Download or read book United States Navy Heroes Volume I written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Multi-Volume "United States Military Heroes" series is the largest collection of American heroes and award citations ever published. "United States Navy Heroes - Volume I" focuses on Navy recipients of the Medal of Honor, and includes the citation for every award of the Medal of Honor to members of the Navy in history, as well as brief biographical information on the recipients, and in many cases, a photograph of the recipient. Several appendixes include analysis of Medal of Honor awards by Rank/Rating, by Unit, a table of recipients by home state and town, table of recipients by burial location, and more. This volume also includes: * Citations for nearly all awards of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, believed 100% complete through 1941, 90% complete for Korea and Vietnam, and comprehensive for DSM awards since 1975.
Download or read book Heroes of the US Navy written by Mark J. Harasymiw and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the US navy began, with only a few ships, it has grown into one of the most respected fleets in the world. On the seas and in the air, navy heroes have served the country courageously and performed some of the most daring operations of any military branch. Readers will marvel at stories, such as the Taffy 3 unit's heroism during World War II and Michael Murphy's actions in Afghanistan. Historical photographs accompany each account, engaging readers at all levels.
Download or read book Among Heroes written by Brandon Webb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navy SEAL sniper and New York Times bestselling author Brandon Webb’s personal account of eight of his friends and fellow SEALs who made the ultimate sacrifice. “Knowing these great men—who they were, how they lived, and what they stood for—has changed my life. We can’t let them be forgotten. We’ve mourned their deaths. Let’s celebrate their lives.”—Brandon Webb As a Navy SEAL, Brandon Webb rose to the top of the world’s most elite sniper corps, experiencing years of punishing training and combat missions from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan. Along the way, Webb served beside, trained, and supported men he came to know not just as fellow warriors, but as friends and, eventually, as heroes. This is his personal account of eight extraordinary SEALs who gave all for their comrades and their country with remarkable valor and abiding humanity: Matt “Axe” Axelson, who perished on Afghanistan’s Lone Survivor mission; Chris Campbell, Heath Robinson, and JT Tumilson, who were among the casualties of Extortion 17; Glen Doherty, Webb’s best friend, killed while helping secure the successful rescue and extraction of American CIA and State Department diplomats in Benghazi; and other close friends, classmates, and fellow warriors. These are men who left behind powerfully instructive examples of what it means to be alive—and what it truly means to be a hero. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Download or read book United States Navy Heroes Volume III written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Multi-Volume "United States Military Heroes" series is the largest collection of American heroes and award citations ever published. "United States Navy Heroes - Volume III - Navy Cross World War II (A - L)" contains the citation for all Navy Cross awards to members of the U.S. Navy in World War II with last names A through L. Entries include brief biographical information on most recipients including date/place of birth, home town, date of death, and photographs of more than half of the recipients.
Download or read book United States Navy Heroes written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Navy Heroes is a compilation of ALL awards of the Navy Cross to Members of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, and foreign Allies from the Korean War to present, and more than 95% of the Silver Stars awarded to members of the U.S. Navy during the same period. The full text citations are provided with brief biographical information on the individual recipients, and photographs of many of them. Several appendixes provide analysis of the awards by war including tables showing Rating/Rank of Recipients, Units, and home towns. Additional Appendixes list ALL Navy Air ACEs in history, a nearly complete listing of Naval Prisoners of War from WWII to Present, and a Comprehensive listing of more than 2,500 Navy Admirals.
Download or read book United States Navy Heroes written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes VI & VII of "United States Navy Heroes" is an INCOMPLETE but COMPREHENSIVE collection of Silver Star awards to members of the U.S. Navy during World War II. An estimated 5,000 Silver Stars were awarded to members of the Navy in World War II, and 4,241 (85%) of these awards are identified in these two volumes, which includes the full text of more than 2,700 citations and detailed synopsis containing rank, unit and date of action for most of the remainder. Volume VII includes several appendixes with tables analyzing these awards by such criteria as rank/rating, specialty (Corpsman, PT Boats, Submarines, etc.), by unit/ship, and more. It also includes a listing of most of these recipients by home state and town.
