Download or read book Semper Fi Mac written by Henry Berry and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-10-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semper Fi, Mac brings to life the Marines of World War II -- the tough, battle-trained troops who stormed the beaches of Bougainville, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa -- in some of the bitterest and bloodiest fighting of the war. Compilied from over seventy-five interviews with surviving officers and enlisted men, these powerful firsthand accounts give us a soldier's-eye portrait of the Marine Pacific war experience -- the camaraderie, the women, the loneliness, the fear -- and the profound emotional as well as spiritual rewards that resulted. Former machine gunners, riflemen, mortarmen, and engineers share the horrifying and humorous stories that defined their days in the Pacific. Through this filter of recollection, one truism is reflected time and again: "there is no such thing as an ex-Marine." A tour-de-force that pays tribute to the spirit of the nation's premier fighting force, Semper Fi, Mac is a multifaceted portrayl of men, war, bravery, honor -- and, as "The Marines' Hymn" so proudly proclaims, fidelity to the military tradition that inspired them.
Download or read book Memories of a United States Marine written by Powell B. Brown and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Served Twenty October 1943 - One December 1973, active duty Ten November 1943 - 31 August 1963, Nineteen December 1967 - Eighteen December 1969."--Title page.
Download or read book Friends Made Moments Shared Memories for Life written by VMSB 343 Reunion Association and published by LeMieux International, Limited. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Friends Made Moments Shared Memories for Life written by Walter G. LeTendre and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greatest U S Marine Corps Stories Ever Told written by Iain C. Martin and published by Greatest. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Friday, November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, the body that created the Continental Army to fight against the British during the American Revolution, approved a resolution for the formation of the Marine Corps. Since then, the United States Marine Corps has been associated with a tradition of honour, service and heroism second to none. The Greatest U.S. Marine Corps Stories Ever Told is a collection of true stories of service and sacrifice by the men and women of the Marines - from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, and from the American Revolution to the conflicts of the modern world.
Download or read book United States Marine Corps A Blank Journal to Help Keep Your Memories Organized written by Watson Journals and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sering in the military is one of the most honorable decisions a person can make. Training is difficult yet vigorous. It will push you beyond the limits you have already set for yourself. This blank journal is meant for you to document your experience, keep contacts of your new acquaintances, and keep your memories fresh so that you can share them with others that may want to enlist or with family and friends at a later moment in time.120 blank/numbered pages to keep your memories organized.
Download or read book Memories From Philippines written by Ned Tweedy and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, armor, artillery, aerial and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. the story of a young Filipino man, who was born and raised at Langtad, Cebu. the author and his family moved for good at Shoreline, Washington. After President George W. Bush declared war on Iraq, Ezekiel M. Aranez joined the United States Marine Corps. It was also the month that he graduated from Shorewood High School. In this book, the author talked about being part of the U.S. Marines was to help and to end terrorism. His writing reflected the Iraq War that he experienced in the Battle of Ramadi. the author believed from his calling was to serve the people and give thanks to our service members for the freedoms that we have today. Buy this book now.
Download or read book Camouflaged Memories written by Eric D. Shaffer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Ohio, the author joined the U.S. Marine Corps in May of 1965 and completed his boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island. Following boot camp and specialty training, he joined Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 542, the Flying Tigers, in Chu Lai Republic of Vietnam for his first tour of duty. Completing a successful tour with the Flying Tigers, he was selected to participate in the Enlisted Commissioning Program, ultimately commissioned as a second lieutenant in early 1968. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment of the 1st Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam at the completion of officer training. During his duty with the 3rd Battalion, he was awarded the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, a Navy Commendation Medal and the Purple Heart for service during 1968–1970. He completed tours of duty on staffs and unit command following the years after 1970 until retirement in June of 1988. He matriculated from Park College in 1976 as part of a service program to ensure that officers commissioned from the ranks had an opportunity to complete their college degrees. Graduation in 1976 with a GPA of 3.96 satisfied that requirement, and he moved on to other duties, seeing duty in the Far East and around the nation.
Download or read book Things I ll Never Forget written by James Dixon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things I'll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine Corps. These are his memories of funny times, disgusting times and deadly times. The author kept a journal for an entire year; therefore many of the dates, times and places are accurate. The rest is based on memories that are forever tattooed on his brain. This is not a pro-war book, nor is it anti-war. It is the true story of what the Marine Corps was like in the late 1960's, when the country had a draft and five hundred thousand Americans were serving one year tours in battle-torn South East Asia. If you served in Viet Nam you will want to compare your experience with the author's. If you know someone who went to Viet Nam, you will want to read for yourself what it was like. If you lost a loved one or friend in the war, you will want to read this and share it with others.
