Saved at the Seawall
Saved at the Seawall

Author: Jessica DuLong

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1501759140

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Saved at the Seawall is the definitive history of the largest ever waterborne evacuation. Jessica DuLong reveals the dramatic story of how the New York Harbor maritime community heroically delivered stranded commuters, residents, and visitors out of harm's way. Even before the US Coast Guard called for "all available boats," tugs, ferries, dinner boats, and other vessels had sped to the rescue from points all across New York Harbor. In less than nine hours, captains and crews transported nearly half a million people from Manhattan. Anchored in eyewitness accounts and written by a mariner who served at Ground Zero, Saved at the Seawall weaves together the personal stories of people rescued that day with those of the mariners who saved them. DuLong describes the inner workings of New York Harbor and reveals the collaborative power of its close-knit community. Her chronicle of those crucial hours, when hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, highlights how resourcefulness and basic human goodness triumphed over turmoil on one of America's darkest days. Initially published as Dust to Deliverance, this edition, released in time for the twentieth anniversary, contains new updates: a preface by DuLong and a foreword by Mitchell Zuckoff.

Random Seas And Design Of Maritime Structures (2nd Edition)
Random Seas And Design Of Maritime Structures (2nd Edition)

Author: Yoshimi Goda

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 2000-07-12

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 9813105143

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Random waves are the most important constituent of the sea environment. They make the design of maritime structures quite different from that of structures on land. In this book, the concept of randomness in waves for the design of breakwaters, seawalls, and harbor structures is fully explored for easy comprehension by practicing engineers.Theoretical aspects are also discussed in detail for further studies by graduate students and researchers. Several additions have been made to this second edition, including a new chapter on extreme wave statistics.

Over The Seawall: U.S. Marines At Inchon [Illustrated Edition]
Over The Seawall: U.S. Marines At Inchon [Illustrated Edition]

Author: Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2015-11-06

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1786256096

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Includes more than 40 maps, plans and illustrations. This volume in the official History of the Marine Corps chronicles the invasion by United States Marines at Inchon in the initial stages of the Korean War. The Battle of Inchon was an amphibious invasion and battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations. The operation involved some 75,000 troops and 261 naval vessels, and led to the recapture of the South Korea capital Seoul two weeks later. The code name for the operation was Operation Chromite. The battle began on 15 September 1950 and ended on 19 September. Through a surprise amphibious assault far from the Pusan Perimeter that UN and South Korean forces were desperately defending, the largely undefended city of Incheon was secured after being bombed by UN forces. The battle ended a string of victories by the invading North Korean People’s Army (NKPA). The subsequent UN recapture of Seoul partially severed NKPA’s supply lines in South Korea. The majority of United Nations ground forces involved were U.S. Marines, commanded by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of the United States Army. MacArthur was the driving force behind the operation, overcoming the strong misgivings of more cautious generals to a risky assault over extremely unfavorable terrain.

D-Day Illustrated Edition
D-Day Illustrated Edition

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13: 1471136671

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On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, bestselling author and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. The true story of D-Day, as Ambrose relates it, is about the citizen soldiers - junior officers and enlisted men - taking the initiative to act on their own to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall when they realised that nothing was as they had been told it would be. D-DAY is the brilliant, no holds barred, telling of the battles of Omaha and Utah beaches. Ambrose relives the epic victory of democracy on the most important day of the twentieth century.

Toil Under the Sun
Toil Under the Sun

Author: R. Ritter

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1425920101

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Through these poems the poet expresses dreams and desires, disappointments and victories, a deep admiration for spiritual blessings and the passion to love and be love to give of one self selflessly, to appreciate nature and its freedom, these heartfelt poems would not only allow one to reach into the poets mind but it will also inspire one to search deep within and uncover this unlimited love that is hidden in each of us, as you read you become one with the poet as she takes you through to a journey of life's bitter sweet moments.

Tamers of the Texas Frontier
Tamers of the Texas Frontier

Author: C. Herndon Williams

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-02-06

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1439677190

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In the 1820s, Texas was a wilderness. Settlers thought it was uninhabited although rich with wild game. But many Native American tribes lived in Texas and were at war with the Spanish in Mexico. Mexico ignored Texas and did not try to inhabit this wilderness. Finally, in the late 1820s and early 1830s Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring in three hundred Anglo settlers and Texas began to be civilized. But to start there was only one town, no roads, no bridges, no planted fields. Texas was starting from ground zero but started fast. They tamed the wilderness and fought the Indians. They got their independence from Mexico and became a Republic, soon a U S state. They established a stable government similar to the one in the US and developed the infrastructure for business and international commerce. In less than eighty years Texas had tamed the wild frontier and became a modern state in the United States. C. Herndon Williams has found forty-two stories that chart this progress.