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Book Synopsis Caterpillar Club Survivor by : Ross Smith Stagg
Download or read book Caterpillar Club Survivor written by Ross Smith Stagg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spitfire pilot Ross Smith Stagg was one of 33 Allied airmen to defend Darwin against Japanese invasion on May 2, 1943. As one of 14 pilots shot down or experience mechanical failure in the ensuing battle, he parachuted into the sea 18 km from land, 100 km southwest of Darwin in the Fogg Bay area. He reached the shore in a dinghy. For the next 15 days he trudged through inhospitable country in a futile attempt to return to Strauss airbase. What should have been a few days walk turned into his worst possible nightmare as he stumbled aimlessly through mosquito and crocodile infested swamps. "It was almost six days I'd been without sleep, apart from a short period of unconsciousness and those few moments before I fell out of that tree," he said. " I became demented by the cavalcade of mosquitoes and hallucinating badly". His experience was only to worsen - he waded halfway across a tidal river to be confronted by a large saltie. Darwin historian John Haslett help Stagg map the original route by retracing his steps, even managing to relocate an American Kittyhawk Stagg found crashed in the middle of nowhere.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Caterpillar Club by : Donald Glassman
Download or read book Tales of the Caterpillar Club written by Donald Glassman and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How I Made $3,200,000 from My Hobby: Cutting to the Chase by : Michael Bernhart
Download or read book How I Made $3,200,000 from My Hobby: Cutting to the Chase written by Michael Bernhart and published by Hough Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxwell Smythe Brown IV is a smart-ass by design. To counter the ridicule his fancy name attracted, Brown the child became the point person in pranks, taunts, and mischief that kept him in hot water with teachers, principals, clerics and coaches. As he grew older, he added irreverence to mischievousness and his circle of victims and antagonists expanded to include military commanders, bosses and colleagues. When his clever speech and picaresque ways help him win the hand of a stunningly beautiful woman, it goes wrong; she’s dismally unsuited for marriage and makes his life miserable. There are occasional bright spots: his disregard for authority and convention helps him survive the Vietnam war. But his inability to keep his mouth shut and his fly zipped costs him his university sinecure and he’s exiled to Dhaka, Bangladesh. Three hundred years earlier the great Moghul Khan Shaista abruptly abandoned his post in the same city. The Khan’s youngest and favorite daughter had succumbed to disease and the grief stricken Khan fled the country, but not – it is believed – before burying a treasure as a memorial to her short life.For three centuries fortune hunters have searched for the rumored treasure but Brown has an advantage. As an accessory to a pretentious name he’s taken on a pretentious hobby: collecting antiquarian maps. Initially unaware of the importance of the information on one of his old maps, Brown sets in motion events that bring him closer to the treasure, but also attract the competitive attention of six brutal castoffs of an Indian intelligence service. Before the dust settles, two men have been beheaded, another skinned, a bystander strangled and two more fatally shot. With wit and irreverence, the book chronicles the journey of a man whose outward self-assurance and brashness mask wavering self-regard. As Brown acknowledges, it’s a full time job keeping up appearances. But he’s not without depth. A continuing theme is his quest for the true nature of a compassionate God who, paradoxically, presides over a universe of undeniable evil.Throughout, Professor Brown is our acerbic guide to: an unholy war, college campuses in the 70’s, a university exhibiting signs of tenure-induced rigor mortis, a Thai brothel, the watering holes of Europe, and life in the bottom-most percentile of the third world. This edition (Cutting to the Chase) is an abridged version of the original book. Several readers said they would like to move more rapidly through the character development sections to the fast-paced thriller when Max takes up the treasure hunt in earnest (and the corpses stack up). Out of respect for that feedback, the novel was extensively revised to provide this – a more conventional – thriller.
