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KOREAN ODYSSEY (EB)

Dale A Dye
KOREAN ODYSSEY EB Book PDF

Author : Dale A Dye
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944353391

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Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950. He's finally been given command of the rifle company he worked for with such focus that he lost both his wife and the child he loves. It's not much of a command in the diminished post-World War II Marine Corps, but he's doing his best with an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and-fortunately-a solid cadre of anxious young officers and savvy, combat-hardened senior NCOs. And then-in the words of Elmore Bates, his competent and colorfully profane Company Gunnery Sergeant-the “defecation strikes the oscillation.” War in Korea and the Marines will be the allied fire brigade against a North Korean juggernaut rolling across the Land of the Morning Calm. In short order, mostly by ignoring rules and regulations, Captain Gerdine proceeds to make Able Company, 5th Marines a combat-ready outfit prepared to face the rigors of war in Korea. From the Pusan Perimeter to the audacious landing at Inchon and on into the frigid, intense combat at the Chosin Reservoir, Sad Sam's Marines mold and meld into a shining example of how U.S. Marines get the job done despite formidable odds.

A Marine's Odyssey

Larry Ritchie Williams
A Marine s Odyssey Book PDF

Author : Larry Ritchie Williams
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478792468

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Colonel Larry Williams spent twenty-seven years in the United States Marine Corps commanding ten units and organizations while serving from Japan and Vietnam to Moscow and Beirut. Here is his account. It started by a chance discovery and years later was dramatically reoriented by a coin toss. As the high school class of 1953 anticipated graduation they chatted in the hallways exchanging ideas about future plans. His afternoon and Saturday jobs during high school did not provide enough money for college. One day while changing classes he observed a booklet on his homeroom teacher's desk that described the NROTC as how one might earn a commission in the United States Navy and even compete for a college scholarship. It contained an application! Upon graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill four years later he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps preparing to serve the obligated four years payback for his free education. It seemed like a good plan, but life often has little respect for planning. Within three years he was on Okinawa separated from his wife and their two newborns for a thirteen month deployment. On his return he joined the faculty at the Army Artillery and Missile School. Then it was another thirteen months away this time in Vietnam. Reassigned to Frankfurt, Germany he commanded Marine Security Guards in twenty-seven diplomatic posts in Europe including six "behind the Iron Curtain.” Upon graduation from the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk he and a classmate were informed by Headquarters, Marine Corps that they both were to be reassigned to WestPac (western pacific) for a year with one going to Okinawa and the other to Vietnam. Headquarters asked for their preferences. Both wanted to return to Vietnam. He lost the coin toss and it was back to Okinawa. That coin toss was to significantly restructure his career – and his life. The subsequent years included managing the security at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, California made turbulent by the prevailing civil rights and antiwar environment, contributing to the Marine Corps becoming the only military service to support every dollar spent with explicit cost-benefit analysis, in spite of opposition by the Army and the DoD fielding a totally new light armor combat capability into the Marine Corps with an innovative acquisition program completing within budget and only 2.25 years from concept to production, conducting Arctic exercises in North Norway including a night amphibious landing unseen by Russians just a mountain range away in Murmansk, commanding the largest artillery organization in the world and trying unsuccessfully to contribute to a peaceful resolution to conflict in Lebanon in 1983.

Dead Center

Ed Kugler
Dead Center Book PDF

Author : Ed Kugler
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307829917

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WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST. Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating. In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts--while underscoring exactly what a country demands of its youth when it sends them to war.

Dead Center

Ed Kugler
Dead Center Book PDF

Author : Ed Kugler
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307829917

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Dead Center by Ed Kugler Pdf

WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST. Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating. In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts--while underscoring exactly what a country demands of its youth when it sends them to war.

Korean Odyssey

Dale A. Dye
Korean Odyssey Book PDF

Author : Dale A. Dye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944353410

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Korean Odyssey by Dale A. Dye Pdf

Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950. He's finally been given command of the rifle company he worked for with such focus that he lost both his wife and the child he loves. It's not much of a command in the diminished post-World War II Marine Corps, but he's doing his best with an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and--fortunately--a solid cadre of anxious young officers and savvy, combat-hardened senior NCOs. And then--in the words of Elmore Bates, his competent and colorfully profane Company Gunnery Sergeant--the "defecation strikes the oscillation." War in Korea and the Marines will be the allied fire brigade against a North Korean juggernaut rolling across the Land of the Morning Calm. In short order, mostly by ignoring rules and regulations, Captain Gerdine proceeds to make Able Company, 5th Marines a combat-ready outfit prepared to face the rigors of war in Korea. From the Pusan Perimeter to the audacious landing at Inchon and on into the frigid, intense combat at the Chosin Reservoir, Sad Sam's Marines mold and meld into a shining example of how U.S. Marines get the job done despite formidable odds.

