Fire Mission

Author : Earl J. Gorman
Publisher : Fire Mission by Earl Gorman
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Marines
ISBN : 9780615205946

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Fire Mission by Earl J. Gorman Pdf

A life-changing 2007 adventure back to Vietnam. While part of a medical mission team, the author, a former Marine artillery officer, searched for his two Vietnamese friends. Finding both-41 years later-was the inspirational therapy needed to free his mind of the Nam burden. War time flashbacks include combat along the DMZ as well as a deadly Viet Cong sapper attack on his artillery battery. Tours of Hue, the Gulf of Tonkin, and the "Hanoi Hilton" prison complex round out the Annapolis graduate's memoir. At sunrise, standing in the shallow water of the South China Sea in the peaceful 2007 atmosphere, he was proud to be an American in the foreign, yet, familiar land.

Author : Captain Larry Kenneth Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1633939324

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Fire Mission! Fire Mission! by Captain Larry Kenneth Hunter Pdf

Our country came before all else. Fire Mission! Fire Mission! is the fully documented experience of a green artillery forward observer with the First Cav in Vietnam. Along with his topographical map, M-16 and backpack, Lt. Larry Hunter carries an Instamatic camera to preserve his comrades and patrols. Letters from home illuminate his struggle to survive in Vietnam while his wife battles at home to make ends meet financially as a mother. Her faith and prayers to God strengthen and encourage him during days of losing close friends, and again, years later, when his faith is challenged by a new, unseen foe after his exposure to Agent Orange. From jumping out of his first helicopter ride directly into battle, through at least twenty-five combat assaults, and finally an overwhelming ambush on Company A, First Battalion, Twelfth Cavalry on March 31, 1966, for which he is awarded a Bronze Star for heroism, Lt. Larry Hunter documents and describes this new kind of war with no front lines.

Author : Robert Weiss,Robert L. Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1572493135

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Fire Mission! by Robert Weiss,Robert L. Weiss Pdf

In August 1944, a few hundred men defended a hill near Mortain, France, against a massive German counterattack. For most of the six days and nights of fighting, the Americans were cut off from supply lines, fighting for survival without adequate food, water, medical supplies, or ammunition. The decisive artillery defense, much of which was launched by forward observer Robert Weiss, has been credited with making the difference in this pivotal battle of the Normandy invasion. With only one radio, powered by dying batteries, Weiss and his team brought down a rain of brutal iron that time after time turned back the German offensive.

Author : Major Joel A. Buck
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786250285

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Fire Support in the Reduction of an Encircled Force - a Forgotten Mission by Major Joel A. Buck Pdf

Using historical analysis and survey, this study examines the sufficiency of U.S. field artillery doctrine, tactics, and techniques to support the destruction of an encircled enemy. Focus is on identifying existing weaknesses by comparing applicable lessons learned from history with the practices spelled out in current manuals. The Allied attempt to encircle and reduce the German forces within the Falaise-Argentan pocket in central France during August 1944 and the Soviet Belorussian Offensive and subsequent encirclement and reduction of German forces during June 1944 are examined. The results of a survey completed by the V and VII U.S. Corps artillery commanders on the subject are also included. Among the shortfalls identified are: current attention is more focused on breaking out of an encirclement than on forming an encirclement; when encircling an enemy is addressed, discussion stops after the encirclement is formed and before reduction begins; field artillery procedures do not separately address this mission; friendly or enemy use of chemical or nuclear weapons has not been considered; the requirement to simultaneously support reduction and exploitation operations has not been addressed; there is a need for an artillery commander at echelons above corps. The study concludes that the process of reducing a large encircled enemy force is sufficiently different from other operations that it should be separately addressed. Although the “doing” of the component parts of the artillery aspect of this operation are doctrinally established, tying them together into a synergetic package requires innovative attention. Resulting field artillery doctrine, tactics, and techniques derived are equally applicable in reducing an isolated enemy force that has broken through or been Inserted Into our rear area as they are in the reduction of an offensively encircled enemy.

Author : William Mulvihill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798869183828

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Fire Mission by William Mulvihill Pdf

Fire Mission, first published in 1957, is author William Mulvihill's fictional account of a U.S. Army field artillery battery during World War II, from just before the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, to the capture of the bridge at Remagen in March 1945. Described through the eyes of a number of characters are the hardships endured by the common soldier fighting in the bitter cold with inadequate food, equipment and shelter.

Author : William 1923- Mulvihill
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014209218

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Fire Mission by William 1923- Mulvihill Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493066148

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The Greatest Military Mission Stories Ever Told by Tom McCarthy Pdf

The orders to proceed were nothing more than an invitation to die, and usually in unpleasant ways. But the soldiers proceeded nonetheless, because a higher cause was at stake. This stunning collection of stories is a tribute to the courage, steely resolve, and discipline of men who accomplished daunting missions in the face of almost certain death. Nonetheless, they stepped into the breach and performed heroically. That was their duty and they did not question. They had a mission and they accepted. Here are ten powerful stories of American soldiers and sailors that span more than 200 years of action with one common theme, summed up succinctly a participant who took control of Omaha Beach on D-Day, 1944. “We were doing the very thing that we had trained so long to do, and we were fascinated, and eagerly excited about it. We realized that any number of things might happen to us and knew too that some things we’d never dreamed of might very well be waiting for us on the beach.”’ From Marines taking Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi or defending Khe San, Navy pilots taking to the air to defend Pearl Harbor, or an outnumbered American regiment in Korea defeating the Chinese at the Battle of Chipyong-ni, courage was the common watchword, death the common consequence. Such is the lot of soldiers everywhere. Here is a not-so-gentle reminder of the price of freedom--paid by American men for more than 200 years of struggle, from the Revolutionary War, the Spanish-American War, Civil War, World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.

Author : William 1923- Mulvihill
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014996767

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Fire Mission by William 1923- Mulvihill Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John N. Maclean
Publisher : Ml&t
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-10
Category : Arson
ISBN : 069207998X

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River of Fire by John N. Maclean Pdf

The 1953 Rattlesnake Fire on the Mendocino National Forest killed 15 men - most of them young missionary workers with the New Tribes Mission at Fouts Springs, California.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : MINN:30000010462137

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United States Army Aviation Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Watson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476688466

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Bravo Troop by William Watson Pdf

During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City. In that time, Bravo Troop saw 10 percent of its average field strength killed while inflicting much heavier losses on the enemy. This memoir vividly recounts those six months of intense armored cavalry combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting his fire direction techniques and the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Infantry
ISBN : MINN:31951D00148207Y

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Infantry by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Stutzman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781312264281

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Soldiers' Stories by David Stutzman Pdf

After the death of two dear military friends, I decided that their stories and mine needed to be told, as these stories disappear when we depart the earth. All these stories have one thing in common, the story tellers made it through their experiences and lived to tell their tales These stories are from members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force & Coast Guard and some foreign sources. Many are first hand accounts, some by family members and some from gatherings of veterans. These stories are told by veterans from the American Civil War to current conflicts. Some are lighthearted, some are told after many tears over many years and others are almost unbelievable. All stories are told to share real life experiences and to give the reader an up-close and personal view of how it really was.

Author : Joseph E. Barrera
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460292235

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Confessions Of A Golden Dragon by Joseph E. Barrera Pdf

This is a story of love, hate, lust, humor and longing in the time of war. When Jack Defurio, an educated 26 year old Mexican-American, newly married to Donna, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as an infantryman he must cope with the excruciating separation from her, the rigors of jungle warfare and his increasing revulsion for the Army.

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951T00471646O

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Soldier's Manual by United States. Department of the Army Pdf