Download or read book The Wonder Crew written by Susan Saint Sing and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wonder Crew presents the fascinating story of how the salty coach of the Annapolis crew team, Coach Richard Glendon, seized the sport of rowing first from the Ivy League schools and then the imposing British with a new style both uniquely American and very much his own. Glendon took a group of young midshipmen with humble origins and dominated a sport once the domain of the privileged. After stunning the Ivy Leagues in race after race, the US Naval Academy team won a shot at the Olympics. Their task was nearly impossible: for hundreds of years, the British Navy ruled the world and their supremacy of the seas naturally made them dominant in the sport of rowing. With the hopes of a nation, Navy went into the heart of Europe and in thrilling fashion defeated the heavily favored Brits to win the gold medal in 1920. With Glendon's new American style, the US won Gold for forty straight years, the longest winning streak in any single sport in Olympic history. Rich in history, with brave characters, American ingenuity, and dramatic training and competition, Susan Saint Sing's The Wonder Crew is the first comprehensive account of the 1920 Olympic Navy crew team and their inspirational coach who forged the dramatic story of their quest for Olympic gold.

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Surface Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Navy Directory written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Navigation and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Playships of the World written by Daniel V. Gallery and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The diaries also recount the coming of age of a naval legend. Gallery describes grappling with shipboard difficulties and contemplates the various directions his career might lead. He also recalls romances with young women in ports across the globe and attempts to maintain his moral and religious principles in the face of temptations of lust and liquor abroad." "Throughout the episodes recorded here, Gallery's spirits and hopes are high, his friendships numerous, and his outlook both clear and unpretentious. Peppered with companionable wit and burgeoning literary talent, the diaries illustrate the humble beginnings of a fledgling officer who would become an inspirational figure in military lore."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book To Die Gallantly written by Timothy J Runyan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German U-boats, known as "iron coffins", terrorized Allied ships during World War II and were responsible for thousands of deaths. This volume, published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, brings together historians from both sides of the ocean to discuss this important campaign. As well as offering new insights into both familiar and more neglected aspects, the book reflects the human dimension of the conflict, paying tribute to the whole spectrum of personnel involved - planners and strategists, spies and code-breakers, naval officers and crews, merchant sailors, and civilians.

Download or read book Corpsmen written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Army Navy Air Force Register and Defense Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Navy the Standard Publication of the U S Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Official Postal Guide written by United States. Post Office Department and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vermont in the World War 1917 1919 written by Harold Pearl Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States naval medical bulletin v 16 1922 written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lady Is Blind written by Bill T. Balais and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lady Is Blind This is a vivid story of one man and his colleagues crying for justice against a hostile world in never-ending oppression, discrimination, and harassment they have been subjected to in the workplace.

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Division of Preventive Medicine and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shepherds of the Sea written by Robert F Cross and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. They reveal many never-before-told details of life at sea during wartime and, along with information found in secretly kept war diaries and previously unpublished personal photographs, add important dimensions to the official record. Unseasoned teenage recruits when they first went to sea, these sailors were led by inexperienced college boys more accustomed to yachts than warships. Their ships were untested vessels, designed by a man with no formal training in ship design, and which many viewed as a waste of money. Yet, as Cross points out, these men are credited with helping turn the tide of the war in the Atlantic as they singlehandedly sank some seventy U-boats and captured U-505, the only German submarine taken during the war and the first enemy vessel captured by Americans at sea since the War of 1812. In the Pacific, the destroyer escorts fought in every major battle, side-by-side with Allied battleships and destroyers. But this story is not just about battles. It is also about American genius, hard work, honor and growing up in the Great Depression. The author provides eyewitness details about the historic first step taken to end racial discrimination in the military as African-Americans stepped aboard the destroyer escort USS Mason as full-fledged sailors for the first time and earned a Navy commendation of heroism in the Battle of the Atlantic presented to the surviving crewmen fifty-one years later. Readers also learn about an ingenious invention when a sailor breaks his silence about a secret weapon tested aboard his destroyer escort that rendered a new German radio-controlled glide bomb useless.