Download or read book Uss Grand Rapids Pg 98 written by Bruce Holdt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BOOK I HAD TO WRITE I spent 30 years of my life as a US Navy Officer. All those years were great. But the one year, 1976, was the best year of my life. I was the Commanding Officer of the best ship in the US Navy. I had the finest crew anyone could hope for. I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Download or read book Korean War Almanac written by Paul M. Edwards and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive reference to American involvement in the Korean War, including a chronology of major events, biographical sketches, related articles and a collection of maps.
Download or read book Navy Super Tankers written by Vern Bouwman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navy Super Takers were capable of refueling a task force for a month without being refueled themselves. A city afloat, they had every crew facility much like a carrier.
Download or read book Our Ship s Diary as Told by the Crew written by Bob Culver and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although this Diary covers an exact period of time That "Our Ship" was a part of the U.S. Navy You will not see a page marked "The End" Because this true account of history will never fade away Even though, at some future point in time It may be found tucked away on a closet shelf Or packed in a box up in the attic It will still, always keep the "Rammin Sammy" alive and vibrant in the pages Of Our Country's History --Bob Culver 1944-1946
Download or read book The Original Tomcat written by Jackson Sellers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last The Original Tomcat has found an everlasting home. Never again will the book be out of print and unavailable to those seeking it. In this respect, Xlibris is superior to traditional publishers. At Xlibris, a book with small or modest sales is not allowed to languish and die. From now on, The Original Tomcat can be purchased from Xlibris.com, Amazon.com or other Internet book services. And for those who are not PC savvy, the book can be ordered at brick-and-mortar bookstores such as Borders or Barnes & Noble. Just ask for The Original Tomcat by Jackson Sellers, and decide whether you want it in dust-jacketed hardback or quality paperback. The worlds most famous class of destroyers, the Fletchers, joined the American fleet during World War II. There were 175 of these little gray workhorses, all heavily armed against threats from sea, land and air. No admiral ever had enough of them. Most fought in the Pacific War against Japan, serving anonymously alongside well-known aircraft carriers and battleships. Dozens of Fletchers ran with the big boys in mighty Fast Carrier Task Force 38/58 under Admirals Halsey, Spruance, Mitscher and McCain. The USS Colahan (DD-658) steamed this perilous but triumphant journey to Tokyo Bay, surviving when others didnt. This is the fifth and final edition of The Original Tomcat: A Fletcher Destroyer Goes to War. The book, which follows the Colahan through the climactic 1944/1945 battles of the Japanese-American Pacific War, was author-published four times in limited editions between 1994 and 1997. It was well received by Colahan shipmates and Fletcher-class destroyer fans, and it continues to be in demand. Here is a sampling of reader reactions: A wonderful work by a skilled writer. All ships should be so lucky as to have their exploits chronicled so well. Thomas J. Peltin, president of Tin Can Sailors, Inc. A magnificent piece of writing. Ray Loughrige, radioman, USS Colahan, Pacific War. Thank you for helping me relive my forgotten youth. Howard Ralby, fireman, USS Colahan, Pacific War. I am absolutely delighted with it. Dick Jones, signalman, ComDesRon 53 staff, Pacific War. Your story makes memories come alive. Clyde D. Killion, chief yeoman, USS Colahan, Pacific War. I commend you for your incredible effort. George Whitney, signalman, USS Colahan, Pacific War. Thanks, Jackson, for making an old sailor feel real good. George McLaughlin, torpedoman, USS Colahan, Pacific War. A great book, a real pleasure. Jim Exchange, baker, USS Colahan, Pacific War. A moving account of the Hazelwood rescue. Peter Dingman, medical officer, USS Colahan, Pacific War. You made the Colahan live again! Henry Gaffin, yeoman, USS Colahan, Pacific War. I couldnt put it down. The Colahan needed this, and we who served on the Colahan needed this. Jim Kinduell, gunnery officer, USS Colahan, Pacific War. A very impressive piece of work. Tim Rizzuto, ships superintendent, USS Kidd Memorial. This is much, much more than a ships history. George English, president of the USS Wedderburn Association. The Original Tomcat has found shelf space in several libraries interested in naval history the Library of Congress; the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation in Washington; East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and the Louisiana Naval War Memorial Foundation in Baton Rouge, where a copy is on permanent display in the Colahan locker aboard the memorialized USS Kidd. General libraries offering the book include the Springfield-Greene County
