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Book Synopsis Before They Were Seals They Were Frogs by : William Dawson
Download or read book Before They Were Seals They Were Frogs written by William Dawson and published by Phoca Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Dawson, is the lone surviving member from the first class of Naval Special Warfare operators, then known as Naval Combat Demolition Units, one of the predecessor groups that evolved into the modern day Navy SEALs. In this book, Bill provides a rare first person look into the training, personalities, and non-classified activities of his unit in the Pacific Theater of Operations from 1943 until the end of his service after the Japanese surrender. Accompanying Bill's narrative are: * Photographs Bill took during his service, including rare color images * Vintage clippings * WWII era military post cards * Rare examples of Japanese propaganda and manuals * Non-classified operation reports
Book Synopsis The Frogmen of World War II by : Chet Cunningham
Download or read book The Frogmen of World War II written by Chet Cunningham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting story of the Navy's Underwater Demolition Team—also known as the Frogmen of WWII—who were the precursors to today's Navy SEALs, in their own words. As countless battlefronts in the Pacific, African, and European theaters called for direct amphibious assaults against islands and beachheads, a small corps of exceptionally skilled fighting men was formed—the U.S. Navy underwater warriors. Beginning in 1943, these men undertook never-before-attempted missions ranging from eye-to-eye recon of enemy-held positions to staging the demolition of shoreline obstacles and clearing the way for landing craft. Here, in their own words, are the true stories of these aquatic commandos, whose daring exploits and bravery would pave the way for thousands of American fighting men around the globe—and whose revolutionary training and fighting methods would evolve into the modern special forces known as the Navy SEALs.
Book Synopsis America's Hidden Heroes by : Tom Hawkins
Download or read book America's Hidden Heroes written by Tom Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted SEAL historian and retired Navy SEAL Commander Tom Hawkins recounts how today's Navy SEALs can trace their capabilities and origins back to four formidable legacy units formed during World War II. For the first time in one volume are the stories of the Amphibious Scouts and Raiders (S&R), Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDUs), Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) and the Office of Strategic Services Maritime Unit (OSS MU).
Download or read book Class-29 written by John Carl Roat and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graduate of one of the U.S. Navy's earliest SEAL training classes describes the tough sixmonth program that transforms young men into an elite squad of tough warriors who specialize in everything from underwater demolition to highaltitude parachute drops. Original.
Book Synopsis By Water Beneath the Walls by : Benjamin H. Milligan
Download or read book By Water Beneath the Walls written by Benjamin H. Milligan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history chronicling the fits and starts of American special operations and the ultimate rise of the Navy SEALs from unarmed frogmen to elite, go-anywhere commandos—as told by one of their own. “Deeply researched, well organized, and incredibly engaging . . . This is our legacy with all the warts, the challenges, and the heroics in one concise volume.”—Admiral William H. McRaven, #1 New York Times bestselling author and former commander, United States Special Operations Command How did the US Navy—the branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceans—ever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the world’s most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles from the water on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, even Central Africa? Behind the SEALs’ improbable rise lies the most remarkable underdog story in American military history—and in these pages, former Navy SEAL Benjamin H. Milligan captures it as never before. Told through the eyes of remarkable leaders and racing from one longshot, hair-curling raid to the next, By Water Beneath the Walls is the tale of the unit’s heroic naval predecessors, and the evolution of the SEALs themselves. But it’s also the story of the forging of American special operations as a whole—and how the SEALs emerged from the fires as America’s first permanent commando force when again and again some other unit seemed predestined to seize that role. Here Milligan thrillingly captures the outsize feats of the SEALs’ frogmen forefathers in World War II, the Korean War, and elsewhere, even as he plunges us into the second front of interservice rivalries and personal ambition that shaped the SEALs’ evolution. In equally vivid, masterful detail, he chronicles key early missions undertaken by units like the Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and Green Berets, showing us how these fateful, bloody moments helped create the modern American commando—even as they opened up pivotal opportunities for the Navy. Finally, he takes us alongside as the SEALs at last seize the mantle of commando raiding, and discover the missions of capture/kill and counterterrorism that would define them for decades to come. Now required reading throughout the US special operations community, By Water Beneath the Walls is an essential history of the SEAL teams, a crackling account of desperate last stands and unforgettable characters accomplishing the impossible—and a riveting epic of the dawn of American special operations.
