Military forces and sectors

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.

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.

Women in an armored division!

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.

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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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John Reed was one of America's most dynamic journalists during the World War I decade.

A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.

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.

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.

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.

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

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

If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a century-long record of impressive victories and a general staff the envy of its rivals.

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

Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors.

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.

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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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.

More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II.

The 92nd Infantry ("e;Buffalo"e;) Division was the last segregated (all-black) U.

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges.

One of NASCAR's pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport's early rough and tumble days.

The story of Hitler's Wehrmachtsgefolge (armed forces auxiliaries) is less well known than that of Germany's other armed forces in World War II, such as the panzer divisions, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine.

World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day.

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche.