Download or read book World War II Memoirs of a Dogface Soldier written by Carl J. Hartstern and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dogface s War written by Edward Hogan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hogan relates his experiences as a paratrooper involved in the campaign in the Philippines during 1944-1945.
Download or read book Dogface Soldiers written by Daniel R. Champagne and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fall In Fall Out written by Joseph Norman Crew and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son, The Army Will Make A Man Out Of You At seventeen years old, and with parental permission, Joseph Crew and his identical twin brother, Richard, enlisted in the army in 1958. Their destination was the Third Armored Division in Germany-the same outfit Elvis Presley had been recently assigned to. Their parents were in the beginning stages of divorce, and Joseph and his brother were looking to escape the domestic warfare. Fall In, Fall Out is Joseph's memoir, set against the backdrop of a pre Civial Rights, racially integrated army, charged to protect Western Europe from Russia's hostile, overwhelming might during the deepening freeze of the Cold War. The book is about friendships, sexual discovery, racial tensions, and the heartbreak of young love. It starkly depicts barracks life and bleak war game maneuvers, and brings to life the flesh trade in a Mexican border town; the nightclubs of Copenhagen; the seedy streets of Amsterdam's red-light district; and the glittering neon lights of Paris and Frankfurt-offering a glimpse of what those cities were like thirteen years after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Based on hastily scribbled yet carefully preserved writings from the last six months of Joseph's military service, Fall In, Fall Out skillfully brings history to life. But it's also a coming-of-age story about two brothers struggling to become men-a touching tale resurrected from the ashes of memory.
Download or read book The GI s War written by Edwin P. Hoyt and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-08-08 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GI's War contains eyewitness accounts from ordinary young men, farm hands and factory workers, who had war thrust upon them and in the process became veteran soldiers. Their unsparing narratives, presented in their own words, capture the many emotions evoked by war. GIs and their commanding officers speak freely, and movingly, of becoming soldiers, of enduring the ordeals of the various campaigns, and of fightling for their lives and their country. Vividly personal and compelling, this book puts the reader on the front lines.
Download or read book Dogfaces who Smiled Through Tears in World War II written by Homer R. Ankrum and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dogface Soldier written by Wilson A. Heefner and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 11, 1943, General Lucian Truscott received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross, for valor in action in Sicily. During his career he also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Purple Heart. Truscott was one of the most significant of all U.S. Army generals in World War II, pioneering new combat training methods—including the famous “Truscott Trot”— and excelling as a combat commander, turning the Third Infantry Division into one of the finest divisions in the U.S. Army. He was instrumental in winning many of the most important battles of the war, participating in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, and southern France. Truscott was not only respected by his peers and “dogfaces”—common soldiers—alike but also ranked by President Eisenhower as second only to Patton, whose command he took over on October 8, 1945, and led until April 1946. Yet no definitive history of his life has been compiled. Wilson Heefner corrects that with the first authoritative biography of this distinguished American military leader. Heefner has undertaken impressive research in primary sources—as well as interviews with family members and former associates—to shed new light on this overlooked hero. He presents Truscott as a soldier who was shaped by his upbringing, civilian and military education, family life, friendships, and evolving experiences as a commander both in and out of combat. Heefner’s brisk narrative explores Truscott’s career through his three decades in the Army and defines his roles in key operations. It also examines Truscott’s postwar role as military governor of Bavaria, particularly in improving living conditions for Jewish displaced persons, removing Nazis from civil government, and assisting in the trials of German war criminals. And it offers the first comprehensive examination of his subsequent career in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as senior CIA representative in West Germany during the early days of the Cold War, and later as CIA Director Allen Dulles’s deputy director for coordination in Washington. Dogface Soldier is a portrait of a man who earned a reputation for being honest, forthright, fearless, and aggressive, both as a military officer and in his personal life—a man who, at the dedication ceremony for the Anzio-Nettuno American cemetery in 1945, turned away from the crowd and to the thousands of crosses stretching before him to address those buried there. Heefner has written a definitive biography of a great soldier and patriot.
Download or read book Dogface Soldiers written by Daniel R. Champagne and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War 2 History Series. This story begins in Nov 1941 and recounts B CompanyOs march through French Morocco, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, and Southern France and companyOs advance over the Vosges Mountains, through the Colmar Pocket and across Germany to Austria. Deservedly so, the starring role in this story is played by Audie Murphy. However, the major focus of the book is on the spirit of B Company. This is the story of the B Company foot soldiersNa moving and vivid account told primarily by the characters themselves, through their own eyes and their own experiences. This is the culmination of a three-year study on B Company. The author has thoroughly examined both secondary and primary sources, including interviews with B Company veterans. 36 photos, 2 illustrations, 32 maps.
Download or read book Dogface Soldiers written by Marco Büchl and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogface Soldiers is an interdisciplinary and image centered cultural history of the Army of the United States' infantry riflemen in the Mediterranean- and European Theaters of Operations of World War II. Its methods transcend the boundaries of conventional historiography and make use of Clifford Geertz's anthropological method of thick description as well as military used comprehensive analysis methods. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Download or read book Army Navy Air Force Journal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding World War 2 Combat Infantrymen In the European Theater Testing the Sufficiency of Army Research Branch Surveys and Infantry Combatant Recollections Against the Insights of Credible War Correspondents Combat Photographers Army Cartoonists written by Peter Karsten and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War 2 History. Most scholarship on the American role in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II has addressed the issues of strategy, campaign outcomes, command leadership, and logistical support. Other research efforts have provided insights into the experiences of the individual combatants. Karsten offers a better grasp of these latter efforts, utilizing evidence that has been underutilized. What he asks in this unique work is whether the media (journalists, broadcasters, combat photographers, cartoonists and artists) in the ETO during WWII significantly improved our understanding of the world of the American infantryman there. 57 illustrations.