Book Synopsis What the RAF Airman Took to War by : Bill Howard
Download or read book What the RAF Airman Took to War written by Bill Howard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England. A huge number of airmen lost their lives in this hard-fought episode and in the four years of air campaigns that followed, and those who survived faced terrifying risks; as Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it, 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'. In this beautifully illustrated tribute to 'The Few', Bill Howard catalogues the objects which were essential to every wartime pilot, from the superstitious good-luck charm to the parachute on which his life might have depended and a wealth of other poignant items relating to his day-to-day existence during the air war against the Nazis.
Download or read book Pilot Rescue Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Stain on the Glass by : Jeff Gray
Download or read book The Stain on the Glass written by Jeff Gray and published by Charles Jeffrey Gray. This book was released on with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early hours of January 4th 1944 a Wellington bomber of the RAF crashed in Brockhurst Wood near the village of Farnham Common. Of the crew of six only one survived. After the war the people of the village clubbed together for a memorial and installed a stained glass window in the Anglican Church of St. John's nearby. Forty years later Mrs. Florence Payne, mother of the dead rear-gunner, Sergeant Victor Payne, returned on a pilgrimage, revisiting the site and the church. The local newspaper covered the visit in a moving story and raised questions in the mind of local resident, ex RAF Bomber Command pilot, Jeff Gray. The newspaper indicated that the bomber was crippled and the young airmen died trying to avoid the village. What dreadful combination of circumstance had conspired against them? Captain Gray investigates…
Download or read book The Leatherneck written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnam War Slang written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration’s escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by members of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. Troops facing and inflicting death display a high degree of linguistic creativity. Vietnam was the last American war fought by an army with conscripts, and their involuntary participation in the war added a dimension to the language. War has always been an incubator for slang; it is brutal, and brutality demands a vocabulary to describe what we don’t encounter in peacetime civilian life. Furthermore, such language serves to create an intense bond between comrades in the armed forces, helping them to support the heavy burdens of war. The troops in Vietnam faced the usual demands of war, as well as several that were unique to Vietnam – a murky political basis for the war, widespread corruption in the ruling government, untraditional guerilla warfare, an unpredictable civilian population in Vietnam, and a growing lack of popular support for the war back in the US. For all these reasons, the language of those who fought in Vietnam was a vivid reflection of life in wartime. Vietnam War Slang lays out the definitive record of the lexicon of Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Assuming no prior knowledge, it presents around 2000 headwords, with each entry divided into sections giving parts of speech, definitions, glosses, the countries of origin, dates of earliest known citations, and citations. It will be an essential resource for Vietnam veterans and their families, students and readers of history, and anyone interested in the principles underpinning the development of slang.
Book Synopsis B-52 Crewdog Story: The Everyday Lives Of B-52 Crewdogs by :
