Author: John F. Wukovits
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781612517018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first biography of the Admiral credited with turning the Leyte Gulf battle from defeat to victory in 1944 and who ordered the first shot against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. John F. Wukovits uses primary source materials that include handwritten commentary on the battle of Leyte. Although a life biographer, the focus is on Sprague's contributions to naval aviation, and method of command, particularly at the Battle of Samar Island.
Devotion to Duty
Author: John F. Wukovits
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781612517018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first biography of the Admiral credited with turning the Leyte Gulf battle from defeat to victory in 1944 and who ordered the first shot against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. John F. Wukovits uses primary source materials that include handwritten commentary on the battle of Leyte. Although a life biographer, the focus is on Sprague's contributions to naval aviation, and method of command, particularly at the Battle of Samar Island.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781612517018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first biography of the Admiral credited with turning the Leyte Gulf battle from defeat to victory in 1944 and who ordered the first shot against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. John F. Wukovits uses primary source materials that include handwritten commentary on the battle of Leyte. Although a life biographer, the focus is on Sprague's contributions to naval aviation, and method of command, particularly at the Battle of Samar Island.
Duty & Devotion
Author: Tere Michaels
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
ISBN: 1632165813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Evan’s inner turmoil threatens his relationship with Matt, who worries that Evan will once again chose a life without him.
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
ISBN: 1632165813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Evan’s inner turmoil threatens his relationship with Matt, who worries that Evan will once again chose a life without him.
The Canada Gazette
Author: Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Devotion
Author: Adam Makos
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0804176590
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call. “In the spirit of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes Devotion.”—Associated Press • “Aerial drama at its best—fast, powerful, and moving.”—Erik Larson Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse became the navy’s first Black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the world’s most dangerous job—landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier—a line of work that Jesse’s young wife, Daisy, struggles to accept. Deployed to the Mediterranean, Tom and Jesse meet the Fleet Marines, boys like PFC “Red” Parkinson, a farm kid from the Catskills. In between war games in the sun, the young men revel on the Riviera, partying with millionaires and even befriending the Hollywood starlet Elizabeth Taylor. Then comes the conflict that no one expected: the Korean War. Devotion takes us soaring overhead with Tom and Jesse, and into the foxholes with Red and the Marines as they battle a North Korean invasion. As the fury of the fighting escalates and the Marines are cornered at the Chosin Reservoir, Tom and Jesse fly, guns blazing, to try and save them. When one of the duo is shot down behind enemy lines and pinned in his burning plane, the other faces an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or attempt history’s most audacious one-man rescue mission. A tug-at-the-heartstrings tale of bravery and selflessness, Devotion asks: How far would you go to save a friend?
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0804176590
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call. “In the spirit of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes Devotion.”—Associated Press • “Aerial drama at its best—fast, powerful, and moving.”—Erik Larson Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse became the navy’s first Black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the world’s most dangerous job—landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier—a line of work that Jesse’s young wife, Daisy, struggles to accept. Deployed to the Mediterranean, Tom and Jesse meet the Fleet Marines, boys like PFC “Red” Parkinson, a farm kid from the Catskills. In between war games in the sun, the young men revel on the Riviera, partying with millionaires and even befriending the Hollywood starlet Elizabeth Taylor. Then comes the conflict that no one expected: the Korean War. Devotion takes us soaring overhead with Tom and Jesse, and into the foxholes with Red and the Marines as they battle a North Korean invasion. As the fury of the fighting escalates and the Marines are cornered at the Chosin Reservoir, Tom and Jesse fly, guns blazing, to try and save them. When one of the duo is shot down behind enemy lines and pinned in his burning plane, the other faces an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or attempt history’s most audacious one-man rescue mission. A tug-at-the-heartstrings tale of bravery and selflessness, Devotion asks: How far would you go to save a friend?
The Monthly Army List
Author: Great Britain. Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retired military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 2924
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Retired military personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 2924
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The Telegraph and Telephone Journal
Author:
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Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telegraph
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Flight
Author:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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London Gazette
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Canada Gazette
Author: Canada
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
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Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
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The London Gazette
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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