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Book Synopsis Appointment at Ie Shima by : William F. Nelson
Download or read book Appointment at Ie Shima written by William F. Nelson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On April 18, 1945, during the battle for Okinawa, famed journalist Ernie Pyle died from shots to the head fired by a Japanese gunner. He had returned to the field of combat seemingly out of a sense of duty to the "good boys"-- the young soldiers whose lives he had so beautifully captured, and who had catapulted him to fame as America's most beloved journalist. In this poignant study, Bill Nelson combines Pyle's columns and corespondence with recent medical research to argue that Pyle suffered from an unrecognized PTSD following an American bombing that went wrong on D-Day. Shortly after that traumatic experience, Pyle announced he could no longer endure the slaughter of war and went home, and yet soon found himself in the Pacific, on the tiny island called Ie Shima, for his final rendezvous" -- page 4 of cover.
Author :United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :660 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Okinawa by : United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Download or read book Okinawa written by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Okinawa: the last battle: Here the Imperial Army braced for its last stand. From the bloody victories that brought U.S. forces to Okinawa, to the desperate, suicidal resistance of the Japanese, this is the complete story of the final beachhead battle of the Pacific campaign.
Book Synopsis Volume II: U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard Aircraft Lost During World War II - Listed by Squadron by : Campbell
Download or read book Volume II: U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard Aircraft Lost During World War II - Listed by Squadron written by Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the U.S. military lost some 35,000 aircraft to enemy action, training incidents, typhoons, aircraft carrier deck mishaps, mechanical failures or just normal wear-and-tear where aircraft were scrapped and used for parts to keep others flying. Many just failed to return from their missions. To date, the 15,069 aircraft represented in this 3-volume set is information initially transferred from hand-written "Aircraft History Cards" and are the total number of U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft lost between 7 December 1941 and 15 August 1945, and lost outside the continental United States (CONUS). Volume II represents the information on any aircraft lost that was attached to any of the 713 squadrons listed in the database. Given the thousands of hours that went into this effort, the author hopes that, as a 3-volume set of reference books, it provides assistance to others who are researching ship, squadron and aircraft histories.
Book Synopsis The Department of State Bulletin by :
Download or read book The Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Download or read book Sailing Directions (enroute) written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Volume III: U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard Aircraft Lost During World War II - Listed by Aircraft Type by : Campbell
Download or read book Volume III: U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard Aircraft Lost During World War II - Listed by Aircraft Type written by Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the U.S. military lost some 35,000 aircraft to enemy action, training incidents, typhoons, aircraft carrier deck mishaps, mechanical failures or just normal wear-and-tear where aircraft were scrapped and used for parts to keep others flying. Many just failed to return from their missions. To date, the 15,069 aircraft represented in this 3-volume set is information initially transferred from hand-written "Aircraft History Cards" and are the total number of U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft lost between 7 December 1941 and 15 August 1945, and lost outside the continental United States (CONUS). Volume III represents the total number of aircraft lost by their 176 different types and variants and represents the entire database to date. Given the thousands of hours that went into this effort, the author hopes that, as a 3-volume set of reference books, it provides assistance to others who are researching ship, squadron and aircraft histories.
Author :United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :660 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Okinawa by : United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Download or read book Okinawa written by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Okinawa: the last battle: Here the Imperial Army braced for its last stand. From the bloody victories that brought U.S. forces to Okinawa, to the desperate, suicidal resistance of the Japanese, this is the complete story of the final beachhead battle of the Pacific campaign.
