War for two: a hard bound edition containing both One Gunner's War and Most Immediate
Perhaps 90 percent of the time it was my job to lug the machine gun's steel tripod, which meant I was almost always the gunner when we became engaged in combat. While I was glad to serve as our squad's primary gunner, the tripod's ...
A young machine gunner's war with the Big Red One, from D-Day through the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, Remagen to the Wehrmacht's last stand in the mountains of Germany.
Praise for Spearhead "A detailed, gripping account . . . the remarkable story of two tank crewmen, from opposite sides of the conflict, who endure the grisly nature of tank warfare.
The story of an all-American girl who leaves her patriotic kin behind in Detroit while she joins the Navy as an enlisted Wave in World War II. She looks at the real world of women in a man's navy during a time of national emergency.
We were badly in need of men, as the last two days in action we were carrying on with one gunner and one driver to each gun. Four days after, we gunners went back up the line to relieve B Battery gunners, who had had a very bad time of ...
He , therefore , proposed to his gunners to lay their shoulders under the axle on the broken side . The proposal was accepted by the rest . One by one the brave gunners , led by the gun commander , went forward to lay down their lives ...
This first-person account describes the vivid and compelling World War II experiences of Jack Goetz, who flew twenty-five missions with the 544th Squadron, 384th Bomb Group based at Grafton Underwood, England, in the early stages of the air ...
Big Corporal Lee Bolander had come up behind me and grabbed me so that the round went high over the buildings. During World War I, Lee had fought the great Gene Tunney for the heavyweight championship of the Marine Corps.
Two books in one volume-two first hand accounts by British subalterns in contrasting theatres of the Great War The first of the books in this double volume tells of the activities of a battery of the Royal Field Artillery-one of the many ...