Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
74th Battalion in Review
Author: Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The 135th U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Review
Author: United States. Navy. 135th Construction BattalionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Dominion Annual Register and Review
Author: Henry James MorganPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Dominion Annual Register and Review of the ... Year of the Canadian Union
Author: Henry J. MorganAnnual historical review
Author: United States. Army Materiel Command. Historical OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Unit Histories of World War II
Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military HistoryPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Army Review
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Unseen Body Blows
Author: William A. GayPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525538330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Between 1942 and 1945, 1,051 amphibious tank-landing ships were rapidly produced. These were anonymous vessels, slow and unwieldy, and in the words of one crewmember, they looked like bathtubs. At first, LSTs had a reputation of being expendable and of relatively low value, and so were bestowed another, less noble, nickname; “Large Slow Targets.” Put into service to get troops and equipment ashore, the story of LST 479 is in some respects the story of all of these ships. Typical of all early LSTs, its crew on commissioning day, April 19, 1943, consisted of raw amateurs. But over the next 1,046 days, through collisions, accidental groundings, navigational errors, and lots of mechanical breakdowns, the 479 crew became sailors. Displaying heroism and ingenuity, they rescued the crew of a crippled landing craft during an Alaskan storm, battled fires aboard a burning LST hit by kamikazes, and fought off air attacks on the way to Makin and Guam, at Saipan, in the Philippines and around Okinawa. This LST crew became the embodiment of the Navy’s 2018 recruiting slogan: “Forged by the Sea.” In gripping, meticulously researched, “you are there” fashion, author William A. Gay, recounts the fascinating history of the 479’s seven Pacific campaigns; from the day-to-day life of the men aboard her, to their terrifying encounters in battle as they delivered “unseen body blows” to the enemy that helped win the war in the Pacific.
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