From Jeep Driver to General

From Jeep Driver to General
Author: Jesse M. Allen
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2011-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1613461259

Retired General Jesse Allen saw it all in his military career. An army jeep driver in the U.S. Army Air Corps serving General Patton's Third Army in World War II, an air force fighter pilot in Korea, and a fighter squadron commander in Vietnam, Allen held every rank from private to two-star general. A cultural history as well as a memoir, From Jeep Driver to General reveals an insider's perspective of the U.S. military during some of its most significant triumphs and failures. General Allen offers his insights on racial divides in the military, the policy decisions that led to the loss of thousands of American lives in Korea and Vietnam, and a number of Cold War standoffs with Russian interests around the world. As an operations officer in Tactical Air Command, General Allen was even part of a team tasked with outlining plans to invade Cuba in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Written with candor, directness, and the bravado of a fighter pilot, From Jeep Driver to General tells the story of a man from humble beginnings who rose to the highest ranks of the greatest military in the world. General Allen had a front-row seat at events that never made it to the newspapers or history books. The general recounts these events in vivid detail as he provides a window into contemporary American history.

Two of Us Ain't Goin'

Two of Us Ain't Goin'
Author: Dempsey Allphin
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2001-07-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595182054

My duties in World War II in the European Theater of Operations as Administrative Assistant to Major General Mark Clark, Major General Lloyd Fredendall. Lieutant General George S. Patton, Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges, and Major General William B. Kean.

A Dream of Old Leaves

A Dream of Old Leaves
Author: Bret Lott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451667930

Bret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors -- along the intricate paths of intimacy. A little boy's first bad dream brings his father back to his own childhood nights when danger lurked beneath the bed; in the California desert at night two brothers in a pickup tune into radio stations from distant places, interrupted by sudden bursts of static; estranged suburban friends become good neighbors again in the course of thwarting two thieves. Lott's previous novels, The Man Who Owned Vermont and A Stranger's House, established him as "one of the strongest voices to come along in some time" (The San Francisco Chronicle). A Dream of Old Leaves stakes out his place in the landscape of new American fiction.

Billion Dollar Bullet

Billion Dollar Bullet
Author: Jerry Bevers
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2022-11-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 166248691X

This was a time when young men were being drafted into the army and dying at an alarming rate. The estimated life expectancy of a new lieutenant in the field was sixteen minutes. The worst years of the war were from 1968 to 1969. A total of 16,899 men died. It is easy to see why young men tried to stay out of the fighting, including me. In spite of that, I ended up very much in the fighting, earning two Bronze Star Medals, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Combat Infantry Badge and going from the lowest rank of private to captain in three years. Come along for the ride of a lifetime!

The Edge of the Universe

The Edge of the Universe
Author: Deanna Haunsperger
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780883855553

Exquisite expositions of mathematics taken from the first ten years of the Math Horizons magazine.

Best Little Stories from World War II

Best Little Stories from World War II
Author: C. Brian Kelly
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1402243588

The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war. Behind the great powers, global military conflict, and infamous battles are more than 100 incredible stories that bring to life the Second World War. During the six years of war were countless little-known moments of profound triumph and tragedy, bravery and cowardice, and good and evil. These amazing and unbelievable stories of brotherhood, redemption, escape, and civilian courage shed new light on the war that gripped the entire world. Experience the action through the eyes of people like: Lieutenant Jacob Beser, who was aboard both the Enola Gay and Bock's Car and felt the force of the shockwave that nearly destroyed the planes after dropping the H-bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor William Miller, who collapsed during a death march of POWs in Germany and was saved by the same man who had rescued him from what would have been a fatal car wreck in Pennsylvania five years earlier. The brave civilians who answered the British Admiralty's call to help rescue an army from Dunkirk during the height of a dangerous battle and sailed small fishing boats into relentless German fire, ultimately saving 335,000 men from This is the perfect book for any history buff looking for the untold stories of military and civilian daring during World War 2.

Brave Men

Brave Men
Author: Ernie Pyle
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Brave Men" by Ernie Pyle. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.