Download or read book Naval Memoirs written by G.R. Moncton and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Runnin with Frogs written by George R. Worthington and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiographical sketch of a Naval career, highlighting challenging assignments during a spectacular era in America. Details of deployments and special events of international and national moment associated with operational and command tours are described. Actions, decisions, and personal learning impacts are forthrightly discussed with in-depth descriptions of special training.

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Download or read book Uss Grand Rapids Pg 98 written by Bruce Holdt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BOOK I HAD TO WRITE I spent 30 years of my life as a US Navy Officer. All those years were great. But the one year, 1976, was the best year of my life. I was the Commanding Officer of the best ship in the US Navy. I had the finest crew anyone could hope for. I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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Download or read book Captain McCrea s War written by John L. McCrea and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II from a Leader Who Saw the War from Both the White House and the Bridge of a Battleship Vice Admiral John L. McCrea worked with the president of the United States on difficult and unusual assignments, associated with royalty and world-famous political and military leaders, and he commanded the USS Iowa and a task force in the Pacific. Over the years, many urged him to write a book, and before his passing he finally recorded his reminiscences. Captain McCrea’s War captures his amazing tales from the World War II years. After the United States entered the war, McCrea served as a naval aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where he set up the White House Map Room (later known as the Situation Room) and Shangri-La (now called Camp David). He supplied material for the president’s fireside chats, helped arrange the Casablanca Conference, and worked with such prominent leaders as Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Despite his important work for the president, McCrea yearned for sea duty. Persuading FDR to release him from the White House, he was given command of the USS Iowa, the country’s newest and largest battleship. With his new ship, McCrea transported Roosevelt and the joint chiefs of staff across the Atlantic for the Tehran Conference and fought with the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific. Captain McCrea’s War ends in April 1945, when McCrea was summoned back to Washington after President Roosevelt’s death. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Download or read book On Watch written by Elmo R. Zumwalt and published by Crown. This book was released on 1976 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., who was the Chief of Naval Operations of the United States from 1970 to 1974.

Download or read book The Navy Years written by Edith Duven Flaherty and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did I dream of becoming a Navy wife? No! Never! I wanted to stay in the safety of my own small town world like all the other post World War II couples I knew. But man proposes and God disposes so, dragging my feet, I encountered a frighteningly unfamiliar world whose terms and conditions were created by the United States Navy. I tip-toed into it reluctantly and only years later when my husband was retiring, did I come to realize how much the way of life had become a part of me, and how much I was going to miss it. The learning process was challenging. I never grew to love the weeks and months of loneliness, but I did learn to cope with it, and grew in the learning.

Download or read book Memoirs of A Navy Brat written by Beverly A. Moglich and published by Beverly Moglich. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PEARL HARBOR SURVIVOR NAVY CHILD!1941. The war was in Europe, but twelve year old Beverly and her family were half way around the world in warm, peaceful Hawaii. They felt safe.Until the morning her father heard the drone of low flying planes and Beverly, still in her pajamas, ran out of their house and saw the Rising Sun painted on the side of the plane flying at her just above the electrical wires. Suddenly, right behind her, machine gun bullets from the Zero riddled the side of her fathers car.The tip of the planes wing passed no more than ten feet above the electrical wires from the frightened young girl. She could see the pilot, his dark brown leather helmet, his white scarf, and his eyes, small, slanted and piercing, as he looked at her from his open cockpit. Beverly saw the smirk on his face turn to laughter and she realized he was enjoying every moment of his mission?Ǫto kill.Seconds after, just behind her, Beverly heard the explosions on the battleship U.S.S. Arizona as it was being blown up in the harbor.Beverly Moglichs memoir is about her harrowing moments in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the chaos of the days after, but it is also the story of America at that time and of the U.S. Navy and the difficulties children can have because of long periods of separation from their fathers while in the military.Memoirs of a Navy Brat gives us a timely insight into the military family today when so many American troops are overseas while their wives and children wait hopefully, but alone, back home.

Download or read book Brotherhood of Doom Memoirs of a Navy Nuclear Weaponsman written by James S. Little and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one knew what our job was on the ship. Navy Nuclear Weaponsmen were shrouded in secrecy, and entrusted with the most powerful deadly weapons on earth. Our families and countrymen's lives depended on how diligently we performed our duties." -Jim Little

