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:Robert M. Dienesch [Dienesch, Robert M.]

Film Return, Project II-A, and the CIA’s CORONA (November 1957–February 1958) Even as Lockheed was drawing up plans for expediting the WS-117L, forces beyond its control were eclipsing its efforts. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight November 30,2016 )
Revolution on the Hudson by George C. Daughan
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:George C. Daughan

On November 1 Byron reached Boston, hoping to engage d’Estaing. The very next day, however, another nor’easter struck, scattering Byron’s fleet again. Foul-Weather Jack just could not escape the dark ...
( Category: United States November 29,2016 )
Louisville in World War II by Bruce M. Tyler
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Bruce M. Tyler

Chester C. Doherty (top row), first lieutenant colonel and assistant commandant of the School of Air Evacuation, and, from left to right, Captains Edwin McBride and John Horton and Maj. ...
( Category: State & Local November 23,2016 )
Night Fighter by Hamilton William H.; Sasser Charles W.;
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Hamilton, William H.; Sasser, Charles W.;

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE CHINA BEACH WAS A twenty-mile stretch of white sand northeast of Da Nang extending into the blue waters of the South China Sea, only ninety miles from the ...
( Category: Veterans November 13,2016 )
Central Florida's World War II Veterans by Bob Grenier
epub |eng | 2016-08-18 | Author:Bob Grenier

The Apopka Veterans Memorial is located in Kit Nelson Park, which is situated off Park Avenue between First Street and Orange Street. This monument, created by Preston Willingham, was donated ...
( Category: Veterans August 19,2016 )
The Great Call-Up: The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution by Charles H. Harris & Louis R. Sadler
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Charles H. Harris & Louis R. Sadler [Harris, Charles H.]

Chapter 13 El Paso El Paso was the principal National Guard concentration point on the border. While the Brownsville District contained more troops, some fifty thousand, they were distributed all ...
( Category: State & Local July 19,2016 )
A Waterloo Hero by Friedrich Lindau
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Friedrich Lindau [Lindau, Friedrich]

ACTION AT TOLOSA Two days after Vitoria, Graham was sent to intercept the retreat of a French corps under General Foy, who had not been present at the battle. On ...
( Category: Veterans July 17,2016 )
Among the Headhunters by Robert Lyman
epub |eng | 2016-04-10 | Author:Robert Lyman

10 THE BATTLE OF PANGSHA Tuesday, November 24, began with reveille at 4 a.m. Mills wrote in his daily letter to Pamela that the immediate tragedy was that the bitters ...
( Category: United States June 27,2016 )
Douglas MacArthur by Arthur Herman
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

CHAPTER 19 GREEN HELL There is hardly any celebrated enterprise in War which was not achieved by endless exertion, pains, and privations; and as here the weakness of the physical ...
( Category: World War I June 16,2016 )
The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Annie Jacobsen

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Biological Weapons On December 11, 1991, a mysterious forty-one-year-old Soviet scientist named Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov arrived in Washington, D.C., one of a thirteen-man Soviet delegation. The group was ...
( Category: United States June 15,2016 )
Marine_A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit by Tom Clancy
epub |eng | 1996-09-15 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

Walking forward, you enter a stowage area for vehicles of the embarked MEU (SOC). On this deck and the one below are HMMWVs, 5-ton trucks, M 198 155mm field howitzers, ...
( Category: United States June 13,2016 )
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

AT CAMP Lemonnier there is often a quicker route to where you’re going, but to follow it you’d need to be shot. You’d need to scale a twelve-foot-high Cyclone fence ...
( Category: United States June 9,2016 )
Mike Guardia by American Guerrilla
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-25 | Author:American Guerrilla [Guerrilla, American]

On 7 October 1943, back at “General Headquarters,” Volckmann welcomed the arrival of Dennis Molintas, who together with Bando Dagwa, had come out of hiding from the previous year’s anti-guerilla ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2016 )
The First Leathernecks: A Combat History of the U.S. Marines From Inception to the Halls of Montezuma by Don Burzynski & Col. Charles Waterhouse Usmc (
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Don Burzynski & Col. Charles Waterhouse Usmc ( [Burzynski, Don & Usmc, Col. Charles Waterhouse]

Engraved portrait of Commodore Joshua Barney Artist: Alonzo Chappel Collection of the author The Final Stand at Bladensburg Artist: Colonel Charles H. Waterhouse, USMCR Visit the Battlefield: Fort Lincoln Cemetery, ...
( Category: United States May 19,2016 )

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