Download or read book We Were in the First Waves of Steel Amtracs Who Landed on Iwo Jima written by John Ryland Thurman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on my personal experiences. I have always felt that what I did was just my job and what was required of me to do as a Marine following orders. It became apparent to me when I visited the island of Okinawa for a month in 1997. I was honored by Marines, young and old, who were stationed there at the time. They wanted to hear of my experiences, to meet me and shake my hand. I started writing this book late in my life and I am not a professional writer. For a long time after Iwo Jima, I found it hard to talk about my experiences. I was able to do some talks at private clubs and at the Marine Corps Training Center in Okinawa and from these talks; I was encouraged to write this book. What really made me decide to try and write was after my talk at the Marine Crops Training Center in Okinawa. There was a group of Marines waiting for me and one of the Marines stepped up and asked, Sir, we would like to ask you some questions. I said sure. He then asked Is our training anywhere near the real thing? That caught me for a second. I said yes, your body had been conditioned to be strong and is ready to handle any kind of unknown rough terrain and still have the strength to take out any enemy gun position; youre going to need it. But the mind could never be fully ready. It cant be. It has to happen fi rst. Youve been told what to expect, but it is diff erent when you see it for real right in front of your own eyes. You have to swallow hard and just keep going. Youre training has given you a healthy mind and this will get you through. That question made me realize these young men need to be told what its like out there. I owe it to the men and the Corps. I have come to realize that these personal experiences are also a very important time and a piece of history that will go with me if I fail to share them here. Memories and sights that only a few have experienced and all should have the opportunity to learn about if they so choose. This book is not intended to be abrasive, insultive, discriminatory, or grotesque in nature as is more to capture and recollect the vivid memoirs of a Marine who fought on the front lines in the battle of Iwo Jima. To defend the freedoms and this great Country for which I have never taken for granted.
Download or read book Casting Alpha written by James R. Kelley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting Alpha is the story about a platoon of Marine Corps amtrac crewmen who served during the Vietnam War. Kelly, a former trac rat, has wanted to write about his unit since he returned from Vietnam in 1967. He wanted Casting Alpha to be different; not just another blood and guts book about Vietnam. Casting Alphais the story of young Marines sharing a common goal: getting home in one piece. It's the story of their daily activities and their feelings combined with the sense of helplessness they endured as they carried out their sworn duty. Kelly opened his Vietnam photo album and searched the faces on now faded photographs. Each one transported Kelly back thirty-five years to a time in his life that he refers to as his personal twilight zone. The young faces in the photographs brought back memories, memories of situations and occurrences that seemed to have happened only yesterday. A few memories were of comical situations while others reflect sadness, cruelty, and anger. One memory most trac rats can't forget is the anxiety associated with thoughts of enemy land mines and snipers. Kelly named that anxiety "the big wait." Discover what it was like to be a crewman aboard an amtrac during the Vietnam War. Feel the anxiety build as you climb into the driver's seat, start the engine, and begin a mission into no-man's land on roads and trails that have been previously visited by enemy soldiers. Are land mines in your path? Will your number be up today? The big wait will take control of your senses as you read Casting Alpha.
Download or read book Amtracs written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first prototype for the LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked) was completed in July 1941, its design based on the Alligator, a tracked amphibious vehicle developed for rescue operations in the swamps of Florida. Though the early conception of amtrac operations envisioned using LVTs solely as supply vehicles, at Tarawa amtracs demonstrated their utility as assault vehicles to carry troops, leading to the development of new models. This book covers the evolution of amtracs, from the first LVT-1 to the LVT-7; their numerous variants; and their use throughout World War II and beyond.
Download or read book Across the Reef written by Victor J. Croizat and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnam Terrorism written by Mario Wehmeyer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the battle fields of Vietnam and the Cold War, to the streets of the Middle East, the author takes you through many battles against terrorism. Each battle is inspired by actual events, and described in detail by the emotions of the soldiers involved. The events are supported by each character's point of view! From the USMC warriors, to the battle hardened enemy, we learn of their motivation and desire to continue their unfortunate struggle, in spite of the sociological and political conditions of the times. Marion weaves the desires of the people involved in the "peace movement" into the families of all concerned, with the tragic events of the war dictating the outcome. After Vietnam, and the end of the Cold War, the families seek to rebuild their lives, but find that a new and most terrifying era was just beginning.
Download or read book The Los Banos Prison Camp Raid written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the southwest shore of Laguna de Bay in the Philippines stood the Los Banos Internment Camp. Held within were 2,147 starving POWs, surrounded by thousands of Japanese troops. As the desperate battle for Manila raged, only 130 Paratroopers could be spared for the rescue operation. Supported by Alamo Scouts, local guerrillas, and amphibious tractors, they seized the element of surprise, and rescued the POWs. It was a stunning triumph of courage and perfect timing in the face of overwhelming odds.
