The San Diego Bay Star Fleet
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Publisher: San Diego Bay Star Fleet
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 1427608016
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Publisher: San Diego Bay Star Fleet
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 1427608016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard W. Crawford
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1625840446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn't always so. The city's transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier port to a vital military center was marked by growing pains and political clashes. Civic highs and criminal lows have defined San Diego's rise through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a preeminent Sun Belt city. Historian Richard W. Crawford recalls the significant events and one-of-a-kind characters like benefactor Frank "Booze" Beyer, baseball hero Albert Spalding and novelist Scott O'Dell. Join Crawford for a collection that recounts how San Diego yesterday laid the foundation for the city's bright future.
Author: Bruce Linder
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2007-09-05
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1439635862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSan Diego has never been afraid to call itself a "Navy Town," and the positive and inspiring link between the navy and the city knows no equal across the country. For over 150 years, beginning with the U.S. Navy's capture of the city for the United States in the opening days of the Mexican War, the navy has been an indelible part of San Diego's lifestyle, culture, and vitality. Not only has the navy formed the bedrock of the region's economy, but it has helped shape the population while endowing the city with a sense of international and cosmopolitan awareness that separates San Diego from many other cities of its size. San Diego and its navy enjoy a special relationship, one deeply rooted in historic perspective that renews itself with each passing year.
Author: Neva Sullaway
Publisher: Tcs Publications
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781879589001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott McGaugh
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1467131563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo city is as proud of its military heritage as San Diego, known as "Navy Town, USA." Congress also has designated San Diego as "the Birthplace of Naval Aviation." However, its community fabric reflects a more diverse and tightly woven relationship with our nation's defense. Over the past century, the city has invented and then reinvented itself in response to shifting world affairs and national priorities. It began with a successful campaign to become a West Coast Navy base in the early 1900s. By the 1930s, military aircraft manufacturing drove economic development. After explosive growth in World War II, San Diego emerged as an established military metropolis. At the dawn of the Cold War, San Diego recast itself as a home for Cold War research and development and defense contractors. Today, San Diego is an internationally renowned defense science and technology development center, a city in which one in four jobs and fully 50 percent of regional domestic product are defense related. Like no other city in America, San Diego has grown from a remote military presidio outpost to become a preeminent Pacific powerhouse.
Author: Maritime Research Society of San Diego
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Guy Gugliotta
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-06-14
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0811765652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou-are-there stories of ambushes and patrols on the Mekong in the Vietnam War Developed specifically for the Vietnam War (and made famous by the 2004 presidential campaign), Swift Boats were versatile craft “big enough to outrun anything they couldn’t outfight” but too small to handle even a moderate ocean chop, too loud to sneak up on anyone, and too flimsy to withstand the mildest of rocket attacks. This made more difficult an already tough mission: navigating coastal waters for ships and sampans smuggling contraband to the Viet Cong, disrupting enemy supply lines on the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta, and inserting SEALs behind enemy lines. The stories in this book cover the Swift Boats’ early years, which saw search-and-inspect operations in Vietnam’s coastal waters, and their later years, when the Swift Boats’ mission shifted to the Mekong Delta’s labyrinth of 3,000 miles of rivers, streams, and canals. This is an intimate, exciting oral history of Swift Boats at war in Vietnam.
Author: George Waldron Elder
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregory O. Jones
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: 2001-12-06
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0760310025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA round the turn of the century, with steam power commonplace and the internal-combustion engine just emerging as a revolutionary development, the sailboat began to make the transition from work boat to pleasure boat. This definitive chronology of American sailboats from 1900 to 1970 provides an in-depth look at the evolution of recreational vessels created by such prominent boatmakers as Catalina, Hunter, Island Packet, Tartan, Morgan, Mason, Cabo, Rico, Dufour, Alden, Oday, Cambria and Herreshoff. Archival black-and-white and modern color photography details the evolution of sailboats and advances in boating technologies and hull designs. All of the key classes are featured, as are famous racing sailboats that influenced the design of production models.
Author: Leimar Garcia-Siino
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 1000569969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Star Trek offers a synoptic overview of Star Trek, its history, its influence, and the scholarly response to the franchise, as well as possibilities for further study. This volume aims to bridge the fields of science fiction and (trans)media studies, bringing together the many ways in which Star Trek franchising, fandom, storytelling, politics, history, and society have been represented. Seeking to propel further scholarly engagement, this Handbook offers new critical insights into the vast range of Star Trek texts, narrative strategies, audience responses, and theoretical themes and issues. This compilation includes both established and emerging scholars to foster a spirit of communal, trans-generational growth in the field and to present diversity to a traditional realm of science fiction studies.