Site 5
Miscellany

Site 5
Recommended Books


Recommended Books
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Details of the memorial

Details of the memorial

Aircraft Recognition Slides These are actual A/C recognition slides used by the USN through 1955

Ba Ba Black Sheep

Epic Pictures of World War II

Band of Brothers

FOO Fighters*

Believed to Be Alive

Gremlins*
Bent Wings, F4U Corsair

Hoffman, Wally - sighting

Bye Bye Black Sheep

Lena The Hyena*

Flags of Our Fathers

Pictures of Patton keeping his promise

The Greatest Generation

Poll Results - Age of KilroyWasHere Readers

The Last Great Ace


Miscellany
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Masquerade

Cook, Elizabeth and Bob - Coke ad

Once an Eagle

Pappas, Robert - The commissioning of the Iwo Jima

The Rape of Nanking

The non- PC Truth about Japanese Internmentt

Quizlet Results. The first amphibious landing U.S.M.C.*

Poll Results - When was the first Kamikazi Corps attack?

Reminiscences


Miscellany
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Retreat, Hell

Saipan Beacon Actual newspaper published by occupying forces on VJ-Day!

The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich

Short Snorter Agreat find from Bob Cook

See Here, Private Hargrove

Sad Sack Another funny WWII story by Sgt. Joe Tillery

SS Leopoldville Disaster

Berga an der Elster Hitler's GI death camp

The Second World War

Veronika Valdova Czechoslovakia in the Korean War

The Time of My Life

Milton Dienes Renown Combat Photagrapher's view of Nagasaki

The Two Ocean War

With The Old Breed at Peleliu

 

Cobras Over The Tundra - By Everett A. Long. A book recommendation by
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK)

 

Hap's War - By Hap Halloran with Chester Marshall.

 

Kilroy Was Here, The Best American Humor from WWII, by Charles Osgood

 

Killing the Rising Sun Required reading for those who chastise America for using the bomb and for those who consider water boarding torture. If fact — it is a great read for all of us!

 

The Leathernecks, An Informal History of the U.S. Marine Corps

 
 
Pitkin Life in a Wartime house
 

The Splendid Five - By Wesley Hall.

 

War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause

 


Recommended Books
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Eisenhower's Party - A Book Review

 

The Tangier Option: U.S. Navy and OSS Operation Torch. A guest review by J. J. Proctor.

 

Spies InThe Vatican A Book Review

 

Kilroy Was There- A Book Review

 

The Pact- A Book Review

 

The Missing Bomb- A Book Review

 

Civil War II - A Book Review

 

The Brenner Assignment - A Book Review

 
The Blackened Canteen - A Book Review
 

The Few The few American pilots who risked punishment and even loss of citizenship to help fight the Battle of Britain

 

The Aviation Photography of Philip Makanna

 

The Bedford Boys One American town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice. A review of the book that inspired Saving Pvt. Ryan

 

Closely Guarded Secrets: The assassination of F.D.R., Japan's Atomic Bomb, The Massacre at Port Chicago.

 

D-Day 1944 Voices from Normandy by Robin H. Neillands and Roderick de Normann

 

Fading Warriors: Twi-light Reminisces from WWII

 

The Fighting First The Untold Story of the Big Red One on D-Day

 

Flyboys by James Bradley. A book review: Bradley should leave the America bashing to Jane Fonda!

 

Growing Up Before the Bomb - By Richard W. Rohrbacher

 

The Hitler Book The secret dossier prepared for Stalin

 

The Jedburghs The French Resistance -- and more including Asia and Allied support. The beginning of Special Forces!

 

Mysterious Florida
By Bill Hanson

 

Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th

 

Rainbow over Hell The death-row deliverance of a World War II assassin

 

Shooter - By By Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin, USMC, Captain Casey Kuhlman, USMC Donald A. Davis.

 

Three Books from the War Years - From Bob Cook

 

Three Wars.....One Marine
Lt. Gen Keller.

 

Whispers from an Empty Coffin
Kathleen Beliore Schuman

 

Won't you come home Buck Bailey - By Robert J Bell

 
Recommended Books
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Mission Accomplished: Stop the Clock
A personal memoir

 

Babysan: A private look at the Japanese occupation.

 

LIFE IN a Wartime House
Life goes on as bombs fall.

 

Battle for Snow Mountain. Reprint of a great book. A Wallace Wood review

 

Broken Arrow A historical novel about the lost nuclear bomb off Savannah.

 

Reflections of Our Gentle Warriors A collection of 70 tales from men and women who served our country during World War II

 

America's Soldiers
Teens' Tales of Tribute

 

Patrick Thibeault My Journey as a Combat Medic

 

WWII Memorial "Jewel of the Mall" - A Book Review

 

The Role of the United States Coast Guard in the Normandy Invasion - A DVD Review

 

Pain, Poens, and Patriotism - A WWII Mother tells it like it WAS.