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The Flying Grunt

Author : Alan E. Mesches
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636242596
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Flying Grunt written by Alan E. Mesches and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring story of a young man from a humble background who received the Bronze and Silver Star for service as a Marine in Korea, including fighting at the Chosin Reservoir, and was almost selected as an astronaut. Richard Edward Carey came from a broken home. Enlisting in the Corps in 1946 he later earned a commission, fighting at Inchon and Chosin in Korea before becoming a pilot—flying every aircraft in the Marine arsenal. During his 38-year military career he witnessed and participated in major historical events, though a high school wrestling injury would eliminate him from the Mercury-7 space program. As a second lieutenant, he tackled General Douglas MacArthur on the way to Seoul in 1950. Carey would provide critical intelligence decisions enabling the successful defense of the Chinese attack on Hagaru-ri at the Chosin Reservoir. In 189 days of combat, he escaped death seven times, and was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star Medals. In Vietnam, he flew 204 combat sorties, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and 16 Air Medals. In 1975, from Saigon, Carey led history’s largest helicopter evacuation of refugees. Subordinates praised his leadership and courage. Never afraid to stand up for his principles, Carey faced down an Air Force general in Vietnam, and organized air defense for supply helicopters at Khe Sahn; he countermanded a senior Naval officer’s order during the 1975 Saigon evacuation, refusing to cease air operations and forcing a reluctant ambassador onto a flight. In retirement, Carey served as a cabinet member for the governor of Ohio and ran the airport in his native home of Columbus. When the Careys moved to Texas, Carey continued supporting veterans, advocating for veterans’ health care, aiding the drive to build accommodation for families of hospitalized veterans, and was a leader in the effort to build a veterans’ cemetery in Dallas. He would lead the drive to build two Chosin Few memorials even as he cared for his ailing wife. This biography is based upon hours of interviews with the general, his papers, speeches, and Marine Corps documents that captured an exceptional and inspiring life.

The Flying Grunt

Author : Alan E. Mesches
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 9781636242583
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Flying Grunt written by Alan E. Mesches and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Carey fought at Chosin Reservoir, then flew 204 combat sorties in Vietnam--this is the inspirational story of a Marine Corps legend.

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Author : Mary Roach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245454
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War written by Mary Roach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.

Take Me to a Circus Tent (the Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual)

Author : Craig Fenton
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741436566
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Take Me to a Circus Tent (the Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual) written by Craig Fenton and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety photos starting from 1963, including maybe the rarest one ever, 33 interviews, 266 questions and answers and a look at 121 live shows and sixty unreleased studio treasures.

Army

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Flight

Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230761178
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Flight written by Matthew Hall and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flight is the fourth thrilling installment in Matthew Hall's gripping, CWA Gold Dagger shortlisted Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith. A tragic accident or a terrible crime? When Flight 189 plunges into the Severn Estuary, Coroner Jenny Cooper finds herself handling the case of a lone sailor whose boat appears to have been sunk by the stricken plane, and drawn into the mysterious fate of a ten year-old girl, Amy Patterson, a passenger on 189, whose largely unmarked body is washed up alongside his. While a massive and highly secretive operation is launched to recover clues from the wreckage, Jenny begins to ask questions the official investigation doesn’t want answered. How could such a high tech plane – virtually impregnable against human error – fail? What linked the high powered passengers who found themselves on this ill-fated flight? And how did Amy Patterson survive the crash, only to perish hours later? Under pressure from Amy’s grieving mother, and opposed by those at the very highest levels of government, Jenny must race against time to seek the truth behind this terrible disaster, before it can happen again . . . The Flight is followed by the fifth book in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series, The Chosen Dead. The Jenny Cooper novels have been adapted into a hit TV series, Coroner, made for CBC and NBC Universal starring Serinda Swan and Roger Cross.

