Yachting's Golden Age
Ed Holm has been a photojournalist, a magazine and book editor, an art director, and an author and historian. He is a former officer in the U.S. Navy and a lieutenant commander (retired) in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He lives in Manheim, ... [... more]
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Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt is the author of A Talent for War, The Engines of God, Ancient Shores, Eternity Road, Moonfall, and numerous prize-winning short stories. He has served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, taught English and literature, and worked for ... [... more]
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Ragnar Ragnarsson
Several books have been written about US naval air patrol operations in World War II, but none do full justice to the role played by patrol squadrons of the US Navy in the longest, most bitterly fought campaign of the war, the Battle of the ... [... more]
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Mir Bahmanyar
Since the US Navy SEALs came into existence, they have become famous for their daring missions, advanced and unconventional tactics, hard training and hard-fought successes. SEALs have taken part in numerous conflicts ranging from Grenada in ... [... more]
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Peter Bull
Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s and the vessels were first put into active service during World War I. However, it was not until the late 1930s that the US Navy commenced the development of their Patrol Torpedo or PT boat ... [... more]
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Larry Tart
The recent forced landing of a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance aircraft on Hainan Island after aerial harassment by Chinese fighters underscores that the dangers of the Cold War are not behind us. Reconnaissance-intelligence gathering-has always been ... [... more]
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Dennis Cummings
This is the story of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team One in Vietnam as told by twenty of the elite Navy commandos who fought there from 1962 to 1972. Here for the first time, these unorthodox and sometimes iconoclastic special warriors talk about the ... [... more]
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Dennis Bailey
From a top-gun pilot in the U.S. Navy to an authority on antigay violence, from a member of the Clinton administration to a leading Shakespearean actor, Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage David Mixner and Dennis Bailey tells the stirring stories ... [... more]
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Wynn Goldsmith
In Vietnam, river warfare was often conducted in the dark. It was always dangerous, sometimes fatal--especially in the eastern end of the Cong-plagued Mekong Delta. In 1967, U.S. Navy Lt. Wynn Goldsmith was the "river rat" who... U.S. Navy [... more]
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Larry Bond
Larry Bond coauthored the international bestseller Red Storm Rising with Tom Clancy. A U.S. Navy veteran, he has written numerous military-themed books including New York Times bestsellers Red Phoenix, Vortex, and Cauldron. His most recent ... [... more]
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John McCain
After a career in the U.S. Navy and two terms as a U.S. representative, John McCain was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 and reelected in 1992, 1998, and 2004. He and his wife, Cindy, reside in Phoenix, Arizona. The USS Intrepid is a warship ... [... more]
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Chris Osman
Since the US Navy SEALs came into existence, they have become famous for their daring missions, advanced and unconventional tactics, hard training and hard-fought successes. SEALs have taken part in numerous conflicts ranging from Grenada in ... [... more]
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