Sgt. BARney Posted February 26, 2017 Share #801 Posted February 26, 2017 "The Navajo Code Talkers" by Doris Paul, 1974. Currently binge reading on the WW2 Navajo Code Talkers that served with the Marines in the PTO. This is an older book about an absolutely fascinating piece of American history. Full disclosure - I felt myself flinching at times when the author describes the treatment of the Navajo people by the US government because I knew a shaming was about to be dealt. Instead the author lays the historical fact and for background to the story, and moves ahead. Fascinating read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluehawk Posted April 13, 2017 Share #802 Posted April 13, 2017 My ten year-old son is now reading "Under a War-Torn Sky" - historical fiction by: L.M. Elliott WWII aviators, B-24 a/c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluehawk Posted April 13, 2017 Share #803 Posted April 13, 2017 I am now reading "The Historical Atlas of Judaism" a summary anthological geo-political study of the 4000 years of Jewish faith from ancient Palestine up to modern Israel, in the context (almost entirely) of the wars and leaders of wars during that long period, by: Dr. Ian Barnes and Josephine Bacon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiger83 Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share #804 Posted April 13, 2017 I am currently reading "Shoot Like a Girl One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front" by Mary Jennings Hegar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor996 Posted April 13, 2017 Share #805 Posted April 13, 2017 The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot by Robert Morgan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted April 13, 2017 Share #806 Posted April 13, 2017 I was Churchill's shadow- memoir of Walter H. Thompson, Churchill's bodyguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanormalTrooper Posted April 13, 2017 Share #807 Posted April 13, 2017 Im reading "Lucky Lady, the World War II Heroics of the USS Santa Fe and Franklin" by Steve Jackson, and "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser. Lucky Lady is, obviously, about the USS Santa Fe and Franklin while Command and Control is about SAC and the times we almost blew ourselves up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonT Posted April 14, 2017 Share #808 Posted April 14, 2017 I currently finished "Bloody Roads to Germany: At Huertgen Forest and the Bulge--an American Soldier's Courageous Story of World War II" by William Meller. A story of the authors experience as an infantryman with 28th division from Huertgen Forest, through battle of bulge, and end with his time as a POW and rescue at the end of the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightpath Posted April 27, 2017 Share #809 Posted April 27, 2017 Strong men armed by Robert Leckie.... it's easy to tell that this was written by someone who was right there in the thick of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted April 27, 2017 Share #810 Posted April 27, 2017 Im reading "Lucky Lady, the World War II Heroics of the USS Santa Fe and Franklin" by Steve Jackson, and "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser. Lucky Lady is, obviously, about the USS Santa Fe and Franklin while Command and Control is about SAC and the times we almost blew ourselves up. I read "Command and Control" last year. There was a documentary version on the Science Channel the other night. It was a very sobering book. I grew up in the '60s, 15 miles from a SAC base. We were aware that we could get nuked by the Russians at any time, but I had no idea that there was just as big a threat from our own bombs. Enjoy! Mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor996 Posted June 19, 2017 Share #811 Posted June 19, 2017 Never Call Me A Hero -A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway by N Jack 'Dusty' Kleiss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonmoen Posted June 19, 2017 Share #812 Posted June 19, 2017 I'm almost done reading "Hard Tack and Coffee" by John D. Billings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted June 22, 2017 Share #813 Posted June 22, 2017 Searching a other Army Regulation I come across this book "Congressional medal of honor, the distinguished service cross and the distinguished service medal issued by the War department since April 6, 1917, up to and including General orders, no. 126, War department, November 11, 1919" https://archive.org/details/congressionalmed00unitrich Michael . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogsbody Posted July 30, 2017 Share #814 Posted July 30, 2017 I just started this one. The blurp on the back cover contains this line: 'Loved by his soldiers and barely tolerated by the high command'. Now that got my attention . Rene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigma9r Posted July 30, 2017 Share #815 Posted July 30, 2017 Cobra II The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. So far a great example of the confusion, miscommunication and misinformation on the battlefield. It's a "think piece" so you really have to pay attention to the players. Good book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted July 30, 2017 Share #816 Posted July 30, 2017 "The Fleet At Flood Tide" by James Hornfischer. Really cool look at the American checkmate against Japan in the Marianas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M422A1 Posted July 30, 2017 Share #817 Posted July 30, 2017 I just finished "Voices of the Pacific" and now I am reading "Red Blood, Black Sand" by Chuck Tatum. "Voices of the Pacific" was great and I highly recommend it. I hope "Red Blood, Black Sand" will be as good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluehawk Posted July 30, 2017 Share #818 Posted July 30, 2017 Just finished "Strike Zion" by: William Stevenson and Leon Uris... Stevenson, a war correspondent since WWII, wrote about the Six-Day War of 1967 - international and political events leading up to, during and afterward. Uris added a special postscript. Unusually different viewpoint, by a non-Israeli non-Jew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cw1979 Posted July 31, 2017 Share #819 Posted July 31, 2017 I just started this one. The blurp on the back cover contains this line: 'Loved by his soldiers and barely tolerated by the high command'. Now that got my attention . SAM_2101.JPG Rene A great book; I was unaware of his son's death in Vietnam until I read it. So much service from one family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluehawk Posted August 7, 2017 Share #820 Posted August 7, 2017 "Yoni's Last Battle" by: Iddo Netanyahu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor996 Posted August 7, 2017 Share #821 Posted August 7, 2017 Out Of The Depths by Edgar Harrell USS Indianapolis surivor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashdive Posted August 11, 2017 Share #822 Posted August 11, 2017 All Gallant Men - Donald Stratton - USS Arizona Survivor. Its great so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River Rat 1 Posted September 3, 2017 Share #823 Posted September 3, 2017 Reading Escape ,Evasion and Revenge by Marc H. Stevens little info on book below. http://www.marchstevens.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluehawk Posted September 4, 2017 Share #824 Posted September 4, 2017 "The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu: Commander of the Entebbe rescue force": Introduction by Herman Wouk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted September 4, 2017 Share #825 Posted September 4, 2017 "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson. The story of American ambassador William Dodd's time in Berlin in 1933. I just started that. It looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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