Download or read book Medal of Honor 1861 1949 written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medal of Honor 1861 1949 written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface : The Secretary of the Navy has directed the Bureau of Naval Personnel to prepare this commemorative book, "Medal of Honor, the Navy." It will serve as a complete record of the Medals of Honor awarded the Navy from 1861-1949, the laws governing the award, and a narrative of the Navy in action as it is vignetted in war, campaign and peacetime periods with their accompanying citations for the highest award the nation bestows for heroism. The book is based largely on material obtained from Official Naval Histories, Secretary of the Navy Reports, National Archive documents, ships' logs, war diaries, action reports and Bureau records
Download or read book Medal of Honor 1861 1949 the Navy written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by Washington : s.n.. This book was released on 1950 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medal of Honor 1861 1949 written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Medal of Honor written by Kevin Brazier and published by . This book was released on 2025-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by Dwight S. Mears and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medal of Honor may be America’s highest military decoration, but all Medals of Honor are not created equal. The medal has in fact consisted of several distinct decorations at various times and has involved a number of competing statutes and policies that rewarded different types of heroism. In this book, the first comprehensive look at the medal’s historical, legal, and policy underpinnings, Dwight S. Mears charts the complex evolution of these developments and differences over time. The Medal of Honor has had different qualification thresholds at different times, and indeed three separate versions—one for the army and two for the navy—existed contemporaneously between World Wars I and II. Mears traces these versions back to the medal’s inception during the Civil War and continues through the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—along the way describing representative medal actions for all major conflicts and services as well as legislative and policy changes contemporary to each period. He gives particular attention to retroactive army awards for the Civil War; World War I legislation that modernized and expanded the army’s statutory award authorization; the navy’s grappling with both a combat and noncombat Medal of Honor through much of the twentieth century; the Vietnam-era act that ended noncombat awards and largely standardized the Medal of Honor among all services; and the perceived decline of Medals of Honor awarded in the ongoing Global War on Terror. Mears also explores the tradition of awards via legislative bills of relief; extralegislative awards; administrative routes to awards through Boards of Correction of Military Records; restoration of awards previously revoked by the army in 1917; judicial review of military actions in federal court; and legislative actions intended to atone for historical discrimination against ethnic minorities. Unprecedented in scope and depth, his work is sure to be the definitive resource on America’s highest military honor.
Download or read book Vietnam Era Medal of Honor Recipients 1964 1972 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by The Editors of Boston Publishing Company and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of America's highest award for military valor.The Medal of Honor chronicles the creation, evolution, and awarding of the Medal, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the jungles of Vietnam, through a wealth of illustrations and hundreds of authoritative, action-filled accounts of heroism in America's conflicts. This wonderfully detailed and beautifully designed history book puts the Medal and its recipients into the context of their times, with brief and accessible introductions explaining each war and conflict for which the Medal was awarded. It also includes photo essays, intriguing stories of the Medal's sometimes quirky personalities, effects on surviving recipients, and the Medal's preeminent place in the American story. Whether you're an avid reader on the history of the Medal of Honor or simply intrigued by its place in our history, you're certain to want to flip through the pages of The Medal of Honor again and again.
Download or read book Medal of Honor Recipients 1863 1978 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medal of Honor Recipients 1863 1973 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients written by Robert P. Broadwater and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1861, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Townsend, adjutant general of the Army, sought to establish an award to motivate and inspire Northern soldiers in the aftermath of the early, morale-devastating defeats of the Civil War. The outcome of Townsend's brainstorm was the Medal of Honor. This reference book offers information about all recipients of the Civil War Medal of Honor, with details of their acts of heroism. The work then organizes recipients by a variety of criteria including branch of service; regiment or naval ship assignment; place of action; act of heroism; state or country of nativity; age of recipient; and date of issuance. Also included is information about the first winners of the medal, the first recipients of multiple medals, posthumously awarded medals and civilian recipients.
Download or read book Medal of Honor Recipients 1863 1963 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medal of Honor 1863 1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of all the Medal of Honor awards from 1863-1968, and the deeds that inspired the awards.
Download or read book The Civil War written by Army Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Challenge for the Pacific written by Robert Leckie and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow, whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal. From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy’s plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease. Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacific is an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that forever changed our world.
Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
