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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Professional Journal of the United States Army
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Quarterly Review of Military Literature
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Amphibians Came to Conquer
Author: George Carroll Dyer
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Military Review
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The Amphibians Came to Conquer: To the central Pacific and Tarawa
Author: George Carroll Dyer
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Admirals of the World
Author: William Stewart
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786482885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This work provides biographies of more than 500 men and women who have served as admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral. While officers from the U.S., British, French and Japanese navies make up the bulk of the work, officers from 22 countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Spain, are also included. The main criterion for inclusion is that each person must have actively served in the rank of at least rear admiral, but not necessarily in enemy action. This effectively rules out people who were granted the rank on retirement, as a courtesy title or posthumously. The book also includes lists of admirals organized by nationality and by year of birth.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786482885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This work provides biographies of more than 500 men and women who have served as admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral. While officers from the U.S., British, French and Japanese navies make up the bulk of the work, officers from 22 countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Spain, are also included. The main criterion for inclusion is that each person must have actively served in the rank of at least rear admiral, but not necessarily in enemy action. This effectively rules out people who were granted the rank on retirement, as a courtesy title or posthumously. The book also includes lists of admirals organized by nationality and by year of birth.
Roster of the Society of the Cincinnati
Author: Society of the Cincinnati
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The Amphibians Came to Conquer
Author: George Carroll Dyer
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Days of Steel Rain
Author: Brent E. Jones
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316451096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war. At its center lies U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer, who vowed to return to action after suffering a horrific wound. He accepted the ship's command in 1944, knowing it would be his last chance to avenge his injuries and salvage his career. Yet with the nation's resources and personnel stretched thin by the war, he found that just getting the ship into action would prove to be a battle. Tensions among the crew flared from the start. Astoria's sailors and Marines were a collection of replacements, retreads, and older men. Some were broken by previous traumatic combat, most had no desire to be in the war, yet all found themselves fighting an enemy more afraid of surrender than death. The reluctant ship was called to respond to challenges that its men never could have anticipated. From a typhoon where the ocean was enemy to daring rescue missions, a gallant turn at Iwo Jima, and the ultimate crucible against the Kamikaze at Okinawa, they endured the worst of the final year of the war at sea. Days of Steel Rain brings to life more than a decade of research and firsthand interviews, depicting with unprecedented insight the singular drama of a captain grappling with an untested crew and men who had endured enough amidst some of the most brutal fighting of World War II. Throughout, Brent Jones fills the narrative with secret diaries, memoirs, letters, interpersonal conflicts, and the innermost thoughts of the Astoria men—and more than 80 photographs that have never before been published. Days of Steel Rain weaves an intimate, unforgettable portrait of leadership, heroism, endurance, and redemption.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316451096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This intimate true account of Americans at war follows theepic drama of an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war. At its center lies U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer, who vowed to return to action after suffering a horrific wound. He accepted the ship's command in 1944, knowing it would be his last chance to avenge his injuries and salvage his career. Yet with the nation's resources and personnel stretched thin by the war, he found that just getting the ship into action would prove to be a battle. Tensions among the crew flared from the start. Astoria's sailors and Marines were a collection of replacements, retreads, and older men. Some were broken by previous traumatic combat, most had no desire to be in the war, yet all found themselves fighting an enemy more afraid of surrender than death. The reluctant ship was called to respond to challenges that its men never could have anticipated. From a typhoon where the ocean was enemy to daring rescue missions, a gallant turn at Iwo Jima, and the ultimate crucible against the Kamikaze at Okinawa, they endured the worst of the final year of the war at sea. Days of Steel Rain brings to life more than a decade of research and firsthand interviews, depicting with unprecedented insight the singular drama of a captain grappling with an untested crew and men who had endured enough amidst some of the most brutal fighting of World War II. Throughout, Brent Jones fills the narrative with secret diaries, memoirs, letters, interpersonal conflicts, and the innermost thoughts of the Astoria men—and more than 80 photographs that have never before been published. Days of Steel Rain weaves an intimate, unforgettable portrait of leadership, heroism, endurance, and redemption.
Army, Navy, Air Force Journal & Register
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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