Download or read book Soldier Sailor Skipper written by David Collinson and published by ShieldCrest Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has been involved with sailing will know that owning a yacht or just sailing as a pastime can be a hard taskmaster at times so I have written this account to highlight the joy and surprises the experience can also bring. From learning how to sail a flat bottomed dinghy from the beach at Criccieth North Wales during WW2, when I was evacuated, to when I was in the army for National Service and sailing on the Blue Nile in the Sudan. I recount my time buying and sailing a Mirror Dinghy to racing a Vivacity 20 between Hoylake on the Wirral to the Menai Straits. Then, a change of yacht to an Achilles 24 for another year of racing and some adventures with St. Elmo’s Fire and the Midnight Race from Liverpool to the I.O.M. Then a lovely trip from Plymouth across Biscay and round Spain to Portugal. Delivering a yacht from Lisbon Portugal to Eastern Spain and returning it to Lisbon. Taking our Tomahawk 25 through the French canals. Three cruises with the Penguin Sailing Club round the South West coast of Ireland. Sailing the Aland Islands in the Bothnia Sea at the top of the Baltic, and enjoying Winter Sun on a trip to the British Virgin Islands. Finally I made it to the Solent during Cowes Week to sail with my son Peter on his Sadler 29. Altogether, a wonderful and varied life of sailing.
Download or read book The Sailor Boy written by Oliver Optic and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sailor Boy Or Jack Somers in the Navy written by William Taylor Adams and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Soldier and A Sailor in World War II written by Dorothy L Jaworski and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren S. Voorhees was a soldier during WWII serving in the European Theatre with the 397th AAA AW Battalion. He was part of the D-Day invasion in June, 1944, sailing on and protecting a Phoenix Caisson for an artificial harbor to be built at Omaha Beach. He served in England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany before coming home to be with and grow his family.Robert L. Rickerl was a sailor during WWII, serving on the USS Milwaukee for four years before transferring to the USS New Jersey for two years. On the New Jersey, he participated in all of the major battles in the Pacific Theatre in 1944 and 1945. The New jersey and her sailors were awarded nine Battle Stars for their action during the war.Both men went on to survive the war and have loving families. Both men were heroes.
Download or read book Sailor Soldier written by David Tyndale-Biscoe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soldiers and sailors written by Charles Francis Horne and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chatterbox Book of Soldiers and Sailors written by Anna Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous written by George A. Sala and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Power written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of a Sailor written by Robert W. Parsons and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people you live with for years and go on to have thought you had known them all your life, yet you never knew who they really were. Yes, they were your mom and dad. Dad was like that, a very quiet but an intelligent man. He was a great provider for his family. Mom was more open in her puzzle pieces of life. I am still trying to put together those pieces to understand and see the big picture of two people whom I called my parents. With the plethora of information and documentation I found after my dad’s death in his war cedar chest, I now know who he was and maybe why he was such a quiet man. Knowing this information before his death might have brought us closer together. As the saying goes, you often find out more about a person after they have died. Why is that?
Download or read book Born in Africa Uprooted by the Winds of Change written by Rosemary Venter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to explain a situation where those who seemed to have everything became only dust to be swept into the sea. Or so it seemed, but that dust had life within it and was to sow another future in another land.
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Download or read book The Complete Yachtsman written by Brooke Heckstall-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Songs of the Sailor Men written by T. B. D. and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soldier Sailor Frogman Spy Airman Gangster Kill or Die written by Giles Milton and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces. An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above all, a tale of individual heroics – of men who were driven to keep fighting until the German defences were smashed and the precarious beachheads secured. This authentic human story – Allied, German, French – has never fully been told. Giles Milton’s bold new history narrates the events of June 6th, 1944 through the tales of survivors from all sides: the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter. From the military architects at Supreme Headquarters to the young schoolboy in the Wehrmacht’s bunkers, Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die lays bare the absolute terror of those trapped in the front line of Operation Overlord. It also gives voice to those who have hitherto remained unheard – the French butcher’s daughter, the Panzer Commander’s wife, the chauffeur to the General Staff. This vast canvas of human bravado reveals “the longest day” as never before – less as a masterpiece of strategic planning than a day on which thousands of scared young men found themselves staring death in the face. It is drawn in its entirety from the raw, unvarnished experiences of those who were there.
