Author: Leigh Thomas
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741437163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
He was young, naive and eager. Assigned to an elite fighting unit in Viet Nam, he amazed himself every day by measuring up to those around him.
Recon and the Green Monster
Author: Leigh Thomas
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741437163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
He was young, naive and eager. Assigned to an elite fighting unit in Viet Nam, he amazed himself every day by measuring up to those around him.
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741437163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
He was young, naive and eager. Assigned to an elite fighting unit in Viet Nam, he amazed himself every day by measuring up to those around him.
US Marine Corps Recon and Special Operations Uniforms & Equipment 2000–15
Author: J. Kenneth Eward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472806794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In the age of modern warfare the changing landscape of the 21st century battlefield has demanded a transformation within the US Marine Corps Special Operations. Adapting to a huge range of combat environments, an enormous array of specialist uniforms, protective armour and battlefield electronic devices have been developed to facilitate missions in the most extreme conditions. A special forces operator may now have available to him a dozen distinct types of body armour and two dozen different weapons; never before in American military history has so much been given to so few. Authored by J. Kenneth Eward, professor at the American Military University, and illustrated throughout with photographs and meticulous colour plates, this volume offers the first detailed, authoritative study of the characteristics, and performance in the field, of the most modern combat gear and weapons provided for USMC specialist operators to date.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472806794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In the age of modern warfare the changing landscape of the 21st century battlefield has demanded a transformation within the US Marine Corps Special Operations. Adapting to a huge range of combat environments, an enormous array of specialist uniforms, protective armour and battlefield electronic devices have been developed to facilitate missions in the most extreme conditions. A special forces operator may now have available to him a dozen distinct types of body armour and two dozen different weapons; never before in American military history has so much been given to so few. Authored by J. Kenneth Eward, professor at the American Military University, and illustrated throughout with photographs and meticulous colour plates, this volume offers the first detailed, authoritative study of the characteristics, and performance in the field, of the most modern combat gear and weapons provided for USMC specialist operators to date.
Hawk Recon
Author: William "Doc" Osgood
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526782960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"...a refreshingly honest and authentic war memoir." — The VVA Veteran It took courage and a certain sense of wild adventure to be a combat medic during the Vietnam War, and William 'Doc' Osgood exemplified their daring attitude. Doc would see combat throughout South Vietnam, spending much of his time deep in the bush far from the relative safety of base camps. With the less than encouraging words that “you’ll be dead in 15 seconds” still ringing in his ears, Doc embarked on an eventful and at times harrowing combat tour that pitted the famed 101st Airborne Division against some of the North Vietnamese Army’s finest troops on the battlefields of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Hamburger Hill, and the deadly A Shau Valley. Doc would serve as the head medic with legendary Colonel Charlie Beckwith’s (creator of the US Army’s Delta Force) 2/327th, 101st Airborne Division, Hawk Recon in what was arguably one of the most dangerous jobs in the deadliest part of South Vietnam. Doc also became an unofficial combat artist during the war.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526782960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"...a refreshingly honest and authentic war memoir." — The VVA Veteran It took courage and a certain sense of wild adventure to be a combat medic during the Vietnam War, and William 'Doc' Osgood exemplified their daring attitude. Doc would see combat throughout South Vietnam, spending much of his time deep in the bush far from the relative safety of base camps. With the less than encouraging words that “you’ll be dead in 15 seconds” still ringing in his ears, Doc embarked on an eventful and at times harrowing combat tour that pitted the famed 101st Airborne Division against some of the North Vietnamese Army’s finest troops on the battlefields of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Hamburger Hill, and the deadly A Shau Valley. Doc would serve as the head medic with legendary Colonel Charlie Beckwith’s (creator of the US Army’s Delta Force) 2/327th, 101st Airborne Division, Hawk Recon in what was arguably one of the most dangerous jobs in the deadliest part of South Vietnam. Doc also became an unofficial combat artist during the war.
Japan's Green Monsters
Author: Sean Rhoads
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476663904
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-ū, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors show the ways in which this monster cinema take on environmental and ecological issues--from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476663904
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-ū, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors show the ways in which this monster cinema take on environmental and ecological issues--from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change.
Radioactive Deposits of Nevada
Author: Tom Gray Lovering
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uranium
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uranium
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Geological Survey Bulletin
Uranophane at Silver Cliff Mine, Lusk, Wyoming
Author: Verl Richard Wilmarth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uranium ores
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uranium ores
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Task Force
Author: Brian Falkner
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0449813029
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The six teens of Recon Team Angel, genetically modified and having spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act, and think like their enemies, now have their target in sight but time is running out to save humanity and themselves.
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0449813029
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The six teens of Recon Team Angel, genetically modified and having spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act, and think like their enemies, now have their target in sight but time is running out to save humanity and themselves.
Gods & Monsters
Author: Lyn Benedict
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101513942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
View our feature on Lyn Benedict's Gods & Monsters. Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P.I. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable. When she finds the bodies of five women in the Florida Everglades, Sylvie believes them to be the work of a serial killer and passes the buck. But when the bodies wake and shift shape, killing the police, Sylvie finds herself at the head of a potentially lethal investigation.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101513942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
View our feature on Lyn Benedict's Gods & Monsters. Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P.I. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable. When she finds the bodies of five women in the Florida Everglades, Sylvie believes them to be the work of a serial killer and passes the buck. But when the bodies wake and shift shape, killing the police, Sylvie finds herself at the head of a potentially lethal investigation.