The Carrier Corps
Author : Geoffrey Hodges
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Hodges
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Melvin E Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 1987-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1349188271
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780865477391
McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation.
Author : John P. Condon
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Today, U.S. Marine infantry and armored units can count on timely and effective close air support thanks in part to the intrepid Marine pilots and crews who pioneered carrier-based air support of amphibious landings in the final push to defeat Japan in World War II. This little-known part of the Pacific campaign is explored fully for the first time in this detailed history by one of the program's architects.
Author : Stephen Alan Bourque
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Charles A. Fleming
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Melvin E Page
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2021-06-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780367306304
This book focuses on the great War's effect on Africa in general and Malawi in particular. It describes the outbreak of the war, the recruitment of soldiers, the drafting of porters, the conditions of military life, the conditions on the home front, and the war's end.
Author : Ian Douglas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006197644X
In the vein of the hit television show Battlestar Galactica comes Earth Strike—the first book in the action-packed Star Carrier science fiction series by Ian Douglas, author of the popular Inheritance, Heritage, and Legacy Trilogies and one of the most adept writers of military sf working today. Earth Strike rockets readers into a vast and deadly intergalactic battle, as humankind attempts to bring down an evil empire and establish itself as the new major power. Fans of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, welcome aboard the Star Carrier!
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Heather Venable
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1682474828
For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions. This work argues that the Marine Corps could not and would not settle on a mission, and therefore it turned to an image to ensure its institutional survival. The process by which a maligned group of nineteenth-century naval policemen began to consider themselves to be elite warriors benefited from the active engagement of Marine officers with the Corps' historical record as justification for its very being. Rather than look forward and actively seek out a mission that could secure their existence, late nineteenth-century Marines looked backward and embraced the past. They began to justify their existence by invoking their institutional traditions, their many martial engagements, and their claim to be the nation's oldest and proudest military institution. This led them to celebrate themselves as superior to soldiers and sailors. Although there are countless works on this hallowed fighting force, How the Few Became the Proud is the first to explore how the Marine Corps crafted such powerful myths.