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Category : Quartermasters
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Quartermaster 3
Author: Papa Bravo Romeo
Author: Wynn GoldsmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804119214
Category : Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The author takes a unique look at the rarely chronicled exploits of the U.S. Navy's "river rats" who engaged in some of the Vietnam War's most intense combat in the Mekong Delta in 1967. photo insert.
War in the Shallows
Author: John Darrell SherwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
War in the Shallows, published in 2015 by the Naval History and Heritage Command, is the authoritative account of the U.S. Navy's hard-fought battle along Vietnam's rivers and coastline from 1965-1968. At the height of the U.S. Navy's involvement in the Vietnam War, the Navy's coastal and riverine forces included more than 30,000 Sailors and over 350 patrol vessels ranging in size from riverboats to destroyers. These forces developed the most extensive maritime blockade in modern naval history and fought pitched battles against Viet Cong units in the Mekong Delta and elsewhere. War in the Shallows explores the operations of the Navy's three inshore task forces from 1965 to 1968. It also delves into other themes such as basing, technology, tactics, and command and control. Finally, using oral history interviews, it reconstructs deckplate life in South Vietnam, focusing in particular on combat waged by ordinary Sailors. Vietnam was the bloodiest war in recent naval history and War in the Shallows strives above all else to provide insight into the men who fought it and honor their service and sacrifice. Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps. Author John Darrell Sherwood has served as a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) since 1997. -- Provided by publisher.
Power at Sea
Author: Lisle A. RosePublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826217035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
"[Volume 1] Traces the social issues, technological advances, and combative encounters of the international naval race from 1890 through WWI, as the largest industrial nations (U.S, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany) scrambled to secure global markets and empire, using their battleship navies as pawns of power politics"--Provided by publisher.
American Naval Forces in the Vietnam War
Author: Al HemingwayPublisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 9780836857764
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the experiences of American naval forces during the Vietnam War.
Combat Service Support Guide
Author: John E. EdwardsPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811749428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Packed with logistics data, tables, and operational methods for CSS at the tactical level. Includes automated logistics planning tools, complete references, glossary, and Internet directory.
The Zeppelin Girl
Author: John TretheweyPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524681644
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
While air accident expert Tim Kendall is being wrongly arrested in London for stealing his own car, in the scorching heat of the Pilbara, in the Australian outback, a prototype airship on a test flight, Zepp 1, is found parked in a remote region, intact, doors sealed, engines running and with no-one aboard. It is truly a Marie Celeste of the skies. Kendall is called from London to lead the investigation. Within days of his arrival in Western Australia, a second airship, Zepp 2, piloted by Kendall and the airline CEO Rachel Mendelson, disappears overnight from the far-flung, primitive outpost of Kangalone River Junction and is found hundreds of miles away, parked next to Zepp 1, intact, engines running, and empty. Kendall, Mendelson and the sole resident of Kangalone, Melissa Marconi, are stranded at River Junction. Without radio contact to the outside world, Kendalls investigation looks impossible. But the actions that he takes during their enforced stay will still be reverberating more than twenty years later. By the same author: A King among Pawns The Price of Enlightenment Helvetia, the Voyage of 100 Days Voices from the Cosmos Natavallia in the Maldives The Human Barnacle Last Train to Polmouth The Water Mill Albatross I: Tumbril in the Sky Albatross II: Autodestruction
Field Manual
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Fighting Elites
Author: John C. FredriksenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
From Army Rangers to Green Berets to the U.S. Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden, this book explains what makes Special Forces "special," covering the rich and varied history of elite formations in American military history and describing their recruitment, intense training, and equipment in depth. Most civilians have only a vague idea of what the U.S. Special Forces are all about—who they are, how they differ from our "normal" military forces, what they've accomplished throughout our history, and how they operate today. Fighting Elites: A History of U.S. Special Forces examines the rich and varied history of U.S. Special Forces, identifies their contributions to specific conflicts from colonial times forward, and highlights their present operational excellence. In this first-ever reference guide to U.S. Special Forces, military historian John C. Fredriksen provides a carefully balanced presentation, describing all units in their own detailed section that discusses their origins, recruitment, training, tactics, and equipment, and defining military engagements, if known. The text also contains 20 biographical entries of noted personalities associated with special purpose activities.
Power at Sea: A violent peace, 1946-2006
Author: Lisle A. RosePublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826216951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
"[Volume 1] Traces the social issues, technological advances, and combative encounters of the international naval race from 1890 through WWI, as the largest industrial nations (U.S, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany) scrambled to secure global markets and empire, using their battleship navies as pawns of power politics"--Provided by publisher.