Download or read book The Day the Ship Knocked the Bridge Down written by Robert Hazel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Day the Ship Knocked the Bridge Down Where Were You written by Robert Hazel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of memories, 112 Chesapeake City residents and former residents give their accounts of the day in 1942 when a ship collided and destroyed their road-level lift bridge. The accident was a major event in their lives, an event which left a lasting impression in their minds. They all have different stories to tell. They all heard things differently, saw things differently, and remembered things differently. All who shared their impressions with me did so with fervor. Their eyes sparkled; they spoke loudly; they became animated with their recollections. And, of course, they all knew where they were when the ship knocked the bridge down.
Download or read book The Day the Ship Knocked the Bridge Down written by Robert Hazel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of the destruction of the Chesapeake City Lift Bridge in 1942. Illustrated.
Download or read book Knock off Ship S Work written by Mark Douglas and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Harrison Stewart, seaman apprentice and seaman, USN-EV, served on the USS Hoquiam (PF-5) as a radioman during the first two years of the Korean Conflict (later labeled a war.) In this third book in his series on the USS Hoquiam PF-5, he brings the experiences of young sailor in the 1950s to life. The Hoquiam, after being recommissioned in Yokosuka, Japan, sailed in harms way off the east coast of North Korea. It participated in all the east coast landings and the Hungnam evacuation. This story begins where Road to Hungnam endedback in Yokosuka on New Years Eve, 1950, for a few weeks of pier-side overhaul, as the crew winds down from Hungnam. There is hard work preparing the ship for a new assignment to Task Force Ninety-Five off Wonsan, North Korea. Still, theres time for romance and hijinks on liberty in Yokosuka and later in Sasebo, Japan. The Hoquiams crew sees a full range of work in the next assignment periodincluding work they detest with the Service Force, firing remote-controlled target aircraft for other ships to shoot at, days spent on submarine patrol (when they doubled as targets for the North Korean or Chinese gunners in Wonsan caves), convoy escort duty, and the best assignment of allshooting at the potbellied narrow-gauge trains coming down from Mongolia. Eventually, the crew of the Hoquiam again sails for Yokosuka and prepares for yet another trip to the Korean bomb line.
Download or read book Furies and Fireflies over Korea written by Graham A. Thomas and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian and author details the exploits of British and Australian pilots during the Korean War. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the UN Security Council called on its members to act and 16 nations did, with Britain sending aircraft carriers such as HMS Truimph, from which piston-engined Sea Fury fighters and Fairey Firefly fighter-bombers operated. This is the story of the British and Australian Fleet Air Arm pilots and their missions over hostile territory, missions carried out with distinction and honor.
Download or read book Bankside written by David Brandon and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of historic district on the south bank of the Thames and beyond - the original playground of Londoners, complete with inns, bear pits, brothels and theatres.
Download or read book Destroyer Down written by Arthur Evans and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Beneath the Waves provides a thorough history of the sinkings of Britain’s destroyer warships during World War II. His Majesty’s destroyers had a long and costly war. Some eight thousand destroyer men did not survive. At the height of the war the Royal navy was commissioning four new vessels a month, which was only sufficient to replace those which had been sunk or severely damaged. This outstanding book contains the details of the majority of the sinkings that occurred throughout World War II and includes many firsthand accounts from the officers and crew involved.
Download or read book The Women Will Howl written by Mary Deborah Petite and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "July 1864, Union General William T. Sherman ordered the arrest of over 400 women and children from Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia. Branded traitors, these civilians were shipped to cities in the North and left to fend for themselves. This work details the story of hardships these women and children endured before and after they were taken"--Provided by publisher.
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Download or read book Airman written by Russell M. Gimmi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the biography of an extraordinary Air Force pilot, Richard F.B. Gimmi, who began his career flying B-25s in World War II and ultimately flew the F-105 in Vietnam."--Jacket page II.
Download or read book Bridge Down written by George Mair and published by Scarborough House. This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Campaign written by Dan Van der Vat and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval history of the United States and Japan in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
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Download or read book War Beneath the Sea written by Peter Padfield and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for War Beneath the Sea "I am truly filled with awe and admiration...fascinating and a great contribution to the entire lore of submarines.... I wish I had written the book." ?Capt. Edward L. Beach, USN (Ret.) author of Run Silent, Run Deep "Peter Padfield is the best British naval historian of his generation now working. [His] book...will now become the standard work on the subject." ?Daily Telegraph (London) "Peter Padfield has produced by far the best and most complete critical history of the submarine operations of all the combatants in the Second World War, at the same time providing vivid narrative accounts of particular actions and events." ?Lloyd?s List (London) "An excellent account of submarine warfare in 1939?45... [it] recreates the tribulations and horrors of that especially brutal form of warfare within a sturdily analytical and often critical framework." ?The Economist "[A] marvelously complete and detailed study of World War II submarine warfare...an interesting, serious, and timely book." ?Houston Chronicle "A brilliant submarine warfare study." ?Military Review
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Download or read book Three Miles Down written by Harry Turtledove and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, the modern master of alternate history, a novel of alien contact set in the tumultuous year of the Watergate scandal. It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret "Project Azorian" in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean—and they really don't take "no" for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all of his immediate problems. Joining up and swearing to secrecy, what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real, turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien spacecraft. Jerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien first contact might go. And meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast—and who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult, and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
