Download or read book The Road to Victory written by William Reginald Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Victory written by William Reginald Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Victory a History of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II Foreword by Major General Charles P Gross written by William Reginald Wheeler (Major.) and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Victory a History of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II Edited by Major William Reginald Wheeler Foreword by Major General Charles P Gross written by Charles P. Gross (major general.) and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Victory V1 2 written by Charles P. Gross and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Volumes In One. Contributing Authors Include W. R. Wheeler, Donald Higgins, John R. Kilpatrick, Troy S. Middleton, C. J. Wilder And Many Others. Illustrated By Allan D. Jones, Jr. And Edward A. Chavez.
Download or read book The Road to Victory A History of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II By Various Authors Edited by Major W R Wheeler Illustrated with Photographs and Paintings Etc written by William Reginald WHEELER and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Victory V1 2 written by William Reginald Wheeler and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Volumes In One. Contributing Authors Include W. R. Wheeler, Donald Higgins, John R. Kilpatrick, Troy S. Middleton, C. J. Wilder And Many Others. Illustrated By Allan D. Jones, Jr. And Edward A. Chavez.
Download or read book The Road to Victory written by William Reginald Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia POW Camps in World War II written by Dr. Kathryn Roe Coker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tour the camps, learn stories of the daily lives of the POWs, and discover the impact they had on the Old Dominion. During World War II, Virginians watched as German and Italian prisoners invaded the Old Dominion. At least 17,000 Germans and countless Italians lived in over twenty camps across the state and worked on five military installations. Farmers hired POWs to pick apples. Fertilizer companies, lumber yards, and hospitals hired them. At first a phenomenon of war in Virginia's backyard, these former enemy combatants became familiar to many--often developing a rapport with their employers. Among them were die-hired Nazis and Fascists, but they benefited from double standards that placed them in better jobs and conditions than African Americans. Historians Kathryn Coker and Jason Wetzel tell a different story of the Old Dominion at War.
Download or read book Arn s War written by Edward C. Arn and published by The University of Akron Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arn writes in a straightforward and engaging manner that avoids false sentimentality or romanticism. Instead, he gives readers keen insights into the daily life of soldiers locked in gruesome events far beyond their experience and describes how it feels to be under fire, to suffer a wound, to agonize over the deaths of friends, to endure true suffering, to sacrifice, and to survive. Edited and annotated by Jerome Mushkat, this memoir is an account of a citizen-soldier who survived his baptism by fire during World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Twelve Desperate Miles written by Tim Brady and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of how a rusty New Orleans banana boat staffed with a most unlikely and diverse crew was drafted into service in WWII—and heroically succeeded in setting the stage for Patton's epic invasion of North Africa. The largest amphibious invasion force ever to cross the Atlantic Ocean set sail from Virginia in November 1942 with the aim of capturing Casablanca and a crucial airfield northeast of the city. Unfortunately, the airfield was located a dozen miles up a twisting Morrocan river, too shallow for any ship in the entire Allied fleet. As the invasion neared, the War Department turned up the Contessa, a salt-caked Honduran-registered civilian freighter that had spent most of her career hauling bananas and honeymooners. This unremarkable ship, crewed by seamen from twenty-six different nations, eighteen sailors pulled from the Norfolk County jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morroco by OSS agents, became the focus of the opening salvo of World War II. Too late to join the massive convoy sailing for Africa, the Contessa set out on her own through the U-boat-infested waters of the Atlantic to the shores of Morocco, where she faced her most daunting challenge: the twelve-mile voyage up the well-defended Sebou River, carrying an explosive cocktail of airplane fuel and nine hundred tons of bombs in her holds. Twelve Desperate Miles is a surprising and entertaining account of one of the great untold stories of the war.
Download or read book An Army at Dawn written by Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power. Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel. Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's narrative provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.
Download or read book Wolf at the Door written by James R. Powell and published by Brandylane Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf captures the story of the U.S. Fifth Naval District's defeat of German U-boats in the struggle for Hampton Roads, Virginia during World War II. The authors include personal interviews with American and German veterans, including German U-boat captains who led the initial attacks in 1942-1943--interviews never before published.. The authors contrast newspaper accounts of the period against historical fact and the personal experience of American and German veterans who were there.
Download or read book G I written by Lee Kennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The First Air War, a realistic portrait of a solider during World War II. Lee Kennett provides a vivid portrait of the American soldier, or G.I., in World War II, from his registration in the draft, training in boot camp, combat in Europe and the Pacific, and to his final role as conqueror and occupier. It is all here: the "greetings" from Uncle Sam; endless lines in induction centers across the country; the unfamiliar and demanding world of the training camp, with its concomitant jokes, pranks, traditions, and taboos; and the comparative largess with which the Army was outfitted and supplied. Here we witness the G.I. facing combat: the courage, the heroism, the fear, and perhaps above all, the camaraderie—the bonds of those who survived the tragic sense of loss when a comrade died. Finally, when the war was over, the G.I.’s frequently experienced clumsy, hilarious, and explosive interactions with their civilian allies and with the former enemies whose countries they now occupied.
Download or read book The Day of Battle written by Rick Atkinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.
Download or read book Hampton s Olde Wythe written by The Olde Wythe Neighborhood Association and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Olde Wythe neighborhood in Hampton looks like many of the picturesque communities in America, its past is one all its own. The area's namesake, George Wythe, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and a man opposed to slavery who freed his own slaves and suffered arsenic poisoning for his position. Olde Wythe battled a British invasion during the War of 1812 and witnessed intense ironclad battles fought near its shores during the Civil War. Join the Olde Wythe Neighborhood Association as it presents the colorful and harrowing history of Hampton's Olde Wythe.
Download or read book An American Uprising in Second World War England written by Kate Werran and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish town that ended up putting the ‘special relationship’ itself on trial. The subsequent court martial into what tabloids labelled a ‘wild west’ mutiny became front page news in Great Britain and the USA. Three thousand miles across the Atlantic, it mirrored and bolstered a fast-accelerating civil rights movement. At home it caused Churchill himself ‘grave anxiety’ while refracting an extraordinary truth about the real state of Anglo-American relations. For three long days the story raged before the turbulent war-torn world moved on and forgot forever amid ever-escalating D-Day preparations. This account of a shocking drama the authorities tried to hush up has been painstakingly pieced back together for the first time thanks to new archival research. When slotted into its unique context, extracted from wartime cabinet documents, secret government surveys, opinion polls, diaries, letters and newspapers as well as testimony from those who remember it, the story offers a rare and stunning window into a little-known dark side of the ‘American Invasion.’ By breathing new life into a vanished trial, it reveals a rare and surprising insight into the wider story of how Britain reacted to soldiers of the Jim Crow army when they came to stay.