Book Synopsis Okinawa by : United States. Marine Corps
Download or read book Okinawa written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ours to Hold it High by : United States. Army. Infantry Division, 77th
Download or read book Ours to Hold it High written by United States. Army. Infantry Division, 77th and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Combat Loaded written by Thomas E. Crew and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first authoritative history of any of the more than 350 attack transports or attack cargo ships of World War II, Combat Loaded: Across the Pacific on the USS Tate contains gripping combat narratives alongside the sometimes heartwarming, sometimes tragic details of daily life on board the ships of Transport Squadron 17 during the waning days of World War II. Author Thomas E. Crew interviewed over fifty veterans of the Tate, including all her surviving officers. Crew weaves a rich tapestry of voices, combining it with extensive analysis of the Tate?s daily action reports and ship?s logs, accented by lively letters of the period from private collections?including previously unpublished accounts of the last days of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Crew also presents a rare unit-level perspective of joint operations involving the infantry fighting ashore and the navy transports that sustained them with their vital combat cargo. The resulting richly illustrated work presents perhaps the most comprehensive account to date of the experiences and courageous contributions of those who served on amphibious transports during World War II.
Book Synopsis The U.S. Navy's "Interim" LSM(R)s in World War II by : Ron MacKay, Jr.
Download or read book The U.S. Navy's "Interim" LSM(R)s in World War II written by Ron MacKay, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Interim" LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the U.S. Navy's first true rocket ship. An entirely new class of commissioned warship and the forerunners of today's missile-firing naval combatants, these ships began as improvised conversions of conventional amphibious landing craft in South Carolina's Charleston Navy Yard during late 1944. They were rushed to the Pacific Theatre to support the U.S. Army and Marines with heavy rocket bombardments that devastated Japanese forces on Okinawa in 1945. Their primary mission was to deliver maximum firepower to enemy targets ashore. Yet LSM(R)s also repulsed explosive Japanese speed boats, rescued crippled warships, recovered hundreds of survivors at sea and were deployed as antisubmarine hunter-killers. Casualties were staggering: enemy gunfire blasted one, while kamikaze attacks sank three, crippled a fourth and grazed two more. This book provides a comprehensive operational history of the Navy's 12 original "Interim" LSM(R)s.
Author :Ryukyu Islands (United States Civil Administration, 1950-1972). Office of the Comptroller Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :340 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Ryukyu Islands Facts Book by : Ryukyu Islands (United States Civil Administration, 1950-1972). Office of the Comptroller
Download or read book Ryukyu Islands Facts Book written by Ryukyu Islands (United States Civil Administration, 1950-1972). Office of the Comptroller and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Zealand Official Year-book by : New Zealand. Department of Statistics
Download or read book The New Zealand Official Year-book written by New Zealand. Department of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Quarterly Review of Military Literature by :
Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crucible of Hell written by Saul David and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them. With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the empire that had extended its reach southward across the Pacific and was renowned for the fanaticism and brutality of its fighters, who refused to surrender, even when faced with insurmountable odds. Taking down Japan would require an unrelenting attack to break its national spirit, and launching such an attack on the island empire meant building an operations base just off its shores on the island of Okinawa. The amphibious operation to capture Okinawa was the largest of the Pacific War and the greatest air-land-sea battle in history, mobilizing 183,000 troops from Seattle, Leyte in the Philippines, and ports around the world. The campaign lasted for 83 blood-soaked days, as the fighting plumbed depths of savagery. One veteran, struggling to make sense of what he had witnessed, referred to the fighting as the "crucible of Hell." Okinawan civilians died in the tens of thousands: some were mistaken for soldiers by American troops; but as the US Marines spearheading the invasion drove further onto the island and Japanese defeat seemed inevitable, many more civilians took their own lives, some even murdering their own families. In just under three months, the world had changed irrevocably: President Franklin D. Roosevelt died; the war in Europe ended; America's appetite for an invasion of Japan had waned, spurring President Truman to use other means -- ultimately atomic bombs -- to end the war; and more than 250,000 servicemen and civilians on or near the island of Okinawa had lost their lives. Drawing on archival research in the US, Japan, and the UK, and the original accounts of those who survived, Crucible of Hell tells the vivid, heart-rending story of the battle that changed not just the course of WWII, but the course of war, forever.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships by :
Download or read book Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships by : United States. Naval History Division
Download or read book Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
