Author: Brian B. Chin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976149477
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Artillery at the Golden Gate tells the story of the "concrete soldiers," the US Army coast artillerymen who manned the huge seacoast rifles and underwater minefields guarding the San Francisco harbor during World War II. Artillery at the Golden Gate recreates the atmosphere of wartime San Francisco and recounts in vivid detail the life of the Army coast artillerymen stationed in a world of full-alerts and combat discipline within sight of San Francisco. Based on interviews with veterans and supported by official records, press accounts, and over 170 historical photographs, this book paints a rich mosaic of memorable Army personalities and their intriguing experience in the wartime port city.
Artillery at the Golden Gate
Author: Brian B. Chin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976149477
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Artillery at the Golden Gate tells the story of the "concrete soldiers," the US Army coast artillerymen who manned the huge seacoast rifles and underwater minefields guarding the San Francisco harbor during World War II. Artillery at the Golden Gate recreates the atmosphere of wartime San Francisco and recounts in vivid detail the life of the Army coast artillerymen stationed in a world of full-alerts and combat discipline within sight of San Francisco. Based on interviews with veterans and supported by official records, press accounts, and over 170 historical photographs, this book paints a rich mosaic of memorable Army personalities and their intriguing experience in the wartime port city.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976149477
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Artillery at the Golden Gate tells the story of the "concrete soldiers," the US Army coast artillerymen who manned the huge seacoast rifles and underwater minefields guarding the San Francisco harbor during World War II. Artillery at the Golden Gate recreates the atmosphere of wartime San Francisco and recounts in vivid detail the life of the Army coast artillerymen stationed in a world of full-alerts and combat discipline within sight of San Francisco. Based on interviews with veterans and supported by official records, press accounts, and over 170 historical photographs, this book paints a rich mosaic of memorable Army personalities and their intriguing experience in the wartime port city.
Artillery at the Golden Gate
Author: Brian B. Chin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929521855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929521855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Engineers at the Golden Gate
Author: Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Harbor Defenses of San Francisco
Author: Matthew W. Kent
Publisher: Matthew W. Kent
ISBN: 1615841636
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Publisher: Matthew W. Kent
ISBN: 1615841636
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A Ward of the Golden Gate
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A Ward of the Golden Gate
Author: Bret Harte
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368319523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368319523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
'Right shall make might'. An account of the celebration of the thirty-fourth anniversary of the Washington artillery, with the oration of gen. S. McGowan [&c.].
Defender of the Gate
Author: Erwin N. Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Historic Resource Study
Author: Erwin N. Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Golden Cannon
Author: Eugene Wayman Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description