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Battle Between the Yagst and Kocher Rivers
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Battle Between the Yagst and Kocher Rivers By 63rd Infantry Division
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Hardcover edition: 4-12 April 1945, Recommendation for the Award of the Presidential Unit Citation to the 2nd Battalion,... More > 253rd Infantry Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division. Complete collection of documents submitted for recommendation of award for their action in this critical area northeast of Heilbronn, Germany. Includes narrative of the battle, daily G-3, S-3, and S-2 reports, statements by three non-coms, complete rosters. Tables, 3 appendices. < Less
Lasting Visions: It Comes With the Rank
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Lasting Visions: It Comes With the Rank By Frederick Fenwick
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Fenwick joined the USMC at eighteen. Thirty years later he retired at the highest enlisted rank of Sergeant Major. He... More > reported to Parris Island, SC in 1969 for recruit training and retired in 1999. In 2010 he published his first non-fiction book titled Lasting Visions: With the 7th Marines in Vietnam 1970. It captured his first year and a half in the Marine Corps. His first book takes you through combat in Vietnam and his subsequent tour in Okinawa and the Orient. Lasting Visions: It Comes With The Rank is his second non-fiction book. He has picked up where he left off in his first book and continued through a 30-year Marine Corps career. The author’s unique style of storytelling will capture your attention and keep you in suspense. 508 pages, 49 photos. < Less
First Sailing of the S.S. Smith Thompson
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First Sailing of the S.S. Smith Thompson By Steve Miller
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The S.S. Smith Thompson was a World War II armed cargo ship built on an emergency basis by the U.S. War Shipping... More > Administration. The Smith Thompson was one of those “ordinary” Liberty ships that did her job during extraordinary times. This book chronicles one man’s version of a typical voyage aboard a WWII Liberty ship. The man at the center of the story is Albert F. Miller. The story is told by Al’s grandson, Steve Miller. Merchant seamen in World War II suffered more deaths per capita than any branch of the U.S. military. In fact, the War Shipping Administration deliberately refused to reveal the casualty figures during the war in order to avoid creating a shortage of volunteers. I hope the reader will come to understand what it was like to serve aboard an armed merchant vessel. They served quietly, without distinction, and felt no particular grandeur; they thought they were “just doing their job.” 22 photos and illustrations. < Less
Lasting Visions: With the 7th Marines in Vietnam, 1970
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Lasting Visions: With the 7th Marines in Vietnam, 1970 By Frederick Fenwick
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A coming of age story of a farm boy who grew up in the heartland of Kentucky, who enlisted in the Marines in 1969 and... More > experienced Marine boot camp at Parris Island where domineering drill instructors took away the youth in the author and instilled the discipline, training, and motivation necessary to survive in combat. Arriving in Vietnam in March 1970 he was assigned to 3rd Platoon, Mike Co., 3rd Bn., 7th Marines. His story tells of the bravery, camaraderie, and esprit de corps of this Marine infantry squad. Fred’s true accounts take the reader into the jungles, rice paddies, villages, and mountains of Vietnam. Lasting Visions takes you to ground zero of the Vietnam War. Photos, map. < Less
Fuel to the Troops
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Fuel to the Troops By John G. Sullivan
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This story is a tribute to those men of the 689th Engineer Petroleum Distribution (EPD) Company, providing the necessary... More > fuels for the vehicles involved in fighting their way into Germany in 1944-45. Told through the eyes of one of their comrades, John Sullivan recounts these individual sacrifices and lived though the many challenges every day for two years. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at daily operations and those untold stories from America’s “Greatest Generation.” 92 photos, 6 documents, 2 drawings, 1 map. < Less
Airborne Operations in World War II: A German Appraisal
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Airborne Operations in World War II: A German Appraisal By Hellmuth Reinhardt
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This study was written for the Historical Division, EUCOM, by a committee of former German officers. It provides a review of... More > German airborne experience; appraisal of German successes and failures; reasons for the apparent abandonment of large-scale German airborne operations after the Crete operation; German experience in opposing Allied and Russian airborne operations; appraisal of the effectiveness of these operations; probable future of airborne operations. This study is concerned only with the landing of airborne fighting forces in an area occupied or controlled by an enemy and with the subsequent tactical commitment of those forces in conventional ground combat. The employment of airborne units in commando operations, or in the supply and reinforcement of partisans and insurgents, is not included in this study, nor is the shifting of forces by troop carrier aircraft in the rear of the combat zone. < Less
How to Survive Combat as Point Man if You’re Lucky…and Lose Friends If They’re Not
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How to Survive Combat as Point Man if You’re Lucky…and Lose Friends... By Thomas Street
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Author’s experiences in training as an infantry replacement and combat as private-soldier, scout and point man in... More > Normandy, northern Europe and Germany from mid-July through early October 1944 (when he was wounded) with the 30th Infantry Division. Excellent often humorous account of what it was really like to be a foot soldier in the months following the Normandy invasion. 30 photos. < Less
I’ll Be Back When Summer’s in the Meadow
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I’ll Be Back When Summer’s in the Meadow By Melanie A. Ippolito
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A World War II Chronicle, Volume I, 1942-1943. Compiled and Edited by Melanie A. Ippolito. The beautiful and amazing love... More > letters written by an Irish woman and an American soldier from Lockport, New York, during World War II. This is the first of three planned volumes and covers 1942-43. Very detailed coverage of how the war affected these two and the people around them. 58 photos and documents. < Less
Lasting Visions: It Comes With The Rank
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Lasting Visions: It Comes With The Rank By Frederick Fenwick
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Fenwick joined the USMC at eighteen. Thirty years later he retired at the highest enlisted rank of Sergeant Major. He... More > reported to Parris Island, SC in 1969 for recruit training and retired in 1999. In 2010 he published his first non-fiction book titled Lasting Visions: With the 7th Marines in Vietnam 1970. It captured his first year and a half in the Marine Corps. His first book takes you through combat in Vietnam and his subsequent tour in Okinawa and the Orient. Lasting Visions: It Comes With The Rank is his second non-fiction book. He has picked up where he left off in his first book and continued through a 30-year Marine Corps career. The author’s unique style of storytelling will capture your attention and keep you in suspense. 508 pages, 49 photos. < Less
I Hear No Bugles
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I Hear No Bugles By Robert W. Mercy
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The central theme is Robert's war experiences as a platoon Sergeant of an all-Korean infantry assault unit within an... More > American rifle company; and how a lifetime of absorbed film propaganda and an idealistic quest for honor and meaning plays out against the illusion-shattering reality experienced during 8 major campaigns. The author’s twin brother served with him. Collectively they earned 1 Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, 4 Purple Hearts and a Presidential Unit Citation for leading a bayonet charge. This is the only known recorded account by a frontline infantrymen who fought in the first hectic year of the Korean War. 106 photos, 7 maps, 18 documents. < Less