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Doomed at the Start
American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942
Häftad, 1995
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During the first three days of the Japanese assault on American Pacific bases in December of 1941, the 24th Pursuit Group, the only unit of interceptor aircraft in the Philippine Islands, was almost destroyed as an effective force. Yet the group’s pilots, doomed from the start by their limited …
Red Wings Over the Yalu
China, the Soviet Union and the Air War in Korea
Inbunden, 2002
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The Korean War was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later development of Chinese air …
Agent for the Resistance
A Belgian Saboteur in World War II
Häftad, 2002
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When Nazi Germany began bearing down on Europe in the late 1930s, Herman Bodson was a student intellectual and pacifist at the University of Brussels. As the reality of eventual invasion sank into his soul, however, his passion for freedom overcame his pacifism and with a group of friends he …
Red Wings Over the Yalu
China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea
Häftad, 2003
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The Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military History, constituting an important experience for the newly formed People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), not only as a test case for this fledgling service but also in the later development of Chinese air power. Xiaoming Zhang …
Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind
The Early Cold War
Inbunden, 2004
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The U.S. military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American youth. Here, author Lori Bogle investigates how the armed forces assigned themselves this role and why they sought to create ""ideologically …
Victory on the Potomac
The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon
Häftad, 2004
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Prisoner of the Rising Sun
The Lost Diary of Brig. Gen. Lewis Beebe
Av John M. Beebe, John M. Beebe
Inbunden, 2006
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A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, ""Prisoner of the Rising Sun"" offers new evidence of the treatment accorded officers and shows how the Corregidor prisoners fared compared with the ill-fated Bataan captives. When Japanese …
Wings of Democracy
The Influence of Air Power on the Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1941
Inbunden, 1991
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Undetected Enemy
French and American Miscalculations at Dien Bien Phu, 1953
Inbunden, 1995
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After the Trenches
The Transformation of the U.S.Army Doctrine, 1918-39
Inbunden, 1999
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Traces the development of combat doctrine between the world wars through an examination of the army's primary doctrine manuals, the Field Service Regulations.
Australia's Vietnam War
Av Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
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Comparatively little is known about Australia's experience in Vietnam - its motives for entering the conflict, national support for Australia's role there, how the nation dealt with the aftermath of war. Here, Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Doyle and Peter Pierce chronicle Australia's complicated involvement.
Striving for Air Superiority
The Tactical Air Command in Vietnam
Inbunden, 2001
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Tactical bombing, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle reportedly observed, ""is breaking the milk bottle Strategic bombing is killing the cow,"" Most nations have historically chosen between building tactical and strategic air forces; rarely has a state given equal weight to both. The advantages of tactical air …
American Home Guard
The State Militia in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2002
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Since colonial times Americans have used the militia to maintain order during both war and peacetime. Barry M. Stentiford tells the story of these militia units - variously called home guards, State Guard, National Guard Reserve, and State Defense Forces. Stentiford traces the evolution of the …
Good Idea of Hell
Letters from a Chasseur a Pied
Av Joshua Brown
Inbunden, 2003
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Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldier - a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the US and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, …
Tanks on the Beaches
A Marine Tanker in the Pacific War
Av Robert M. Neiman, Kenneth W. Estes
Inbunden, 2003
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Robert M. Neiman, perhaps the most experienced combat commander of the U.S. Marine Corps' tank arm, was one of the rare USMC officers to serve in both Iwo Jima and Okinawa battles. In Tanks on the Beaches, Neiman and his coauthor, Kenneth W. Estes, relay vivid accounts of fighting in the Pacific …
Seven Stars
The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr and Joseph Stilwell
Inbunden, 2004
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Battle diaries are essential for understanding what generals are thinking as they work their way through the fog of battle. Nicholas Evan Sarantakes juxtaposes the diaries of two very different generals who both fought at Okinawa: Lieutenant General Buckner, a by-the-numbers man who favored the use …
Reluctant Lieutenant
From Basic to OCS in the Sixties
Inbunden, 2004
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With intimidating tales of bellowing drill instructors and their seemingly incongruous tasks, Reluctant Lieutenant captures the essence of what it meant to survive the training regimen of the Old Army. Author Jerry Morton is as much at home describing blind navigation through the woods on a dark …
Tales of a Cold War Submariner
Av Dan Summitt
Inbunden, 2004
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Though Dan Summitt retired from the U.S Navy years ago, he still regrets not receiving clearance to fill a submarine missile tube with thirty-five thousand pounds of wet grits and launch it at a very pesky Russian spy ship. In Tales of a Cold War Submariner, Summitt tells the story of his military …
Colt Terry, Green Beret
Inbunden, 2005
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The 10th Special Forces Group was the first of the Green Beret units. Its five hundred men, all Airborne and mostly Rangers, received extensive training in everything from specialized weapons to uncommon languages. Their primary mission was to train and lead indigenous guerrillas operating in enemy …
Hospital at War
The 95th Evacuation Hospital in World War II
Inbunden, 2004
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The army's 95th Evac, one of 107 evacuation hospitals that fought tirelessly to save soldiers maimed from battle or ravaged by disease, arrived in Casablanca in April 1943 with seven thousand troops, thirty doctors, and forty nurses. It eventually became the first American hospital to penetrate …
Soldiering for Freedom
A GI's Account of World War II
Häftad, 2005
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Only a small percentage of the sixteen million servicemen called up during World War II saw front-line service. For the others, war involved training, reinforcement depots, tedious assignments, and lots of waiting. Herman J. Obermayer was one of those who earned a combat star without ever coming …
Journey Into Darkness
Genocide in Rwanda
Inbunden, 2005
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In July 1994, Thomas P. Odom was part of the U.S. Embassy team that responded to the Goma refugee crisis. He witnessed the deaths of 70,000 refugees in a single week. In the previous three months of escalating violence, the Rwandan genocide had claimed 800,000 dead. Now, in this vivid and …
Soldiering for Freedom
A GI's Account of World War II
Inbunden, 2005
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Only a small percentage of the sixteen million servicemen called up during World War II saw front-line service. For the others, war involved training, reinforcement depots, tedious assignments, and lots of waiting. Herman J. Obermayer was one of those who earned a combat star without ever coming …
Greatest Generation Comes Home
The Veteran in American Society
Inbunden, 2005
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At the conclusion of World War II, Americans anxiously contemplated the return to peace. It was an uncertain time, rife with concerns about demobilization, inflation, strikes, and the return of a second Great Depression. Balanced against these challenges was the hope in a future of unparalleled …
