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Fort Benning Blues

Author : Mark Busby
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875655408
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Fort Benning Blues written by Mark Busby and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've never even been to Southeast Asia, can you be a Vietnam veteran? In a novel that captures the life and times of a generation, Mark Busby takes us on a journey through an era of hippies, the shootings at Kent State University, integration, and Woodstock. Fort Benning Blues tells the story of Vietnam from this side of the ocean. Drafted in 1969, Jeff Adams faces a war he doesn't understand. While trying to delay the inevitable tour of duty in Vietnam, Adams attends Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Georgia, desperately hoping Nixon will achieve “peace with honor” before he graduates. The Army's job is to weed out the “duds,” “turkeys,” and “dummies” in an effort to keep not only the officers but also the men under their command alive in the rice paddies of Vietnam. It doesn't take long for the stress to create casualties. Lieutenant Rancek, Adams' training officer at OCS, is ready to cut candidates from the program for any perceived weakness. He does this, not for the Army, but because he wants only the best “. . . leading the platoon on my right” when he goes to Vietnam. Hugh Budwell, one of Adams' roommates, brings the laid-back spirit of California with him to Fort Benning. Tired of practicing estate law, he joins the Army to relieve the boredom he feels pervades his life. About Officer Candidate School, Budwell states, “If I wanted to go through it without any trouble, I'd be wondering about myself.” Candidate Patrick “Sheriff” Garrett, a black southerner, spends a night with Adams in the low-crawl pit after they both raise Rancek's ire. Expecting racism when he joined the Army, Garrett copes better than most with the rigors of Officer Candidate School. Busby uses song lyrics, newspaper headlines, and the jargon of the era to bring the sixties and seventies alive again. Henry Kissinger is described as “Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove” and Lieutenant William “Rusty” Calley as “Howdy Doody in uniform.” Of My Lai, Busby says, “At Fort Benning everybody took those actions as a matter of course.” As America continues to try to comprehend the effects of one of the most transforming eras in our history, Fort Benning Blues adds another perspective to the meaning of being a Vietnam veteran.

U. S. Army Uniforms of the Cold War, 1948-1973

Author : Shelby L. Stanton
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811729505
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book U. S. Army Uniforms of the Cold War, 1948-1973 written by Shelby L. Stanton and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talks about the evolution of Army uniforms from World War II to Vietnam. This work traces uniform systems from conception through actual field development and issue.

Red Clay, White Water, and Blues

Author : Virginia E. Causey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820355038
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Red Clay, White Water, and Blues written by Virginia E. Causey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey documents the city’s founding in 1828 and brings its story to the present, examining the economic, political, social, and cultural changes over the period. It is the first history of the city that analyzes the significant contributions of all its citizens, including African Americans, women, and the working class. Causey, who has lived and worked in Columbus for more than forty years, focuses on three defining characteristics of the city’s history: the role that geography has played in its evolution, specifically its location on the Chattahoochee River along the Fall Line, making it an ideal place to establish water-powered textile mills; the fact that the control of city’s affairs rested in the hands of a particular business elite; and the endemic presence of violence that left a “bloody trail” throughout local history. Causey traces the life of Columbus: its founding and early boom years; the Civil War and its aftermath; conflicts as a modern city emerged in the first half of the twentieth century; racial tension and economic decline in the mid-to-late 1900s; and rebirth and revival of the city in the twenty-first century. Peppered throughout are compelling anecdotes about the city’s most colorful characters, including Sol Smith and His Dramatic Company, music phenom Blind Tom Wiggins, suffragist Augusta Howard, industrialist and philanthropist G. Gunby Jordan, peanut purveyor Tom Huston, blueswoman Ma Rainey, novelist Carson McCullers, and insurance magnate John Amos.

Wild Blue

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471104419
Total Pages : 809 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Wild Blue written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who volunteered to join the American Air Force and undertook some of the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. Focusing on the men of the 741st Bomb Squadron and, in particular, the crew of the DAKOTA QUEEN, these are the boys turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators and gunners of the B24s, who suffered 50 per cent casualties during conflict. With his extraordinary talent for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose sweeps us along in the B24s as their crews fought to the death to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine.

Army Blue

Author : Lucian K. Truscott
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497663490
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Army Blue written by Lucian K. Truscott and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Dress Gray. “Part-war story, part-family saga . . . zeroes in on the men of the Blue family, three generations of soldiers” (The Washington Post). In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his first novel, Dress Gray, Truscott turns his attention to the Vietnam War and delivers a suspenseful, sprawling court-martial drama set in Saigon in 1969. At twenty-three, platoon leader Lt. Matthew Nelson Blue is the youngest member of an army family; his father is a colonel and his grandfather a profane, cantankerous retired general. Shortly after one of his men is killed by friendly fire while on routine patrol, Blue is arrested and charged with desertion in the face of the enemy. Arriving in Vietnam, his father and grandfather end their long estrangement and join forces to clear the young soldier’s name. Truscott’s plot offers less than initially meets the eye; the nature of the conspiracy and cover-up that nearly destroy Blue is fairly easy to predict, as is the disillusionment about Vietnam that eventually befalls his seniors. The author’s intimate portrayal of the texture of army life gives his narrative a more deeply felt sense of anger and regret than others in its genre, and makes its final revelations more powerful than they might otherwise have been.

