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epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Walter R. Borneman

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Bypassing Rabaul The World War II strategy of island-hopping—isolating and bypassing enemy strong points—had many fathers. The Japanese, consciously or not, employed a version of it when they ...
( Category: World War II May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Stephen Harding

The future USS Strong (DD-467) takes shape on the ways at Bath Iron Works (BIW). Hull number 193 was among the first six of an eventual 31 2,100-ton Fletcher-class destroyers ...
( Category: Japan May 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Charles Whiting [Whiting, Charles]

Chapter Five – The Last Battle ‘Je starker der Sturm, desto kräftiger der Widerstand.’ (‘The stronger the storm, the mightier the resistance.’) Dr Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister, April 1945 The ...
( Category: Holocaust May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael M. Greenburg

Chapter 10 Outrage and Allegations GEORGE LITTLE could not believe his eyes. Hours earlier, he had brazenly scolded Commodore Dudley Saltonstall on the deck of the Warren, pressing him to ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 23,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Owen, Joseph R. [Owen, Joseph R.]

The Air Force drops supplies. Ammunition and rations came by parachute after the Chinese had cut the MSR—the main supply route. When the chutes blew into the hills, we fought ...
( Category: Campaigns April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Terry Mort

Should the readers of your Journal in the States see these communications, they will understand that notwithstanding we are serving in the most God-forsaken country in the habitable globe, yet ...
( Category: State & Local April 14,2016 )
mobi |jpn | 2015-04-12 | Author:Unknown

( Category: World War II March 23,2016 )
mobi |jpn | 2015-04-12 | Author:Unknown

( Category: World War II March 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1982-03-22 | Author:Raymond B. Lech

All the other ships of the scouting flotilla were performing the same revolting task as Helm. Initially, some of the captains brought the bodies on board in order to offer ...
( Category: World War II March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jay Winik

The movements of the Allied and Axis troops during the North Africa campaign The plan called for landing the army under the cover of darkness, and he was well aware ...
( Category: United States March 14,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-10-14 | Author:Abrashoff, Michael [Abrashoff, Michael]

CHAPTER EIGHT TAKE CALCULATED RISKS THE U.S. NAVY IS NO MORE FOND OF PEOPLE WHO GO out on a limb than is any other bureaucracy. In fact, taking a risk ...
( Category: Leadership March 4,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:James McCartney

* * * THE MOST EXPENSIVE WEAPONS IN THE WORLD To identify the most expensive weapons in the world, Douglas A. McIntyre and Michael B. Sauter of the Web site ...
( Category: History & Theory March 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-12 | Author:Leo Barron

These comments [McMahon’s and Abrams’s] motivated me so the barn was set afire with a grenade to chase the enemy away so we could move forward without being under fire ...
( Category: World War II February 29,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Morgan, Martin K. A. [Morgan, Martin K. A.]

Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell, seen here when he was a Staff Sergeant in the 76th Infantry Division in early 1943, was serving as the First Sergeant of D Company, 2nd ...
( Category: United States February 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-30 | Author:Don Brown

ADSAT4: Going into, what was the interpretation between your crews and 17? How were they expecting the LZ to be marked? PB70FS (Co-­pilot Gun 2): is the one [inaudible] going ...
( Category: United States February 15,2016 )