Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ongoing Mission, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fort Belvoir Ongoing Mission
Author: Final Environmental Impact Statement Ongoing Mission
Author: US Army Engineer Center and School of Fort BelvoirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Fort Belvoir Development, Comprehensive Base Realignment/closure
Author: Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2084
Book Description
Fort Leonard Wood Ongoing Mission
Author: 102 Monitor
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Lucky 666
Author: Bob DruryPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476774862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The "untold story of friendship, heroism and survival in World War II"--Book jacket.
Indestructible
Author: John R BruningPublisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316339393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family -- imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way. From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to his fiery days as a pioneering naval aviator, Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn played by his own set of rules and always survived on his wits and fists. But when he fell for a conservative Southern belle, her love transformed him from a wild and reckless airman to a cunning entrepreneur whose homespun engineering brilliance helped launch one of the first airlines in Asia. Pappy was drafted into MacArthur's air force when war came to the Philippines; and while he carried out a top-secret mission to Australia, the Japanese seized his family. Separated from his beloved wife, Polly, and their four children, Pappy reverted to his lawless ways. He carried out rescue missions with an almost suicidal desperation. Even after he was shot down twice and forced to withdraw to Australia, he waged a one-man war against his many enemies -- including the American high command and the Japanese--and fought to return to the Philippines to find his family. Without adequate planes, supplies, or tactics, the U.S. Army Air Force suffered crushing defeats by the Japanese in the Pacific. Over the course of his three-year quest to find his family, Pappy became the renegade who changed all that. With a brace of pistols and small band of loyal fol,lowers, he robbed supply dumps, stole aircraft, invented new weapons, and modified bombers to hit harder, fly farther, and deliver more destruction than anything yet seen in the air. When Pappy's modified planes were finally unleashed during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the United States scored one of the most decisive victories of World War II. Taking readers from the blistering skies of the Pacific to the jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines to one of the the war's most notorious prison camps, Indestructible traces one man's bare-knuckle journey to free the people he loved and the aerial revolution he sparked that continues to resonate across America's modern battlefields.
Military Incompetence
Author: Richard A. GabrielPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466807792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Former soldier and author Richard Gabriel offers a prescription for reform based on his twenty years of military experience. The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations--in Sontay to rescue prisoners, in Cambodia on behalf of the crew of the Mayaguez, in Iran to rescue the American hostages, in Beirut, and in Grenada--and in each case they have failed. Gabriel tells how and why each was crippled by faulty intelligence, clumsy execution, or poor planning by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Much of his information is still classified by the Pentagon and is revealed here for the first time.