Blue Print

Author : Georgia Institute of Technology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Blue Print written by Georgia Institute of Technology and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blue Book of the State of Illinois

Author : Illinois. Office of Secretary of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Book of the State of Illinois written by Illinois. Office of Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blue Book of the State of Illinois

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Blue Book of the State of Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blue Villa & Other Vietnam Stories

Author : Ernest Auerbach
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 144011403X
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Blue Villa & Other Vietnam Stories written by Ernest Auerbach and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Auerbach served as an Army captain in Vietnam during the build up of the war, 1966-1967. He recounts his adventures there and describes some of the general courts martial cases he tried and defended. This is "Catch 22" in reality.

From Skies of Blue

Author : James Baugh
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595278663
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book From Skies of Blue written by James Baugh and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tells the experiences of a country boy growing up in a small town in Georgia, going through school in a military environment and working on a farm. He worked his way through the University of Georgia and was called to military service just before going to the Medical College of Georgia. This is the story of how these experiences impacted his life.

Blueman

Author : Jerry Brumbelow
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462802532
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Blueman written by Jerry Brumbelow and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blueman is the radio call sign for a young Special Ops soldier. The fictional story follows him from Basic training, through several adventures and various training environments. It follows Bluemans interactions with people.

Out of the Blue

Author : James A. Huston
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 155753148X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Blue written by James A. Huston and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a case study of the greatest airborne operation of the war, the 1944 invasion of Holland, Huston examines the inception, organization, training, equipment, strategies, Allied cooperation, and overall effectiveness of the airborne in the total war effort. Operations in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Southern France, the Pacific, and the Far East are discussed. No other book brings together as much information and documentation on the airborne. Of special interest to the veterans who took part in the great paratroop and glider movements, this book will become invaluable to students of aerial warfare and of World War II.

Out of the Blue

Author : Randy Lippincott
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490779647
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Blue written by Randy Lippincott and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exciting autobiography about Randys gripping skydiving career that began in the 60s. His adventure started where Charles Lindbergh made his first three jumps. Inspired by a Medal of Honor recipient, Randy joined Special Forces and trained as a combat medic. Assigned to the Seventh Army Parachute Team in Europe, Randy fell desperately in love and later felt beguiled. He used sex, drugs, and alcohol to drown his sorrows. Randy jumped in a thunderstorm and through a ten-thousand-foot cloud, narrowly surviving each. This captivating story is about death, hijacking, murder, flat spins, drugs, counterfeiting, a deadly motorcycle accident, a high-speed car chase, and a time-loss experience. Lippincott started skydiving again in preparation to write this bookit was 13,852 days between jumps. Randys fantastic tale is a story filled with passion, failure, determination, success, heartache, awakening, and at last sweet redemption. It is about skydiving adventures, but it is much more than that. It describes a generation, the baby boomers that rebelled in the 60s with free love. The narrative chronicles a person who did not want to live in quiet desperation but would rather push the envelope and test the waters.

Infantry Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Infantry Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blue Heron Complete Collection

Author : Kristan Higgins
Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 1488045410
Total Pages : 3425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Blue Heron Complete Collection written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 3425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, sexy and totally unforgettable! Discover the reason top retailers and reviewers have named Kristan Higgins’s Blue Heron series among their favorite books. A fan-favorite series from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, all five books in the Blue Heron series are collected here. From the deep blue lakes to the lush, rolling hills to the to-die-for nachos they serve at the only bar in town, the residents of Manningsport, New York, know there’s something pretty darn special about their little community tucked away in wine country. It’s a place where romance is always in the air, full of first loves and second chances…and there’s always a good vintage handy to help get over a broken heart. The Best Man originally published 2013 The Perfect Match originally published 2013 Waiting on You originally published 2014 In Your Dreams originally published 2014 Anything for You originally published 2015

Blue Collar Barbershop Confessions II

Author : Reginald Johnson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644248204
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Blue Collar Barbershop Confessions II written by Reginald Johnson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Into the Wild Blue Yonder

Author : Allan T. Stein
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603445978
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Into the Wild Blue Yonder written by Allan T. Stein and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Allan T. Stein idolized his uncle, a pilot in the Great War. So in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, he left Texas A & M University for Lackland Air Field to learn to fly. By the time he retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1969, Stein had flown everything from BT-13s and B-24s to B-52s and C-47s. During World War II, he flew missions over China and the Sea of Japan, and by V-J Day, he had participated in eight campaigns and logged 347 hours in combat. Stein later spent one year in Vietnam as operations officer for the 360 TEWS (Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron), which used refitted C-47s to monitor and locate Vietcong units. He ended his career as inspector general of the Civil Air Patrol." "Stein considers himself to have been an ordinary airman, not a hero. But he was also a seasoned pilot and a conscientious officer with a strong sense of right and wrong. After a young pilot he had certified died in an accident, Stein made it a practice to fail all but the best candidates. He was just as disgusted with the corruption he encountered in the Civil Air Patrol as he was with the tendentious reporters he met in Saigon's Hotel Caravelle." "Although he met his share of cowards and scoundrels, Stein loved to fly and he loved the air force. He was the sort of officer his superiors trusted not to make mistakes, but he was not the sort to rise to high rank. What he offers here is an account of a typical career as an air force officer, complete with its frustrations, moral dilemmas, and the occasional harrowing experience."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved