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Author : Roger M. Jones
Publisher : Merriam Press
ISBN 13 : 1576381935
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (763 download)
Download or read book PT Boat Episodes written by Roger M. Jones and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger M. Jones
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781435758582
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Pt Boat Episodes written by Roger M. Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At General Quarters in the Pacific and a Five-Month Yachting Cruise in the Atlantic with a Young MTB Captain. Several tales told by a former PT boat officer, some typical, some not so typical, of action and service in both the Pacific and Atlantic. Most of the photographs and illustrations have never been published before and show many details of the boats. 41 photos, 2 illustrations, 3 documents, 4 maps. Full contents listing can be seen in the Book Preview along with additional sample pages.
Author : Quality Comics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781516908677
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book PT Boat: the Military Comics Files - Pt. 2 written by Quality Comics and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PT BOAT - PERRY AND PAUL"There were two men who loved the Navy...one because he wanted thrills and excitement...the other because he wanted to serve his country on the sea!"They had nothing in common - - -or so it seemed! But there came a day when alone in a crippled speed-boat, they faced the power of the Japanese Navy and found they had a common bond - in death!"So begins the heroic saga of the PT Boats, and the men who play tag in the fastest ships that roam the seas. A new series of action-filled stories crammed with spine-chilling episodes, and characters you'll never forget!PT BOAT ran for 30 issues in Military/Modern Comics --- and we're bringing them all to you! You can get them in a 4-volume collection, or altogether in THE COMPLETE PT BOAT! All coming in August 2015!CLASSIC COMICS LIBRARY - ALWAYS ALL STORIES - NO ADSGet the complete catalog by [email protected] COMICS CAN BE HARD TO FIND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. These books are reprinted from the best available images, and the books will be updated as new copies are uncovered. Sometimes the early and rarer books reflect the age and the condition of the originals. Many people enjoy these authentic characteristics. If you are not entirely happy, please contact us for exchange or refund at any time!
Author : Quality Comics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781516908875
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)
Download or read book PT Boat: the Military Comics Files - Pt. 3 written by Quality Comics and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PT BOAT - PERRY AND PAUL"There were two men who loved the Navy...one because he wanted thrills and excitement...the other because he wanted to serve his country on the sea!"They had nothing in common - - -or so it seemed! But there came a day when alone in a crippled speed-boat, they faced the power of the Japanese Navy and found they had a common bond - in death!"So begins the heroic saga of the PT Boats, and the men who play tag in the fastest ships that roam the seas. A new series of action-filled stories crammed with spine-chilling episodes, and characters you'll never forget!PT BOAT ran for 30 issues in Military/Modern Comics --- and we're bringing them all to you! You can get them in a 4-volume collection, or altogether in THE COMPLETE PT BOAT! All coming in August 2015!QUALITY NOTE: This volume is missing three pages. While we hate to public defective books, because of the rarity of the books and the importance of the collection, we decided to move forward. If you buy this book, send us your contact information, and once the book is updated we will send you a replacement copy free of charge.CLASSIC COMICS LIBRARY - ALWAYS ALL STORIES - NO ADSGet the complete catalog by [email protected] COMICS CAN BE HARD TO FIND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. These books are reprinted from the best available images, and the books will be updated as new copies are uncovered. Sometimes the early and rarer books reflect the age and the condition of the originals. Many people enjoy these authentic characteristics. If you are not entirely happy, please contact us for exchange or refund at any time!
Author : Quality Comics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781516908233
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)
Download or read book PT Boat: the Military Comics Files - Pt. 1 written by Quality Comics and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PT BOAT - PERRY AND PAUL"There were two men who loved the Navy...one because he wanted thrills and excitement...the other because he wanted to serve his country on the sea!"They had nothing in common - - -or so it seemed! But there came a day when alone in a crippled speed-boat, they faced the power of the Japanese Navy and found they had a common bond - in death!"So begins the heroic saga of the PT Boats, and the men who play tag in the fastest ships that roam the seas. A new series of action-filled stories crammed with spine-chilling episodes, and characters you'll never forget!PT BOAT ran for 30 issues in Military/Modern Comics --- and we're bringing them all to you! You can get them in a 4-volume collection, or altogether in THE COMPLETE PT BOAT! All coming in August 2015!CLASSIC COMICS LIBRARY - ALWAYS ALL STORIES - NO ADSGet the complete catalog by [email protected] COMICS CAN BE HARD TO FIND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. These books are reprinted from the best available images, and the books will be updated as new copies are uncovered. Sometimes the early and rarer books reflect the age and the condition of the originals. Many people enjoy these authentic characteristics. If you are not entirely happy, please contact us for exchange or refund at any time!
Author : Robert P. Gelzheiser
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476633894
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book PT Boat Odyssey written by Robert P. Gelzheiser and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nicely illustrated with black-and-white historical photos…extraordinary…impressively informative…. Expertly organized and presented…recommended”—Midwest Book Review During the Pacific War between the United States and Imperial Japanese navies, the author's father, Francis Gelzheiser, deployed with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 16A, from New Orleans to Panama to Seattle and to Attu Island in the Aleutians. After their return voyage, the PT boats journeyed to New Guinea, then battled Japanese kamikazes for the Philippine Island of Mindoro. Like many World War II veterans, Gelzheiser only shared his recollections of combat later in life. The author chronicles his father's experience, details the roles PT boats played in the war and examines why, despite America's overwhelming wartime manufacturing capacity, the Japanese believed they could still win the war.
Author : David M. Levy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 143890018X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Fast Boats and Fast Times written by David M. Levy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gruesome battle for Guadalcanal, David Levy was skipper of PT 59, one of several Patrol/Torpedo boats that were among the first U.S. Navy vessels to engage Japanese warships at the beginning of World War II. Dave's wartime experiences in the South Pacific marked one of the most transformative periods in his life. In the Navy he quickly learned to assume a "deal-maker" persona that helped him get along with fellow PT boat skippers, many of whom, like future president John F. Kennedy, came from privileged East Coast families. He got to be known in the Navy by the nickname "Hogan," famous as "the guy to go to," who could get things done, organize parties well-stocked with liquor and women, obtain supplies when none seemed available, and, in those early, desperate days of the battle for Guadalcanal, also perform in the top ranks of competent PT boat skippers. The PT boats were small, maneuverable, and fast, and they were given the seemingly impossible mission of regularly engaging and sinking the much larger and more numerous destroyers, cruisers, and battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Dave's PT 59 was in the thick of all the action. These brave PT boat skippers, many of whom were graduates of Ivy League colleges or the U.S. Naval Academy, were a hard-partying group, and their "fast times" during World War II epitomized the intensity with which life was lived by those who, like Dave, were fully engaged in the deadly struggles of the Pacific War. Dave's wartime experiences shaped the rest of his life, a long journey that has included a successful law career, annual ski trips to his vacation home in Aspen since the early 1950s, and fishing all over the world.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. R. VerValin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 149184860X
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Voyager written by D. R. VerValin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bane Skiles is a handsome young man from a wealthy Hawaiian family in the early 1940s. On the verge of graduation from college, he makes plans to fulfill a boyhood dream and sail around the world alone in the familys sailboat, Voyager. He begins his journey in the fall of 1941only to have his voyage interrupted by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Bane enlists in the Navy and soon becomes a PT boat captain with PT Boat Squadron 10, fighting in the Solomon Islands. While in love with a beautiful red haired Australian girl he finds himself having mysterious visions of a dark-haired woman covered in gold. After the war as Bane completes his voyage, he is pulled into the retrieval of a lost Biblical artifact stolen by the Nazis who believe it holds supernatural powers. In this historical novel, a world traveler is embroiled in the turmoil of World War II finds himself caught up in an adventure he never dreamed.
Author : Frank J Andruss
Publisher : Nimble Books
ISBN 13 : 9781608881802
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Pieces of History written by Frank J Andruss and published by Nimble Books. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simply put, there has never been a braver or more dashing collection of US navy sailors, ever. SEALS, naval aviators, submariners, yes, to be sure, they're all very dashing and very brave--but PT boat crews stood in shirtsleeves on the decks of wooden speedboats and sprinted under heavy fire toward enemy warships a hundred times their size. They didn't have Kevlar vests, they didn't have air superiority, and they didn't have stealth technology. They took great risks, in person, at the height of WWII, at the times and in the theaters where the risk of defeat was at its highest. PT Boats fought it out with the enemy under heavy fire, often at night, against warships, planes, barges, and shore installations. For quite a long time, PT boats and PT boat sailors were incredibly famous. Douglas Macarthur was rescued from the Phillippines aboard a PT boat. The most decorated PT boat captain, Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley, was awarded the Medal of Honor. During the war years PT boat images were plastered on every conceivable type of marketing paraphernalia. Arguably the most handsome and charismatic US President ever, John F. Kennedy, was a PT boat captain and hero. His boat, PT 109, and crew were prominently featured in his 1960 election campaign. Had he survived to serve out two terms and live the full life he deserved, we would still be reading about PT 109. Such is the power and fickleness of myth. The artifacts that Frank shares with readers do a wonderful job of conveying the feeling of time and place. Myths can and should rise again. This book includes 239 color images with detailed captions. There is a Foreword by PT boat sailor and World War II veteran Arthur John Frongello, Quartermaster Third Class, who served aboard PT 302 as a member of Squadron 22. Author Frank J. Andruss, Sr. writes in the Preface: My passion for the history of the PT boats began as a very young child, when, in 1967, my Dad suggested that I watch the movie PT 109. This started my life-long journey in which as a young twenty-year-old I had the pleasure of meeting so many PT boat veterans and started to collect some of these treasured artifacts of the PT Navy. Over the years I would begin to create "The Mosquito Fleet Exhibit" in which I would use these artifacts to tell the story and provide the history that so many people did not know about. It is my hope that, through these artifacts that were such a large part of PT history, this book brings new attention to the PT navy during World War II. In this book I hope to tell the stories of the brave sailors that served on the boats. PT boats played important roles from the first days of the war. They were in the Philippines, at Guadalcanal, at New Guinea, in the Med, at Surigao Strait. Their crews deserve to be remembered when World War II history is told. Although the PT boat has long since gone, the bravery of the men who rode on her decks should never be forgotten.
