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When Nazi Germany began bearing down on Europe in the late 1930s, Herman Bodson was a student pacifist at the University of Brussels. As the reality of eventual invasion sank into his soul, he entered the resistance and five years of dangerous work as, in his words, ""a fighter and a killer"".

Few of the sixteen million servicemen called up during World War II saw front-line service. For others, war involved training, reinforcement depots,and lots of waiting. Herman J. Obermayer earned a combat star without ever seeing a battlefront. Nonetheless, his letters then, and his reflections now, reveal aspects of the wartime world.

A life-story of Second Lieutenant Colt Terry, a member of the original Green Berets. This book covers his enlistment as a buck private in 1945 to his retirement as a lieutenant colonel in 1970, and how he served five tours in combat, trained guerrillas, and earned two combat infantry badges, a Purple Heart, and two Bronze Stars.

The Korean War was pivotal in China's modern military history. Based on Chinese and Russian archival materials and interviews with Chinese participants in the air war, this work, presenting the Chinese point of view, stands as both a complement and a corrective to previous accounts of the conflict.

A history of any of the more than 350 attack transports or attack cargo ships of World War II, this book contains combat narratives along-side the details of daily life on board the ships of Transport Squadron 17 during the waning days of World War II. It weaves a tapestry of voices, combining it with analysis of the Tate's daily action reports.

Presents an account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors. This book offers evidence of the treatment accorded officers and shows how the Corregidor prisoners fared compared with the ill-fated Bataan captives.

Shows how an air force that won a victory in World War II deteriorated into a second-rate force flying aging aircraft during the early years of the Cold War, recovered briefly over Korea, then slid into obsolescence during the 1950s. It explains why America's aircraft did not work in Vietnam.

In Under Ice, William M. Leary examines the evolution of Arctic submarine operations in the U.S. Navy, a little-known but significant area of national security concern. Through the career of Waldo Lyon, he chronicles the problems of under-ice navigation and the development of Cold War naval strategy.In World War II, the Arctic became an active theater of operations for German and Soviet subs, which occasionally ducked under the ice to escape detection. After the war, Lyon's interest in cold-water acoustics led him to work on sonar instruments that could be applied to Arctic submarines. His specialization led to the establishment of the Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) and the development of under-ice capability for nearly all U.S. subs, which became even more important with the growth of the Cold War and the corresponding growth of naval concern about the possibilities of nuclear warfare in Arctic regions. Lyon led the way in U.S. under-ice submarine development.In 1958, following the appearance of the first nuclear submarine, Nautilus, the Arctic Ocean beneath the pack ice could finally be fully explored. Today, under-ice operations are standard for submarines of the United States and other nations.Leary provides informative treatments of the early problems with under-ice navigation; the Boarfish experimental dives; the Skate's surfacing through ice cover at the North Pole; and the drama-packed patrol of Seadragon, the first submarine to pass under an iceberg and make a submerged voyage through the fabled Northwest Passage. He ably delineates the roles of such other actors in the drama as Robert McWethy, executive officer of the Burton Island and long-time supporter of Lyon'swork; the "fabulous patrol" of Sargo; CDR Joseph Skoog, who played poker while his crew transited the dangerous Arctic waters at high speed.Under Ice tells a lively and carefully researched story that will be important for naval and Cold War historians and for students of science and technology, especially those interested in post-1945 DOD-funded science.

The US military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American youth. Here, author Lori Bogle investigates how and why the armed forces assigned themselves this role.

Though Dan Summitt retired from the US Navy years ago, he still regrets not receiving clearance to launch 35000 pounds of wet grits at a very pesky Russian spy ship. Here, he tells the story of his career, proving that navy life at the height of the Cold War as commander of two nuclear submarines kept him on his toes.

Robert Pellissier's diary and his letters to relatives in America provide a panoramic account of life in the front line in World War I. Born in France in 1882, Pellissier had grown up in the US and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland.

Comparatively little is known about Australia's experience in Vietnam - its motives for entering the conflict, national support for Australia's role there, how the nation dealt with the aftermath of war. Here, Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Doyle and Peter Pierce chronicle Australia's complicated involvement.

Presents a narrative that comes from the diary of ""B"" Company of the 1303rd Engineer General Service Regiment, a ""non-combat"" unit attached to Patton's Third Army during his epic pursuit of the retreating German forces across France during August, 1944.

The Korean War was pivotal in China's modern military history. Based on Chinese and Russian archival materials and interviews with Chinese participants in the air war, this work, presenting the Chinese point of view, stands as both a complement and a corrective to previous accounts of the conflict.