Warpath Across the Pacific
Author | : Lawrence J. Hickey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780913511084 |
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Author | : Lawrence J. Hickey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780913511084 |
Author | : Constance C. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2013-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612513611 |
When J.J. Clark graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at the end of World War I he was ready to be a pioneer in one of the great transformations of the U.S. Navy in the twentieth century —the change from a surface-only force to one in which aviation played a key if not determinant role. Under the leadership of the key aviation admirals, William Moffett and John Towers, "Jocko" Clark with other aviation-minded officers battled low budgets and unsympathetic policy makers to champion the development of naval aviation during the 1920s and 30s. Pearl Harbor proved them right. As captain of the new Yorktown (the original was sunk at Midway), Clark provided aggressive leadership in the capture of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. As a carrier task group commander, Clark was instrumental in the brilliant victory at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, which included the Marianas Turkey Shoot. He withstood numerous kamikaze attacks at Iwo Jima and Okinawa while seeing that Japan's airpower was destroyed. After the war he was instrumental in salvaging naval aviation from the attacks of other services and policy makers. During the Korean War he served as Commander Seventh Fleet in the all-important naval air support of that conflict. Naval historian Clark Reynolds is particularly well placed to write this book because he had access to family papers and was co-author of the Admiral Clark's autobiography.
Author | : Terry C. Treadwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
This work is about the part played by US aviators and aircraft in World War I. It explains the reasons why the US entered the war and the violations by Germany that exacerbated the situation. It also covers the development of the USAS (United States Air Service) and USNAS (United States Naval Air Force).
Author | : Jay A. Stout |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2019-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811768090 |
The American 345th Bomb Group--the Air Apaches--was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to the South Pacific, the 345th racked up a devastating score against the enemy. Armed to the teeth with machine guns and fragmentation bombs, and flying their B-25s at impossibly low altitudes--often below fifty feet--the pilots and air crews strafed and bombed enemy installations and shipping with a fury that helped cripple Japan. One of the sharpest tools in the U.S. arsenal, the 345th performed essential missions during Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s campaigns in New Guinea and the Philippines, earning an impressive four Distinguished Unit Citations. This was punishingly dangerous work, and the 345th lost 177 aircraft and 712 men--young men doing their duty in the spirit of the Greatest Generation. Neither was this the more gentlemanly war of Europe, with its more temperate climate, resistance networks aiding downed crews, and POW camps. Airmen shot down in the Pacific theater faced drowning in the ocean, disappearing in the jungle, or torturing and beheading by the Japanese in a war of no quarter expected, no quarter given. A compelling follow-up to Jay A. Stout’s Hell’s Angels, Air Apaches reconstructs the missions of the 345th Bomb Group in striking detail, with laser focus on the men who manned the cockpits, navigated the B-25s, dropped the bombs, serviced the planes, and helped win the war. To tell this remarkable story, Stout worked closely with the group’s surviving veterans and dug deep into firsthand accounts. The result is a compelling narrative of men at war that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Author | : Helen Winternitz |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780871131621 |
In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
Author | : Rear-Admiral Daniel Vincent Gallery |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1787200949 |
Admiral Daniel V. Gallery boarded and captured a German U-Boat at sea in June, 1944—the first American officer to so capture an enemy warship since 1815! U-505 is Admiral Gallery’s own story of his extraordinary feat—and also a gripping narrative of the fierce Allied war against the German U-Boat fleet. “EXCELLENT.”—Chicago Tribune “Terrific...the first-hand story of Uncle Sam’s U-Boat killers.”—Chicago Daily News “Brimming with thrills.”—Philadelphia News “An engrossing tale...Pungent, entertaining, informative.”—Navy Times “A humdinger of a sea story...a highly readable book, trimmed from stem to stern with the writer’s irrepressible sense of humor.”—Chicago Sunday Times “Excellent in several ways: it provides a fine quick survey of the whole Atlantic war, it describes the operation of the German U-boat service, and, most dramatically, it tells how an American task force under Admiral Gallery achieved the unique feat of capturing a German submarine.”—Publishers’ Weekly “U-505 IS ONE OF THE WAR’S MOST EXCITING MEMOIRS.”—Chicago News “One of the best non-fiction books about World War II.”—Raleigh News & Observer “A first-rate adventure tale...suspense and excitement told with a seaman’s salty zest...excellent reading.”—Chicago Sunday Tribune “A masterful job that merits the attention of every lover of sea stories.”—Pittsburgh Press
Author | : Matt Rendell |
Publisher | : White Lion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
For the first time Matthew Rendell tells the little-known story of a Latin American country in which cycling is the national sport, whose sportsmen, denied the enormous benefits of prosperity, cutting-edge technology and unlimited sponsorship, have nevertheless achieved prodigious cycling feats both at home and abroad, and helped to forge for Colombia a heroic national identity. He tells of how, during the fifties, Colombia's own top cycle race, the Vuelta de Colombia, was still being held on dusty, unpaved roads - with consequentially ghastly accidents; of how the first top European cyclists who came to race in Colombia found themselves utterly vanquished by its endless mountain climbs; of how the biography of Colombia's first cycling superstar was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Then, following the story through to the seventies and eighties, he shows how Colombia's cyclists began to make their mark abroad, even in the ultimate competition, the Tour de France - and, while they may have lacked the team discipline and the pace training to win the race itself, how to them the premier accolade was to become King of the Mountains, by beating everyone else in the Tour's most drainin
Author | : Graham E. Cross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780954116408 |
Author | : Harold Rabinowitz |
Publisher | : MetroBooks (NY) |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781567993813 |
Summary: Traces the history of humankind's attempts to shrug off the shackles of gravity and take to the air.
Author | : W. E. Johns |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"Worrals on the War-path" by W. E. Johns. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.