Download or read book Brazil written by Bruce Holdt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I decided to write this book because I enjoyed my time in Brazil so much that I wanted to share it with others. When I finished my tour in the Office of the Chief of Naval Personnel, I wanted to get out of the rat race in DC. I requested an assignment as a defense attaché. My detailer gave me three choices for an attaché assignment. They were Yugoslavia, Chile, or Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I was not interested in Yugoslavia, but Chile interested me until I found out two American teenagers had been doused with gasoline and set on fire in Chile during a demonstration. I chose Rio as my first choice. Prior to going to Brazil, I received a year of Brazilian language class in Washington, DC. My family was living in a home next to my wife's mother's home in Battle Lake, Minnesota, which is a small town in Northern Minnesota. I lived in Bachelor Officers' Quarters (BOQ) in US Naval Activity Anacostia, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. The BOQ was on the Columbia River, so I decided to try my hand at fishing for catfish. When I caught my first catfish, I filled it and fried it. I tasted awful, so I stopped fishing for catfish. The Officer's Club next to the BOQ had a band every Wednesday night that imitated the Blues Brothers. I had to go early to get a seat at the bar to watch the show. The club was always full for the show. A great time was had by all. One of my teachers, named Marissa, at the Portuguese language school had red hair and did not look like a Brazilian like the other teachers. I asked her about it, and she told me she was from a small town in Southern Brazil that was settled in by Germans after the Second World War. The language instruction included a one-on-one session every day. I was able to request Marissa. She was very patient with me, and I learned to speak Portuguese fairly well. Once a week, the students and teachers would bring a dish from their native country. I decided to make bruschetta, a dish of toast with tomatoes and olive oil, which I had learned to make when we were living in Italy. When I made the toast in the BOQ, I made some smoke, which set off the fire alarm. We had to evacuate the building until the firemen had arrived by a fire truck to check out the cause of the alarm going off. I did not tell anyone that I caused it making toast. One the weekends I worked for a local company that took children and teenagers skiing. We rode from Washington, DC, to a variety of mountains in West Virginia. I enjoyed skiing with older, better skiers as they did not need a lot of instruction. I also skied a lot with a CIA agent who had taught the Greek army to ski. He skied on long skis in the Austrian style. I bought some long skis like his, and to this day, they are the only skis I am comfortable with. Skiing every weekend got me in great shape. I lost a lot of weight, getting down to 180 pounds, which is what I weighed when I graduated from high school. In order to get around DC, I bought a 1963 Fiat convertible, which was literally falling apart. I used the garage on the US Naval Activity Anacostia to repair the various wrong things with the car. I welded a sheet of aluminum to the floor of the car, which had a large hole in it. I also had to repair both front and back bumpers. The Fiat did not have a heater, so one snowy winter day, I tried to drive it back to Anacostia from language school. I got so cold that I finally drove off the main road in Alexandria, Virginia, toward the Metro Station. I drove as far as I could and parked the car alongside the street in a snowbank. I walked to the Metro and took it back to Anacostia. After language school, I attended an attaché training at the Defense Intelligence Institute on the US Air Force base next to the Naval Activity. After I completed language training, I attended defense attaché at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The DIA is the central producer and manager of foreign military intelligence for the United States. As one
Download or read book Inspiring Innovation written by Robert Crosby (Jr.) and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2018 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of African American admirals in the US Navy--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Gunboats Forever written by Bruce Holdt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I made the decision to write this book, based on the encouragement of my children. Often, when we would get together, they would ask me to tell them about some incident that happened to me when I was in the navy. I would tell the story, and they would say that I should write a book about adventures at sea. I am writing this book after having a liver transplant. Before I had the transplant, I had been sick with severe liver disease, for five years, almost dying twice. A week before my transplant, I had a compression fracture of one of my discs in my back. I was standing, talking to a nurse when all of the sudden the disc fractured. I was in such pain that I had to lie down. The only way that I am not in any pain is when I am in the hospital and get a shot of morphine. At home, I get some relief form oxycodone, but it never lasts long enough. Today, I am writing this with a considerable amount of pain. Writing seems to take my mind off the pain. All of the events in this book occurred during the year of 1976. My family consisted of me, Bruce Edward Holdt. I was thirty-three years old. My wife, Karen Wallin Holdt, was thirty-four; my oldest daughter, Marnie Esther Holdt, was ten years old; my son, Theodore Charles Holdt, was six years old; and my youngest daughter, Melissa “Missy” Holdt, was five years old. I was born in a small town in northern Minnesota called Clitherall. It got its name from my mother’s Mormon ancestors who came to northern Minnesota to teach the Indians English. This group of Mormons broke off from the Mormons in Illinois who followed Brigham Young to Utah. The biggest difference between the Mormons who continued on with Brigham Young and the