USS Barbour County (LST-1195)
Author : Barbour County (Ship : LST-1195)
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Barbour County (Ship : LST-1195)
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Barbour County (Ship : LST-1195)
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 1991*
Category : Operation Desert Shield, 1990-1991
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Author : Barbour County (Ship : LST-1195)
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 1988
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Naval art and science
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Author : Michael L. Roberts
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Crests
ISBN : 1563110830
Attack aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, frigates, light and heavy cruisers, and patrol crafts. 1,300 different ships and submarines from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War have their crests displayed in brilliant full color. This book is an encyclopedia, preserving the emblems that reflect the pride of the crews belonging to the best ships in the U.S. Navy."" Indexed.
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Naval art and science
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Destroyers (Warships)
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Author : United States. Navy Dept. Office of the Comptroller
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Charles Richard Smith
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
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How did a scrawny black kid—the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton—become the 106th mayor of New York City? It’s a remarkable journey. David Norman Dinkins was born in 1927, joined the Marine Corps in the waning days of World War II, went to Howard University on the G.I. Bill, graduated cum laude with a degree in mathematics in 1950, and married Joyce Burrows, whose father, Daniel Burrows, had been a state assemblyman well-versed in the workings of New York’s political machine. It was his father-in-law who suggested the young mathematician might make an even better politician once he also got his law degree. The political career of David Dinkins is set against the backdrop of the rising influence of a broader demographic in New York politics, including far greater segments of the city’s “gorgeous mosaic.” After a brief stint as a New York assemblyman, Dinkins was nominated as a deputy mayor by Abe Beame in 1973, but ultimately declined because he had not filed his income tax returns on time. Down but not out, he pursued his dedication to public service, first by serving as city clerk. In 1986, Dinkins was elected Manhattan borough president, and in 1989, he defeated Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani to become mayor of New York City, the largest American city to elect an African American mayor. As the newly-elected mayor of a city in which crime had risen precipitously in the years prior to his taking office, Dinkins vowed to attack the problems and not the victims. Despite facing a budget deficit, he hired thousands of police officers, more than any other mayoral administration in the twentieth century, and launched the “Safe Streets, Safe City” program, which fundamentally changed how police fought crime. For the first time in decades, crime rates began to fall—a trend that continues to this day. Among his other major successes, Mayor Dinkins brokered a deal that kept the US Open Tennis Championships in New York—bringing hundreds of millions of dollars to the city annually—and launched the revitalization of Times Square after decades of decay, all the while deflecting criticism and some outright racism with a seemingly unflappable demeanor. Criticized by some for his handling of the Crown Heights riots in 1991, Dinkins describes in these pages a very different version of events. A Mayor’s Life is a revealing look at a devoted public servant and a New Yorker in love with his city, who led that city during tumultuous times.