Download or read book United States Navy Heroes Volume IV written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Multi-Volume "United States Military Heroes" series is the largest collection of American heroes and award citations ever published. "United States Navy Heroes - Volume IV" contains the citations for awards of the Navy Cross to members of the U.S. Navy with last names "M" through "Z", as well as brief biographical information on the recipients, and in many cases, a photograph of the recipient. This volume also contains the citations for World War II Navy Cross awards to members of the U.S. Army, Army Air Forces, one American Civilian, and the foreign recipients of the Navy Cross. Several appendixes include analysis of WWII Navy Cross awards by Rank/Rating, by Unit, a table of recipients by home state and town, and more.
Download or read book The First Heroes written by Craig Nelson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and helped turn the tide of the war. The First Heroes is the story of that mission. Meticulously researched and based on interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, this is a true account that almost defies belief, a tremendous human drama of great personal courage, and a powerful reminder that ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history.
Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by Craig Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, as well as Nelson’s thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work “weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies” (Kirkus Reviews). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy’s unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.
Download or read book United States Naval Academy Heroes Volume I written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citations for all awards of the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross and one Air Force Cross to Graduates and non-graduating Members of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
Download or read book United States Navy Heroes Volume II written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Multi-Volume "United States Military Heroes" series is the largest collection of American heroes and award citations ever published. "United States Navy Heroes - Volume II - Navy Cross 1915 - WWII" contains the citation for all Navy Cross awards from inception through the beginning of World War II in 1941. There is brief biographical information on most of the recipients including when/where they were born, Home Town, and date of death. It also includes citations for Navy Crosses awarded to members of the U.S. Army during the period, as well as a listing of Navy Cross awards to foreign allies. This volume also includes the citations for all Army Distinguished Service Crosses and Citation Stars/Silver Stars awarded to members of the Navy prior to 1941. Appendixes include analysis of Navy Cross awards including: Awards by rank/rating, Awards by unit/ship/specialty, a Table of Naval Academy Navy Cross recipients during the period, and a listing of recipients by home state and town.
Download or read book U S Navy Codebreakers Linguists and Intelligence Officers against Japan 1910 1941 written by Steven E. Maffeo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from scratch, not only allowing the United States to hold its own in the Pacific despite the loss of most of its Fleet at Pearl Harbor, but also laying the foundation of today’s intelligence methods and agencies. One-hundred years ago, in what was clearly an unsophisticated pre-information era, naval intelligence (and foreign intelligence in general) existed in rudimentary forms almost incomprehensible to us today. Founded in 1882, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)—the modern world’s “oldest continuously operating intelligence agency”—functioned for at least its first forty years with low manning, small budgets, low priority, and no prestige. The navy’s early steps into communications intelligence (COMINT), which included activities such as radio interception, radio traffic analysis, and cryptology, came with the 1916 establishment of the Code and Signals Section within the navy’s Division of Communications and with the 1924 creation of the “Research Desk” as part of the Section. Like ONI, this COMINT organization suffered from low budgets, manning, priority, and prestige. The dictionary focuses on these pioneers, many of whom went on, even after World War II, to important positions in the Navy, the State Department, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency. It reveals the work and innovations of well and lesser-known individuals who created the foundations of today’s intelligence apparatus and analysis.
Download or read book United States Navy Heroes Volume VI written by C. Douglas Sterner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes VI & VII of "United States Navy Heroes" is an INCOMPLETE but COMPREHENSIVE collection of Silver Star awards to members of the U.S. Navy during World War II. An estimated 5,000 Silver Stars were awarded to members of the Navy in World War II, and 4,241 (85%) of these awards are identified in these two volumes, which includes the full text of more than 2,700 citations and detailed synopsis containing rank, unit and date of action for most of the remainder. Volume VII includes several appendixes with tables analyzing these awards by such criteria as rank/rating, specialty (Corpsman, PT Boats, Submarines, etc.), by unit/ship, and more. It also includes a listing of most of these recipients by home state and town.
