Download or read book From Jeep Driver to General written by Jesse M. Allen and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired General Jesse Allen saw it all in his military career. An army jeep driver in the U.S. Army Air Corps serving General Patton's Third Army in World War II, an air force fighter pilot in Korea, and a fighter squadron commander in Vietnam, Allen held every rank from private to two-star general. A cultural history as well as a memoir, From Jeep Driver to General reveals an insider's perspective of the U.S. military during some of its most significant triumphs and failures. General Allen offers his insights on racial divides in the military, the policy decisions that led to the loss of thousands of American lives in Korea and Vietnam, and a number of Cold War standoffs with Russian interests around the world. As an operations officer in Tactical Air Command, General Allen was even part of a team tasked with outlining plans to invade Cuba in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Written with candor, directness, and the bravado of a fighter pilot, From Jeep Driver to General tells the story of a man from humble beginnings who rose to the highest ranks of the greatest military in the world. General Allen had a front-row seat at events that never made it to the newspapers or history books. The general recounts these events in vivid detail as he provides a window into contemporary American history.

Download or read book Physical Demands and Capacities Analysis written by United States. Bureau of Manpower Utilization and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Two of Us Ain t Goin written by Dempsey Allphin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My duties in World War II in the European Theater of Operations as Administrative Assistant to Major General Mark Clark, Major General Lloyd Fredendall. Lieutant General George S. Patton, Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges, and Major General William B. Kean.

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Download or read book Gotcha written by Rick Cleland and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the US Government still thinks "conventionally", while Al Qaeda Agents exploit this shortcoming by thinking "unconventionally". Al Qaeda will continue to terrorize the "West" as long as the US is "retroactive", rather than "proactive". We must not think "what WILL they do next", but rather, "what CAN they do next". This book explores just some of the possibilities.

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Download or read book The Generals written by Winston Groom and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall, from World War I to World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's ideas of military leadership and brought forth a new generation of American soldier. Their efforts revealed to the world the grit and determination that would become synonymous with America in the post-war years. Filled with novel-worthy twists and turns, and set against the backdrop of the most dramatic moments of the twentieth century, The Generals is a powerful, action-packed book filled with marvelous surprises and insights into the lives of America's most celebrated warriors.

Download or read book The Edge of the Universe written by Deanna Haunsperger and published by MAA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exquisite expositions of mathematics taken from the first ten years of the Math Horizons magazine.

Download or read book Beyond the Streets of Boyle Heights written by Leopoldo Sermeno Castro and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is about a couple who are childhood sweethearts growing up in Boyle Heights. After an accident separates them, they find each other while serving in the military service in Japan. They suffer a few problems while in service but with the strength of their love, they are able to overcome these obstacles. They solidify their relationship by getting married and help to unite a community.

Download or read book My Father s War written by Carolyn Ross Johnston and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws on her father's account of the war and her extensive interviews with other veterans of the 92nd Division to describe the experiences of a naive southern white officer and his segregated unit on an intimate level. During the war, the protocol that required the assignment of southern white officers to command black units, both in Europe and in the Pacific theater, was often problematic, but Johnston seemed more successful than most, earning the trust and respect of his men at the same time that he learned to trust and respect them. Gene Johnston and the African American soldiers were transformed by the war and upon their return helped transform the nation. The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945, suffering more than 3,200 casualties. Members of this unit, known as Buffalo Soldiers, endured racial violence on the home front and experienced racism abroad. Engaged in combat for nine months, they were under the command of southern white infantry officers like their captain, Eugene E. Johnston.

Download or read book Beyond the Beachhead written by Joseph Balkoski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign By 1945, the US Army had sixty-eight infantry divisions, forty-two of which fought in the great campaign in northwest Europe that began with the amphibious landings on D-Day and ended eleven months later with Germany's surrender. Beyond the Beachhead examines the experience of one infantry division-the 29th-during forty-five days of combat from Omaha Beach on D-Day to the liberation of St. Lô. Using interviews, official records, and unit histories and supplementing his narrative with meticulously detailed maps, Balkoski follows the 29th from the bloody landings at Omaha through the hedgerows of Normandy, illustrating the brutal realities of life on the front line.

Download or read book The GI s Rabbi written by David Max Eichhorn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eichhorn also writes of French villagers hiding Jews, of the dangers faced by chaplains, of the place of Jews in U.S. Army ranks, and of General Patton's well-known displays of anger. Throughout he conveys the experience of war and how it altered forever a small-town rabbi - a man of faith and courage who never fired a gun in combat."--Jacket.

Download or read book Things from Outer Space written by Hank Davis and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ORIGINAL MASS MARKET. STORIES OF THINGS FROM SPACE. Mostly very, very bad things that want to harm humans and destroy Earth. Or take it for their own. Original stories and reprints of classics from the scary side of science fiction! THE THINGS ARE COMING . . . As we all know, in space, no one can hear you scream. Which doesn’t mean that anyone is safe just because they’re standing on the soil of planet Earth, because if a thing from out there drops in, screaming probably won’t save you. Earth has spawned myriad unpleasant life forms which are bad news for humans, ranging in size from the Ebola virus to the great white shark up to the Tyrannosaurus Rex (extinct, fortunately for us)—and that’s just one planet. What even more deadly life forms might the billions of planets in our galaxy have spawned? And suppose the things are intelligent and capable of crossing space and coming here . . . Considering that very possibility are the masters of science fiction starring in this book, including Robert Silverberg, David Drake, Sarah A. Hoyt, James H. Schmitz, Fritz Leiber, Robert Sheckley, Murray Leinster and John W. Campbell, as well as classic stories of extraterrestrial horrors by H.P. Lovecraft, George Allan England and more. E.T. might have been happy eating Reese’s Pieces, but other visitors from the void might have less dainty appetites. And there are probably worse things than merely being eaten . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for previous anthologies edited by Hank Davis: In Space No One Can Hear You Scream “. . . the 13 tales in this collection blend SF with horror to demonstrate the resiliency of both genres. . . . offers strong tales by the genre’s best storytellers.”—Library Journal “. . . first-rate science fiction, demonstrating how short stories can still entertain.”—Galveston County Daily News A Cosmic Christmas 2 You: “This creative and sprightly Christmas science fiction anthology spins in some surprising directions. . . . A satisfying read for cold winter evenings . . . a great stocking stuffer for SF fans.”—Publishers Weekly As Time Goes By: “As Time Goes By . . . does an excellent job of exploring not only romance through time travel—relationships enabled or imperiled by voyaging through time—but the intrinsic romance of time travel itself. . . . The range of styles and approaches is as wide as the authors' sensibilities and periods might suggest . . . full of entertaining and poignant stories . . .”—Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, IntergalacticMedicineShow.com