Download or read book Fall In Fall Out written by Joseph Crew and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son, The Army Will Make A Man Out Of You... At seventeen years old, and with parental permission, Joseph Crew and his identical twin brother enlisted in the army in 1958. Their destination was the Third Armored Division in Germany-the same outfit as Elvis Presley. Their parents were in the beginning stages of divorce, and Joseph and his brother were looking to escape the domestic warfare. Little did they know they'd be trading one battle zone for another. Fall In, Fall Out is Joseph's memoir, set against the backdrop of President Truman's racially integrated army, charged to protect Western Europe from Russia's hostile, overwhelming might during the deepening freeze of the Cold War. The book is about friendships, sexual discovery, racial tensions, and the heartbreak of young love. It starkly depicts barracks life and bleak war game maneuvers, and brings to life the flesh trade in a Mexican border town; the nightclubs of Copenhagen; the seedy streets of Amsterdam's red-light district; and the glittering neon lights of Paris and Frankfurt-offering a glimpse of what those cities were like thirteen years after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Based on hastily scribbled yet carefully preserved writings from the last six months of Joseph's military service, Fall In, Fall Out skillfully brings history to life. But it's also a coming-of-age story about two brothers struggling to become men-a touching tale resurrected from the ashes of memory.
Download or read book I ll Get By written by Harry Marlin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Harry Marlin met everything in life head on. This collection of his writing explores a lifetime's experiences-growing up in tiny Blanket, Texas, during the Great Depression; flying combat missions over Germany during World War II; and managing life's perplexities. Called the "Will Rogers of Central Texas," Marlin wrote a weekly column for the Brownwood Bulletin for eleven years. I'll Get By presents the first volume of compilations of his best stories taking a humorous look at a plethora of topics. "The Barbecue Smokes, but the Customers Can't" explores the ins and outs of the Texas tradition of barbecuing. In "Where Summer's Lovely Roses Still Bloom," Marlin reminisces about the dreadful summers spent picking cotton. "The Place They Didn't Catch Clyde Barrow" describes how the news of Bonnie and Clyde running rampant in 1934 took the edge off of an otherwise depressing existence. Colorful and witty, I'll Get By provides insights into life in rural Texas during the Great Depression and shows that humor can provide relief in many challenging situations.
Download or read book Universal Horrors written by Tom Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count Dracula, and The Invisible Man, to The Mummy, Paula the Ape Woman, The Creeper, and The Inner Sanctum, the authors offer a definitive study of the 86 films produced during this era and present a general overview of the period. Coverage of the films includes complete cast lists, credits, storyline, behind-the-scenes information, production history, critical analysis, and commentary from the cast and crew (much of it drawn from interviews by Tom Weaver, whom USA Today calls "the king of the monster hunters"). Unique to this edition are a new selection of photographs and poster reproductions and an appendix listing additional films of interest.
Download or read book Escape From Davao written by John D. Lukacs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “riveting” (John Wukovits, author of Admiral “Bull” Halsey) and all-but-unknown account of ten American prisoners of war who escaped from a Japanese prison during World War II. On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escape from one of Japan’s most notorious prison camps. The prisoners were survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March and the Fall of Corregidor, and the prison from which they escaped was surrounded by an impenetrable swamp and reputedly escape-proof. Theirs was the only successful group escape from a Japanese POW camp during the Pacific war. Escape from Davao is the “remarkable” (Bill Sloan, author of Brotherhood of Heroes) story of one of the most extraordinary incidents in the Second World War and of what happened when the Americans returned home to tell the world what they had witnessed. Davao Penal Colony, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, was a prison plantation where thousands of American POWs toiled alongside Filipino criminals and suffered from tropical diseases and malnutrition, as well as the cruelty of their captors. The American servicemen were rotting in a hellhole from which escape was considered impossible, but ten of them, realizing that inaction meant certain death, planned to escape. Their bold plan succeeded with the help of Filipino allies, both patriots and the guerrillas who fought the Japanese sent to recapture them. Their trek to freedom repeatedly put the Americans in jeopardy, yet they eventually succeeded in returning home to the United States to fulfill their self-appointed mission: to tell Americans about Japanese atrocities and to rally the country to the plight of their comrades still in captivity. But the government and the military had a different timetable for the liberation of the Philippines and ordered the men to remain silent. Their testimony, when it finally emerged, galvanized the nation behind the Pacific war effort and made the men celebrities. Over the decades this remarkable story, called the “greatest story of the war in the Pacific” by the War Department in 1944, has faded away. Because of wartime censorship, the full story has never been told until now. John D. Lukacs spent years researching this heroic event, interviewing survivors, reading their letters, searching archival documents, and traveling to the decaying prison camp and its surroundings. His dramatic, gripping account of the escape brings this remarkable tale back to life, where a new generation can admire the resourcefulness and patriotism of the men who fought the Pacific war.
Download or read book Dogfaces who Smiled Through Tears written by Homer R. Ankrum and published by Graphic Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tale of Love War written by Richard R. Kennedy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: An Odyssey of Childhood & Early Youth is a fictional account, together with personal, dramatic license, of the era of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. It focuses on the joys and fears of children and families in desperate times. Part II: War and The Home Front is a seamless continuation, focusing on fears and challenges of the familiar, principal character under fire in the Pacific. This fictional narrative, generating comrades in arms, tracks a Marine unit during World War II. Parallel are the same familiar characters who are dedicated to the home front's war effort and display loyalty and courage in crises
