Download or read book The Longest Patrol written by Gregory L. Owen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Baumann was born in the Ruhr Valley of Germany during the desperate and tumultuous years of the Great Depression. His pursuit of an occupation is hindered by an abbreviated formal education, unenthusiastic participation in the Hitler youth movement, and the whims of Nazi officials. Baumann's decision to become a sailor at the age of fourteen is both fortuitous and fateful. Baumann comes of age at sea with the German fishing and merchant fleets. He becomes a member of the Kriegsmarine's legendary U-boat force and participates in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. He also takes part in the underwater German counteroffensive that attempts to breach the English Channel and attack the Allied armada delivering troops and supplies onto the D-Day landing beaches. Baumann is one of only ten thousand U-boat crewmen who survives the war--and the even smaller fraternity of captured submariners. His personal struggle as a prisoner of war reaches across the Atlantic to a small POW camp located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. His unusual experiences at Camp Lyndhurst in Augusta County produce life-transforming consequences he never could have contemplated before his capture and imprisonment in the land of his sworn enemy. Fully researched and footnoted, with fifty illustrations. The Longest Patrol is the captivating story of Karl Baumann's wartime odyssey.
Download or read book written by Gregory Owen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recalls the experiences of Karl Baumann, who joined the German Merchant Marine as a cabin boy at the age of fourteen, in 1939. Baumann enlisted in the German Navy, or Kriegsmarine, in 1941, and served as an anti-aircraft gunner in the submarine service until his surrender to American forces in 1944. Discribes Baumann's internment at the prisoner-of-war camp at Lyndhurst, Virginia, his repatriation to Germany, and his subsequent emigration to Virginia in 1951.
Download or read book Report written by Royal Canadian Mounted Police and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polaris written by Keith Hall and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 15 June 1968 and 13 May 1996, the Polaris submarines of the 10th Submarine Squadron carried out a total of 229 patrols, travelling over 2 million miles. Wherever you sit on the nuclear debate, it makes an impressive tale; delivered on time and on budget essentially by a small group of naval officers and civil servants, the Polaris programme ensured that Britain had a Continuous at Sea Deterrence for twenty-eight years. Polaris is not just the history of the weapons, submarines and politicians: it is the history of those who were there. Combining through history with personal memories and photographs, Keith Hall has created a long-lasting legacy to a fascinating project and provided an insight into a world that no longer exists.
Download or read book Annual Departmental Reports written by Canada and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police written by Royal Canadian Mounted Police and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U Boats in New England written by Eric Wiberg and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States in mid-December 1941 and lasting until the war with Germany was all but over, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape Sable. Fifteen percent of these boats were sunk by Allied counter-attacks, five surrendered in the region, and three were sunk off New England--Block Island, Massachusetts Bay, and off Nantucket. These have proven appealing to divers, with a result that at least three German naval officers or ratings are buried in New England, one having killed himself in the Boston jail cell. There were 34 Allied merchant or naval ships sunk by these subs, one of them, the 'Eagle', was not admitted to have been sunk by the Germans until decades later. Over 1,100 men were thrown in the water and 545 of them made it ashore in New England ports; 428 were killed. Importantly, saboteurs were landed three places: Long Island, Frenchman's Bay Maine and New Brunswick Canada, and Boston was mined. Very little was known about this.
Download or read book Sub written by Mark K. Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated volume of soldier testimonies shares the experiences of veterans from World War II, the Cold War, the War on Terror, and other conflicts, in a collection that describes the challenges of undersea warfare in dramatic detail. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book Louisville Division of Police written by Morton O. Childress and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cobra Gold written by Damien Lewis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rogue band of SAS commandos rob a bank in war-torn Beirut—and return decades later to find the gold—in this military thriller based on a true story. Beirut, 1976. As war ravages the country, an unknown band of armed men blast their way into the Imperial Bank of Beirut. Over the next forty-eight hours, they load three trucks with gold bullion and then disappear without a trace. Two weeks earlier, a new SAS Major had tasked his men with planning such a Beirut bank robbery—strictly as an exercise. But when veteran Luke Kilbride has his heist plan rejected as “useless,” he decides to prove the Major wrong by pulling the job off for real. The heist goes perfectly . . . until it doesn’t. Kilbride and his men are forced to hide the loot and make their getaway. Thirty years later, Kilbride and his team are planning their return. The only problem is that a powerful enemy is hell-bent on finding the gold before they do. Kilbride dreams up an audacious mission, and the race is on to reach the gold before the ruthless Black Assassins can catch up with them.
Download or read book The Police Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Submarines written by David Ross and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submarines have changed the face of naval warfare since the first German U-boat in World War I. This heavily illustrated history charts submarines from then to now.
Download or read book The Silent Service written by John Parker and published by Headline. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission were only 50:50, the Falklands conflict and the sinking of the Belgrano, to present-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous part in British defence. John Parker's in-depth investigation is very much personality led with diaries from the early part of the century to substantial first-person testimony from survivors of wartime heroics (when many VCs were won).
Download or read book Forecast written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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