Author : Allan Reed Millett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : United States
ISBN : 002921596X
Traces the history of the Marine Corps from the American Revolution to the present and reveals how the force has adapted to changing times.
Author : H. Avery Chenoweth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9781402781032
With more than 1,100 images and a text written by respected author and veteran Colonel H. Avery Chenoweth, this tribute to the U.S. Marines shines with all the pride of the Marines themselves. Salute the few, the proud, the Marines. From their founding in 1794 to their most recent actions--including the second battle of Falluja--the entire history of the U.S. Marine Corps comes vividly to life in these lushly illustrated pages. Pore through the comprehensive images of nearly every Marine hero, uniform style, sidearm, saber, weapons platform, recruiting poster, plane, helicopter, boat, and mess kit. Many of the photos were shot recently right at the Historical Center at Quantico, Virginia, and they include rare and never-before-seen artifacts from the Marines' long history. Colonel H. Avery Chenoweth provides fascinating background information and context to compliment the visual journey.
Author : Henry Berry
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1996-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780688149567
Semper Fi, Mac brings to life the Marines of World War II -- the tough, battle-trained troops who stormed the beaches of Bougainville, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa -- in some of the bitterest and bloodiest fighting of the war. Compilied from over seventy-five interviews with surviving officers and enlisted men, these powerful firsthand accounts give us a soldier's-eye portrait of the Marine Pacific war experience -- the camaraderie, the women, the loneliness, the fear -- and the profound emotional as well as spiritual rewards that resulted. Former machine gunners, riflemen, mortarmen, and engineers share the horrifying and humorous stories that defined their days in the Pacific. Through this filter of recollection, one truism is reflected time and again: "there is no such thing as an ex-Marine." A tour-de-force that pays tribute to the spirit of the nation's premier fighting force, Semper Fi, Mac is a multifaceted portrayl of men, war, bravery, honor -- and, as "The Marines' Hymn" so proudly proclaims, fidelity to the military tradition that inspired them.
Author : Edward F. Murphy
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307416615
From their early days in 1965 when the order of the day was to drive the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the final, dramatic evacuation of Saigon ten years later, Semper Fi—Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail. Acclimating to their strange new surroundings occupied the Marines’ first few weeks in South Vietnam. . . . Throughout the day, peasants dressed in pajama-like clothing and sporting conical hats worked the paddies behind the heaving water buffalo. . . . If daytime scenes appeared bucolic, the arrival of sunset quickly changed that perception. Gunfire and explosions erupted at dusk. Marines nervously watched bright tracers cut colorful swaths across the night sky. From distant bamboo thickets, mortar shells flew skyward to crash in the paddies. The Marines were learning that the war in South Vietnam was unlike anything for which they’d been trained.
Author : Melissa Schroeder
Publisher : Melissa Schroeder
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 193973441X
Author : W. E. B. Griffin
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN : 9780006472278
Author : Keith Laufenberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2007-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 061516188X
Follow a group of young men as they go through Marine Corps boot camp in 1962, at Parris Island, South Carolina, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in October of that year, 1962, and then on to their duty stations and, for some, Vietnam. If you want to know what the Marine Corps was really like in the 1960's and those that served during this tumultuous time in history this is the book for you!
Author : Johnnie Clark
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345335296
Author : Colonel Jim Bathurst USMC (Retired)
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475956940
For seventeen-year-old high school dropout Jim Bathurst, the Marine Corps’s reputation for making men out of boys was something he desperately needed when he enlisted in March of 1958. What began as a four-year hitch lasted nearly thirty-six years and included an interesting assortment of duty stations and assignments as both enlisted and officer. We’ll All Die As Marines narrates a story about a young, free-spirited kid from Dundalk, Maryland, and how the Corps captured his body, mind, and spirit. Slowly, but persistently, the Corps transformed him into someone whose first love would forever be the United States Marine Corps. It documents not only his leadership, service, and training but also regales many tales of his fellow Marines that will have the reader laughing, cheering, and at times crying. In this memoir, Bathurst reveals that for him—a former DI who was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V”, Purple Heart, and a combat commission to second lieutenant—the Corps was not a job, a career, or even a profession; it was—and still is—a way of life.
Author :
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Helicopters
ISBN : 156311190X
