South Africa and the Transvaal War
Author : Louis Creswicke
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 1900
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
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Author : Louis Creswicke
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 1900
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
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Author : Herbert Charles O'Neill
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : Kevin Dockery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782003266
The US M60 General Purpose Machine Gun, known as “the Pig,” was developed in the years after World War II from two revolutionary German designs. Adopted in 1957, the M60 came into its own in the jungles, hamlets, and city streets of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. “Humping the Pig” became common in US military squads, with at least one soldier equipped with an M60 and every squad member carrying ammunition for it. The M60 design transformed infantry tactics as squads took advantage of the immediate volume of fire offered by the design. Although it has now been replaced by the M240 series of weapons in US infantry and mechanized units, the M60 is still in common use with the US armed forces. Meanwhile, its iconic status has been assured by its frequent appearance in many popular films and television shows, from Full Metal Jacket to The A Team. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this is the full story of the M60, the innovative squad base-of-fire weapon that has equipped the US military from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq.
Author : Johnnie Clark
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307415376
They were warriors, trained to fight, dedicated to their country, and determined to win. At Guadalcanal, the Marine Corps’ machine gunners took everything the Japanese could throw at them in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II; their position was so hopeless that at one point they were given the go-ahead to surrender. Near the Chosin Reservoir in Korea, as the mercury dropped to twenty below, the 1st Marine Division found itself surrounded and cut off by the enemy. The outlook seemed so bleak that many in Washington had privately written off the men. But surrender is not part of a Marine’s vocabulary. Gunner’s Glory contains true stories of these and other tough battles in the Pacific, in Korea, and in Vietnam, recounted by the machine gunners who fought them. Bloody, wounded, sometimes barely alive, they stayed with their guns, delivering a stream of firepower that often turned defeat into victory–and always made them the enemy’s first target.
Author : Herbert Charles O'Neill
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 1922
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734093228
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Author : O'Neill H C (Herbert Charles)
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780526417247
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Author : Sir Richard Maitland
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 1829
Category : Nobility
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Author : John Denton Pinkstone French (Earl of Ypres)
Publisher : London : Chapman & Hall
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
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Author : Johnnie Clark
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2002-01-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0345450264
THIS GUT-WRENCHING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IS A CLASSIC IN THE ANNALS OF VIETNAM LITERATURE. "Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to ten seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only eighteen when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth. The Marines who fought and bled and died were ordinary men, many still teenagers, but the selfless bravery they showed day after day in a nightmarish jungle war made them true heroes. This new edition of Guns Up!, filled with photographs and updated information about those harrowing battles, also contains the real names of these extraordinary warriors and details of their lives after the war. The book's continuing success is a tribute to the raw courage and sacrifice of the United States Marines.