Download or read book B-52 Crewdog Story: The Everyday Lives Of B-52 Crewdogs written by and published by Evelyn Cabrera. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B-52, likewise called Stratofortress, U.S. long-range weighty aircraft, was planned by the Boeing Company in 1948, first flown in 1952, and first conveyed for military assistance in 1955. However initially expected to be a nuclear bomb transporter equipped for arriving at the Soviet Union, it has demonstrated versatility for certain missions, and many B-52s stayed in help in the mid-21st hundred years. This book incorporates: - Part 1 - Military Careers How I Became a Crewdog - George Donald Jackson My Story And I'm Sticking To It - Steve McCutcheon The Career of a Civilian Crew Member - George R Dempsey - Part 2 - Survival S-V80-A "Survivor" - Tommy Towery Shootdown - George Donald Jackson The Seventh Confirmed Survivor - William R. "Bar" Gabel My Nylon Let Down - George Schryer Blood Chit - The Last Hope Of A Downed Crewmember - Arthur Craig Mizner A Typhoon Story - Kent Dodson Desert Survival and Rescue - Gary Henley, Dave Lay, Rich Vande Verde The Crash of Ash 01 - Dennis Thibodeau In case We Forget - Tommy Towery - Part 3 - Training Peacetime in The SAC - Rich Vande Verde Warning - Priceless-Ken Schmitz The Secret Trip to England - Gary Henley, Dave Lay Child Radar in A Grown-Up World - Glenn Burchard The Elephant in The Living Room - TommyTowery SAC Rewards Those Who Serve - Ken Schmitz The Check Ride - Ken Schmitz Instructions to Bust An ORI And Come Out Looking Good - Steve McCutcheon Everyone is ready and available For Red Flag TDY - Tommy Towery CEVG Checkride - The Flight That Was Doomed From The Start - Ken Schmitz Carswell Crew R/E/S-09 - Gary Henley - Part 4 - Cold War A Hard Day's Night - Bill Robinson Activity Sea Fish - Lothar ""Nick"" Maier Chrome Dome Chronicles - Lothar "Nick" Maier From The BUFF to The Moon - Karl D. (Ned) Neela Memories of D-model Alert and "The Great Inquisition" - Rock Roszak Ready Antics - Gary Henley - Section 5 - Southeast Asia U-Tapao Memories - Charles "Throw" Talcott B*U*F*F (Big Ugly Fat F*****) Cinnamon - Lothar "Nick" Maier The EW Bomb Run - George Donald Jackson The Habu Light - Arthur Craig Mizner A True Gunner's Story (Told by His Nav) - Bill Beavers When a Bomber Pilot… Always a Bomber Pilot - George W. Golding First Paved Buffs In Combat - Dave Hofstadter Number Two, You're On Fire! - Jim Carter Story of the Chili Donut, U-Tapao, 1972 - Bill Beavers Move! Move! Three SAMs - Six O'clock - Closing Fast! - Arthur Craig Mizner A Birthday Trip to Remember - Don McCrabb Who's Got It? - Karl D. (Ned) Neela --- - Section 6 - Tales Stabilizer Trim Failure - Lothar "Nick" Maier Pucker Factor - Vincent H. Osborne Heavy armament specialist In Hot Water - C. C. "Stop" Walker Honey Bucket Bomber - Albert F. Spohn A Bathroom Poet's Dream: Writing In the Buff - Vincent H. Osborne Heavy armament specialists' Tales - Ralph Stearns The Birth of KBUF - Dave Lay KBUF - The Rest of The Story - Gary Henley Frightening Holbrook - Dave Lay The Fixated Pilot - Dave Lay Crewdog Sense of Humor - Glenn O. Burchard More Gunner Memories - Harry Tolmich The Day the IG Got A Ticket - - Gary Henley, Dave Lay, Rich Vande Verde The Gamblers - Gary Henley --- - Part 7 - Bar Stories Bar Stories
Download or read book Zero to Eighty written by Akkad Pseudoman and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó One of the most obscure and fascinating of all pre-spaceflight books, this fictional "autobiography" by _Akkad Pseudoman (E.F. Northrup) includes detailed descriptions (with photos and a technical appendix) of the first-ever practical experiments with an electromagnetic railgun. Originally published in 1937. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Download or read book The Few written by Philip Kaplan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new pictorial history from Philip Kaplan, the perspectives of both RAF and Luftwaffe airmen are considered within the wider context of one of the most iconic and pivotal conflicts of modern history. The Blitz, primarily the bombing of London and the major cities of Britain by the German Air Force, lasted for fifty-seven nights from September 1940 into May 1941. Life under the bombing; the perspectives of German and British airmen; the experience of sheltering in the London Underground; first-hand accounts of the horror by survivors left behind; all these voices are consolidated to great effect, providing a suitable commentary to the rare archive photography on display.Accounts and photographs of some of the most notable participants caught up in the proceedings include; Al Deere, Geoffrey Page, Brian Kingcome, Peter Townsend, Bob Doe and Ginger Lacey.
