Military forces and sectors

From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts.

A secret mission sends the author to Vietnam's Mekong Delta, the bread basket of old Indo - China.

During World War I, American merchant ships were given oddly colored paint jobs to distort their profiles at sea.

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During World War II, an eccentric band of barnstormers, stunt flyers and commercial pilots joined military recruits to form the Pan American Air Ferries.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, military commander of Germany's East African Colony, planned to divert British troops from Europe to East Africa.

This is the thrilling story of USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

This is the first published comprehensive survey of naval action on the Mississippi River and its tributaries for the years 1863-1865.

Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "e;Laird rams"e; were two innovative armored warships intended for service with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War.

Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield.

In Europe, World War II was four months old by Christmas 1939.

During the past century, U.

For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M.

As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War.

Before there was a U.

In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supported the attack, are often given scant attention.

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While the United States sought to remain neutral in the early years of World War II, some Americans did not.

Connecticut privateer Nathaniel Fanning (1755-1805) was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War.

The C-124 Globemaster--a U.

Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.

Among the more than 260 American submarines that patrolled the Pacific during World War II, the USS Swordfish in 1941 was the first to sink a Japanese armed merchant ship, marking the beginning of the submarine's colorful history.

Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.

West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.

World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat.

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For more than a century, the U.

Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to construct 34 iron-armored warships during the Civil War, of which the Confederate Navy put 25 into service.

As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science.

When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944, civilians and combatants committed mass suicide to avoid being captured.

The award of a military decoration does not define valor--it only recognizes it.

Robert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I.

After Operation Valkyrie--the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the German government--both the Third Reich and Hitler came to a violent end.

Captain Ernie Blanchard left for work January 10, 1995, a successful officer.

This naval history of the Delaware Estuary spans three centuries, from the arrival of the Europeans to the end of the World War II.

Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disguised as a man, took part in the Resistance of World War II, was the first to survive crossing the English Channel in a balloon, worked all her life as a journalist, spent years in North Africa and invented metal skis.

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Covering the history of the U.

Born into one of 19th century Europe's more powerful families, Archduchess Marie Valerie was the favorite daughter of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth.

James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7), American sailors of the Asiatic Fleet (where it was December 8) were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct a war on their own, isolated from the rest of the U.

From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War saw numerous technological innovations in warfare--chief among them was the ironclad warship.

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The Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) was the political police force of the German Army during World War II.

Mid-flight noncombat mishaps and blunders occur frequently in the USAF during training and utility flights--sometimes with the loss of life and regularly with the destruction of expensive aircraft.

In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

Volume 2 continues the history of the U.

Charles Sweeny (1882-1963) was the heir to a fortune.

Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965.

This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition.