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Author : Robert Frump
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599216477
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two Tankers Down written by Robert Frump and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-08-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the greatest small-boat rescue in American history.
Author : Michael J. Tougias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150110683X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Finest Hours written by Michael J. Tougias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1952 Coast Guard mission to save the crews of two oil tankers that were torn in half by the force of one of New England's worst nor'easters.
Author : Lawrence M. Kaplan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813176069
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pershing's Tankers written by Lawrence M. Kaplan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917, the US Army established the Tank Corps to help break the deadlock of trench warfare in France during World War I. The army envisioned having a large tank force by 1919, but when the war ended in November 1918, only three tank battalions had participated in combat operations. Shortly after, Brigadier General Samuel D. Rockenbach, Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) Tank Corps under General John J. Pershing, issued a memorandum to many of his officers to write brief accounts of their experiences that would supplement official records. Their narratives varied in size, scope, and depth, and covered a range of topics, including the organizing, training, and equipping of the tank corps. For the first time since these reports were submitted, Pershing's Tankers: Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I presents an unprecedented look into the experiences of soldiers in the US Army Tank Corps. The book provides fresh insight into the establishment and combat operations of the tank corps, including six personal letters written by Colonel George S. Patton, Jr., who commanded a tank brigade in World War I. Congressional testimony, letters, and a variety of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles in this collection provide additional context to the officers' revealing accounts.Based on completely new sources that include official US Army personnel reports that were previously unknown to researchers, this illuminating work offers a vivid picture of life and activities in the US Army Tank Corps in France. Revealed is a rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a broad cross-section of men from the senior leadership down to the platoon level, and a behind-the-scenes look into how this first generation of "tankers" helped develop new war-fighting capabilities for the US Army.
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 5631120941
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fighting on the Brink written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493027034
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told written by Tom McCarthy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coast Guard’s rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm. The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United States. In The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told, the editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about air and sea rescues that capture readers imaginations, culled from books, magazines, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Kathryn Miles, Eric Hartlep, Gerald Hoover, Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Geoffrey D. Reynolds, Kalee Thompson, H. Paul Jeffers, and many others.
Author : Turner Publishing
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563115581
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Marine Corps Tankers Assn written by Turner Publishing and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gene Eric Salecker
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811703142
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rolling Thunder Against the Rising Sun written by Gene Eric Salecker and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the history of armor in World War II has captured the attention of countless authors, no one has yet chronicled the extensive use of tanks in the Pacific--until now. In comprehensive detail Gene Eric Salecker describes the exploits of American tanks on the jungle islands where troops engaged in savage combat and encountered unforgiving weather and terrain. Stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked the islands in 1941, the U.S. Army's independent tank battalions fought from the very start of the war. From New Guinea and the Solomons to the Ryukyus, American armor proved instrumental in winning World War II in the Pacific.First work dedicated solely to the use of Army tanks in the Pacific Theater Covers armor battles in the Philippines, Makin, the Solomons, Rabaul, New Guinea, Saipan, Guam, and Okinawa
Author : Michael Green
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 161673969X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book War Stories of the Tankers written by Michael Green and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This military history chronicles nearly a century of armored combat through firsthand accounts of soldiers from WWI to Iraq. Starting with the century’s first tanks as they entered no-man’s-land during World War I, War Stories of the Tankers continues through a century of military conflict, all the way to Operation Desert Storm. Here are the stories of green American tankers taking on massive and well-armored German Tigers and fighting through a screaming sea of Red Chinese soldiers in Korea. And here also are the personal tales of American tankers defending Western Europe from the threat of Soviet tanks during the Cold War. From the American soldiers who pitted their tanks against the Viet Cong in the jungles of Southeast Asia to those who put their lives on the line in the streets of Baghdad, these are the heroes of our time, taking that rare moment to tell us what it is like to face the enemy in tank warfare.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Greal Lakes- St. Lawrence Basin. Hearings ... on H.J. Res. 271 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Webster
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146916177X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Down To The Sea written by Arthur Webster and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who go down to sea in ships life has always been exciting but ever dangerous. Brutally treated, under paid and subjected to greed of the ship owners and misguided government policies that conspired to keep the seaman in a condition of poverty and near slavery. Change only came about with the advent of the of the Maritime Unions and World War II. But no sooner had the war ended conditions on American Merchant vessels began to revert the old ways. The ship owners, with Government acquiescence, began to register their fleets under foreign flags in an attempt to break the power of the maritime unions. This activity give rise to the continual, and bloody, labor disputes of the 60’s and 70’s. Those prolonged lockouts and strikes were finally responsible for the virtual demise of the Merchant Marine. So ended the dream for we who love the sea and had made it our lives.
