United States
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 | 2011-09-12 | Author:Fred A. Wilcox [Wilcox, Fred A.]

* For a copy of this memo, see Appendix, 191–194. * In 1980 the VA rescinded the requirement that veterans prove exposure when asking for information, assistance, or treatment for ...
( Category: Biological & Chemical June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Thibeault

EIGHTY SECOND Eighty-second Patch on my shoulder, Pick up your chutes and jump with me I am the Infantry One-oh-one Patch on my shoulder, Pick up your weapons and follow ...
( Category: Afghan War June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-07-18 | Author:Otto Lehrack

THE ATTACK ON NAM YEN 3 As Hotel, 2/4’s 1st and 3d platoons closed on Nam Yen 3 the first sign of life from the village was a black-pajama-clad man ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 13,2015 )
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 | | Author:Marcus Brotherton

Earl McClung The Island meant patrols. It was strictly a holding position. The Germans were across the river on the high ground, so you didn’t move in the daylight. If ...
( Category: Veterans June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-05-02 | Author:W Hunter Lesser [Lesser, W Hunter]

Confederate General Wise held the James River and Kanawha Turnpike on the New River at Hawks Nest, six miles east of Federals under General Cox. Wise was positioned there ostensibly ...
( Category: Civil War June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

Thompson was not the only soldier to venture to the Little Bighorn on his own initiative. Henry Mechling and another soldier from Benteen’s H Company also headed down the ravine ...
( Category: Native American June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-06 | Author:Dalton Fury

George brought Ali up to date, with Adam Khan meticulously translating and Ali nodding in the affirmative. Ali said that he planned to exploit the bomb drop, as soon as ...
( Category: Veterans June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Richard Winters

10 Surrounded Again Ask any veteran of the campaign in northwest Europe to identify his toughest single engagement, and you might expect him to say D-Day or some other day ...
( Category: World War II June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Robert Middlekauff

Perhaps only in a revolutionary war do soldiers go into battle with a conception of a “righteous cause” competing with an image of their own necks in a halter. These ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Jim Frederick

Sergeant First Class Blaisdell was at Yusufiyah trying to get a mission under way. A few days earlier, they had caught some suspicious types driving around and found several weapons ...
( Category: Iraq War June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:William O. Darby

From there Major Dammer and the battalion went south over the hill to Porto Empedocle. For a three-mile stretch, row upon row of vineyards sloped gracefully towards the sea. The ...
( Category: Veterans June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Marcus Brotherton

Earl McClung The Island meant patrols. It was strictly a holding position. The Germans were across the river on the high ground, so you didn’t move in the daylight. If ...
( Category: Veterans June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Hedges, Chris [Hedges, Chris]

Chapter 8 DYING How will I die? Most combat wounds result in the loss of too much blood. Had you made it to old age, you might have had enough ...
( Category: Conventional June 4,2015 )