Author: Bob Taylor
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: camp, boot, usmc, tales, memories
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2002-01-28
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 155369144X
ISBN-13: 9781553691440
Stories, mostly humorous, some nostalgic, about Marine Corps Boot Camp. What wasn’t funny then can be humorous now. Marines, relatives, and friends submitted over 400 first-hand stories. The best of these are in this book. As one new Marine said to the author, "Nothing’s funny in Boot Camp." But it is, years later.
Author: Bruno Alberti
Publisher: Histoire and Collectio
Keywords: equipment, uniforms, usmc
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 2915239991
ISBN-13: 9782915239997
Bruno Alberti and Laurent Pradier have been collecting and writing about U S Marine Corps gear for more than a decade and, in that time, have contributed complete series of articles on the topic in the French Militaria Magazine. That sequence of articles is complete and the time has now come for a revised and expanded version of the results of their work as a single bound volume.The US Marine Corps has always enjoyed a special status among the American Armed Forces, as well as boasting distinctive uniforms and emblems.This new book presents the large variety of dress uniforms for both officers
Author: Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC
Publisher: Zenith Pre
Keywords: century, war, stone, sling
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-02-17
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0760324077
ISBN-13: 9780760324073
??4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) is the only kind of war America has ever lost. And we have done so three times ?" in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. This form of warfare has also defeated the French in Vietnam and Algeria, and the USSR in Afghanistan?As the only Goliath left in the world, we should be worried that the world??s Davids have found a sling and stone that work.? ?" Chapter 1, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century The War in Iraq. The War on Terror. These types of ??asymmetrical? warfare are the conflicts of the 21st century ?" and show how difficult it is
Author: Col. Wesley L. Fox USMC (Ret.)
Publisher: Brassey’s Inc.
Keywords: corps, memories, war, years, three, rifleman, forty, marine
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2002-05
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1574884255
ISBN-13: 9781574884258
Intrigued by the mystique and challenge of the Marine Corps, eighteen-year-old Wesley Fox enlisted in the summer of 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. He saw action with the First Marine Division in Korea and was wounded in 1951. After Korea, Fox advanced steadily in the enlisted ranks, reaching the rank of first sergeant, and, early in the Vietnam War, he received an appointment as second lieutenant. While serving as a rifle company commander with the Third Marine Division in 1969, he was twice wounded in a vicious battle during Operation Dewey Canyon. Early in this battle, e
Author: Col. Wesley L. Fox USMC (Ret.)
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Keywords: corps, memories, war, years, three, rifleman, forty, marine
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2003-05-31
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1574885294
ISBN-13: 9781574885293
Intrigued by the mystique and challenge of the Marine Corps, eighteen-year-old Wesley Fox enlisted in the summer of 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. He saw action with the First Marine Division in Korea and was wounded in 1951. After Korea, Fox advanced steadily in the enlisted ranks, reaching the rank of first sergeant, and, early in the Vietnam War, he received an appointment as second lieutenant. While serving as a rifle company commander with the Third Marine Division in 1969, he was twice wounded in a vicious battle during Operation Dewey Canyon. Early in this battle, e
Author: Clifton LA Bree
Publisher: Kent State University Pre
Keywords: smith, usmc, prince, oliver, warrior, general, gentle
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0873386868
ISBN-13: 9780873386869
In November 1950, United Nations forces in Korea narrowly escaped being overrun by Chinese Communist forces, due to the military expertise of General Oliver Prince Smith. Using the general’s own notes and diaries, this book describes Smith’s long and distinguished career, his command in Iceland in 1940, in the Pacific campaigns, and in Korea. The general’s wartime dealings witrh military and political leaders is also discussed, paying tribute to a man called the "gentle warrior".
Author: Alec S. Tulkoff
Publisher: R. James Bender Publishing
Keywords: equipment, world, war, infantry, combat, gear, usmc, grunt
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0912138920
ISBN-13: 9780912138923
Military Trader Book Of The Year! The most definitive book on WWII Marine Corps combat uniforms and equipment has just been reprinted! This beautiful edition provides historical documentation of the development and manufacture of Marine Corps specific equipment including contractual information with quantities ordered. Also the latest information on Marine Corps knives and over 2,000 USMC specific rifle and submachine gun serial numbers.