Oceans Odyssey 2

Greg Stemm,Sean A. Kingsley
Oceans Odyssey 2 Book PDF

Author : Greg Stemm,Sean A. Kingsley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781842176184

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Oceans Odyssey 2 by Greg Stemm,Sean A. Kingsley Pdf

Oceans Odyssey 2 presents the results of the discovery and archaeological survey of ten deep-water wrecks by Odyssey Marine Exploration. In the Western Approaches and western English Channel, a mid-17th century armed merchantman, the guns of Admiral Balchin's Victory (1744), the mid-18th century French privateer La Marquise de Tourny and six German U-boats lost at the end of World War II are examined in depth. From the Atlantic coast of the United States, the Jacksonville 'Blue China' wreck's British ceramics, tobacco pipes and American glass wares bring to life the story of a remarkable East Coast schooner lost in the mid-19th century. These unique sites expand the boundaries of human knowledge, highlighting the great promise of deep-sea wrecks, the technology needed to explore them and the threats from nature and man that these wonders face. Challenges to managing underwater cultural heritage are also discussed, along with proposed solutions for curating and storing collections.

The Marines' Lost Squadron

Mark Carlson
The Marines Lost Squadron Book PDF

Author : Mark Carlson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1620067471

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The Marines' Lost Squadron by Mark Carlson Pdf

Finally, there is a book that reveals the truth about the worst air disaster to strike a Marine Corps fighter squadron during the Second World War. Marine Fighter Squadron 422 was a group of twenty-four typical young Americans trained to fly the famous F4U Corsair into combat with the legendary Japanese Zero. When they arrived in the Pacific, they suddenly found that not all their enemies carried guns in savage Banzai charges. Their two most dangerous and merciless adversaries were the fury of a tropical typhoon and the cold heartless whims of a Marine Corps general. Together, these two foes seal the fate of VMF-422 and cause the greatest disaster ever to strike a Marine squadron. Aviation historian Mark Carlson has written the first full account of a group of ordinary young men who were suddenly challenged beyond their experience and which forever changed the lives of the survivors. The Marines' Lost Squadron is the dramatic true story of a desperate and courageous fight for survival against the forces of nature and a conspiracy of silence. The Marines' Lost Squadron is a saga of courage and conspiracy, patriotism and pride, fate and futility in a struggle to survive the ferocity of a huge typhoon in the midst of the Second World War.

The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan

Bryan Doerries
The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan Book PDF

Author : Bryan Doerries
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781101870990

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The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan by Bryan Doerries Pdf

A bold and original graphic novelization of The Odyssey that is both a powerful story for our time—capturing its timeless lessons for returning veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq—as well as a vivid new way into Homer's classic for modern readers. Jack Brennan is a Marine Corps sergeant whose infantry squad has been cleared to return home from a grueling deployment to Afghanistan. A few years prior, Sergeant Brennan lost one of his closest friends—a young combat veteran—to suicide and has vowed to do everything in his power to keep his Marines from a similar fate. On their last night in-country, Brennan shares his version of The Odyssey to help prepare his squad for the transition back to the home front. By retelling Homer's epic about Odysseus' difficult journey home after the Trojan War, and weaving in the stories of contemporary Marines, The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan powerfully conveys the profound challenges today's veterans face upon returning from combat even as it tells "the oldest war story of all time."

Careers in the US Marine Corps

Taylor Baldwin Kiland,R. Conrad Stein
Careers in the US Marine Corps Book PDF

Author : Taylor Baldwin Kiland,R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766069473

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Careers in the US Marine Corps by Taylor Baldwin Kiland,R. Conrad Stein Pdf

Marines are known for being the first to fight in a battle. They are highly trained and are prepared at all times. In addition to being soldiers, marines are also code-breakers, engineers, transporters, charity workers, and musicians. Dive into this book to discover what it means to be a US Marine.

