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| Author | : Homer Haswell |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Sailors |
| ISBN | : 9781413462500 |
LSTs: The Ships with the Big Mouth The World War II amphibious war in the Pacific was like no other in history. Dozens of LSTs (landing ships tank) roared at flank speed up onto the beach. The bow doors opened. A ramp dropped down. Within minutes, tanks, bulldozers, trucks, jeeps, and all manner of vehicles were rolling out of the bow and onto the shore. No need for docks or wharves. More than a thousand of these LSTs were built, after the war began, to carry our troops, vehicles, and supplies to the islands of the Pacific. LSTs: The Ships with the Big Mouth is a first-hand report of LST 698 and her largely landlubber crew as she took part in the three biggest Pacific invasions at Leyte Gulf and Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines, and at Okinawa in Japan. Homer Haswell When the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, the author, Homer Haswell, a recent Wisconsin journalism graduate, left his advertising job in Chicago to join the Navy as a yeoman at Great Lakes, Ill. In May 1944, on graduation from midshipman school at Northwestern in Chicago, he reported to LST 698 in New Orleans. In Ensign Haswell's letters to his wife Fran, he used his "nose for news" to tell her of day-to-day happenings aboard ship. Half a century later, he wove those tales into an historic account of the ship's travels and travails to make an accurate, highly readable story of some of the great but little-known events of World War II. "World War II was one of the great events of the 20th century," Haswell said, "yet many of us are hazy about what really happened." LSTs: The Ships with the Big Mouth adds much to our knowledge of amphibious operations.
| Author | : Stephen C. Stripe |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2024-01-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1663260001 |
There were 231,000 men and 10,000 women who served in the Coast Guard during World War II. – and 1,918 of them did not return home. At its height, the Coast Guard manned 802 ocean going cutters, 351 naval vessels, 288 Army watercraft, smaller vessels assigned to escort and port security, and 165 aircraft. Stephen C. Stripe, an amateur historian whose father, Max E. Stripe, served in the Coast Guard during World War II, tells the fascinating story of LST 791 and her Coast Guard crew, from commissioning to the end of the war in this book. The book focuses on Okinawa, which was the site of the largest amphibious invasion during the war in the Pacific. LST 791 delivered Marines and supplies to the invasion beaches. Its crew manned weapons during a kamikaze assault to protect a nearby hospital ship. When the war ended, the crew shifted from preparing to invade Japan to transporting occupation troops to the string of islands. The book includes the memoirs of Skipper Lt. Cmdr. A. Duncan to provide firsthand observations and details on the important role that LST 791 played.
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| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 1968 |
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| Author | : Bennie Taylor |
| Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2023-12-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
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This is the story of a man and his extended family and their lifelong fight for racial equality in the Jim Crow era of the South.
| Author | : Fred Gaffen |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1996-07-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1554881390 |
For well of a hundred years, Canadians and Americans have crossed the border that separates their two countries to serve in one another’s armed forces. The American Civil War, the two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War - Cross-Border Warriors presents anecdotes, letters, and diaries by or about individuals who left family and native land to engage in these far-away struggles. There was Emma Edmonds, a woman from New Brunswick who disguised herself as a man and served as a field nurse and spy for the Yankees during the civil war; American Lucien Thomas, who flew 400 combat missions in WW II and Korea; Fred Demara, "The Great Impostor," who used his surgical skills on unsuspecting patients ... More than ninety photos, together with Fred Gaffen’s analysis of this cross-border phenomenon, complement the soldiers’ words.
| Author | : Norman Friedman |
| Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Anti-submarine warfare |
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Traces the evolution of the destroyer from 1906 to the present and examines the design and construction of the various models of American destroyers.
| Author | : Edward J. Marolda |
| Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
| Total Pages | : 86 |
| Release | : 2019-09-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0160955556 |
This historical volume introduces us to the Navy’s river force and American advisers to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. Navy and Marines securing the Rung Sat that was owned by Viet Cong early in the War offered our navy a river patrol craft that allowed for early naval intelligence attempts. Riverine warfare training because a mission for training sailors at home in addition to SEALS and SEALORDS for additional coastal surveillance force to support the riverine forces. Vice Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. proved to be a strategic leader to: * plan a combined-arms, * multi-service, * multinational approach to interdicting Communist infiltration from Cambodia * and destroying enemies within the Mekong Delta The fast patrol craft or swift boat became one of the Navy’s workhorses from the SEALORDS CAMPAIGN. The Army’s Dust Off, medical evacuation helicopter is also introduced within this resource to provide medical attention to those in combat as part of rescue missions. Related products: Find more volumes in The U.S. Navy and Vietnam War series: The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945-1965 (ePub ISBN: 9780160928604) Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972 (ePub ISBN: 9780160928697) The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and the Marine POWs in the Vietnam War (ePub ISBN: 9780160928635) Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon (ePub ISBN: 9780160928666) Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign (ePub ISBN: 9780160931222) Knowing the Enemy: Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia (ePub ISBN: 9780160937361) Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War (ePub ISBN: 9780160955433) End of the Saga: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia (ePub ISBN: 9780160955570)
| Author | : Joseph Bruchac |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2006-07-06 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101664800 |
"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life for young adults through the riveting fictional tale of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo boy who becomes a code talker. His grueling journey is eye-opening and inspiring. This deeply affecting novel honors all of those young men, like Ned, who dared to serve, and it honors the culture and language of the Navajo Indians. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults "Nonsensational and accurate, Bruchac's tale is quietly inspiring..."—School Library Journal
| Author | : George A. Fisher (Major.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1947 |
| Genre | : Soldiers |
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| Author | : Dan Daly |
| Publisher | : Casemate |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2017-02-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1612004792 |
A memoir of heroism, comradeship, danger, and laughter aboard a Vietnam patrol craft, as a small crew grew into a seasoned combat team. Includes photos. During the Vietnam War, 3500 officers and men served in the Swift Boat program in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam, facing deadly combat, intense lightning firefights, storms, and many hidden dangers. This action-packed account by the Officer in Charge of PCF 76 makes you part of the Swift Boat crew. The six-man crew of PCF 76 was made up of volunteers from all over the United States, eager to serve their country in a unique type of duty not seen since the PT boats of WWII. This inexperienced and disparate group of men would meld into a team that formed an unbreakable lifelong bond. After training, they were plunged into a twelve-month tour of duty. Combat took place in the closest confines imaginable, where the enemy could be hidden behind a passing sand dune or a single sniper could be concealed in an onshore bunker. In many cases, the rivers became so narrow there was barely room to maneuver or turn around. The only way out might be into a deadly ambush. This is not a Vietnam memoir filled with political discussions or apologies. It simply tells the stories of these young, valiant sailors with humor and heartfelt emotion—in a suspenseful, surprising book that pays tribute to these sailors who, upon returning home, asked little of their country and received less.
