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Book Synopsis Medal for Service in Merchant Marine by : United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Download or read book Medal for Service in Merchant Marine written by United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :24 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Medal for Service in Merchant Marine by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Download or read book Medal for Service in Merchant Marine written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fourth Arm of Defense by : Salvatore R. Mercogliano
Download or read book Fourth Arm of Defense written by Salvatore R. Mercogliano and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the eighth in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. The publication focuses on the sealift and logistic operations during the war and includes a number of photographs as well as sidebars detailing specific people and ships involved in the logistic operations. This historical pictorial reference would be of interest to students, historians, members of the military, specifically the Navy, and military leaders, veterans, Vietnam War veterans, and the U.S. merchant marines.
Book Synopsis Merchant Vessels of the United States by :
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis These Men Shall Never Die by : Lowell Thomas
Download or read book These Men Shall Never Die written by Lowell Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seedie's List of Awards to the Merchant Navy for World War II. by : Seedie
Download or read book Seedie's List of Awards to the Merchant Navy for World War II. written by Seedie and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ships for Victory by : Frederic Chapin Lane
Download or read book Ships for Victory written by Frederic Chapin Lane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of America's intensive shipbuilding programme during World War II, this explores the development of revolutionary construction methods and the recruitment, training, housing and union activities of the workers.
Book Synopsis My Ancestor Was a Merchant Seaman by : C. T. Watts
Download or read book My Ancestor Was a Merchant Seaman written by C. T. Watts and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors by : Simon Wills
Download or read book Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors written by Simon Wills and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was a merchant seamans life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, rewarded for bravery, or punished? And how can you find out about an ancestor who was a member of the long British maritime tradition? Simon Wills concise and informative historical guide takes the reader and researcher through the fascinating story of Britains merchant service, and he shows you how to trace individual men and women and gain an insight into their lives. In a series of short, information-packed chapters, he explains the expansion of Britains global maritime trade and the fleets of merchant ships that sustained it in peace and war. He describes the lives, duties and tribulations of the generations of crews who sailed in these ships, whether as ordinary seamen or as officers, stewards, engineers and a myriad of other roles. In addition, he identifies the websites you can explore, the archives, records and books you can read, and the places you can visit in order to gain an understanding of what your seagoing ancestor did and the world he knew. Simon Wills practical handbook will be essential reading and reference for anyone who is keen to discover for themselves the secrets of our maritime past and of the crewmembers and ships that were part of it.
Download or read book At All Costs written by Sam Moses and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told a story in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers. It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea during World War II, and one woman fleeing Nazi Norway with her child. It’s about how courage can change the course of history. AT ALL COSTS: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Marines Turned the Tide of World War II is the astonishing untold account, with original historical reporting, of how two men faced unfathomable danger to help save the island of Malta, Churchill’s crux of the war. In 1942, the tiny island of Malta was the most heavily bombed place on earth. Hitler needed Malta as a stepping-stone to get to the oil in Iraq and Iran (Persia at the time). Blockaded by sea, Malta was running on empty, in food, fuel and ammunition. Axis U-boats and dive-bombers made supply convoys to Malta more like suicide missions. In this last-hope convoy, 50 warships escorted 13 freighters carrying aviation fuel, and a single critical tanker, the SS Ohio, with 107,000 barrels of oil from Texas. Winston Churchill had traveled to Washington and asked FDR for the tanker–his prime ministership was at stake over this mission to Malta. Relentlessly dive-bombed and repeatedly torpedoed, the Ohio suffered huge hits and was abandoned. Two young American merchant mariners– pulled from the sea after their own ship went down in flames–boarded the ravaged tanker, repaired her guns and fought off German and Italian dive-bombers, as the sinking Ohio was towed at 4 knots toward Malta with a tiny crew of volunteers. Sam Moses’ AT ALL COSTS is a triumphant story of human bravery: fearless, selfless acts by men determined to save a ship and win a war; profound communal courage from an island under brutal siege; and leaders who understood the cause of freedom.
Book Synopsis Blue Seas, Red Stars by : David A. Schwind
Download or read book Blue Seas, Red Stars written by David A. Schwind and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union decorated 217 men of the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine who had performed "heroic acts" during convoy and anti-submarine duties in the Atlantic. For the last decade, David Schwind has made it his mission to identify and track down every remaining medal and capture the stories of these brave men. This book is the culmination of that quest. Based on extensive archival research and in-person interviews with over 100 recipients or their families, Schwind takes the reader on a photographic and biographical odyssey exploring the lives of each recipient, illuminated by over 600 never before published photographs of exceptionally rare Soviet and American medals, photographs, and related documents still in the possession of the veterans and their families today.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :28 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Medal for Service in Merchant Marine by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Download or read book Medal for Service in Merchant Marine written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merchant Ship Shapes written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Merchant Fleets of the World by : United States. Maritime Administration
Download or read book Merchant Fleets of the World written by United States. Maritime Administration and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mathews Men written by William Geroux and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." —Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery—but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942. From the late 1930s to 1945, virtually all the fuel, food and munitions that sustained the Allies in Europe traveled not via the Navy but in merchant ships. After Pearl Harbor, those unprotected ships instantly became the U-boats’ prime targets. And they were easy targets—the Navy lacked the inclination or resources to defend them until the beginning of 1943. Hitler was determined that his U-boats should sink every American ship they could find, sometimes within sight of tourist beaches, and to kill as many mariners as possible, in order to frighten their shipmates into staying ashore. As the war progressed, men from Mathews sailed the North and South Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and even the icy Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle, where they braved the dreaded Murmansk Run. Through their experiences we have eyewitnesses to every danger zone, in every kind of ship. Some died horrific deaths. Others fought to survive torpedo explosions, flaming oil slicks, storms, shark attacks, mine blasts, and harrowing lifeboat odysseys—only to ship out again on the next boat as soon as they'd returned to safety. The Mathews Men shows us the war far beyond traditional battlefields—often the U.S. merchant mariners’ life-and-death struggles took place just off the U.S. coast—but also takes us to the landing beaches at D-Day and to the Pacific. “When final victory is ours,” General Dwight D. Eisenhower had predicted, “there is no organization that will share its credit more deservedly than the Merchant Marine.” Here, finally, is the heroic story of those merchant seamen, recast as the human story of the men from Mathews.
Book Synopsis The Captain's a Woman by : Deborah Doane Dempsey
Download or read book The Captain's a Woman written by Deborah Doane Dempsey and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But this book clearly shows that Dempsey takes pride not so much in being a trail blazer as in having earned the respect of colleagues by paying her dues and passing the tests faced by any seagoing officer. Now a pilot working the treacherous Columbia River Bar, Dempsey is surprisingly matter-of-fact about her achievements, so it's left to her coauthor, Joanne Reckler Foster, to provide a landlubber's perspective.
Book Synopsis A Complete Guide to All United States Military Medals, 1939 to Present by : Frank C. Foster
Download or read book A Complete Guide to All United States Military Medals, 1939 to Present written by Frank C. Foster and published by Medals of America Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only complete and easy to use color guide of all U.S. Military medals, ribbons, unit awards, devices and commonly presented foreign medals. Covers World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Liberation of Kuwait and Kosovo."--Back cover.
