Uncommon Valor Common Virtue

Author : Hal Buell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425209806
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue written by Hal Buell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth account of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, describes the events of the battle between U.S. Marines and Japanese forces, as well as Rosenthal's ten days on Iwo Jima during the conflict, in a narrative complemented by more than 120 archival combat photographs. 50,000 first printing.

Author : Donald R. Curtis
Publisher : Bearhead Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781937508302
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Valor - Common Virtue: The Franklin R. Sousley Story written by Donald R. Curtis and published by Bearhead Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 19th, 1945, after four days of heavy fighting on the tiny island of Iwo Jima, the Marines finally reached the base of Mt. Suribachi. The goal was to take the volcanic cone some 600 feet tall towering over the island. First to reach the summit was "Fox" Company. They erected an American flag to the thrill and excitement of Marines on the beach and coming ashore. Colonel Chandles Johnson thought it best to put up a larger flag where everyone could see it. A runner was sent to a ship off shore and a larger flag was retrieved. As the larger flag was sent up the mountain, Joe Rosenthal went up with the second flag, carried by a Marine. As the flag went up and the first came down, a split second click of his camera, caught the flag raising which became one of the most famous photographs in U.S. history. It also caused one of the biggest controversies. This writing is about one certain young man, Franklin R. Sousley, of Fleming County, Kentucky, who after battling his way up Mt. Suribachi, took part in the second flag raising and became a hometown hero as well as one from Kentucky, by raising and displaying "Old Glory" over Japanese territory, along with five other comrades. Discover some of his early life, growing into a fine young man, becoming a Marine and ending up on the island of Iwo Jima, where he lost his life for freedom, not only for Americans, but the entire world, and became part of what has long been said as "our greatest generation."

Author : Suzanne E. Roussel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon valor was a common virtue written by Suzanne E. Roussel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Turner Publishing
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781563110412
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifth Marine Division written by Turner Publishing and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-06-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the hardships and victories of the 5th Marine Division during World War II and Vietnam. This commemorative history book also includes maps, charts, outstanding photos, and special battle stories written by the 5th Marine veterans.

Author : Philip A. St. John
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781563110351
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2nd Armored Division History written by Philip A. St. John and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding history that follows the birth of the tracked fighting vehicle & the HELL ON WHEELS Division's activities during World War II. Everything is in this book from the 2nd's 1942 battle preparations to the final drive into Germany in August 1945. Includes an Association history & roster.

Author : Stephen Moore
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682473120
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Valor written by Stephen Moore and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert U.S. military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army's Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, attempting to rescue downed U.S. pilots, and other black ops missions. During that time, Forward Operating Base-2's (FOB-2's) recon company became the most highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War, with five of its men earning the Medal of Honor and eight earning the Distinguished Service Cross-America's second highest military award for valor. Purple Hearts were earned by SOG veterans at a pace unparalleled in American wars of the twentieth century, with casualties at times exceeding 100 percent. One, Bob Howard, was wounded on fourteen different occasions, received eight Purple Hearts, was written up after three different missions for the Medal of Honor, and emerged from Vietnam as the most highly decorated soldier since World War II's Audie Murphy.

Author : Joseph Tachovsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684510678
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40 Thieves on Saipan written by Joseph Tachovsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The 2020 Best Book Award for Military History -- American Bookfest An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40 Thieves” were chosen for their willingness to defy rules and beat all-comers. When two Marines got into a fight, the loser ended up in the infirmary, the winner in the brig. Tachovsky wanted the winner on his team—a brush with military law was a recommendation. These full-blooded men were trained in a ruthless array of hand-to-hand killing techniques and then thrown into the battle for Saipan—Emperor Hirohito’s “Treasure” and the bulwark of the Japanese Empire in the Pacific—where they would wreak havoc in and around, but mostly behind, enemy lines. They witnessed inhuman atrocities; walked into an ambush after the cunning Japanese used wounded Marines as bait; endured body-punishing extremes of heat, hunger, and thirst; fought a relentless enemy who would not surrender; and watched best friends die. Now Tachovsky’s son Joseph tells their remarkable story—a story he didn’t even know until after his father’s death—reported from an extensive documentary record, including priceless mementos his father kept, and from exhaustive interviews with survivors who served under Lieutenant “Ski.” This is how America won the war in the Pacific, where “uncommon valor was a common virtue.” 40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of World War II’s Bloodiest Battles is true history. It’s also an adventure you don’t want to miss.

