The Marines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marines write by Edwin Howard Simmons. This book was released on 1998. The Marines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the United States Marine Corps describes its formation in 1775, advances in equipment and techniques, participation in battles, social changes within the organization, and its depiction in popular culture
Oil & War
Oil & War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oil & War write by Robert Goralski. This book was released on 1987. Oil & War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The full story of the role that oil played in the origins and outcome of World War II.
The Marines of Montford Point
The Marines of Montford Point - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marines of Montford Point write by Melton A. McLaurin. This book was released on 2009-11-05. The Marines of Montford Point available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina. Between 1942 and 1949 (when the base was closed as a result of President Truman's 1948 order fully desegregating all military forces) more than 20,000 men trained at Montford Point, most of them going on to serve in the Pacific Theatre in World War II as members of support units. This book, in conjunction with the documentary film of the same name, tells the story of these Marines for the first time. Drawing from interviews with 60 veterans, The Marines of Montford Point relates the experiences of these pioneers in their own words. From their stories, we learn about their reasons for enlisting; their arrival at Montford Point and the training they received there; their lives in a segregated military and in the Jim Crow South; their experiences of combat and service in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam; and their legacy. The Marines speak with flashes of anger and humor, sometimes with sorrow, sometimes with great wisdom, and always with a pride fostered by incredible accomplishment in the face of adversity. This book serves to recognize and to honor the men who desegregated the Marine Corps and loyally served their country in three major wars.
Underdogs
Underdogs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Underdogs write by Aaron B. O'Connell. This book was released on 2012-10-29. Underdogs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America’s smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps’ uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O’Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America’s least respected to its most elite armed force. He describes how the distinctive Marine culture played a role in this ascendancy. Venerating sacrifice and suffering, privileging the collective over the individual, Corps culture was saturated with romantic and religious overtones that had enormous marketing potential in a postwar America energized by new global responsibilities. Capitalizing on this, the Marines curried the favor of the nation’s best reporters, befriended publishers, courted Hollywood and Congress, and built a public relations infrastructure that would eventually brand it as the most prestigious military service in America. But the Corps’ triumphs did not come without costs, and O’Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield. And as he considers how the Corps’ interventions in American politics have ushered in a more militarized approach to national security, O’Connell questions its sustainability.
The Marines
The Marines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marines write by Colin Colbourn. This book was released on 2020-08-04. The Marines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the military's most celebrated branches, the United States Marine Corps participated in battles from the Civil War on. But the Corps came into its own during World War II, fighting the Japanese Army. Since then, Marines have played a central role in every conflict, including the war on terrorism. This riveting book moves from the Marines' origins up through modern operations. More than 200 action photographs capture recruitment and training today, along with Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq.