Semper Odyssey

John M. M. Caldwell
Semper Odyssey Book PDF

Author : John M. M. Caldwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578904055

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Semper Odyssey by John M. M. Caldwell Pdf

Always Adventure (Semper Odyssey) Colonel John Caldwell is a second-generation Marine and a first-generation politician. Combat experiences that earned him a Bronze Star and other awards are preceded by youthful escapades and followed by unexpected career twists. A daring jump from a moving freight train... A nearly fatal encounter with a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake... not to mention the labor and delivery countdown of his firstborn on an insane interstate trek between duty stations. The world of politics would be a cinch, or maybe not. Recollections and experiences bounce back-and-forth between the civilian and military worlds keeping status quo derailed and readers intrigued. Family, friends, as well as the unmentionables - religion and politics - are splattered throughout. Commissioner Caldwell's candor provides refreshing glimpses of personal and public service in his one-man crusade to inspire others. His "let the world spin" approach to life's chaos and setbacks is enough to challenge even the most casual reader. Marines, especially Marine Reservists will be the first in the Amen Corner. Veterans and their families will love it. Politicians and politicos need it. Anyone who enjoys connecting with a character in a well-written memoir will finish this literary journey happily exhausted!

Korean Odyssey

Dale A. Dye
Korean Odyssey Book PDF

Author : Dale A. Dye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944353445

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Korean Odyssey by Dale A. Dye Pdf

Sam Gerdine has finally been given command of a rifle company, an outfit that includes rascals, rejects, and-fortunately-a solid cadre of young officers and combat-hardened senior NCOs.

Battleground Pacific

Sterling Mace,Nick Allen
Battleground Pacific Book PDF

Author : Sterling Mace,Nick Allen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250009777

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Battleground Pacific by Sterling Mace,Nick Allen Pdf

Battleground Pacific is a powerfully wrought military memoir by a member of World War II's fabled 1st Marine division. Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific War, from the seldom-seen perspective of a rifleman at the point of attack. Battleground Pacific is filled with indelible moments that begin with his childhood growing up in Queens, New York, and his run-in with the law that eventually led to his enlistment. But this is ultimately a combat tale—as violent and harrowing as any that has come before. From fighting through the fiery hell that was Peleliu to the deadly battleground of Okinawa, Mace traces his path from the fear of combat to understanding that killing another human comes just as easily as staying alive. He learns that bravery often equates to stupidity, leading to the death of close friends, but also that life goes on, with death on its heels. Battleground Pacific is one of the most important and entertaining memoirs about the Pacific theater in WWII.

One Man’s Odyssey

Kenneth L. Farquharson,
One Man s Odyssey Book PDF

Author : Kenneth L. Farquharson,
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525500176

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One Man’s Odyssey by Kenneth L. Farquharson, Pdf

Have you ever walked into a room and noticed off to the side a gaggle of spellbound listeners surrounding an apparent and compelling storyteller? You observe that inching ever closer the group suddenly erupts into an outburst of raucous laughter and you are left feeling that regretfully you have missed something. Indeed you have missed something if you never experienced the eloquent, compelling and frequently hilarious stories of some of the life experience of my father, Kenneth Lionel Farquharson, P. Eng., , Commander, RCN (retired), a true officer and gentlemen. Part memoir, part history of a generation the likes of which the world will never again witness. This is my father’s story, one man’s odyssey. Written amidst the pain of loss of his beloved wife and son and failing health, his memorable stories reflect his strength, intelligence, spirit, and humour that became his enduring legacy. Barbara (Farquharson) Fry, Loving Daughter

Marine Corps Magic

Retired) Sgt. Gary Haun (USMC,Retired) Haun (Usmc
Marine Corps Magic Book PDF

Author : Retired) Sgt. Gary Haun (USMC,Retired) Haun (Usmc
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781481712088

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Marine Corps Magic by Retired) Sgt. Gary Haun (USMC,Retired) Haun (Usmc Pdf

Sgt. Gary Haun (USMC, Retired) lost his eyesight while servicing on active duty with the Marine Corps. However he did not lose the values and principles that are the characteristics of a United States Marine. In Marine Corps Magic, Sgt. Haun explains how the Corps taught him the values and principles that have helped him in his life. More importantly, he tells how these values can help anyone who is facing adversity or who is interested in self-improvement. Marine Corps Magic covers many different areas of the Corps and will leave the reader no doubts about why the Marine Corps is called The World's Finest Fighting Force.

U. S. Marines in the Gulf War, 1990-1991

Paul C. Westermeyer
U S Marines in the Gulf War 1990 1991 Book PDF

Author : Paul C. Westermeyer
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0160924073

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U. S. Marines in the Gulf War, 1990-1991 by Paul C. Westermeyer Pdf

Liberating Kuwait is the official history of U.S. Marine Corps operations during the 1990-1991 Gulf War with Iraq. It covers such topics as Marines in the embassies in Kuwait and Iraq, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the Battle of al-Khafji, the liberation of Kuwait, and the amphibious feint. Contains 24 color maps and numerous black and white and color photographs.