splinter group was that these followers of a man named Cutler did not believe in or allow polygamy. My ancestors were called Cutlerittes. Cutler died on the way to Minnesota, and the group was then led by my great-great-grandfather Sylvester Whiting and his brothers Chauncey and Isaac. One day, while looking for the place, it was ordained that they settle and start a community. Sylvester and Isaac stopped in a grove of trees and noticed a bark flap on one of the trees that had partially grown back. Sylvester pried the bark back and noticed the name Clitherall carved on the tree. The Mormons all took this as sign from God and named the lake and the settlement they started there Clitherall. Later, they found out that Clitherall was the name of a U.S. Army captain who lived in Minneapolis. Clitherall had written his name on the piece of bark to show he had surveyed the area. My father’s ancestry is much simpler. My great-grandfather Torger Olsen Holdt was born in Haagland, Norway, on April 5, 1835. He lived there until the age of sixteen. He then immigrated to America, settling in Claremont, Iowa. He married Bertha Holdt and took her name. Torger and Bertha drove a mule team with a wagon with all their earthly goods from Iowa to Minnesota in the fall of 1871. Torger had a son named Olavas, who is my grandfather. In 1922, my father, Bertram T. Holdt, was born. He married my mother, Lorraine Gleesing, and had two sons—me and my younger brother, Verne. When we lived in Clitherall, it had a population of only fifty people. Nearby was the small lake called Clitherall. One of my earliest memories was being taught how to swim there by my father. I quickly learned to swim and was most happy when I was in the water. We lived about three hundred yards from the lake. My brother, who was a year younger than I, and I would walk to the lake every day that it was warm enough to swim, which was usually May through September. Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, with an alcoholic father and a mother who worked every day, was tough. My mother expected me to take care of my younger brother, cooking all of our meals when she was working. This experience made me self-reliant, self-assured, and a good student in every form of education I experie
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Download or read book Taiwan Straits written by Bruce A. Elleman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy, historian Bruce Elleman surveys the situation that has led to the current tensions between China and Taiwan. Starting in 1949, the final phase of the civil war in China, which ended with Communist rule of the mainland and nationalist control of Taiwan, this work explores how the 100-mile wide passage of water, known as the Taiwan Strait has served as the geographic flashpoint between the two nations. Even though U.S. Navy destroyers have patrolled this body of water from 1950 to 1979, it has seen four crises—1954-55, 1958, 1962, and, after the withdrawal of the U.S. Navy, 1995-96—that threatened to push Taiwan and China to the brink of war. Notwithstanding the role of the United States in defusing cross-strait tensions for some three decades and the cold peace that has settled in since then, the Taiwan Strait continues to be a major source of anxiety for the region and the world. Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy traces the evolution of this tension between the two nations, details the history of the crises between them, and brings this story forward into the present by considering continuing sources of conflict, present diplomatic efforts by the aggrieved nations, and other key interests—from the United States and Europe to other regional powers—and future possible outcomes in the ongoing struggle between China and Taiwan relations. Simply written and cogently argued, it is the ideal source for military personnel, diplomats, and scholars and student of the modern Far East.
Download or read book High Seas Buffer written by Bruce A. Elleman and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: it ensured that friction over the Taiwan Strait did not escalate into a full-blown war. In fact, the Taiwan Patrol Force did its job so well that virtually nothing has been written about it. U.S. Navy ships acted both as a buffer between the two antagonists and as a trip wire in case of aggression. The force fulfilled the latter function twice in the 1950s -- during the first (1954-55) and second (1958) Taiwan Strait crises --
Download or read book Blue Ribbon Papers written by Norman K. Denzin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of "Blue Ribbon Papers Series", this title presents the autobiographies of scholars who have made significant contributions to symbolic interactionist approach over the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Download or read book Life Logbook Vance Hallam Morrison 1938 2019 written by Vance H. Morrison and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Logbook: Vance Hallam Morrison 1938-2019 By: Vance H. Morrison Life Logbook is the story of the colorful life of Vance Hallam Morrison as he documents his experiences for his family and others who may be interested in his adventures, especially naval Cold War historians. Too often is “I wish they were still here to explain how these events came to pass” lamented. For Morrison, this insightful transcript attempts to answer many questions that may be asked of his life experiences. In this case, he formats his story into that of a ship’s deck log which those with Navy careers will find intimately familiar.
Download or read book Bureau of Ships Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
