The Reminiscences of Rear Admiral Thomas J. Hamilton, U.S. Navy (Retired).
Author : Thomas James Hamilton
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Release : 1983
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Author : Thomas James Hamilton
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Release : 1983
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Author : Thomas J Hamilton
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Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682691182
This memoir concentrates on the two major aspects of Admiral Hamilton's career - in athletics and in naval aviation. He played for the Naval Academy's national championship football team in 1926 and was later coach and athletic director for the Academy. After retirement he was athletic director for the University of Pittsburgh and commissioner of the Pacific Eight Conference. As an aviator, he flew several types of aircraft: torpedo, scout, patrol, and transport. During World War II, he was air officer and executive officer of the famous carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) and then commanded the escort carrier USS Savo Island (CVE-78) at war's end. At the beginning of the war, he combined his two interests while heading the Navy's pre-flight training program, which placed heavy emphasis on athletics.
Author : Todd M. Mealy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147667051X
This first biography of W. Glenn Killinger highlights his tenure as a nine-time varsity letterman at Penn State, where he emerged as one of the best football, basketball and baseball players in the United States. Situating Killinger in his time and place, the author explores the ways in which home-front culture during World War I--focused on heroism, masculinity and sporting culture--created the demand for sports and sports icons and drove the ascent of college athletics in the first quarter of the 20th century.
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Aeronautics, Military
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Author : Steve Ewing
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Perhaps the most famous aviator of World War II, Butch O'Hare captured America's hearts and headlines in 1942 after saving the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation - the downing of five attacking Japanese bombers. Yet the untimely and still controversial death of this Medal of Honor recipient the next year cast a shadow over O'Hare's legacy. This first full biography, written with the O'Hare family's cooperation and utilizing recently released Japanese war records, chronicles the short but eventful life of the American hero and sheds new light on his mysterious death. Seasoned naval aviation historians, the authors describe in fascinating detail O'Hare's awe-inspiring feats of aerial combat and his key role in developing tactics such as the Thach Weave and the night-fighting techniques that helped defeat the Japanese.
Author : John Mullin Batten
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1881
Category : United States
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Marine engineering
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Page : 832 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 1945
Category : United States
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Page : 844 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1867
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : Robert Wilden Neeser
Publisher : New York : MacMillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Literary Criticism
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