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Oahu's Narrow-Gauge Army Rail

Author : Jeff Livingston
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467127388
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Oahu's Narrow-Gauge Army Rail written by Jeff Livingston and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers build the first Army railroad on Oahu in 1907 to use for construction of Fort Kamehameha. Seven batteries were built between 1907 and 1920, and the 'temporary' railroad not only remained but was expanded to become a permanent one in 1920 with the establishment of the 41st Coast Artillery (Railway). The Oahu Railway & Land Company (OR&L) provide most rail service to the Army, beginning with Fort Shafter in 1905 and Schofield Barracks in 1909. Government tracks were built at Schofield Barracks by the Army between 1922 and 1933, including an independent 60-centimeter 'trench' railroad system. Two highly specialized railroads were built at Forts Weaver and Barrette to serve the 16-inch gun batteries. With the advent of World War II, the Army short on equipment, continued to depend heavily on the OR&L. The OR&L abandoned its main line in December 1947, and the Army's railroads were also soon removed." -- From cover

Oahu's Narrow-Gauge Navy Rail

Author : Jeff Livingston
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467131970
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Oahu's Narrow-Gauge Navy Rail written by Jeff Livingston and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US Navy rail operations on Oahu began in 1908 with construction railroads used to help build the shipyard. Expansion of Pearl Harbor to include the submarine base and the naval magazine on Kuahua Island required a permanent railroad, which was begun in 1911. This construction provided industrial employment to hundreds of local men in the existing agricultural economy, and the influx of additional manpower from the mainland contributed to an increasingly skilled and diverse population. World War II brought about a dramatic increase in Navy railroad operations in support of the war effort. Success in the Pacific theater of operations depended on the Navy's railroads, equipment, and the Oahu Railway & Land Company (OR&L), which connected all the bases. The OR&L abandoned its main line in December 1947. By the mid-1950s, railroad operations at Pearl Harbor also ceased. Rail operations continued at and between Naval Magazine Lualualei and Ammunition Depot West Loch through the Korean Conflict and Vietnam era, ending in 1972.

Oahu's Narrow-Gauge Navy Rail

Author : Jeff Livingston
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439647275
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Oahu's Narrow-Gauge Navy Rail written by Jeff Livingston and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US Navy rail operations on Oahu began in 1908 with construction railroads used to help build the shipyard. Expansion of Pearl Harbor to include the submarine base and the naval magazine on Kuahua Island required a permanent railroad, which was begun in 1911. This construction provided industrial employment to hundreds of local men in the existing agricultural economy, and the influx of additional manpower from the mainland contributed to an increasingly skilled and diverse population. World War II brought about a dramatic increase in Navy railroad operations in support of the war effort. Success in the Pacific theater of operations depended on the Navys railroads, equipment, and the Oahu Railway & Land Company (OR&L), which connected all the bases. The OR&L abandoned its main line in December 1947. By the mid-1950s, railroad operations at Pearl Harbor also ceased. Rail operations continued at and between Naval Magazine Lualualei and Ammunition Depot West Loch through the Korean Conflict and Vietnam era, ending in 1972.

Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center, Tripler Army Medical Center, Oahu

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center, Tripler Army Medical Center, Oahu written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quarterly Review of Military Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Review of Current Military Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 1628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Army in World War II.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Leyte: the Return to the Philippines

Author : M. Hamlin Cannon
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782894055
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Leyte: the Return to the Philippines written by M. Hamlin Cannon and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 10 tables, 9 charts, 54 maps and 88 illustrations] The landing of the American forces on Leyte on 20 October 1944 brought to fruition the long-cherished desire of General Douglas MacArthur to return to the Philippine Islands and avenge the humiliating reverses suffered in the early days of World War II. The successful conclusion of the campaign separated the Japanese-held Philippine Archipelago into two parts, with a strong American force between them. More important, it completed the severance of the Japanese mainland from the stolen southern empire in the Netherlands Indies from which oil, the lifeblood of modern warfare, had come. The Leyte Campaign, like other campaigns in the Pacific, was waged on the land, in the air, and on and under the sea. In this operation all branches of the American armed forces played significant roles. Therefore, although the emphasis in this volume is placed upon the deeds of the United States Army ground soldier, the endeavors of the aviator, the sailor, the marine and the Filipino guerrilla have been integrated as far as possible into the story in order to make the campaign understandable in its entirety. At the same time, every effort has been made to give the Japanese side of the story.

The Last Cavalryman

Author : Harvey Ferguson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149698
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Last Cavalryman written by Harvey Ferguson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the story of how Truscott—despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education, and questionable luck— not only made the rank of army lieutenant general, earning a reputation as one of World War II’s most effective officers along the way, but was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general seven years after his retirement.