Armor

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Armor written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walking with Grunts

Author : Father Stan Hessey
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469128195
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Walking with Grunts written by Father Stan Hessey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if youre a non-combatants in the midst of combat? How can you be a Man of God, in hell? Can you walk with the Infantryman where ever he goes, share in his training, stand with him, lie with him, duck with him, support him? Why is the soldier there? Why are you there? Is there anything helpful in the Bible that cant be found in Playboy? The military sends its chaplains off to war with its soldiers, some of whom are conscripts, yet chaplains are volunteers. Can you speak of love and peace in the midst of bombs and bullets and booby-traps, and the stinking sight of blood and bits of yours and theirs in pain, dying and dead? Walking with Grunts is about one such Padres confusions, and the men of one such Battalion, at war in a place many back home thought they should not be.

The Grunts on the Run

Author : Philip Ardagh
Publisher : Nosy Crow
ISBN 13 : 0857630741
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book The Grunts on the Run written by Philip Ardagh and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth book in the hilarious series from Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning author Philip Ardagh and illustrator of The Gruffalo, Axel Scheffler. Over the years, the Grunts have made more than a few enemies. But fortunately they're all safely behind bars. Or are they? There's been a prison break-out, and three of them are after REVENGE. It's time for the Grunts to go On the Run... This last book brings back some familiar faces from the series and solves a couple of mysteries too...

The Oracle’s Journal

Author : Dimitri Liountris
Publisher : Partridge Africa
ISBN 13 : 148287850X
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Oracle’s Journal written by Dimitri Liountris and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suddenly, it’s a world flooded with magic and danger draws closer with every passing second. When the powers of sixteen gods are inherited by four teenagers, destruction is not far behind. In Maxton City, everything changes in the blink of an eye. When a portal to the Chaos Realm – a place of torment, a world of horrors – opens up over Maxton City Park, the monsters begin to appear. Then comes the First Queen of Earth. Unbeknownst to anyone, four teenagers have found the means to battling these enemies deep in the Cradle of Humankind. They have found the Amulets of the Spirits, artefacts that house the souls of long-dead gods and grant the four powers beyond their wildest dreams, creating the new Guardians. Using these amulets, they can take the forms of the gods, and wield power that would incinerate mortals. But even that might not be enough... Serena, the First Queen, the Demon Queen, is searching for the most powerful artefact in existence, an artefact capable of granting the power of a god: The Oracle’s Journal. If she ascends, then not even the guardians can stop her. And there’ll be no gods to help them for what comes next...

The Hand

Author : W. Lewis Sain
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Hand written by W. Lewis Sain and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were like the “Lafayette Escadrille” flying our aircraft with precision and cunning like the World War I volunteer pilots, scarves around our necks, looking for a chance to even the score for that day’s fighting. Known as the “Purple Gang.” those we supported knew that when the Purple Gang were on call, they would be protected and had the best chance to come back from their mission alive. Later in life, as we gathered as old pilots, at my home near Charlotte comparing our lives; we realized that we had more in common than we could ever have known. The hand of God was evident as we told our war stories and life stories. We laughed, we cried, and the love for each other was so evident that we vowed to repeat our reunion again within the next year or so. Little did we know that one of our own present that weekend would die that December, the first in our band of brothers to fall after all this time. All of us will miss you, John Houston; we called him “Howdy.”

The Gunner and The Grunt

Author : Michael Kelley
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636243444
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Gunner and The Grunt written by Michael Kelley and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “…a comprehensively researched historic document on one year’s activities for the 9th Cav and the 1st Cavalry Division, worthy of gracing their unit libraries. That the book simultaneously succeeds on the individual soldier level makes it a standout for any reader with an interest in the airmobile aspect of the Vietnam War.”—Vietnam magazine. The Gunner and the Grunt is written in the voices of two soldiers who fought in the same battles as members of the same recon unit but from different angles. Michael Kelley, the “Gunner,” was flying in an armed helicopter above the jungle providing suppressive fire support, while Peter Burbank, the “Grunt,” was down in the jungle on foot patrol involved in fire fights with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troops. The book follows these two Boston boys from army training through deployment to the war zone and the shock of first combat missions, to helicopter air assault “Search and Destroy” operations from the Cambodian border to the sands of the South China Sea.

