Hollywood Marine

Hollywood Marine
Title Hollywood Marine PDF eBook
Author Douglas C. Morris
Publisher iUniverse
Pages 72
Release 2020-03-13
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1532095899

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This book is a humorous recounting of my experiences during Marine Corps Boot Camp. These memories are still with me today. This book is a walk down memory lane for any veteran. I think we all remember the names of our drill instructors.

Hell in the Pacific

Hell in the Pacific
Title Hell in the Pacific PDF eBook
Author Jim McEnery
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 308
Release 2013-06-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1451659148

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In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and horror McErery’s Rifle Company—the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division, made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific—fought in some of the most ferocious battles of the war. In searing detail, the author takes us back to Guadalcanal, where American forces first turned the tide against the Japanese; Cape Gloucester, where 1,300 Marines were killed or wounded; and bloody Peleliu, where McEnery assumed command of the company and helped hasten the final defeat of the Japanese garrison after weeks of torturous cave-to-cave fighting. McEnery’s story is a no-holds-barred, grunt’s-eye view of the sacrifices, suffering, and raw courage of the men in the foxholes, locked in mortal combat with an implacable enemy sworn to fight to the death. From bayonet charges and hand-to-hand combat to midnight banzai attacks and the loss of close buddies, the rifle squad leader spares no details, chronicling his odyssey from boot camp through twenty-eight months of hellish combat until his eventual return home. He has given us an unforgettable portrait of men at war.

Hollywood Marines

Hollywood Marines
Title Hollywood Marines PDF eBook
Author Andrew Anthony Bufalo
Publisher All American Books
Pages 420
Release 2010-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780981700762

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What do actor Steve McQueen, country singer George Jones, rapper Shaggy, boxer Ken Norton, "shock jock" Don Imus, TV host Montel Williams, author Robert Ludlum, and golfer Lee Trevino have in common? They are all Marines."Hollywood Marines" contains profiles and photos of 112 celebrities who served in the Marine Corps.

Merchant Vessels of the United States

Merchant Vessels of the United States
Title Merchant Vessels of the United States PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1612
Release
Genre Ship registers
ISBN

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Underdogs

Underdogs
Title Underdogs PDF eBook
Author Aaron B. O'Connell
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 398
Release 2012-10-29
Genre History
ISBN 0674067444

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The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America’s smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps’ uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O’Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America’s least respected to its most elite armed force. He describes how the distinctive Marine culture played a role in this ascendancy. Venerating sacrifice and suffering, privileging the collective over the individual, Corps culture was saturated with romantic and religious overtones that had enormous marketing potential in a postwar America energized by new global responsibilities. Capitalizing on this, the Marines curried the favor of the nation’s best reporters, befriended publishers, courted Hollywood and Congress, and built a public relations infrastructure that would eventually brand it as the most prestigious military service in America. But the Corps’ triumphs did not come without costs, and O’Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield. And as he considers how the Corps’ interventions in American politics have ushered in a more militarized approach to national security, O’Connell questions its sustainability.

Continental Marine

Continental Marine
Title Continental Marine PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 394
Release 2000
Genre
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Merchant Vessels of the United States

Merchant Vessels of the United States
Title Merchant Vessels of the United States PDF eBook
Author United States. Coast Guard
Publisher
Pages 1438
Release 1976
Genre Merchant marine
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