Author : Ted Meredith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595006515
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Lt. Ted Meredith, USNR, PT Boat Officer written by Ted Meredith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt. Ted Meredith, USNR, PT Boat Officer Young men fought the battles of World War II. Life with the 10 man crew aboard PT 129 in New Guinea. Encounters with Admiral Bulkeley, General MacArthur, John Wayne and young Lt. Jack Kennedy. History of PT boats in W.W. II. Weekly letters written to his mother 50 years ago describe daily life and the strong bonds developed by officers and crew on those special 80 foot boats. More: map, index, illustrations and bibliography. 244 page paperback. Author's Bio: J.E. Ted Meredith Explorer, Scholar, Scribe, Management consulting leader, retired partner PricewaterhouseCoopers, frequent speaker and author of professional articles. Harvard Business School M.B.A. (Distinction), Harvard College B.A. 1942, Mercersburg Academy. Former President Institute of Management Accountants, Peter Tare, Inc. (ex-PT Boat officer)
Author : John H. Davis
Publisher : SP Books
ISBN 13 : 9781561710607
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Kennedys written by John H. Davis and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now revised and fully updated, this "definitive Kennedy biography" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) includes exclusive, previously unknown information on the Palm Beach scandal, the newest revelations on the JFK and RFK assassinations, as well as the latest on America's most notorious family. The author is first cousin to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
Author : Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376237
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick written by Elizabeth Hardwick and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here—none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick’s work—make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner’s Parsifal to Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits soufflé. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick’s passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970s on, to write well about seemingly anything.
Author : James Oliveri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733247436
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (474 download)
Download or read book World War II PT Boat Captain written by James Oliveri and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an adventure story of a Patrol Torpedo Boat (PTB) officer during the opening phases of the Pacific War. It is historical fiction that takes some liberty with events, places, and people. The characters are primarily fictitious. The author attempts to portray real persons in the story truthfully. The build-up to WW II and the early Pacific War campaign against Japan provides the background to dramatize the training, courage, and leadership of American PT Boat commanders and their crews. Many of the tactical situations, weapons, and communications are products of the author's imagination. The early June 1942 battle for Midway Island is featured to honor the Navy, Marine, and Army troops that defended the Midway Islets. It is a tribute to the courageous personnel who fought back after the 7 December 1941 sneak attack on Pearl harbor and turned the tide of war against Japan. This third book in Law's Pacific War Series features characters from Volume One (Captain Harry "Rats" Mueller, USMC) and Volume Two (Commander David A. Pelham, USN). It introduces Ensign Wilbur O. Wright, USNR. Wilbur volunteers for the Patrol Torpedo Boat program and sees combat during the Battle of Midway. CDR Law has added some intriguing chapters where he speculates what life was like for Rear Admiral Chester Nimitz before the war with Japan, as a four-star Admiral after Pearl Harbor, and during the Battle for Midway Island.A little-known fact: there was a PT Boat Squadron at NAS Midway during the historic battle in June 1942. They played a significant role in the anti-air defense of the atoll and were ready to attack enemy ships that came within a hundred miles of the base. Hopefully, readers will learn what it was like to train in PT Boats before the war, how Admiral Chester Nimitz set his trap for the four Japanese aircraft carriers before the Battle of Midway, and the defensive preparations on and around Midway Island that made it a very tough nut to crack.
Author : Robert J. Donovan
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book PT 109 written by Robert J. Donovan and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless tale of heroism now available to a new generation of readers. This is the story of Kennedy's courage and bravery during an attack on his boat during World War II. 51 photos.
Author : Chuck Fowler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738575810
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Patrol and Rescue Boats on Puget Sound written by Chuck Fowler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of impressive battleships, aircraft carriers, and submarines on Puget Sound has been well chronicled. However, the story of the smaller, fast patrol and rescue boats that have protected its vast inland waters is largely unknown. This book, through more than 200 rare images and engaging text, reveals the fascinating story. It covers Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Air Force craft in the sound, including the famed patrol torpedo boats of World War II. Featuring evocative photographs from the National Archives, as well as veterans' personal collections, this book highlights these military craft, their proud crews, and essential wartime and peacetime operations.
Author : Michael Staton
Publisher : Merriam Press
ISBN 13 : 1576382583
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (763 download)
Download or read book The Fighting Bob written by Michael Staton and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