8 Wonders of Cincinatti

Author : Wendy Beckman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143966384X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book 8 Wonders of Cincinatti written by Wendy Beckman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati is an amazing place to live and visit for so many reasons. Local author Wendy Beckman and illustrator Allison Ranieri celebrate the city's eight wonders--architecture, art, commerce, food, customs, geography, history and people. With its Venetian Gothic lancet arches and crystal chandeliers, the Cincinnati Music Hall stands as an architectural masterpiece. The Cincinnati Red Stockings made history as the first professional baseball team. Remnants of marine fossils from the Ordovician Period remind residents that the city was once under water. Limitless local varieties of goetta range from family recipes to trendy café dishes. And the city birthed trailblazers like track and field star DeHart Hubbard, the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal in an individual event. These stories and more reveal the unique character of the Queen City.

Six giants and a griffin, and other stories

Author : Sarah Elizabeth Birdsall Otis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Six giants and a griffin, and other stories written by Sarah Elizabeth Birdsall Otis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of fantastical short stories, intended to be read by children. Featured titles include Jane and the Bears, Sapphira and the Flying Pig, and The Christmas Trees.

The Soldiers' Story

Author : Ron Steinman
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1627888853
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Soldiers' Story written by Ron Steinman and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran journalist Ron Steinman gathers candid reminiscences from seventy-six men (including Senator John McCain) who lived through the brutalities of combat in the Vietnam War. A Soldiers' Story provides a vivid and gripping oral history of the fear, fellowship, trauma and triumph of these Marine, Army, Air Force, and Navy veterans. Complete with maps and battlefield photographs, these indespensable first-hand accounts provide a unique front-line record of Vietnam - from its surreal horrors, to the comradeship and courage forged in battle. From the jungles of Southeast Asia to life back in the United States as veterans of an unpopular war, A Soldiers' Story also includes complete and updated biographies of the brave men who are profiled. This is a book that goes beyond the military and political implications of Vietnam, to the truth of what the war cost - and who actually paid the price.

The Soldiers' Story: An Illustrated Edition

Author : Ron Steinman
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
ISBN 13 : 1577151089
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book The Soldiers' Story: An Illustrated Edition written by Ron Steinman and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran journalist, Ron Steinman, profiled 76 Vietnam vets. Complete with maps & photographs, their stories are a record of the horrors & fellowship they experienced.

The Soldiers' Story (Fall River Press Edition)

Author : Ron Steinman
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1435139607
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Soldiers' Story (Fall River Press Edition) written by Ron Steinman and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most history-minded Americans have discussed the Vietnam War, becoming familiar, at the very least, with the names of such pivotal events as the Siege of Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, and the Fall of Saigon. But to grasp the full impact of this agonizing conflict, the human costs of an infernal war that raged for ten years and took more than 58,000 American lives, one must hear about it from the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who experienced the fighting and endured. In The Soldiers’ Story, veteran journalist Ron Steinman gathers the candid reminiscences of seventy-six men who survived combat in Vietnam. Not a military analysis or political study, this oral history vividly conveys the hardships, friendships, fears, and personal triumphs of Marine, Army, Air Force, and Navy veterans—each of whom shares memories that have lingered to this day. It is a valuable frontline record of battle-torn Vietnam from the perspective of those who lived it first-hand, giving us a window into the horror, intensity, and raw courage that the war engendered. For this tenth anniversary reissue of the book, at a time of the continued commitment of American military forces on other continents, Steinman has added a brief new foreword, addressing the ongoing significance of soldiers’ stories—both to themselves and to their families. Praise for The Soldiers’ Story: “Ranks among the most vivid accounts of the war.”—Stanley Karnow “Their stories are as dangerous as the battles they fought—stunning, plain-spoken recollections that reveal the terror of combat and theperils of a far-off war and the folly of government policy.”— New York Newsday “A powerful book that brings to life the triumphs and tragedies experienced by American soldiers in Vietnam. This excellent compilation belongs on every Vietnam bookshelf.”—Publishers Weekly