Book Synopsis Be Grateful: Brighton College's Fallen 1939–45 by : David Turner
Download or read book Be Grateful: Brighton College's Fallen 1939–45 written by David Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A roll-call and history of the ex-students of Brighton College who fell in the Second World War. Eighty years on from the beginning of the Second World War it is easy to forget that, for a time, democracy, the rule of law and even everyday values of tolerance and kindness were in danger of being snuffed out in Europe. Given the sacrifices made, we must not forget the people who fought to protect these virtues – particularly those who laid down their lives for this cause. To this end, all Fourth Form pupils at Brighton College have researched an individual Old Brightonian who died in, or as a result of, the war. The list includes former masters, pupils and one German old boy who was doubtless a good man, but fighting for a bad cause. What emerges in this book, a companion to a volume on the fallen of the Great War already published, is a collection of extremely varied personal histories. Where possible, this book recalls the family lives of each man in addition to his war service. The quality of research has been high, and pupils have also excelled at storytelling: finding the excitement and humour in each life, as well as the poignancy. The 170 fallen Old Brightonians of the Second World War, nurtured by the College but cut off in their prime, have been honoured by the current crop of Brightonians, several generations below them.
Book Synopsis Texas South Plains War Stories by : Larry A. Williams
Download or read book Texas South Plains War Stories written by Larry A. Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every veteran has a story to tell--often ones they have not told their own families. But as one vet in this collection of original interviews succinctly said of his combat experiences: "Some things are better left unsaid." Documenting recollections from survivors of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and other conflicts--all residents of the Texas Panhandle--this book presents narratives from men and women whose young lives, for good or ill, were defined by their participation in warfare in service to their country.
Book Synopsis Bless You, Brother Irvin by : John Neal
Download or read book Bless You, Brother Irvin written by John Neal and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Destined to Live by : Kristin Gilpatrick
Download or read book Destined to Live written by Kristin Gilpatrick and published by Badger Books Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Deny Them the Night Sky by : Eric Shulenberger
Download or read book Deny Them the Night Sky written by Eric Shulenberger and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 280 men of the 548th Night Fighter Squadron fought their P-61 Black Widows across the Pacific. The Ground Echelon landed on Iwo on D+8, under the mortar, small-arms and kamikaze attack--the Widows arrived a little later. The entire Squadron lived in foxholes (between USMC howitzers and the enemy) for 6 weeks, on C-rations and one canteen of water per day. All while maintaining and flying the world's most complex aircraft. Not a single Japanese bomb fell on Iwo while the 548th stood night-time watch. On Ie Shima (Okinawa) they again arrived under kamikaze attack, shot down several enemy aircraft, made extensive night intruder bombing and rocket attacks, acted as escorts for hundreds of B-29 crew-rescues, and made critical nightly weather observations over tomorrow's targets for the day-bomber fleet. The Squadron had its share of odd moments, from losing a man on Iwo to its own friendly small-arms fire, to scoring the only American shoot-downs of a B29 and a P61." "This book is those men's story--all of them, not just the aircrews. It covers the entire history of the Squadron. The tale is told as much as possible in the first person, using Squadron veterans' memories, illustrations, and extensive records and memorabilia--augmented (where records exist) by official materials." -- Book Jacket.
Download or read book Bomber Command written by Martin Bowman and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Command s pilots and aircrew throughout World War Two. From the early wartime years when the RAF s first attempts to avenge Germany s onslaught were bedeviled by poor navigation and inaccurate bombing, to the final winning onslaught that finally tamed Hitler in his Berlin lair, these volumes trace the true experiences of the men who flew the bombers. Hundreds of first-hand accounts are punctuated by the author s background information that put each narrative into wartime perspective. Every aspect of Bomber Commands operational duties are covered; day and night bombing, precision low-level strikes, mass raids and operations throughout all wartime theaters. Contributions are from RAF personnel who flew the command s different aircraft from the early Blenheims and Stirlings to the later Lancasters and Mosquitoes. Each volume is full of accounts that tell of the camaraderie amongst the crews, moments of sheer terror and the stoic humor that provided the critical bond. The five volumes of this work provide the most vivid and comprehensive work on the outstanding part played by RAF Bomber Command in their vital role in the destruction of the Third Reich."
