Terrill, Philip, killed Thompson, William S. Timberlake, George, wounded. Timberlake, Harry. Timberlake, J. H., wounded. Timberlake, J. L., wounded.
On 19 February General Rosson assembled a small group of officers and enlisted men to provide the nucleus of a planning staff for Task Force OREGON.
First published in 1954, THE BISHOP OF BROADWAY chronicles the life of David Belasco (1853-1931), an American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright who became the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for ...
One night he decided to take 150 Confederate prisoners out of the Old Capitol Prison to be exchanged for Union prisoners at Richmond and Salisbury. With a small guard Wood took the prisoners aboard a steamer in Washington and sailed ...
Wrong: Patterson is to be the first choice, and Donahue and Riley the second and third. Right: Patterson is to be the first choice, and Donahue and Riley are to be the second and the third. Wrong: Our captain was first in the seedings, ...
“This may not seem important to you—“ Alma Plummer began. “Full name's Sam Clay,” Talbot said into the telephone. “Worked here for years.” Clay felt as though someone had kicked him in the stomach. He wanted to hide somewhere, ...
Item Company's plan of attack called for a two-pronged assault on Hill 125 (Objective ABLE) from the northwest by First Lieutenant William F. Sparks' 3d Platoon on the right, attacking up the main spur paralleling the river, ...
Sir John William Kaye Colonel George Bruce Malleson. were, saving a few English gunners, utterly without European troops. It would be difficult to conceive any position more dispiriting than Wheeler's in that fatal month of May.
Walter H. Zinn of the College of the City of New York, Dr. Herbert L. Anderson of Columbia, Dr. B. Feld and Dr. George Weil. Dec. 2, 1942, was one of the climactic days of the atomic bomb project, and, therefore, one of the historic ...
“The original purpose of this monograph was to tell the European half of the story of William Penn’s relations with the Dutch Quakers who emigrated to Pennsylvania.
In this monograph the author adopts a unique definition albeit similar to other commonly held descriptions. One of the most common definitions of mission creep is presented by John E. Peters and Jennifer Morrison Taw, Operations Other ...
The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen.
But while combined operations enjoyed some success interfering with enemy movement along interior routes, the “blue-water” navy failed to intercept the enemy's supply craft sailing down the coast from Cambodia. The blue-water boats were ...
Here then is a rare collection in which young and old alike are sure to find hours of enjoyment. This book makes a significant contribution to that all-too-scant segment of our literature—the folk tales of the first Americans.
... we may not meet again I have struggled to forget but the struggle has been vain Her voice lives on the breeze And her spirit comes at will In the midnight on the seas Her bright smile haunts me still 2nd At the first sweet dawn of ...
Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best—seen from the inside and mediated through the heart.
The marshals' ball was somewhat spoilt for me by a squabble that I had with César Berthier. He had had the politeness at the generals' ball to cause some ladies of his acquaintance to eat the supper intended for eight ladies whom I had ...
High on the mountain's summit We see your guns in air. Ho! eagle, is your eyrie safe? Macpherson's men prepare To scale yon beetling mountain And battle with you there! Now onward, Wood and Stanley! Right up the darksome glade, ...
Conquer: The Story of Ninth Army recounts in great and glorious detail the U.S. Ninth army as it campaigned against Nazi Germany in Europe during World War II. The Ninth Army reached France in September 1944 in time to play a leading role ...
On the evening of the 29th Owen represented to Strachan that he had not the means of disembarking as many men as Huntly desired, and begged that the boats of Lord Gardner's squadron might be sent to him. Strachan, however, who had ...