Brave Battalion

Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470738979
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave Battalion written by Mark Zuehlke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Excerpt From Brave Battalion. The company was completely bunched in front of the wire. Some men threw bombs toward the German trench while others tried to beat down the wooden stakes supporting the wire with their rifle buts and then trample it into the mud. The German grenades generally fell short as they were throwing uphill, but their rifle fire was "deadly accurate." Casualties mounted. Unless something were to be done quickly, Mackie realized that No. 4 Company would be wiped out. Suddenly Richardson turned to the sergeant. "Will I gie them wund?" he asked calmly. "Aye mon, gie 'em wind, " Mackie barked back. Coolly, the young smooth-faced solder marched back and forth in front of the wire, playing the pipes while a storm of fire swirled past him on either side. "The effect was instantaneous," reads his Victoria Cross commendation. "Inspired by his splendid example, the company rushed the wire with such fury and determination that the obstacle was overcome and the positions captured."

Author : Walt Cross
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0985099674
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune Favors the Brave; the 334th Infantry Regiment in World War II written by Walt Cross and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS THE UNIT HISTORY OF THE 334TH INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE 84TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN EUROPE DURING WWII. THESE ARE STORIES OF REAL SOLDIERS, REAL BATTLES, REAL HISTORY AND HEROES.

Author : David H. Hackworth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671865609
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave Men written by David H. Hackworth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odyssey of an Infantryman Condensed from Colonel David H. Hackworth's blockbusterNew York Timesbestseller,About Face, Brave Menis an explosive battlefield chronicle from one of America's most decorated soldiers. Vividly recalling his experiences as an infantry leader, Hackworth takes you to the steep, razor-backed hills and bone-chilling cold of Korea, to the steamy guerrilla-infested jungles of Vietnam, to the real wars fought in the chaos of close combat. Here is Hackworth himself, jumping onto tanks to fire .50 caliber guns...charging through the smoke of frag grenades to land in front of the enemy...taking prisoners at bayonet point with an empty rifle...revealing the brutal emotions of battle...and witnessing heroism of the highest order. Here is the hard-fought, hard-won legacy of one man, who in 25 years amassed more than 110 medals.Brave Menstands as one of the most extraordinary military memoirs of our time.

Author : Guthrie Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave Company written by Guthrie Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infantry men in battle in New Zealand.

Author : Bruce F. Meyer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312996802
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune Favors the Brave written by Bruce F. Meyer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08-16 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their Job Was To Get Inside Enemy Territory. And Be Ready To Fight Their Way Back Out... At the end of World War II, when daring marine reconnaissance units made a life-and-death difference in island warfare in the Pacific, a secret unit was formed inside the military. With courageous men risking their lives, Test Unit 1 experimented with new ways of inserting marines behind enemy lines-by sea and by land-and then getting them out again. As America barreled towards a confrontation in Indochina and a new era of warfare, First Force Recon was born... This is the untold, inside story of a super elite reconnaissance force-U.S. Special Operations Forces who practiced clandestine insertion and extraction by submarine, jet aircraft and helicopter, using tools and techniques that had never been tried before. Strapping you in the harness of a HALO parachute, launching from the torpedo room of a submerged submarine or climbing the extraction rig of a hovering marine chopper, Fortune Favors the Brave is a firsthand account of what it was like to build a new strike force from the ground up... to make sure that the next time America fought a war, Force Recon would be there. "A superb job...this book fills a void that needed to be filled." -Major Bruce "Doc" Norton, USMC (Ret.)

Author : Daniel Tyler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368863010
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War. 1846-1847 written by Daniel Tyler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Rodney E Walton
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511317
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Guns, Brave Men written by Rodney E Walton and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it was the largest and final battle of the Pacific War, the Battle for Okinawa has long been overshadowed by other dramatic events in 1945. The books that have been written about it emphasize the role of infantrymen, armor, and U.S. Marines. This work takes a fresh perspective and focuses on the vital role played by the U.S. Army’s forward artillery observers—the eyes and ears of American artillery who were among the least recognized heroes of the war. According to Rodney Earl Walton, U.S. artillerymen matched Japanese gunners in intensity and surpassed them in effectiveness because their forward observers were able to provide a much shorter response time to requests for artillery support. Divided into teams consisting of four or five men led by an artillery lieutenant, these observers would spend three days on the front lines directing artillery against enemy positions, return to their artillery battery for three days, and then rotate up to the line of battle again. While trying to maximize the damage inflicted on the enemy, the men had to deal with the ever-present possibility of firing on their own forces. The ability to shift artillery fire throughout the battlefield was a new development in World War II, and its evolution is fully examined in the book. Walton, the son of one of the forward observers on Okinawa, spent more than twenty years investigating what happened to his father and other artillerymen during the conflict. Interviews with the artillerymen and the infantrymen they supported are central to his story, which is filled with gripping and sometimes humorous accounts of what happened. The work stands as a stirring tribute from the “baby boom generation” to the “greatest generation.

Author : Norma Ricketts
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874213266
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mormon Battalion written by Norma Ricketts and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to an eager American public. Yet, the battalion is little known beyond Mormon history. This first complete history of the wide-ranging army unit restores it to its central place in Western history, and provides descendants a complete roster of the Battalion's members.

Author : Gregory Orfalea
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439143684
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messengers of the Lost Battalion written by Gregory Orfalea and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Before the Flames and the son of a member of the ill-fated infantry battalion discusses America's 551st Battalion and their heroic, little-known role during World War II's Battle of the Bulge.

Author : Edward Arthur Howard Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the 12th (the Suffolk) Regiment written by Edward Arthur Howard Webb and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: