Download or read book Marine Corps Recipients of the Navy Cross written by Charles P. McDowell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Corps Heroes written by C Douglas Sterner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine Corps Heroes Volume III, part of a 9-volume set, contains the citations for all awards of the Navy Cross to U.S. Marines from the Korean War to present. It also includes the citations for all awards of the Army Distinguished Service Cross to U.S. Marines in history. In addition to the award citation, many recipients' entries include a photo, biographical notes, place/date of birth, Home Town at time of service, and date of death and burial location when known. Several Appendixes parse out data of interest such as those recipients who attended or graduated from a military academy, awards by rank, awards by unit, and recipients by State and Hometown.
Download or read book World War II Medal of Honor Recipients 1 written by Robert Hargis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medal of Honor is the highest military award that can be bestowed on personnel in the United States' Armed Forces. This book is the first of two titles looking at the recipients of the Medal of Honor during World War II. It covers Navy and Marine Corps awardees in all theaters of war, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the brutal fighting on Iwo Jima in 1945. Among the inspiring stories told are those of Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro, the only Coast Guardsman to ever receive the Medal of Honor, and Commander Antrim, who faced almost certain death to save fellow prisoners in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
Download or read book Marine Corps Heroes written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of Marine Corps Heroes contains the citations for all awards of the Navy Cross to U.S. Marines from 1915 (the earliest award) through World War II. Citations often include biographical notes, as well has additional information on the individual recipients. Photographs of many recipients are included with their citation.
Download or read book United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor Recipients written by George B. Clark and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This reference provides an alphabetical listing of all United States Marines and their comrades of the United States Navy who were awarded the Medal of Honor from 1861 to the present. A preface traces the evolution of the medal, its rewards, and its requirements. Each entry includes biographical information, the actions that earned the award, and other details"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Navy Cross written by Paul Drew Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Corps Heroes in the War on Terrorism written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the citations for all U.S. Marines and attached Navy Corpsmen who were awarded our nation's three highest decorations for combat Valor (the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, and Silver Star) in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Appendixes include analysis of awards including recipients by rank and unit, by home towns, and more.
Download or read book John Basilone World War II Medal of Honor Recipient for Action in the Pacific written by Philip Martin McCaulay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 24-25, 1942, Marine Sergeant John Basilone was in charge of two sections of heavy machine guns defending a narrow pass to Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Although vastly outnumbered, Manila John and his fellow Marines checked the assault by the Japanese. For that, Sgt. Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor and sent back to the states to appear at war-bond rallies. He toured the country and met Hollywood starlets. His picture made the cover of Life magazine. But Sergeant Basilone was unsatisfied back home and volunteered to return to combat, ending up at Iwo Jima. Under heavy artillery fire on February 19, 1945, he singlehandedly took out an enemy blockhouse. Minutes later, he and four others in his platoon died in an artillery blast. Sergeant Basilone was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart, making him the only enlisted Marine in World War II to receive all three medals.
Download or read book Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima written by James H Hallas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic Battle of Iwo Jima is recounted through the stories of twenty-eight American soldiers who showed uncommon valor during one of WWII’s most bitter conflicts. When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March of 1945, nineteen-thousand American Marines had been wounded and seven-thousand were dead, a casualty rate of nearly thirty-nine percent. Lasting over a month, Iwo was the Marines’ bloodiest battle of the Second World War and the only Pacific battle in which a U.S. landing force suffered more casualties than it inflicted. It was also the most highly decorated single engagement in Marine Corps history. This volume captures the bravery of those who fought in that epic battle through the stories of twenty-two Marines and five Navy personnel who received the Medal of Honor in recognition of their gallantry under fire.
Download or read book Soul Repair written by Rita Nakashima Brock and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly alleviated suffering and allowed many service members returning from combat to transition to civilian life, the suicide rate for veterans under thirty has been increasing. Research by Veterans Administration health professionals and veterans’ own experiences now suggest an ancient but unaddressed wound of war may be a factor: moral injury. This deep-seated sense of transgression includes feelings of shame, grief, meaninglessness, and remorse from having violated core moral beliefs. Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini, who both grew up in families deeply affected by war, have been working closely with vets on what moral injury looks like, how vets cope with it, and what can be done to heal the damage inflicted on soldiers’ consciences. In Soul Repair, the authors tell the stories of four veterans of wars from Vietnam to our current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—Camillo “Mac” Bica, Herman Keizer Jr., Pamela Lightsey, and Camilo Mejía—who reveal their experiences of moral injury from war and how they have learned to live with it. Brock and Lettini also explore its effect on families and communities, and the community processes that have gradually helped soldiers with their moral injuries. Soul Repair will help veterans, their families, members of their communities, and clergy understand the impact of war on the consciences of healthy people, support the recovery of moral conscience in society, and restore veterans to civilian life. When a society sends people off to war, it must accept responsibility for returning them home to peace.
Download or read book Sea Service Medals written by Frederic L. Borch and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only comprehensive examination of all decorations and medals that may be awarded to Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard personnel for heroism, achievement and service. Features never-before-published historical information on the background and development of each medal, while also providing in-depth discussion of award criteria, design and recipients. Decorations examined include combat heroism awards such as the Navy Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, and Silver Star. Non-combat heroism awards such as the Navy-Marine Corps Medal and Coast Guard Medal are also discussed. All decorations and medals for achievement and service also are examined, ranging from the Navy and Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medals, Legion of Merit, and Meritorious Service Medal to the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation and Achievement Medals and the Combat Action Ribbon. Fifty full color photographs of sea service awards, many of which have never been published, provide context for this unique history. The authors, both of whom retired from the Armed Forces, are experts in the history of U.S. awards and decorations.
Download or read book The Navy Cross written by James E. Wise (Jr.) and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will marvel at the extraordinary courage shown by the awardees and at their modesty in describing their actions as something any Marine or Sailor would do. Among the recent Navy Cross recipients included here are CPO Stephen Bass and CPO Britt Slabinski, both Navy SEALs; the "Fallujah Seven" Marines; Capt. Brent Morel; Sgt. Willie L. Copeland III; 1st Sgt. Bradley Kasal; Sgt. Robert J. Mitchell; Sgt. Jeremiah Workman; Sgt. Jarrett Kraft; and LCpl. Dominic D. Esquibel."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Heroes of the United States Navy Medical Hospital Corps written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of the names and in most cases, citations for awards of the Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Army Distinguished Service Cross, and Silver Stars to Navy Medical/Dental Officers, Hospital Corpsmen and Pharmacist's Mates in all wars in U.S. History. There are 1,547 awards to 1,303 different recipients. With the exception of World War II Silver Stars, nearly all full-text citations are included, and in the case of the missing WWII citations there is a synopsis identifying the recipients unit/date of action. This is the most complete collection of Navy Medicine Valor Award recipients ever published. It also includes 31 awards to 21 different Navy Chaplains.
Download or read book Truce Tent and Fighting Front written by Walter G. Hermes and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medal of Honor written by Ron Owens and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes offers a new perspective on the Medal of Honor, examining the historical facts and figures of its recipients. Provided within is a top-level view of this group in its entirety, taking a new perspective, as it analyzes and summarizes the historical facts in stunning detail.
Download or read book Shadow of the Sword written by Jeremiah Workman and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire, Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman is one of the Marine Corps’ best-known contemporary combat veterans. In this searing and inspiring memoir, he tells an unforgettable story of his service overseas–and of the emotional wars that continue to rage long after our fighting men come home. Raised in a tiny blue-collar town in Ohio, Jeremiah Workman was a handsome and athletic high achiever. Having excelled on the sporting field, he believed that the Marine Corps would be the perfect way to harness his physical and professional drives. In the Iraqi city of Fallujah in December 2004, Workman faced the challenge that would change his life. He and his platoon were searching for hidden caches of weapons and mopping up die-hard insurgent cells when they came upon a building in which a team of fanatical insurgents had their fellow Marines trapped. Leading repeated assaults on that building, Workman killed more than twenty of the enemy in a ferocious firefight that left three of his own men dead. But Workman’s most difficult fight lay ahead of him–in the battlefield of his mind. Burying his guilt about the deaths of his men, he returned stateside, where he was decorated for valor and then found himself assigned to the Marine base at Parris Island as a “Kill Hat”: a drill instructor with the least seniority and the most brutal responsibilities. He was instructed, only half in jest, to push his untested recruits to the brink of suicide. Haunted by the thought that he had failed his men overseas, Workman cracked, suffering a psychological breakdown in front of the men he was charged with leading and preparing for war. In Shadow of the Sword, a memoir that brilliantly captures both wartime courage and its lifelong consequences, Workman candidly reveals the ordeal of post-traumatic stress disorder: the therapy and drug treatments that deadened his mind even as they eased his pain, the overwhelming stress that pushed his marriage to the brink, and the confrontations with anger and self-blame that he had internalized for years. Having fought through the worst of his trials–and now the father of a young son–Workman has found not perfection or a panacea but a way to accommodate his traumas and to move forward toward hope, love, and reconciliation.
Download or read book Chesty written by Jon T. Hoffman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured on the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ Reading List and the Chief of Naval Operation’s “Naval Power” Reading List The Marine Corps is known for its heroes, and Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller has long been considered the greatest of them all. His assignments and activities covered an extraordinary spectrum of warfare. Puller mastered small unit guerrilla warfare as a lieutenant in Haiti in the 1920s, and at the end of his career commanded a division in Korea. In between, he chased Sandino in Nicaragua and fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu. With his bulldog face, barrel chest (which earned him the nickname Chesty), gruff voice, and common touch, Puller became—and has remained—the epitome of the Marine combat officer. At times Puller's actions have been called into question—at Peleliu, for instance, where, against a heavily fortified position, he lost more than half of his regiment. And then there is the saga of his son, who followed in Chesty's footsteps as a Marine officer only to suffer horrible wounds in Vietnam (his book, Fortunate Son, won the Pulitzer Prize). Jon Hoffman has been given special access to Puller's personal papers as well as his personnel record. The result will unquestionably stand as the last word about Chesty Puller.