Download or read book Semper Cool written by Barry Fixler and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Memories written by Kathryn I. Lipsch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is guaranteed to bring smiles and laughter, is filled with true but short stories of memories, situations and events, all telling about personal situations in the service of defending our country. If you served as these authors did, you may relate to some of these stories as if they were your own. This book is a great gift to those who served, or to those mothers and fathers of those who served, and to the children of those who bravely served.... that they may understand the depth of that service given.
Download or read book Once a Marine written by Alexander Archer Vandegrift and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Difference written by John M. Hennessey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Corps and Vietnam Remembered written by Frank James Costanza and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Corps and Vietnam Remembered documents the memories of Marine Frank James Michael's Costanza's four years of service in the United States Marine Corps. The book discusses his decision to join the Marines, basic training, Navy schools, two tours in Vietnam, and his decision to muster out. The book closes with his difficult reentry into civilian life and somewhat tumultuous entry into the University of Maryland as an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student. It has some very graphic observations on war's effects on young servicemen. Frank started compiling this book from notes and observations he had written over the years after his youngest son, Anthony (Tony), questioned him on Father's Day 2008 about his time served in Vietnam. Since his dad didn't talk much of his time in Vietnam, Tony wondered if he had any disturbing stories about Vietnam. Half way through Frank's response, Tony stopped his father and said what he was relaying was very hard to listen to. The 2008 conversation served as the impetus for Frank to gather his notes and memories and put them to paper, which resulted in an unpublished book for his family, friends, and children to read as a glimpse into his formative young adult years. The unpublished book has stirred many interesting conversations over the years and has helped Frank deal with many issues that he kept hidden within for decades. The process of putting strings of internal thoughts and emotions to paper has been very cathartic. Several readers have encouraged him to publish it more formally. The book you have before you is a product of that encouragement.
Download or read book Suddenly We Didn t Want to Die written by Elton Mackin and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, Elton E. Mackin’s memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war as seen through the eyes of a highly decorated Marine who fought in every Marine Brigade battle from Belleau Wood to the crossing of the Meuse on the eve of the Armistice. Praise for Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die “This beautifully written and truly gripping war memoir is a significant addition to battlefield literature. A minor classic . . . An altogether remarkable job [comparable] to Crane, Remarque and Mailer. Deserves the widest possible audience.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer “This immediate, eloquent report merit[s] comparison with Thomas Boyd’s Marine Corps [1923] classic Through the wheat.”—Publishers Weekly “A real curiosity: a highly mannered World War I diary, published nearly 80 years after being written and 20 years after its author’s death. Bright snapshots abound…sometimes a young man’s lyricism takes over [but] the horror of war never departs. The diary has the faults one expects, and the promise one prays for. A fine addition to WWI literature.”—Kirkus Reviews “A forthright, eloquent, and powerful memoir certain to become an enduring testament to the drama and tragedy of World War I. Threaded with no small measure of poetry, this superb memoir is sure to become a classic.”—Great Battles “A plain but powerful tale . . . [in] vivid prose loaded with details that bring the horrors of World War I to life, he tells an exceptional new version of the old story of battle transforming a boy into a veteran.”—American Library Association Booklist “To the ranks of Erich Maria Remarque, E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos and Siegfried Sassoon, we must now add Elton Mackin . . . who, in a terse style reminiscent of Hemingway, [succeeds] in making someone unfamiliar with war truly now the frightfulness of the trenches and the greatness of the many men who fought in them.”—Marine Corps Gazette
Download or read book Memoirs of a Marine Old Corps New Corps 1919 To 1959 written by Vernon Edgar Megee and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of one man's life of service to his country in the Marine Corps. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1900, the son of farmer, Vernon E. Megee grew up with an understanding of hard work and devotion to duty. His introduction into the military began in college as a cadet in the R.O.T.C. At the age of nineteen he joined the United States Marines. And thus began a life of adventure, challenges and experiences he could never have imagined. His career spanned forty years, from a lowly enlisted man to the rank of Four Star General. Megee's memoir is certainly not the usual dry "date, time, place" report you might expect. Instead, in this book, (which he insisted was not to be released until after his death) he reveals the often-tumultuous behind-the-scenes, gutwrenching struggles and also the joy of a real man's life in the military, in his own memorable words. And while it is the personal story of General Vernon E. Megee, it's also the heroic story of the United States Marines during a long, difficult time of transition.
Download or read book The Reminiscences of a Marine written by John Archer Lejeune and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