Download or read book Not Forgotten written by Gregory Hall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-13 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of his research for this WWII novel, Gregory Hall travelled to the Philippines with a History Channel film crew, as well as with four of the surviving WWII participants. During the documentary filming, he visited the sites of the two internment camps, Los Banos and Santo Tomas. Additionally, he visited the locations of the beachhead where the amphibious tracked vehicles (AMTRAC’s) came ashore, the airfield used by the paratroopers who parachuted into the action, as well as the vacated prison where the liberated prisoners were taken. The author spent numerous years researching the liberation and has personally met many of the participants. Over the years, he has attended six reunions of the former paratroopers and internees. This novel weaves the experiences and stories shared by many of the participants. Gregory Hall’s father served as a paratrooper in the US Army’s 11th Airborne Division during the rescue. “ Like Father, Like Son” , the author enlisted in the US Army and became a paratrooper, albeit a second generation paratrooper during the Vietnam-era. He served with the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division during the mid-1970’s, attaining the rank of Sergeant (E-5) in the Airborne Infantry. The novel has been a work of passion for Gregory Hall. The desire to write this novel dates back to when the author was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His father, like many WWII veterans, rarely talked about the war. The author took advantage of being in an airborne division and began researching his father’s unit. It became evident to him that the heroic exploits of US paratroopers in the Pacific Theater of Operations were overshadowed by their “brother” paratroopers in the European Theater of Operations. Similarly, the successful rescue of over 2,000 prisoners from 30 miles behind enemy lines in the Philippines, was overshadowed by another historical event that occurred on the very same day, February 23, 1945. That event was the raising of the American flag by US Marines on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima. The author is retired after a 24 year career as an FBI Special Agent. He has appeared as a military historian on the History Channel’s two hour documentary, RESCUE AT DAWN; THE LOS BANOS RAID. The television documentary was heavily influenced by the author’s research for this novel. You can visit the novel’s website at https://notforgottennovel.com/. Separately from this work, Gregory Hall has also appeared on both the DISCOVERY and TRAVEL channels as a cold case criminal researcher on the television show EXPEDITION UNKNOWN, hosted by international adventurer Josh Gates. The author and Mr. Gates revisited the legendary skyjacking of an airliner by a person dubbed by the media as “DB Cooper”. The author’s groundbreaking and highly plausible theory of the skyjacking, “ DB Cooper, Step Out Of The Shadow” , has been published on WordPress at https://retiredinvestigator.wordpress.com/.
Download or read book The Pacific War written by Robert O'Neill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor and fundamentally changed the course of history; with this one surprise attack the previously isolationist America was irrevocably thrown into World War II. This definitive history explores each of the major battles that America would fight in the ensuing struggle against Imperial Japan, from the naval clashes at Midway and Coral Sea to the desperate, bloody fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Each chapter reveals both the horrors of the battle and the Allies' grim yet heroic determination to wrest victory from what often seemed to be certain defeat, offering a valuable guide to the long road to victory in the Pacific.
Download or read book Leadership Management and Command written by K. Grint and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side. Instead he provides an account of the battle through the overarching nature of the relationship between the leaders and their followers.
Download or read book Leadership written by Keith Grint and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership: Limits and Possibilities offers a critical discussion of leadership that draws upon a wide range of approaches, material and examples to demonstrate the complex and challenging role of leadership and through this debate suggests possible ways to improve as a leader. It is structured around 5 key aspects of leadership: person, product, position, process and purpose, providing a useful organizing framework. It combines theoretical discussions with lively examples to bring the subject alive.
Download or read book The Pacific War written by William B. Hopkins and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “important comprehensive study” of WWII in the Pacific examines the high-level decision-making and strategy that led to victory (Roanoke Times). Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a complex conflict whose nature is often obscured by simple chronological narratives. In The Pacific War, William B. Hopkins, a Marine Corps veteran of the Pacific war and respected military history author, opens the story of the Pacific campaign to a broader and deeper view. Hopkins investigates the strategies, politics, and personalities that shaped the fighting. His regional approach to this complex war conducted on land, sea, and air offers an insightful perspective on how this multifaceted conflict unfolded. As expansive as the immense reaches of the Pacific, and as focused as the most intensive pinpoint attack on a strategic island, Hopkins’ account offers a fresh way of understanding the hows—and more significantly, the whys—of the Pacific War.
Download or read book One Square Mile of Hell written by John Wukovits and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true account of the Battle of Tarawa, an epic World War II clash in which the U.S. Marines fought the Japanese nearly to the last man. In November 1943, the men of the 2d Marine Division were instructed to clear out Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio, a speck at the end of the Tarawa Atoll. When the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their underground bunkers—and launched one of the most brutal and bloody battles of World War II. For three straight days, attackers and defenders fought over every square inch of sand in a battle with no defined frontlines, and where there was no possibility of retreat—because there was nowhere to retreat to. It was a struggle that would leave both sides stunned and exhausted, and prove both the fighting mettle of the Americans and the fanatical devotion of the Japanese. Drawn from new sources, including participants’ letters and diaries and exclusive firsthand interviews with survivors, One Square Mile of Hell is the true story of a battle between two determined foes, neither of whom would ever look at the other in the same way again.
Download or read book The Infantry s Armor written by Harry Yeide and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanks, amphibian tanks, and amphibian tractors in action in all theaters, from Africa and Europe to the Pacific. How the battalions fought the war, often in the tankers' own words. Crystal-clear maps.
Download or read book Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun written by Gene Eric Salecker and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater. Firsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers. Detailed maps illustrate battles.
Download or read book The Marine Corps Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Babyboom Doom written by Marion Wehmeyer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-02 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babyboom Doom is a stirring testimony of the life of a soldier, whose attitude was shaped by the historical events of his time. The war doomed many of his generation to a life of unsolicited self discovery. After war, Casey seemingly is forever doomed to a life of failures, but with true grit and fortitude, he struggles on to become a survivor of the Babyboom Doom .
Download or read book US World War II Amphibious Tactics written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US armed forces were responsible for many tactical innovations during the years 1941–45, but in no field was US mastery more complete than amphibious warfare. In the vast, almost empty battlefield of the Pacific the US Navy and Marine Corps were obliged to develop every aspect of the amphibious assault landing in painstaking detail, from the design of many new types of vessel, down to the tactics of the rifle platoon hitting the beach, and the logistic system without which they could not have fought their way inland. This fascinating study offers a clear, succinct explanation of every phase of these operations as they evolved during the war years, illustrated with detailed color plates and photographs.