Locomotive Engineers Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locomotive Engineers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Defenses of Pearl Harbor and Oahu 1907–50

Author : Glen Williford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849080070
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Defenses of Pearl Harbor and Oahu 1907–50 written by Glen Williford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 20th century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became clear. Oahu in particular was a key bastion in projecting America's military power in the Pacific. The island was turned into a military fortress and yet it also became the site of one of America's greatest defensive failures, the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941. By the end of World War II, the harbor itself was the most heavily defended in the world, and the island had earned the sobriquet "Fortress Oahu". This title documents the development of the coastal, air and land defense systems that served to protect Pearl Harbor and Honolulu from 1907 to 1950, and seeks to understand why these failed at a critical point.

Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

If Trouble Don't Kill Me

Author : Ralph Berrier
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307463087
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book If Trouble Don't Kill Me written by Ralph Berrier and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making moonshine, working blue-collar jobs, picking fights in bars, chasing women, and living hardscrabble lives . . . Clayton and Saford Hall were born in the backwoods of Virginia in 1919, in a place known as The Hollow. Incredibly, they became legends in their day, rising from mountain-bred poverty to pickin’ and yodelin’ all over the airwaves of the South in the 1930s and 1940s, opening shows for the Carter Family, Roy Rogers, the Sons of the Pioneers, and even playing the most coveted stage of all: the Grand Ole Opry. They accomplished a lifetime’s worth of achievements in less than five years—and left behind only a few records to document their existence. Fortunately, Ralph Berrier, Jr., the grandson of Clayton Hall and a reporter for the Roanoke Times, brings us their full story for the first time in IF TROUBLE DON'T KILL ME. He documents how the twins’ music spread like wildfire when they moved from The Hollow to Roanoke at age twenty, and how their popularity was inflamed by their onstage zaniness, their roguish offstage shenanigans, and, above all, their ability to play old-time country music. But just as they arrived on the brink of major fame, World War II dashed their dreams. Berrier follows the Hall twins as they travel overseas, leaving behind their beloved music, and are thrust into the cauldron of a war that reshaped their lives and destinies. Through the brothers’ experiences, the story of World War II unfolds—Saford fought from the shores of North Africa to Sicily and Europe and finally into Germany; Clayton fought the Japanese in the brutal Pacific theater until the savage, final battle on Okinawa. They returned home after the war to find that the world had changed, music had changed . . . and they had, too. IF TROUBLE DON'T KILL ME paints a loving portrait of a vanishing yet exalted southern culture, shows us the devastating consequences of war, and allows us to experience the mountain voices that not only influenced the history of music but that also shaped the landscape of America.

Pacific Ocean Engineers

Author : Erwin N. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Ocean Engineers written by Erwin N. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry

Author : Lucian King Truscott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Twilight of the U.S. Cavalry written by Lucian King Truscott and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucian Truscott takes the reader back in this military memoir to the days of the horse cavalry in American history.

Civilian War Transport

Author : United States. Office of Defense Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Civilian War Transport written by United States. Office of Defense Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Campaign in the Marianas

Author : Philip A. Crowl
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782894039
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - Campaign in the Marianas written by Philip A. Crowl and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 2 tables, 14 charts, 33 maps and 89 illustrations] In the capture of the southern Marianas during the summer of 1944, Army ground and air forces played an important, though subordinate, role to that of the Navy and its Marine Corps. Marine personnel constituted the bulk of the combat troops employed. The objective of this campaign was "to secure control of sea communications through the Central Pacific by isolating and neutralizing the Carolines and by the establishment of sea and air bases for operations against Japanese sea routes and long-range air attacks against the Japanese home land." Its success would provide steppingstones from which the Americans could threaten further attack westward toward the Philippines, Formosa, and Japan itself, and would gain bases from which the Army Air Forces’ new very long range bombers, the B-29’s, could strike at Japan’s heartland. Recognizing and accepting the challenge, the Japanese Navy suffered heavy and irreplaceable losses in the accompanying Battle of the Philippine Sea; and the islands after capture became the base for all the massive air attacks on Japan, beginning in Nov. 1944. In the operations described in the present volume, landings against strong opposition demonstrated the soundness of the amphibious doctrine and techniques evolved out of hard experience in preceding Pacific operations. Bitter inland fighting followed the landings, with Army and Marine Corps divisions engaged side by side. The author’s account and corresponding Marine Corps histories of these operations provide ample opportunity to study the differences in the fighting techniques of the two services. Dr. Crowl also deals frankly with one of the best-known controversies of World War II, that of Smith versus Smith, but concludes that it was the exception to generally excellent interservice co-operation.