Download or read book Adak written by Andrew C A Jampoler and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of great tales of men against the sea, Adak offers a compelling look at courage and commitment in the face of certain tragedy. Alfa Foxtrot 586 was a P-3 Orion on station on a sensitive Cold War mission off the Kamchatka Peninsula on 26 October 1978. When a propeller malfunction turned into an engine fire, the pilot was forced to ditch his turboprop into the empty, mountainous seas west of the Aleutian Islands. The aircraft went down in just ninety seconds, taking one of the three rafts with it. Thirteen men launched the other rafts, the smallest of which—terribly overcrowded—soon began to leak, threatening the nine men aboard. This account of the flight crew's desperate battle against the sea, and the heroic efforts to rescue them provide an engrossing true story of survival.

Download or read book Adak written by Burke Toliver and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001-12-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuwait City, 1991. The city lies largely in ruin, a primeval, derelict place, where civilization nearly ceased to exist. In the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm, bomb disposal teams are tasked to clear the thousands of unexploded munitions scattered throughout Kuwait City. U.S. Army Captain Brick Revloc is a bomb disposal officer in charge of coordinating Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) operations. He's a savvy, scrappy little guy whose mouth lands him in as much trouble as the exotic places to which he travels. The threatening news that a weapon of mass destruction may be planted somewhere in the city by stay-behind Iraqi forces finds Brick Revloc in a race against the clock to locate and neutralize an improvised nuclear device that could contaminate the entire Persian Gulf region. Later, suffering disillusionment from his experience and failure to get promoted, Revloc leaves the Army and joins an agency whose mission is to investigate former military bases for the presence of unexploded bombs. He's sent to Adak, a small, inhospitable island in the Aleutian chain. During World War II, it was the scene of fierce fighting between U.S. troops and Japanese forces. Now, North Korean special operations troops have infiltrated the island. Experiencing turmoil brought on by food shortages and a severely depressed economy, North Korea discovers that in World War II, containers of Lewisite, a type of mustard gas, were abandoned by the U.S. military on Adak Island. The North Koreans contrive an elaborate scheme to recover the toxic chemical and use it to their advantage. Their goal is to reunite the Korean peninsula by provoking a military response between the United States and China. By releasing the liquid blister agent onto the shores of main land China, they hope to create a chaotic situation where Taiwan is blamed. Their plan relies on the U.S. responding to an attack on Taiwan by China. In an inhospitable environment described as "the birthplace of the winds," two small groups of men battle for survival: the Americans attempting to prevent the North Koreans from getting away with their nefarious scheme, and the Koreans tracking down the only ones who can thwart their plan. There can be only one winner--

Download or read book Publication Coast and Geodetic Survey written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prince William Sound Alaska Earthquake of 1964 and Aftershocks Operational phases of the Coast and Geodetic Survey program in Alaska for the period March 27 to December 31 1964 including an account of seismicity and brief history of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in this area written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Adak Alaska written by William Leroy Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Closing Down the American Base at Adak Alaska written by Shirley Ann Gilley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories and experiences of the author on Adak between 1989 and 1994. Life on the isolated island forced the inhabitants - Civilian, military, dependent, employee, and Aleuts - To bond like family. With photographs.

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Download or read book Flora of Adak Island Alaska written by Michael Kenneth Hein and published by Gebruder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung. This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Teos and Abdera written by Mustafa Adak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek inscriptions to have been discovered this century. It records, in thrilling and moving detail, the assistance provided by the Teians in the repopulation and rebuilding of their daughter-city, Abdera in Thrace, after its sack by the Romans in 170 BC during the Third Macedonian War. The new text, published here for the first time, is startling testimony to the ancestral friendship- and support-networks that existed between Greek poleis in the Hellenistic world, and includes (among other things) the longest surviving description of an honorific statue to survive from the ancient world. In the light of the new inscription, the authors offer a full reassessment of the epigraphic and literary evidence for relations between Teos and Abdera, thereby providing a comprehensive long-term history of the two cities, from the sixth to the second century BC. The book also includes major new editions of the 'Teian Dirae' (public curses at Teos and Abdera in the early fifth century BC) and the second-century decree of Abdera for the Teian ambassadors Amymon and Megathymos, as well as two further new texts from the sanctuary of Dionysos at Teos.