Author: Captain Eugene Ray Martin
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1640274383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Captain Sam is an experienced convoy commander and captain of a Mahan-class destroyer. He is responsible for thousands of men in warships and the merchant ships of this convoy that must get to England for that country to survive. The Germans had proved the master of the Atlantic in this war, this battle of the Atlantic. German submarines had sunk thousands of ships. Those ships carried desperately needed things for England, everything from food, medicines, and clothing. And naturally, things to make war—things needed to invade France and end the terror the Germans created all over Europe. This was the time of the war when the Allies finally had enough ships and aircraft to counter the Germans in the Atlantic. The Germans were still very formidable. The Germans were desperate to stop supplies from reaching England; otherwise, they knew it will get much worse for them.
Author: Captain Eugene Ray Martin
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 164027877X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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President Roosevelt in 1941 sent the twenty-seven-year-old battleship Texas and her mini task force on an important mission to an American territory. Not to protect that territory, but to salvage their wealth before the Japanese can obtain that wealth and use it to build more weapons of war. Their primary goal was to avoid frightening or threating the Japanese, thus giving the Japanese an excuse to start a war. At that time the Japanese were rattling their sabers. The Americans expected the Japanese at any time to attack somewhere in Southeast Asia. The Japanese were in the midst of a multiyear attempt to colonize China. Because of the political intrigue, they had to secretly organize the expedition. They had to decide what minimum resources were available. It took time for political mechanisms to get started and for the military planners to organize the expedition. It had to be done right the first time. They will face frantic Japanese forces with overwhelming forces.
Author: United States. Naval History Division
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Category : Ships
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Author: Sam Moses
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588365611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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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.
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Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Author: John Trotwood Moore
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Author: Texas State Historical Association
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Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: Samuel Ward Casscells (III)
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Lists military medical personnel who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. Includes a biography, portrait and family photos for each soldier listed.
Author: Samuel Ward Casscells
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160872525
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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