Book Synopsis Frogs and Toads Forever: The War at Sea by :
Download or read book Frogs and Toads Forever: The War at Sea written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Isidore of Seville's Etymologies: Complete English Translation written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of Isidore of Seville's Etymologies, books XI-XX plus Index of Latin words.
Book Synopsis The Brothers K by : David James Duncan
Download or read book The Brothers K written by David James Duncan and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality. This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident. A mother who clings obsessively to religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past. Four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the world has become. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, and beautifully written throughout, The Brothers K is one of the finest chronicles of our lives in many years. Praise for The Brothers K “The pages of The Brothers K sparkle.”—The New York Times Book Review “Duncan is a wonderfully engaging writer.”—Los Angeles Times “This ambitious book succeeds on almost every level and every page.”—USA Today “Duncan’s prose is a blend of lyrical rhapsody, sassy hyperbole and all-American vernacular.”—San Francisco Chronicle “The Brothers K affords the . . . deep pleasures of novels that exhaustively create, and alter, complex worlds. . . . One always senses an enthusiastic and abundantly talented and versatile writer at work.”—The Washington Post Book World “Duncan . . . tells the larger story of an entire popular culture struggling to redefine itself—something he does with the comic excitement and depth of feeling one expects from Tom Robbins.”—Chicago Tribune
Download or read book Jump Like a Frog! written by Kate Burns and published by Gullane Children's Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game of animal mimics begins as a child tries to copy different animal movements.
Book Synopsis Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by : Lorrie Moore
Download or read book Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? written by Lorrie Moore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America—and a master of American fiction—we share a grown woman’s bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. "An enchanting novel." —The New York Times The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger—until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help—and then everything changes.
Book Synopsis America's First Frogman by : Elizabeth Kauffman Bush
Download or read book America's First Frogman written by Elizabeth Kauffman Bush and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman became a hero of underwater demolition in World War II and went on to a distinguished naval career. Today Admiral Kauffman is remembered as the nation's first frogman and the father of the Navy Seals. His spectacular wartime service disarming enemy bombs, establishing bomb disposal schools, and organizing and leading the Navy's first demolition units is the focus of this biography written by Kauffman's sister. Elizabeth Kauffman Bush, who also is the aunt of President George W. Bush, draws on family papers as well as Navy documents to tell Kauffman's story for the first time. Determined to defend the cause of freedom long before the U.S. ever entered the war, Kauffman was taken prisoner by the Germans as an ambulance driver in France, and after his release joined the Royal Navy to defuse delayed-action bombs during the London blitz. After Pearl Harbor his eyes were deemed adequate and he was given a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve. With his experience, he was asked to establish an underwater demolition school in Fort Pierce, Florida, where he personally trained men to defuse bombs and neutralize other submerged dangers. His men were sent to demolish the obstacles installed by the Nazis at Normandy, and Kauffman himself led underwater demolition teams in the Pacific at Saipan, Tinian, and Guam and later directed UDT operations at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. His men remember him as an exceptional leader who led by example. He trained and fought alongside them, impervious to danger. Because of the high standards he set for those who became "frogmen,"thousands of American lives were saved in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Draper Kauffman's early established UDT traditions of perseverance, teamwork, and a lasting brotherhood of men of extraordinary courage is carried on by Navy Seals. This is his legacy to the U.S. Navy and his country.
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Download or read book Historical Collections written by Michigan State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SEAL in a Storm written by KaLyn Cooper and published by Black Swan Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a former SEAL commander, Dex Carson had participated in more than his share of rescues. When called upon to lead a multi-agency team into the Virgin Islands National Park jungle to rescue high value targets, he knew he was headed for trouble. Ten teenage girls—whose parents were members of Congress—and their chaperones, needed saving from kidnappers. He cringed. The thought of entitled children and diva mothers made him clench his teeth. When he saw she was on his team, he was ready to quit. His heart couldn’t take it. But a SEAL never quits. At forty-two, Rayne Yoshida felt too old to go tromping through the jungle after the Speaker of the House’s new wife. The recalcitrant prima donna had slipped her usual Secret Service protection and followed her sweet-as-sugar stepdaughter to the Caribbean on a student work/adventure trip. But as Agent in Charge of the Speaker’s detail, she had to go. Her mood darkened when she saw their team leader, the bull-headed, bossy, but oh so sexy, Dex Carson. They had history…that had almost gotten her fired. With a category five hurricane bearing down on the tiny island, they only have days to find and rescue the girls and their chaperones…and keep their hands off each other. This sizzling military romance features a seasoned hero and heroine, second chances, and edge of your seat suspense.
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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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