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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
" From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysteries. For more than sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the archipelago for clues...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The rich history of SEAL Team 6 that captured Osama bin Laden stretches back to World War II when US intelligence officials formed a team of special-operation combat swimmers. Under the leadership of Captain Jack Taylor, a California dentist, the Maritime Unit (MU) started training in 1942, learning underwater and covert operation techniques, as it developed an array of James Bond-like new equipment, including the recently invented underwater breathing...
Author
Publisher
Matthew A. Rozell
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the bloody beach at Omaha through the hedgerow country of Normandy and beyond, American veterans of World War II—Army engineers and infantrymen, Coast Guardsmen and Navy sailors, tank gunners and glider pilots—sit down with you across the kitchen table and talk about what they saw and experienced, tales they may have never told anyone before. World War II brought out the worst in humanity, but it also brought out the best. In these...
Author
Series
Things our fathers saw volume 6
Publisher
Matthew A. Rozell
Pub. Date
c2020
Language
English
Description
14 World War II veterans of the Battle of the Bulge and beyond share their intimate experiences in narrative nonfiction oral history form.
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