Download or read book My Log written by E F Sheeran and published by WingSpan Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an officer on the USS LCI (R) 331 during World War II, Pat Sheeran saw eleven major naval operations, including the historic Battle of Leyte Gulf. It was a dramatic departure from his days as a history major at Cincinnati's Xavier University, when he didn't even know where Pearl Harbor was. After leaving the South Pacific, Pat worked out his naval service in Boston, where he wrote this memoir, drawing on his letters home and to Peggy, the girl he met while in naval training at Notre Dame in Indiana and whom he married almost as soon as he landed back on United States soil. In My Log, Pat describes his attempts to join the Navy, his training, and his service - the hurry-up-and-wait, often mysterious nature of naval operations, the camaraderie of the crew living in tight quarters for months, light-hearted leaves, and intense battle scenes - oceans mined with explosives and kamikaze planes overhead. Pat shares copies of letters home, including one to his father seeking advice about the event he should not return home alive - while at the same time reassuring those home that there was little likelihood of that happening even as Japanese planes circled overhead. Like most members of the well-named Greatest Generation, Pat rarely discussed his service in the war after he completed My Log. In civilian life, he managed a Coca-Cola Bottling plant in New Jersey and, after his and Peg's three children were grown, a Pepsi-Cola plant in his native Ohio. He enjoyed his family, was an award-winning salesman, an active member of his church and in civic life, celebrated Christmas like nobody else, and romanced Peggy throughout their marriage. Pat passed away in 1993, six years after Peg succumbed to lung cancer. They rest together in Arlington National Cemetery.

Download or read book SEAL Team Six written by Howard E. Wasdin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six – the covert squad that killed Osama Bin Laden SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)—the toughest and longest military training in the world. After graduating, Wasdin faced new challenges. First there was combat in Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. Then the Green Course: the selection process to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, with a curriculum that included practiced land warfare to unarmed combat. More than learning how to pick a lock, they learned how to blow the door off its hinges. Finally as a member of SEAL Team Six he graduated from the most storied and challenging sniper program in the country: The Marine's Scout Sniper School. Eventually, of the 18 snipers in SEAL Team Six, Wasdin became the best—which meant one of the best snipers on the planet. Less than half a year after sniper school, he was fighting for his life. The mission: capture or kill Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. From rooftops, helicopters and alleys, Wasdin hunted Aidid and killed his men whenever possible. But everything went quickly to hell when his small band of soldiers found themselves fighting for their lives, cut off from help, and desperately trying to rescue downed comrades during a routine mission. The Battle of Mogadishu, as it become known, left 18 American soldiers dead and 73 wounded. Howard Wasdin had both of his legs nearly blown off while engaging the enemy. His dramatic combat tales combined with inside details of becoming one of the world's deadliest snipers make this one of the most explosive military memoirs in years.

Download or read book Sea Duty written by Yates Stirling, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book Unpredictable Outcomes written by Fred K. Taylor and published by Pennywyse Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced account of life as a young sailor in the 1960's. The often brutal and raw emotions revealed in Fred Taylor's recollections of the dangerous world of wartime military service provide an exciting narrative about the demands of life at sea and service as a Seabee under relentless daily pounding by North Vietnamese heavy artillery. Unpredictable Outcomes demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit.

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Download or read book Admiral Bill Halsey written by Thomas Alexander Hughes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder at the Battle of Leyte Gulf made him the “Patton of the Pacific” and solidified his reputation as a decisive, aggressive fighter prone to impetuous errors of judgment in the heat of battle. In this definitive biography, Thomas Hughes punctures the popular caricature of the “fighting admiral” to reveal the truth of Halsey’s personal and professional life as it was lived in times of war and peace. Halsey, the son of a Navy officer whose alcoholism scuttled a promising career, committed himself wholeheartedly to naval life at an early age. An audacious and inspiring commander to his men, he met the operational challenges of the battle at sea against Japan with dramatically effective carrier strikes early in the war. Yet his greatest contribution to the Allied victory was as commander of the combined sea, air, and land forces in the South Pacific during the long slog up the Solomon Islands chain, one of the war’s most daunting battlegrounds. Halsey turned a bruising slugfest with the Japanese navy into a rout. Skillfully mediating the constant strategy disputes between the Army and the Navy—as well as the clashes of ego between General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz—Halsey was the linchpin of America’s Pacific war effort when its outcome was far from certain.

Download or read book Slinger written by Cyril Wood and published by Hellgate Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a memoir. It reflects Cyril Wood's recollections of experiences from his time in the British Royal Navy during World War II. He passed away before the memoir was written down and it thus represents a collection of notes, photos and video transcripts put together by his granddaughter. Nothing has been removed from the original content or changed, although some adaptations have been made to keep the timeline as accurate as possible. It was important to his granddaughter that this book convey a true picture of who the man Cyril Wood truly was, not just in speech, but also in action. The writing is therefore in the same style as his spoken word and some of his language might occasionally be hard to understand as he uses contemporary slang. This book was written so that a unique story about a normal young man in a unique time was not lost to the ever-moving pendulum of time.