The Last Corpsman PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Last Corpsman PDF full book. Access full book title The Last Corpsman.
Author | : Juan Carlos Marcos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Man-woman relationships |
ISBN | : 9780996083836 |
Download The Last Corpsman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Last Corpsman, chronicles the life of John I. Unger from his birth in Austria in 1920, his immigration to the US, joining the Navy, his training as a Corpsman and his subsequent assignment with the Marine 1st Defense Battalion on Wake Island. His first-hand knowledge of the attacks on Wake Island on December of 1941, and, subsequently 44 months as a POW, are captured in detail. The book brings to life the harrowing experiences of battle and life as a POW, along with key events of World War II. John retired from the Navy as a Chief Corpsman and the book highlights his career and family, supported by almost 600 pages of hand-written letters to his wife Alice Unger, a relationship that spanned 75 years. The letters and excerpts appear as originally written. Her meticulous filing of every correspondence, take this book to a unique level of historical significance and romantic adventure. Still with us at 98 years of age, with strong mental acumen, John assisted regarding the book's texture and accuracy. The Last Corpsman, is a book for anyone interested in love, courage and the human spirit.
Author | : Paul Baviello |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2018-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1387604007 |
Download Corpsman Up Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Corpsman Up" is the cry that echoes across the battlefield whenever a Marine is wounded in combat. The book tells the story of men at war from a unique perspective; that of a medical specialist assigned to a Marine combat platoon. It is 1969; Hospital Corpsman Mike Lombardo arrives in Vietnam determined to follow in the footsteps of his Dad and Grandfather in war. He quickly discovers there is nothing glamorous or heroic about war. Through Mike's eyes you go on a journey into a living hell and experience the thrills and horror of combat, the agony of the wounded and dead and see foxhole relationships develop between blacks and whites, farm boys and city kids. Experience the anguish, and concern with Mike, when friend after friend is wounded and he knows that their lives are in his hands and then wonders for the rest of his life if he did the right things.
Author | : C. Gilbert Lowery |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2011-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1456731610 |
Download The Untold Experiences of a Navy Corpsman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A US Navy Hospital Corpsman with a US Marine Corps Reconnaissance Patrol Team in the 1950's on covert Korean missions." I could add that "The five missions made by 'Doc Gentry' (assumed name for covert missions) with the Recon Patrols were all successful but, sadly, they suffered casualties on each mission."
Author | : Joseph Barna |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2021-07-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1662432437 |
Download God Makes Angels and Navy Corpsmen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
I was knocked down by a shell. As I found myself laying on my back, the half-full flamethrower tank pinning me to the ground, a North Korean soldier came at me with his bayonet. In his quilted suit, he seemed to come out of nowhere. I can still see his face and smell the garlic on his breath. As he lunged at me, I was able to turn, but he stabbed my upper left arm with his bayonet. I had a double-barrel shotgun taped on the arm of my flamethrower and gave him both barrels. I think I blew him in half. The battle kept going on around me. Weapons fire was all around me, and I heard other boys being hit and falling. I laid there feeling weak as blood from my deep wound seeped out on the Korean dirt. I must have been ready to blackout when I heard a familiar voice say, “Joe, if I don’t close up that wound, you’ll die.” (Paragraph italicized.) From growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, through Marine Corps boot camp and training, and finally, remembering and coping with buried memories decades later, Korean War combat veteran Joseph Barna recounts his life events that will put a tear in your eye and a smile on your face.
Author | : Harry Spiller |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2021-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476643512 |
Download Navy Corpsmen in the Vietnam War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The captivating individual stories of 17 U.S. Navy corpsmen who served in Vietnam, told in their own words. Their accounts relate why they joined the Navy in wartime, why they became corpsmen--the enlisted medical specialists of the Navy and Marine Corps--along with many day-to-day, sometimes minute-to-minute recollections of caring for both the wounded and the dead under fire. They also reflect on the long-term effects the war had on them and their families.
Author | : James D. Gleason |
Publisher | : Raider Publishing |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Real Blood! Real Guts! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ian Douglas |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 000748903X |
Download Bloodstar (Star Corpsman, Book 1) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Big, bold military science fiction action from one of the genre’s biggest names.
Author | : Frank Murphy |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1412008360 |
Download WIA Corpsman Up! Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A face on the Action Reports of WIAs. 17 Marines and one Corpsman tell their stories. It starts with a brief of their childhood, why they wanted to go in the Marine Corps or Navy, first day of boot camp, their training and first combat. Then, the events that led up to their being wounded followed by their recuperation and their life after military service. The last story is from a Navy Nurse who served aboard the hospital ship, USS Repose in the waters of Vietnam. She tells her impressions of what war does to our young fighting men and how that experience shaped her future.
Author | : Michael Aaron Rockland |
Publisher | : Hansen Publishing Group LLC |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2014-08-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1601822995 |
Download Navy Crazy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Navy Crazy is a different kind of war story depicting the backwardness of military medicine in the mid-1950s. A memoir of a young medical corpsman learning to survive on a locked psychiatric ward for Navy and Marine mental patients at the hospital on the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan from 1955-57. Rockland captures the ward's atmosphere, its flavor, its culture and its language. A raw personal history not filtered, not for the faint of heart.
Author | : James Bradley |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2006-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0553902768 |
Download Flags of Our Fathers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: “The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. ” Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.