Author : Paul Aleckson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War II written by Paul Aleckson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Hammel
Publisher : Daniel Hammel
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Root: The Marines In Beirut written by Eric Hammel and published by Daniel Hammel. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ROOT The Marines in Beirut August 1982­–February 1984 Eric Hammel Facing northward out of a second-deck window, the lance corporal was hurled through the window and out into mid- air. He fell thirty feet to the ground and landed on his feet. He was not harmed until falling debris struck him on the head and shoulders. Nearly every other member of the recon platoon in his compartment was killed in the inferno. At 6:22 A.M. on October 23, 1983, a yellow Mercedes truck raced across the parking lot of the Beirut International Airport in Lebanon. Crashing through a chain-link gate into the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit’s headquarters compound, it raced on careening through a shack and into the open atrium lobby of a terminal building in which hundreds of American servicemen were housed, many still asleep. The truck lurched to a stop. Seconds later, 12,000 pounds of high explosives piled in the bed of the truck exploded. The four-story steel-and-concrete building shuddered, then collapsed. Two hundred forty-one Americans were killed and many more were injured in the disaster. Soon after the 24th MAU returned to the United States in November 1983, the Marine Corps granted Eric Hammel an unprecedented opportunity to interview survivors of the bombing and those who came to their rescue. The Root is the result of these interviews. It is a narrative account of the Marines’ mission in Lebanon, describing their escalating involvement in the largely unreported battles fought in and around the shattered city of Beirut. And it presents in detail the terrorist attack on the unit headquarters. The focus of The Root is on the nearly 200 people interviewed by the author—enlisted men and officers—for whom the shock and horror at the bombing were still fresh. Their reactions to the danger, what they survived and how they survived it, their concerns and insights, make The Root a timeless chronicle of the human spirit—and as timely as today’s headlines. Praise for The Root “Illustrates Washington’s exceptional resistance to accepting the facts that contradict its preconceived views. . . . It’s time that we learn from our mistakes and never again put our people in situations we do not understand. A first step is to read how our effort in Beirut turned from a noble cause into having our troops pinned down in an escalating civil war we did not understand.” —Colonel Thomas X Hammes, USMC (Ret.), author of The Sling and the Stone It’s a fine book . . . a fascinating record of the life of a military unit . . . “ —New York Times “Hammel has grippingly reconstructed a story that was often obscured as it unfolded.” —Los Angeles Times “Hammel’s detailed account of individual rescue efforts is intensely graphic. . . . It is first-hand and realistic. It is not sensationalized or trivialized.” —New York Tribune “Eric Hammel’s well-written book . . . strikes a deep emotional chord . . .” —Naval Institute Proceedings “(The Root is) a book about the violence of combat, a first-hand account of death and danger, fear, pain and survival. . . . ” —Baltimore Sun “A disturbingly accurate portrait…well-researched (and) well-crafted. . . .” —Kirkus Reviews “This is a moving book which tells a story that needs to be told.” —San Diego Union

Author : Philip A. St John
Publisher : Turner
ISBN 13 : 9781563112003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iwo Jima written by Philip A. St John and published by Turner. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, "Among the Americans who served in Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue." This 50th Anniversary edition of Iwo Jima tells the story of these men with personal accounts and unbelievable photographs. The never-before-published narrative and maps cover the history of this battle from the sea, the air, and the land.