Download or read book Intrepid Sailors written by Chipp Reid and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reid tells one of the greatest sea stories in the history of the U.S. Navy. Under Commodore Edward Preble, the Navy came of age fighting the scourge of the time, the infamous Barbary Pirates. Intrepid Sailors chronicles the Navy’s campaign to subdue the pirate leader of Tripoli, who declared war on the United States in 1801. After two failed campaigns, Preble took command of the U.S. squadron in the Mediterranean and served notice to world the U.S. Navy would be a force with which to reckon. Among the ships in Preble’s flotilla was a non-descript little ketch. Once a French supply boat, the ketch served Tripoli until the U.S. squadron captured her in 1803. Upon her capture, Preble incorporated the little boat into his force, re-naming her the Intrepid. She was the first ship in the United States Navy to bear the name of Intrepid and would play a central role in some of the primary feats of “Preble’s Boys.” The exploits of the officers and sailors in this campaign are the stuff of legend. In culling myth from fact, Reid went back to original sources, using the words of the men in the campaign to tell their story. Whether it is Decatur leading the daring raid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia or the escape attempts of American prisoners in Tripoli, Intrepid Sailors brings to life a story many Americans once widely knew but that today has become little more than footnote. Unlike other books on the topic, however, Intrepid Sailors delves into the development of officers and sailors under Preble. Most were half the age of their commander and few had major combat experience. Under Preble, these men forged a legacy of professionalism to which the Navy still adheres. The book also examines one of the most famous friendships in American and Navy history – that of Decatur and Somers. Their thirst for glory and utter devotion to making the U.S. Navy a permanent, respected force inspired all around them but that quest for immortality never caused a breach in their friendship. Instead, that friendship grew stronger, providing even more inspiration. Intrepid Sailors offers a rare insight into the lives of men who today loom larger-than-life and who continue to inspire each new class of naval officer. Stephen Decatur, Richard Somers, Charles Stewart, James Lawrence, Edward Preble and a pantheon of early U.S. Navy heroes all come to life.
Download or read book History of the United States Navy and Biographical Sketches of American Naval Heroes written by Charles Jacobs Peterson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the United States Navy, and Biographical Sketches of American Naval Heroes: From the Formation of the Navy to the Close of the Mexican War The present work, therefore, differs from any yet published. It is intended to combine the advantages of all, so far as this is possible, within the compass of a single volume. It gives in a compact mass, what is elsewhere to be found only in detached portions. The plan, it is believed, is entirely ori ginal. And the conviction that it will be found acceptable, also, has induced the publishers to expend large sums, in order that the volume may be issued in a style worthy of the subject, and worthy likewise of general patronage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Battle Line written by Thomas C Hone and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait in words and photographs of the interwar Navy, this book examines the twenty-year period that saw the U.S. fleet shrink under the pressure of arms limitation treaties and government economy and then grow again to a world-class force. The authors trace the Navy's evolution from a fleet centered around slow battleships to one that deployed most of the warship types that proved so essential in World War II, including fast aircraft carriers, heavy and light cruisers, sleek destroyers, powerful battleships, and deadly submarines. Both the older battleships and these newer ships are captured in stunning period photographs that have never before been published. An authoritative yet lively text explains how and why the newer ships and aircraft came to be. Thomas Hone and Trent Hone describe how a Navy desperately short funds and men nevertheless pioneered carrier aviation, shipboard electronics, code-breaking, and (with the Marines) amphibious warfare —elements that made America's later victory in the Pacific possible. Based on years of study of official Navy department records, their book presents a comprehensive view of the foundations of a navy that would become the world's largest and most formidable. At the same time, the heart of the book draws on memoirs, novels, and oral histories to reveal the work and the skills of sailors and officers that contributed to successes in World War II. From their service on such battleships as West Virginia to their efforts ashore to develop and procure the most effective aircraft, electronics, and ships, from their adventures on Yangtze River gunboats to carrier landings on the converted battle cruisers Saratoga and Lexington, the men are profiled along with their ships. This combination of popular history with archival history will appeal to a general audience of naval enthusiasts.
Download or read book Veterans Heroes in Our Neighborhood written by Valerie Pfundstein and published by Pfun-Omenal Stories. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.
