I decided I was going to write a book on the Marines who defended Wake Island. I joined the Wake Island association, wrote to Commander Cunningham and other members of the garrison, and even interviewed one of the 3 inch AA gunners who defended ...
We liked Ike not as president but as supreme Commander in Europe, the darling of D-Day. While a tall lanky Congressman from Texas, Lyndon Johnson, was busy bellowing in the house, a bespectacled former haberdasher from Missouri, Harry-Whats-His-Name-Truman, wasFDR’sunlikely Vice presidential...
serving over 37 years in the United States Army. His last assignments in the Army were as commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) from July 4, 2010, to July 18, 2011. His other four-star assignments include serving...
Italy and Germany declared war on the U.S. december 11, 1941 Who were the Allied leaders who worked to win the war? Also known as the Big 3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin Who was the Allied Supreme Commander in Europe?
THE HEAVY WEAPONSCOMMANDER ‘I’M NOT ASKING YOU’ ‘A MINIMUM OF 90% CASUALTIES’ LIVING CONDITIONS THE IMPERIAL MARINES FIGHT AT WALAWBUM WOUNDED HOME ‘GENERAL STILWELL JUST LAUGHED’ GOING BACK ‘YOU VOLUNTEERED FOR THIS MISSION’ ‘I’LL TAKE CARE OF IT’ ...
Once on the groundAll Americanseparates itself from all other tactical level wargames available by becoming one of the most realistic treatments of man to man combat ever gamed on a PC. You'll face practically everything a real commander faced during the drops. Your men will be scattered all...
Caption Japanese convoy formation when attacked by American aircraft off Indochina coast, 12 Jan 1945; appendix B of Commander Tadao Kuwahara's interrogation Photographer Unknown Source United States Strategic Bombing Survey [Pacific] More on... Interrogation Nav 53, Commander Tadao Kuwahara Main ...
12/x/66: IMCO acquired by Aero Commander div of Rockwell-Standard. Production continued in utility and duster classifications through 1967 at Albany GA. 19??: Aero Commander, Intermountain (IMCO), Call-Air, S.L. Industries, Dynac, & Airplane Services Inc. 19??: Acquisition by Aerotek II,...
naval planners continued to judge this assumption hazardous and cautioned that war with Japan must be avoided now that American military power was needed to protect the Atlantic. See Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet memo to CNO, ‘War Plans’, 22 Oct. 1940 in U.S. Congress,Hearings Before...
General Kraiss the commander of 352nd Infantry Division, killed in August 1944. . Much of the information we know about the German side of the battle is from the post war interrogation of his chief of Staff. George A Harrison in the US Official History “Cross Channel Attack”[iv]described...