Author: Floyd D. CarlockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military topography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Military Topography and Photography
Author: Floyd D. CarlockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military topography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Advanced Map and Aerial Photograph Reading
Author: Viet Cong
Author: Edward J. EmeringPublisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764307584
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Viet Cong have long remained a mystery even to those who fought against them during America's longest and most divisive war. They have been given many acronyms and slang names by the American fighting men; included among them are V.C., Charlie and other less complimentary terms. They have been portrayed in many guises by the American press and popular Hollywood films. None, however, have really addressed the Viet Cong in human terms. This work will strip away the myth and mystery which surrounds the Viet Cong and, through the medium of their own candid photography, present them in human terms. They were everything we were - resourceful, cunning, adaptable, and most of all, human. As did our own American soldiers, they endured life in some of the harshest, most inhospitable terrain on earth. In doing so, they exhibited the will to sacrifice and be sacrificed for the collective goal of unification. Little did they know that we were serving the hidden agenda of the Politburo in Hanoi. In the end, they, like many of our soldiers, were betrayed and abandoned. This book portrays the Viet Cong as seen through their own photography. A cultural obsession, photographs were taken wherever and whenever possible. On many occasions, Allied forces were able to capture such photos. It is from such sources that these photographs are made available, most for the first time ever, to the general public. 129 colour & b/w photographs
Topographical Surveying
Author: Herbert Michael WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Military Geography for Professionals and the Public
Author: John M. CollinsPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1574881809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
An examination of geography's critical effects on battles throughout the ages
Aerial Phototopography
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerial photography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Field Artillery Journal
Author: Shooting the Pacific War
Author: Thayer SoulePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813157307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Thayer Soule couldn't believe his orders. As a junior officer with no military training or indoctrination and less than ten weeks of active duty behind him, he had been assigned to be photographic officer for the First Marine Division. The Corps had never had a photographic division before, much less a field photographic unit. But Soule accepted the challenge, created the unit from scratch, established policies for photography, and led his men into combat. Soule and his unit produced films and photos of training, combat action pictures, and later, terrain studies and photographs for intelligence purposes. Though he had never heard of a photo-litho set, he was in charge of using it for map production, which would prove vital to the division. Shooting the Pacific War is based on Soule's detailed wartime journals. Soule was in the unique position to interact with men at all levels of the military, and he provides intriguing closeups of generals, admirals, sergeants, and privates -everyone he met and worked with along the way. Though he witnessed the horror of war firsthand, he also writes of the vitality and intense comradeship that he and his fellow Marines experienced. Soule recounts the heat of battle as well as the intense training before and rebuilding after each campaign. He saw New Zealand in the desperate days of 1942. His division was rebuilt in Australia following Guadalcanal. After a stint back in Quantico training more combat photographers, he went to Guam and then to the crucible of Iwo Jima. At war's end he was serving as Photographic Officer, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, at Pearl Harbor.
Map Reading and Land Navigation
Author: Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781626543003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The field manual provides a standardized source document for Army-wide reference on map reading and land navigation. It applies to every soldier in the army regardless of service branch, MOS, or rank. This manual also contains both doctrine and training guidance on map reading and land navigation.Part One addresses map reading and Part Two, land navigation. The appendices include an introduction to orienteering and a discussion of several devices that can assist the soldier in land navigation. For soldiers, hunters, climbers, and hikers alike, this is the definitive guide to map reading and navigation.
Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911
Author: United States. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description