Download or read book Gunship Thunderpunch written by Brian Shearer and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martians kidnapped Nova Marcos' son! Her only chance to save him lies with an abandoned gunship and an inmate with a life sentence who commanded the ship decades before. But this gunship has a secret: It's alive! After spending 30 years abandoned in a junk yard, their self-aware transforming gunship might have some trust issues.
Download or read book Fire from the Sky written by Richard C. Knott and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the dramatic history of the HAL-3 Seawolves, the U.S. Navy's first and only helicopter gunship squadron of the Vietnam War. The squadron was established "in country" to support the fast, pugnacious river patrol boats of the brown water navy. Flying combat-worn Hueys borrowed from the Army, the mission of the Seawolves quickly expanded to include rapid response air support to any friendly force in the Delta needing immediate, no-holds-barred assistance. Operating in two-plane detachments from specifically configured LSTs, hastily constructed bases, and primitive campsites, the navy gunships and their crews responded to calls within minutes. Flying in all kinds of weather, day and night, they arrived at tree-top level with forward-firing rockets and flex-guns blazing. Door gunners hung outside the violently maneuvering helicopters delivering a hail of fire with their hand-held M-60 machine guns. The Seawolves inserted SEALs deep into enemy territory, and extracted them, often despite savage enemy opposition. They rescued friendly combatants from almost certain capture or death, and evacuated the wounded when Medevac helicopters were not available. Gleaned from historical documents and the colorful recollections of more than sixty Seawolf warriors, this is the first complete history of the most decorated Navy squadron of the Vietnam War. Naval aviator Richard Knott recounts the story of the Seawolves from the dawning of the concept to the moment the last squadron commander turned out the lights.
Download or read book Lightning from the Sky Thunder from the Sea written by Thomas Petri and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANGLICO: "Super Grunts" of 1st ANGLICO were deployed to all four tactical zones of Vietnam in small mobile fire control teams, providing support to U.S. Army and allied elements. This organization was the last tactical unit to stand down from the war and gained distinction as the only Marines in-country reporting directly to MACV. Working closely with Korean Marines, recounting several actions involving these legendary warriors from the Land of the Morning Calm, this little known but highly effective unit had an impact on the war far greater than their small numbers. Field radio operators and naval gunfire spotters composed the tactical membership of this unit. Both professions were cross trained in each competence, and each in turn was further qualified as tactical air controllers. An airborne capable platoon was established, mandating many ANGLICOs attend jump school and undertake other specialty training in the event they are called on to enter combat by unconventional means. Not being able to predict who they may be called on to support, training was pushed to the level of the most elite forces in the free world. BLUE DRAGONS: Most men of the Blue Dragon Brigade came of age during a war that raged fierce on their own homeland little more than a decade earlier. During a short lived occupation by North Korea, the people of the south endured extremely harsh treatment by would be conquerors. Events of recent history still burned in their hearts and haunted their dreams. They were mostly all children at the time leaving scarcely a man untouched by personal tragedy that could only be forged in a crucible of terror. Many were orphaned and all shared a thirst to settle a score that only those who drink deep from the same cup of dread can truly understand.
Download or read book SHADOW AND STINGER Developing the AC119G K Gunships in the Vietnam War written by William P. Head and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicknamed ""the truck killer,"" the AC-119K gunship and its counterpart, the AC-119G, were developed in the late 1960s in response to the needs of the US military in Vietnam. This book examines the evolution of these aircraft and their role within Vietnam, military policy, and geopolitical realities.
Download or read book The Gunship Chronicles written by Larry Barbee and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the AC-119K gunship and the Stinger 41 mission. Shadow and Stinger Pilot Roy Davis recently helped Larry publish his book titled "The Gunship Chronicles: Stinger 41". Larry is donating all the profits from the sale of the book to the Association.
Download or read book Gunships a Pictorial History of Spooky written by Larry Davis and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captioned photos, and brief text describe the tactics, equipment, and gunship aircraft most used in tactical interdiction.
