Download or read book Abilene History in Plain Sight written by Jay Moore and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abilene History in Plain Sight is a guide to the people, places, and events that define Abilene. It provides the high vantage point from which you come to know the lives behind the names--Cooper High School, Shotwell Stadium, and Maxwell Golf Course--and to meet those who are honored by the naming of a park or street (such as Egbert Kirby, Nelson Wilson, Vera Minter, and Walker Ely). In this engaging book, the past is picked up, dusted off, and given a new shine. As you learn the story behind the church, school, or college that you drive past, it will create a connection that serves to endear Abilene to you more deeply. This is a book that brings the relics of the past out of the dark and straight into the hometown in your heart.
Download or read book Hellcats written by Ken Bradstreet and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II is intended to honor the individual men ho made up the 12th Armored division. It contains personal stories and photos of the men. This volume also contains reprints of the Hellcat News and biographies. Volume I is also available.
Download or read book 11th Armored Division Thunderbolt written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50th Anniversary Volume provides the clearest view yet of the 11th. This volume includes a history of each individual unit of the Thunderbolts, all-new photos and biographies, plus unit insignias.
Download or read book Army Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lou s War written by Kay E. Stephenson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very personal history of one man's experiences and those of his family during World War II. From hometown to Pearl Harbor on to Officer Candidate School and the European Theater of Operations, Lou Stephenson saw the war through the eyes of medics and hospital staff caring for some of the most severely wounded in both Pacific and European theaters. And yet, he focused most often on the escapes from war - officer's parties, leave time in foreign countries, and the love he shared with Dorie, his darling wife.
Download or read book Newsletter written by University of California, San Francisco. School of Dentistry. Alumni Association and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Directory written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Judge Advocate General s Department Board of Review Holidngs Opinions and Reviews written by and published by LLMC. This book was released on with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Soldier written by Michael P. Gabriel and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick R. Gabriel graduated from medical school in 1940, entered the US Army, and was assigned to the newly-created 39th Station Hospital. His letters from the Pacific theater—especially from Guadalcanal, Angaur, and Saipan—capture the everyday life of a soldier physician. His son, Michael P. Gabriel, a professional historian, has faithfully preserved, edited, and annotated that correspondence to add a new dimension to our understanding of the social history of World War II, which he presents here in Physician Soldier: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital. Like most wartime hospitals, the 39th Station Hospital was positioned in a rear area and saw limited direct action. And like most wartime hospitals, the 39th Station Hospital spent each day confronting the injuries and casualties of frontline combat. Gabriel supervised a ward and oversaw the unit’s laboratory, serving a hospital that provided care to four hundred patients at a time. Gabriel’s letters home capture this experience and more, providing a revealing look into day-to-day life in the Pacific theater. He discusses the training of medical officers and female nurses, recreational activities such as Bob Hope’s USO show, and even his thoughts on the death of FDR, the end of the war in Europe, and ultimately the horrors of the atomic bomb.
Download or read book The World Almanac and Book of Facts written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.
Download or read book Voices of My Comrades written by Carol Adele Kelly and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of five years, the Reserve Officers Association of the United States--the nation's oldest such professional military organization--invited its members to write about their experiences in World War II. The response was an impressive outpouring of memories, now compiled here in an extraordinary record of courage, sacrifice, and commitment. Stories from 240 veterans--representing all theaters, ranks, and services--track the years of World War II month by month. From the young ensign's letter to his fianc e, describing his escape from the USS Cassin minutes before it explodes at Pearl Harbor, to the battle-seasoned colonel's account of his flyover at the peace-treaty signing aboard the USS Missouri, the stories give a human face to the moments of war, written by men and women who intimately lived those history-making days, on bombing missions and invasion duty, on front lines and the home front. Readers will meet a survivor of the USS Reuben James, sunk by a German U-boat before December 7, 1941, and eight D-Day invaders of Normandy, including Lieutenant Colonel J. Strom Thurmond, paratrooper. They will also meet a bodyguard to General Douglas MacArthur and the nurses who healed the fallen in huts on Bataan, the hospital ship Shamrock in the Mediterranean, and field hospitals in France. Here, too, are personal accounts by Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) and the battlehardened engineers of the Seabees in the Pacific. Other veterans tell of surviving the sinking of the troopship Leopoldville, when 750 Americans died in the English Channel on Christmas Eve, 1944; the horrific discovery of the Nazi extermination camps; and the tragic bombings near war's end of unmarked Japanese ships transporting U.S. POWs from the Philippines. Featuring photographs, a chronology, and historical introductions, this book--thanks to these stories by ordinary soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and nurses--is destined to become an enduring testimony to the American experience in World War II.
Download or read book The Fighting Forty fifth written by United States. Army 45th Division and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interesting Times written by George Mandler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiographical account of George Mandler--born in 1924--who grew up in a middle class Jewish family in Vienna. It details the fears and attempts to find a safe haven when Austria was invaded and absorbed into Nazi Germany in 1938, followed by Mandler's escape to England and residence in a small boarding school. The threat of the holocaust and reaction to anti-semitism are explored and the author describes the life of an emigre youth group run by a branch of the Austrian communist party. Drafted in 1943, Mandler is trained in military intelligence and ends up as a front line interrogator with the 7th army in Germany. The training and function of military intelligence and the role of German and Austrian refugees in it are described for the first time in detail. Military intelligence and counter-intelligence work in post-war Germany follows, including the evacuation of a scientific establishment before the arrival of the Soviets. Returning to New York in 1946, Mandler begins his college training at New York University and the University of Basel, Switzerland. This is followed by graduate training in psychology at Yale and a first position at Harvard for seven years. Highlights of the period include a short episode of peripheral involvement in a Soviet spy scandal. After five years at the University of Toronto, Mandler is given the opportunity of a lifetime--to start a department at the prestigious new San Diego branch of the University of California. He describes the process of building a department and a university in the context of the 1960s, as well as academic life and actions during the turbulent 60s and 70s. Mandler's successful career as a writer and researcher in psychology is described in lay language, as is the professional/scientific bifurcation of the field. The final chapter comments on and describes current academic life and problems.
Download or read book The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the 180th Infantry Regiment written by George A. Fisher (Major.) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lone Star and the Swastika written by Richard Paul Walker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analysis of the prisoner of war program as it was carried out in Texas during World War II, looking at how camps were selected and constructed, camp routine, the treatment of prisoners, and the problems encountered with the pro-Nazi prisoners.
Download or read book Return from Tomorrow written by George G. Ritchie and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The True Story of an Uncharted Journey Through the Afterlife As a world war raged around him, a young soldier named George Ritchie barely comprehended his own death as he left the physical world--only to return minutes later. Yet in the space between death and coming back to life, he experienced eternity. In this riveting true story, Dr. George Ritchie shares some of the most stunning and detailed descriptions of life after death. You'll encounter other non-physical beings, travel through different dimensions of time and space, and discover a series of worlds--some hellish in their separation from life, some glorious in their heavenly brilliance. But most amazingly, you'll witness his transformational meeting with the Light of the world, the Son of God. Hailed as one of the most amazing visions of the afterlife ever recorded, Ritchie's experience forever changed the course of his life and his understanding of the realm beyond our own--and it can do the same for you.
