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| Author | : Gary Followill |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2023-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1922896691 |
The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War – one of Australia’s worst wartime tragedies – the cancellation of the rescue mission Operation Kingfisher. Finally, the true story of why the Sandakan POWs of World War II were not rescued despite a fully planned and resourced operation – including men, aircraft and naval vessels – all equipped to carry out the rescue mission. There have been several published theories on Operation Kingfisher which explore if the plan really existed, why it was cancelled and who was to blame for its cancellation. For the first time, Operation Kingfisher analyses the effects government policy and the relationships of Churchill, Roosevelt and Curtin had on the mission and its final outcome. Using recently released archival documents, the author uncovers the mistakes made by Allied governments and special forces in Borneo that triggered the Death Marches Number 2 and Number 3. It reveals the mistaken intelligence which caused the cancellation of the rescue mission of the POWs at the Sandakan POW camp – a decision that ultimately resulted in their deaths. Operation Kingfisher discloses the actual chain of events that led to the tragic sacrifice of all but six survivors of the Sandakan POW camp.
| Author | : Gary L. Telfer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Government publications |
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| Author | : Maj. Gary L. Telfer |
| Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 827 |
| Release | : 2016-08-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1787200841 |
This is the fourth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps. This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and III MAF’s perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity. It also covers the Marine Corps participation in the advisory effort, the operations of the two Special Landing Forces of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, and the services of Marines with the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. There are additional chapters on supporting arms and logistics, and a discussion of the Marine role in Vietnam in relation to the overall American effort.
| Author | : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
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| Author | : E. Cashmore |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2013-10-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135072787 |
First published in 1991, this book evaluates and compares the problematic relationships that have sometimes existed between police and Afro-Caribbean people in Britain and in the United States of America. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic assess conflicting claims from police and black communities, as to whether some police are racist or too brutal in their operations. Although this book was written in the early 90s, many of the issues discussed remain interesting and relevant to our society today.
| Author | : Gregory V. Short |
| Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1574414526 |
Previously published in 2007 by AuthorHouse under the title: Arc Light: A Marine's journey through South Vietnam.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 908 |
| Release | : 1967 |
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| Author | : David R. Higgins |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2015-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472809017 |
In 1967–68, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) was on the front line of the defence of South Vietnam's Quang Tri province, which was at the very heart of the Vietnam conflict. Facing them were the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), men whose organization and equipment made them a very different opponent from the famous, irregular Viet Cong forces. From the 'Hill Battles' in April 1967 to the struggle for the city of Hue (January–March 1968) this bloody campaign forced the two sides into a gruelling trial of strength. The USMC held a general technological and logistical advantage – including close air support and airborne transport, technology, and supplies – but could not always utilize these resources effectively in mountainous, jungle, or urban environments better known by their Vietnamese opponents. In this arresting account of small-unit combat, David R. Higgins steps into the tropical terrain of Vietnam to assess the performance and experience of USMC and NVA forces in three savage battles that stretched both sides to the limit.
| Author | : LtCol Ray Stewart USMC |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 780 |
| Release | : 2019-10-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1796054054 |
Book Two, the second of a three-book series, continues from 1966 in Book One, to cover the action of Marine Corps Tankers and Ontos crewmen fighting the locally-grown Viet Cong, the better armed, trained, organized, and equipped Viet Cong Main Forces, and the North Vietnamese Army Regulars from 1967 thru 1968 in I Corps, South Vietnam. As in Book One, and to continue in Book Three, it features hundreds of personal stories, on-the-spot in real time, interviews of Marines just returning from their fight – all which is framed within the official unit command chronologies and after action reports, including documented “lessons learned”. The maps, personal pictures, organizational charts, and the citing of each Marine who gave his life are, also linked to the Vietnam Wall and to the Foundation’s web site, with volumes of additional information about the Marines who left their sweat and blood in Vietnam battling their communist enemy.
| Author | : Nicholas Dorn |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134960506 |
Traffickers presents new findings into the most mythologised and least understood area of crime and law enforcement. The chamelion reality of the world of drug trafficking is described in the words of traffickers and detectives. Drug enforcement combines the banal and spectacular in surveillance, covert operations and criminal intelligence. The war on drugs is a harbinger of wider changes in the organisation of policing and international cooperation. Traffickers explores the struggle that transforms policing and punishment as it stimulates the imagination.
