Bøger udgivet af HELLGATE

In 1943, the Marine Corps acquired the B-25, renaming it the PBJ. A medium-weight bomber, over fifty feet long with an almost seventy-foot wingspan, it had two fourteen-cylinder Wright cyclone engines, located mid-wing, and the capacity for a long range, upwards of eleven hours of flying time from additional gas tanks. The Marines used this plane to create eight bomber squadrons, but only one equipped to operate at night with the new invention, radar. This is a story about that singularly unique squadron, VMB-612, from its inception at Peterfield Point, North Carolina, to its final days serving as a taxi service for the diplomats and bureaucrats flowing into the martial government in post-war Japan. All in their early twenties and late teens, the pilots and enlisted men of the squadron endured the hardships of war in the Pacific unique to an airplane squadron, and the driving pace of operations as American forces moved toward Japan. Confident of defeating the Japanese with no thought given to anything other than victory, the men learned the hard reality of war: it's a cruel, devastating, and deadly business.

JIM FARRELL, a lanky young soldier from Virginia, is injured in a practice run just before his division is set to land at Omaha Beach. He's holed up in a hospital with both arms broken while many of his fellow soldiers are decimated in the bloody battle that takes place on D-Day at Omaha Beach.After recuperating, Jim is sent to the 30th Division-called Old Hickory-which has suffered its own losses in a devastating friendly fire incident. The athletic and fast-as-lightning nineteen-year-old tries to prove his worth on the battlefield and become accepted by his new regiment. Because of his skills and youth, the Old Hickory veterans decide he has earned the nickname of "Young Hickory." And in the midst of all the insanity, Jim finds love in the person of Lille-a delicate, beautiful Belgian girl working at a bakery in the town of Liege. But can love survive in the deepening conflict? Or will it be challenged by the harsh realities of war? This is Jim Farrell's story-his accomplishments and his failures. His transgressions and his redemption. It is also the story of Dave, Stak, Al, Z, Wally-and the rest of Jim's Old Hickory brothers-in-arms-as they fight to survive the Battle of the Bulge in the brutal, final days of WWII. .JIM FARRELL, a lanky young soldier from Virginia, is injured in a practice run just before his division is set to land at Omaha Beach. He's holed up in a hospital with both arms broken while many of his fellow soldiers are decimated in the bloody battle that takes place on D-Day at Omaha Beach. After recuperating, Jim is sent to the 30th Division-called Old Hickory-which has suffered its own losses in a devastating friendly fire incident. The athletic and fast-as-lightning nineteen-year-old tries to prove his worth on the battlefield and become accepted by his new regiment. Because of his skills and youth, the Old Hickory veterans decide he has earned the nickname of "Young Hickory." And in the midst of all the insanity, Jim finds love in the person of Lille-a delicate, beautiful Belgian girl working at a bakery in the town of Liege. But can love survive in the deepening conflict? Or will it be challenged by the harsh realities of war? This is Jim Farrell's story-his accomplishments and his failures. His transgressions and his redemption. It is also the story of Dave, Stak, Al, Z, Wally-and the rest of Jim's Old Hickory brothers-in-arms-as they fight to survive the Battle of the Bulge in the brutal, final days of WWII. .

Phebe Brinckerhoff comes of age during the Revolutionary War, just out of reach of the occupying British in the shadow of the Hudson Highlands. She watches as her father and brothers mobilize for war. Soon, her small town of some fifty homes grows into one of the largest military depots of the Revolution. Her community hosts the Continental Army's leaders, the army's wounded, and New York City's refugees. Despite constant threat from the British and the local Tories, her family plays an intimate role in assisting the war effort and the Founding Fathers of her country.

In September 1968, William "Bill" McCormick boarded a Flying Tigers Airlines plane at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, headed for the 174th Ord. Det. in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.But before his twelve-month tour of duty overseas, Bill spent the previous months Stateside, having volunteered for service in the Army in October of 1967.Here then, are Bill's "fondest" memories from basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington, through his time in AIT at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and the 227th Ord. Det. (AR)."I hope in the following pages to show what it was like to be in the service during the late sixties. The absolute despair that seemed to develop when there was only one thing to do, and that was your duty. The almost certainty of duty in Vietnam and the repressive harshness of duty Stateside had a lot to do with it. There was just no way out...If it brings back bad memories for you, I am sorry about that." -Bill McCormick

It's 1979. Paul Thorsten is stuck in a tedious job. His redemption is serving two years in West Germany as a military policeman. And so begins an adventure that takes him to the Rhineland, the East German border, drug dens, castles, knife fights, and Mannheim military prison. During his journey he uncovers car thieves, an assassination scheme, and a Russian plot involving heroin, soldiers, sex, and military secrets. He finds love in romantic medieval Bad Kreuznach. Eventually he discovers that once a soldier passes though the Coburg Gate, their life is forever drastically and irrevocably changed.

May 29, 1940. Fourteen-year-old Colin Neville and his parents sail their schooner, Marie Celine, in the first convoy of the "Little Ships of Dunkirk" to rescue the British Expeditionary Forces off the beaches of Dunkirk. During the perilous journey, Colin loses his parents, his boat, and his memory. Years later with his memory now intact, Colin sets out to find and retrieve Marie Celine-The Angel Ship. Determined to sail her in the last commemoration of the Dunkirk rescue, he eventually locates her in France where she is now a shrine to the French Resistance-and the French veterans there vow to fight to keep her. The media gets involved, and soon British veterans of Dunkirk arrive to battle for the Little Ship that is to them a monument to the war's turning point and a symbol of the endurance of the British people. The fight for Marie Celine causes an upwelling of old resentments between the French and the British, which precipitates an international incident. Colin again faces another great loss. Yet, against all odds, he finds redemption and discovers a new found belief in the resilience of the human spirit.