From Omaha To Okinawa
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From Omaha To Okinawa
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Author : William Bradford Huie
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1999
From Omaha To Okinawa written by William Bradford Huie and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Huie does equal justice to the historic actions of the Seabees at Omaha Beach on D-Day, where they manned fifteen hundred vehicles during the first wave of landings at Normandy. His fascinating accounts of the creation and testing of various pierheads, floating bridges, and "Rhino" ferries are laced with colorful stories of moonshining, brawling, and carousing.
Seabees From Omaha To Okinawa
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Author : William Bradford Huie
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-05-04
Seabees From Omaha To Okinawa written by William Bradford Huie and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-04 with History categories.
William Bradford Huie, joined the U.S. Navy in 1943. He was commission as a public relations officer in the little-known Civil Engineer Corps' Construction Battalions––the Seabees. The following year he published “Can Do!”, an account of their landing with the Marines at Guadalcanal and Wake Island, Sicily and Salerno. This book is a sequel to “Can Do!” and continues the saga of the combat trained civilian plumbers, carpenters, heavy equipment operators, wharf builders, and civil engineers who served in the U.S. Navy construction battalions. The story begins with Iwo Jima when the Seabees braved concentrated enemy fire to rig floating causeways, blow up wrecked landing craft, and to build the desperately needed airstrips while under enemy fire. Huie also describes the Seabees on D-Day at Omaha Beach, where they manned fifteen hundred vehicles during the first wave of landings at Normandy. He provides the details of the creation and testing of various pier-heads, floating steel bridges, and “Rhino” ferries. He also tells colorful stories of moon-shining, brawling, and carousing along with compassionate stories of the children in the prisoner of war camps.
Infantry Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Infantry Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Military art and science categories.
He Slew The Dreamer
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Author : William Bradford Huie
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2018-11-13
He Slew The Dreamer written by William Bradford Huie and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with History categories.
Author William Bradford Huie was one of the most celebrated figures of twentieth-century journalism. A pioneer of "checkbook journalism," he sought the truth in controversial stories when the truth was hard to come by. In the case of James Earl Ray, Huie paid Ray and his original attorneys $40,000 for cooperation in explaining his movements in the months before Martin Luther King’s assassination and up to Ray’s arrest weeks later in London. Huie became a major figure in the investigation of King’s assassination and was one of the few persons able to communicate with Ray during that time. Huie, a friend of King, writes that he went into his investigation of Ray believing that a conspiracy was behind King’s murder. But after retracing Ray’s movements through California, Louisiana, Mexico, Canada, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, and London, Huie came to believe that James Earl Ray was a pathetic petty criminal who hated African Americans and sought to make a name for himself by murdering King. He Slew the Dreamer was originally published in 1970 soon after Ray went to prison and was republished in 1977, but was out of print until the 1997 edition, published with the cooperation of Huie’s widow. This new edition features an essay by scholar Riché Richardson that provides fresh insight, and it includes the 1977 prologue, which Huie wrote countering charges by members of Congress, the King family, and others who claimed the FBI had aided and abetted Ray. In 1970, 1977, 1997, and now, He Slew the Dreamer offers a remarkably detailed examination of the available evidence at the time the murder occurred and an invaluable resource to current debates over the King assassination.
Mud On The Stars
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Author : William Bradford Huie
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1996-10-21
Mud On The Stars written by William Bradford Huie and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-21 with Fiction categories.
William Bradford Huie’s first novel, Mud on the Stars, is largely autobiographical and is set in the years 1929-1942. As in many of his later books, the theme here is of the education of the inexperienced youth, which is, after all, the quintessential American story. Drawing on his own boyhood, Huie gives the reader a detailed account of rural life and race relations in the Tennessee Valley in the early years of this century, including a vivid picture of college life at The University of Alabama during the Great Depression. Through a careful weaving of characters and events, fact and fiction, Huie’s novel captures the tumultuous times before World War II in the urban South, times of social unrest and testing of new political ideologies. The book’s publication in 1942 was a huge financial success, by the economic standards of the day, and not only brought Huie the acclaim his talent warranted but also focused an approving national spotlight on this prolific Alabama writer.
From Texas To Tinian And Tokyo Bay
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Author : Jonathan Templin Ritter
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2019-11-15
From Texas To Tinian And Tokyo Bay written by Jonathan Templin Ritter and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-15 with History categories.
This is the story of J. R. Ritter (1902-1994), a civil engineer from Texas who became a U.S. Navy Seabee officer during World War II. For his memoir he preserved personal papers, letters, photos, and other items, many of which are reproduced in this book. His narrative is edited and annotated by his grandson, Jonathan Templin Ritter. The U.S. Naval Construction Battalions, known as the “Seabees,” were formed in March 1942. Their duties were to build military facilities and airfields overseas, in both the European and Pacific Theaters. In the Pacific Theater alone, including the Aleutians, the Seabees built 111 major airstrips, 441 piers, 2258 ammunition magazines, and much more. Ritter tells the story of two Seabee Battalions, one in the Aleutians and one in the Central Pacific. He describes the Aleutian Islands Campaign during 1942-1943, when there was a real concern that Japan might try to attack Alaska and the continental United States through the “back door.” Ritter also gives an eyewitness account of the building of the airfields on Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas that enabled the B-29 fire raids on Japan—the “Empire Run”—which culminated in the two missions that dropped the atomic bombs in August 1945, ending the Pacific War. This book provides a major contribution to the wartime literature about the Seabees, those brave, resourceful, and hard-working American patriots, whose mottos were “Can do!” and “The difficult we do now; the impossible takes a little longer.”
The War Against Japan 1941 1945
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Author : John J. Sbrega
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-12
The War Against Japan 1941 1945 written by John J. Sbrega and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-12 with History categories.
With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial accounts, military histories, East Asian histories, hisotoriographies. Part 2 covers diplomatic-political aspects of the war against Japan. Part 3 contains sources on the economic and legal aspects of the war against Japan. Part 4 presents sources on the military apsects of the war – embracing land, air and sea forces. Religious aspects of the war are covered in Part 5 and Part 6 deals with the social and cultural aspects, including substantial sections on the treatment of Japanese minorities in the USA, Hawaii, Canada and Peru.
An Annotated Reading List Of United States Marine Corps History
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Author : Jack B. Hilliard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
An Annotated Reading List Of United States Marine Corps History written by Jack B. Hilliard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
I Should Have Written A Book
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Author : Tom Grannetino
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2019-04-11
I Should Have Written A Book written by Tom Grannetino and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-11 with Fiction categories.
William Grannetino served in the US navy during World War II. From the day he landed on Omaha Beach to the morning he sailed out of the Pacific theatre for the last time, he was surrounded by violence, trauma, death, and a comradery unparalleled in civilian life. Through the pen of Grannetino’s son, readers are provided a glimpse of a sailor’s gut-wrenching realities of war as he relates details about little-known landings that happened ahead of the initial D-Day assault and unique facts somehow lost in history. Compelling descriptions of street to street fighting in the city of Caen, the urgency of rushing military support to the Battle of the Bulge, and the terror of Kamikaze attacks in the Pacific, transport readers right to the battle zone. From the jubilation over the end of hostilities to the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tom Grannetino has captured his father’s stories and crafted an historical and deeply personal account of one man’s experiences in the Second World War.
Three Lives For Mississippi
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Author : William Bradford Huie
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2000
Three Lives For Mississippi written by William Bradford Huie and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Civil rights workers categories.