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Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-10 | Author:Donovan Campbell [Campbell, Donovan]

For Joker One, though, the events of April 6 began well before we launched into the city to relieve third platoon. In fact, for us April 6 began precisely at ...
( Category: Veterans May 29,2014 )
Extraordinary Patriots of the United States of American: Colonial Times to Pre-Civil War by Nancy Robinson Masters
mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Nancy Robinson Masters

Henry Knox The “Ox” of the Revolutionary War 1750-1806 He is too valuable to me. —General George Washington Henry Knox looked up from the manual of military strategy he was ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 28,2014 )
Shade it Black by Jessica Goodell
epub |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Jessica Goodell

Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) quickly became the favorite weapon of the insurgents. They were easy to make, transport, conceal, and detonate. And they were effective. (Photo courtesy of Bill Thompson) ...
( Category: Veterans March 28,2014 )
Red Eagles by Steve Davies
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Davies

EJECTION SEAT UNCERTAINTY Gennin grounded the MiGs on a number of occasions soon after assuming command. Whatever the fault, when he imposed a grounding he would issue the instruction first, ...
( Category: Veterans March 26,2014 )
Tank Killers by Harry Yeide
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-18 | Author:Harry Yeide

First Army, meanwhile, was compressing the pocket as it plowed north toward the British and Canadians. The 3d Armored Division hooked through Mayenne and then east and north after the ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
From Brittany to the Reich by Joseph Balkoski
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Joseph Balkoski [Balkoski, Joseph]

The 116th Infantry at Aachen, October 1–23, 1944. The column pressed on, past several massive slag heaps and abandoned coal mines that were common to this industrial region of Germany. ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
Ambrose, Stephen E. by Band of Brothers
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Band of Brothers [Brothers, Band of]

7 HEALING WOUNDS AND SCRUBBED MISSIONS * ALDBOURNE July 13-Septemberl6,1944 "It's the only time I ever saw the Army do anything right," Gordon Carson said. "They put us on those ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
One Hundred Years of U.S. Navy Air Power by Smith Douglas V
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Smith, Douglas V. [Smith, Douglas V.]

TRANSITION The period through 1945 produced a particular type of carrier for both strategic and technological reasons. The strategic reason was that, through this period, the U.S. Navy was designed ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2014 )
Grunts by John C. McManus
epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:John C. McManus

See the Hill, Take the Hill: The Horror of 875 The tension was palpable, jolting, like an electrical current. Here and there, morning fog hung in the valleys. For three ...
( Category: Iraq March 26,2014 )
Lost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff [Zuckoff, Mitchell]

Chapter 19 “SHOO, SHOO BABY” THEIR STOMACHS EMPTY and growling, Walter and his team awoke early to a breakfast of hot water and hope. His top priority was receiving a ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2014 )
Storm Landings by Joseph H. Alexander
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

* The author is indebted to H. Arthur “Hal” Lamar, flag lieutenant to Nimitz, and Loren F. “Sonny” Paulus, the admiral’s bodyguard, for these personal insights. * The instructors at ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
Island of Shame by Vine David
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Vine, David

THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTOM Arriving in Mauritius and the Seychelles, islanders like Rita found themselves in positions vulnerable to ethnic and racial discrimination, as Chagossians and as Afro-Mauritians. Their ...
( Category: Asian March 26,2014 )
AT LENINGRAD'S GATES: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North by William Lubbeck
epub |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:William Lubbeck [Lubbeck, William]

BATTLING IN A SWAMP: April June 1942 When the spring thaw arrived in early April, it swiftly turned the whole Volkhov battlefield into a muddy bog. The warmer weather was ...
( Category: Veterans March 26,2014 )
Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption by Jeremiah Workman & John Bruning
epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Jeremiah Workman & John Bruning [Workman, Jeremiah & Bruning, John]

Big hair and all, they got that one right. I light the smoke and take a deep breath. It’s after ten and I’ll need to take my meds soon. That’ll ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
War of Numbers by Sam Adams
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Sam Adams [Adams, Sam]

Regulars: 119,000 Service Troops: 37,500 Guerrillas: 80,000 Military Total: 236,500 Political Cadres: 80,000 In other words, the agency had gone along with MACV’s mimeographed bargain—and then some. The militia had ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )

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