From Jeep Driver to General
From Jeep Driver to General

Author: Jesse M. Allen

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1613461259

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Retired General Jesse Allen saw it all in his military career. An army jeep driver in the U.S. Army Air Corps serving General Patton's Third Army in World War II, an air force fighter pilot in Korea, and a fighter squadron commander in Vietnam, Allen held every rank from private to two-star general. A cultural history as well as a memoir, From Jeep Driver to General reveals an insider's perspective of the U.S. military during some of its most significant triumphs and failures. General Allen offers his insights on racial divides in the military, the policy decisions that led to the loss of thousands of American lives in Korea and Vietnam, and a number of Cold War standoffs with Russian interests around the world. As an operations officer in Tactical Air Command, General Allen was even part of a team tasked with outlining plans to invade Cuba in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Written with candor, directness, and the bravado of a fighter pilot, From Jeep Driver to General tells the story of a man from humble beginnings who rose to the highest ranks of the greatest military in the world. General Allen had a front-row seat at events that never made it to the newspapers or history books. The general recounts these events in vivid detail as he provides a window into contemporary American history.

Two of Us Ain't Goin'
Two of Us Ain't Goin'

Author: Dempsey Allphin

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-07-30

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0595182054

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My duties in World War II in the European Theater of Operations as Administrative Assistant to Major General Mark Clark, Major General Lloyd Fredendall. Lieutant General George S. Patton, Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges, and Major General William B. Kean.

A Dream of Old Leaves
A Dream of Old Leaves

Author: Bret Lott

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1451667930

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Bret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors -- along the intricate paths of intimacy. A little boy's first bad dream brings his father back to his own childhood nights when danger lurked beneath the bed; in the California desert at night two brothers in a pickup tune into radio stations from distant places, interrupted by sudden bursts of static; estranged suburban friends become good neighbors again in the course of thwarting two thieves. Lott's previous novels, The Man Who Owned Vermont and A Stranger's House, established him as "one of the strongest voices to come along in some time" (The San Francisco Chronicle). A Dream of Old Leaves stakes out his place in the landscape of new American fiction.

The Edge of the Universe
The Edge of the Universe

Author: Deanna Haunsperger

Publisher: MAA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780883855553

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Exquisite expositions of mathematics taken from the first ten years of the Math Horizons magazine.

My Father's War
My Father's War

Author: Carolyn Ross Johnston

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2012-08-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0817317686

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The author draws on her father's account of the war and her extensive interviews with other veterans of the 92nd Division to describe the experiences of a naive southern white officer and his segregated unit on an intimate level. During the war, the protocol that required the assignment of southern white officers to command black units, both in Europe and in the Pacific theater, was often problematic, but Johnston seemed more successful than most, earning the trust and respect of his men at the same time that he learned to trust and respect them. Gene Johnston and the African American soldiers were transformed by the war and upon their return helped transform the nation. The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945, suffering more than 3,200 casualties. Members of this unit, known as Buffalo Soldiers, endured racial violence on the home front and experienced racism abroad. Engaged in combat for nine months, they were under the command of southern white infantry officers like their captain, Eugene E. Johnston.

Prairie Boys at War: Korea
Prairie Boys at War: Korea

Author: M. M. Helm

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2014-05-30

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 099609590X

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The Prairie Boys series is a propulsive description of the Korean War as told through the experiences of highly decorated and other combat veterans from the upper prairies. "A real eye-opener," writes Major General (ret) Michael Haugen

Beyond the Beachhead
Beyond the Beachhead

Author: Joseph Balkoski

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0811768449

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Expanded edition with a new chapter on the final battles of the Normandy campaign By 1945, the US Army had sixty-eight infantry divisions, forty-two of which fought in the great campaign in northwest Europe that began with the amphibious landings on D-Day and ended eleven months later with Germany's surrender. Beyond the Beachhead examines the experience of one infantry division-the 29th-during forty-five days of combat from Omaha Beach on D-Day to the liberation of St. Lô. Using interviews, official records, and unit histories and supplementing his narrative with meticulously detailed maps, Balkoski follows the 29th from the bloody landings at Omaha through the hedgerows of Normandy, illustrating the brutal realities of life on the front line.

Retired Old Men Eating out (Romeo) Volume One
Retired Old Men Eating out (Romeo) Volume One

Author: Harry Katzan Jr.

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2023-06-12

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1663253587

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This book is a fun easy to read BEACH READ. A reader can pick it up and start reading. It’s sharable. It’s informative. It tells how old men really are. It is a way to get together and make friends.