Download or read book Gunship written by Julian Jay Savarin and published by . This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gunships written by Wayne Mutza and published by Specialty Press (MN). This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunships: The Story of Spooky, Shadow, Stinger, and Spectre tells the dramatic story of transforming military cargo transports into deadly ground-attack aircraft used by the U.S. and other countries in worldwide conflicts from the Vietnam War to the Middle East today. This comprehensive and detailed accounting of gunships begins with piston-powered, WWII-era C-47s and progresses to the four-engine turboprop C-130 Hercules, showing how gunships evolved from using 20mm miniguns to 105mm Howitzers with digital-age Battle Management Centers housed onboard. These highly effective airplanes made history by removing the safe haven of night operations from the enemy, and allowing strategic victory that might not have otherwise been possible. Author Wayne Mutza not only carefully researched all of these aircraft and their paths to reality, but also tells the tale of the brave and persevering men who believed in this unique weapon system and who saw its development through to the end. This book features a wealth of outstanding color photographs, many of which have never before been published, and also contains detailed appendices documenting gunship production data, combat units, and aircraft losses.
Download or read book The Thunder of the Guns written by Donald G. F. W. Macintyre and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dawn Like Thunder written by Robert J. Mrazek and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2008 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the contributions of World War II's Torpedo Squadron Eight traces their role in key U.S. victories at Midway and Guadalcanal, citing the honors achieved, and losses suffered, by its thirty-five members.
Download or read book Thunder Alley written by Mack Maloney and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1988-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his Southeast Asian fortress, mysterious 20th-century warlord Colonel Toon controls a nuclear device that threatens to transform the Earth into a lifeless desert. Earth's only hope is a maverick pilot named Ryder Long and a handful of misfits as they make a desperate assault on Thunder Alley.
Download or read book Hypersonic Thunder written by Walter J. Boyne and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New York Times" bestselling author and the former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air Space Museum Walter J. Boyne brings readers the final book in a trilogy highlighting the history of the aircraft industry
Download or read book Red Lightning Black Thunder written by Jimmie H. Butler and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1992-10-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of The Iskra Incident puts his experience as an Air Force commander and fighter pilot to extraordinary use once again in this top-notch techno-thriller, a "novel (that) rockets off the launch pad" (Library Journal). The U.S. and Soviets, long at peace on Earth, enter into a cold war in the far reaches of outer space.
Download or read book William the Last written by Brian Shearer and published by Antarctic Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collects William the Last issues #1-4"--Copyright page.
Download or read book Iron Thunder written by Avi, and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen. A ship made of iron. Tom becomes assistant to the ship’s inventor, a gruff, boastful man named Captain John Ericsson. He soon learns that the Union army has very important plans for this iron ship called the Monitor. It is supposed to fight the Confederate “sea monster”--another ironclad--the Merrimac. But Ericsson is practically the only person who believes the Monitor will float. Everyone else calls it “Ericsson’s Folly” or “the iron coffin.” Meanwhile, Tom’s position as Ericsson’s assistant has made him a target of Confederate spies, who offer him money for information about the ship. Tom finds himself caught between two certain dangers: an encounter with murderous spies and a battle at sea in an iron coffin …
Download or read book The Elusive Shift written by Jon Peterson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre. When Dungeon & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly thereafter by other, similar tabletop games, it sparked a renaissance in game design and critical thinking about games. D&D is now popularly considered to be the first role-playing game. But in the original rules, the term "role-playing" is nowhere to be found; D&D was marketed as a war game. In The Elusive Shift, Jon Peterson describes how players and scholars in the D&D community began to apply the term to D&D and similar games--and by doing so, established a new genre of games.
Download or read book Stormbringer written by Simon Furman and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a storm brewing within the Transformer universe and the Autobots and Decepticons must unlock a dark part of their planet's past to see how it will affect the future of all Transfomers.
