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  • Sanctuary Not Certain
    David Bruhn
    During World War II, German and Italian aircraft bombed and sank thirteen Allied hospital ships (7 British, 5 Greek, 1 Norwegian) in the European Theatre. A fourteenth hospital ship (British) was sunk by a German sea mine during the Normandy invasion. As a result of these illegal, purposeful attacks on clearly marked hospital ships, wounded servicemen could not be assured of sa...
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    36,73 €

  • Sandscrapers
    David Bruhn
    A total of 558 Medium Landing Ships were built in WWII. The modest 203-foot ships had bow ramps like those of much larger LSTs, and a deck house resembling the turret of a medieval castle. So unique were their looks, that it was not uncommon when an LSM entered port, for someone to yell out, 'What type of ship is that?' Despite their large numbers, the ships were relatively unk...
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    40,01 €

  • Stride Out
    David Bruhn
    Chico State, long known as a party school-Playboy magazine ranked it number one in the nation from 1987 through 2002-offered students an inviting environment in which to enjoy social life on and off campus while pursuing their studies. The non-athletic scholarship school drew runners to Chico like San Juan Capistrano beckons swallows homeward. One reason was Bidwell Park, which...
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    32,31 €

  • Toe the Mark
    David Bruhn
    Running programs in Chico in the 1970s were similar to those elsewhere. Famed University of Oregon coach Bill Bowerman had introduced the sport of jogging; American Frank Shorter was the winner of the marathon at the 1972 Olympics; and Steve Prefontaine, running for Oregon, drew thousands of fans to see him race. A distant 384 miles south of Eugene, Oregon, lay Chico, a small r...
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    32,21 €

  • Send Some King’s Ships
    David Bruhn / Rob Hoole
    In January 1942, following the United States’ entry into WWII, German U-boats began a reign of terror off America’s Eastern Seaboard; over the next several months, sinking hundreds of ships almost at will. With the combatant ships of the then-small U.S. Navy, spread thin in distant theaters, Vice Admiral Andrews desperately sought vessels to protect the coast. Those available c...
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    41,97 €

  • Turn into the Wind, Volume I. US Navy and Royal Navy Light Fleet Aircraft Carriers in World War II, and Contributions of the British Pacific Fleet
    David Bruhn
    In the Pacific in World War II, the dearth of US Navy fleet aviation capabilities became acute following the loss, in 1942, of four aircraft carriers to combat action. New Essex-class fleet aircraft carriers were being built, but would not be ready soon enough. Time was of the essence. President Franklin D. Roosevelt intervened to solve the problem - directing reluctant Navy 't...
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    43,45 €

  • Turn into the Wind, Volume II. US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Canadian Navy Light Fleet Aircraft Carriers in the Korean War and through end of service, 1950-1982
    David Bruhn
    American and British light fleet aircraft carriers, an expedient of war at a time of dire need in World War II, answered their nations’ call a second time during the Korean War. While larger US Navy fleet carriers plied their trade in the deeper Sea of Japan off Korea’s east coast, their svelte sisters - USS Bataan, HMS Glory, HMS Ocean, HMS Theseus, HMS Triumph, and HMAS Sydne...
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    35,39 €

  • Support for the Fleet
    David Bruhn
    During the Vietnam War, 136 U.S. Navy and three Royal Australian Navy Service Force ships served in Vietnam. It was not glamorous duty, and the men who toiled aboard the ships received little recognition. It wouldn’t make good reading in Des Moines that the warships on the gunline could not fire their guns, or that carriers on Yankee and Dixie stations could not fly airstrikes ...
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    35,84 €

  • Ready to Haul, Ready to Fight. U.S. Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and British Merchant Navy Cargo Ships in the Pacific in World War II
    David Bruhn
    U.S. Navy cargo ships, among the most unglamorous military vessels, kept the supply lines running through the incredible expanses of the Pacific battle zones in World War II. This involved shuttling cargos of gasoline, explosives, and supplies between forward bases on an erratic, unpredictable war-time schedule. The tedious days of slow cruising were broken by an occasional ene...
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    38,52 €

  • Salvation from the Sky
    David Bruhn
    Imagine being a fighter or bomber pilot. You and your crew have been in the heat of battle when, suddenly, your plane catches fire or your engine conks out. You have to bail out or ditch in the water below. Who will save you? In World War II, survivors of Allied aircraft who found themselves in such straits, looked skyward in desperate hope, particularly those within range of J...
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    38,52 €

  • Guns Up, Depth Charges Readied
    David Bruhn
    During the deadly Battle of the Mediterranean fought from 10 June 1940 to 2 May 1945, sailors aboard Allied ships faced daily threat of attack by Italian or German aircraft at daybreak and dusk; by enemy submarines at any time; and by coastal forces when operating near shore. The Royal Navy, facing the powerful Italian Navy supported by German naval and air forces, called on Co...
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    44,70 €

  • Guns Up
    David Bruhn
    As the Korean Conflict wore on, frigates, destroyer escorts, cruisers, and battleships of the U.S. Navy, and combatant ships from eight other navies of the United Nations, plus the Republic of Korea Navy, fought a bitter war along the coastlines. Off the west coast of the peninsula, warships operated in treacherous waters of the Yellow Sea, navigating channels between tightly c...
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    35,87 €

  • Gators Offshore and Upriver. The U.S. Navy's Amphibious Ships and Underwater Demolition Teams, and Royal Australian Navy Clearance Divers in Vietnam
    David Bruhn
    During the Vietnam War, 142 “gators” (amphibious ships) served in the combat zone. As deeper-draft ships landed Marines on assault beaches by boat or helicopter, World War II-era tank landing ships operated on shallow, winding rivers. Scores of minimal-draft vessels were required to support inland combat action beyond the reach of the cruisers and destroyers serving on the gunl...
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    40,51 €

  • On the Gunline
    David D. Bruhn / David DBruhn / Richard S. Mathews / Richard SMathews
    During the Vietnam War, 270 U.S. Navy and four Royal Australian Navy warships served at various times on the gunline. Within this armada were the battleship New Jersey, ten cruisers, 212 destroyers, fifty destroyer escorts, and the inshore fire support ship Carronade. When necessary, naval guns poured out round after round, until their barrels overheated and turned red, exterio...
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    41,52 €

  • Enemy Waters
    David Bruhn / Rob Hoole
    When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, the Royal Navy was deficient in minelayers needed to try to hold enemy forces at bay and out of its home waters. Turning first to the Merchant Navy, it requisitioned a liner and two ferries for this use, and a dozen destroyers and submarines were also converted to carry mines. Later, six fast minelaying cruisers joined the...
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    44,70 €

  • Nightraiders
    David Bruhn / Rob Hoole
    As war with Japan was imminent, the British laid minefields off Hong Kong and Singapore; the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies; and the Australians off New Zealand and Australia, in an attempt to prevent enemy invasion. Ships hastily converted to this task were referred to as “night raiders.” Duty aboard a “floating ammunition dump” was hazardous enough; missions carried out...
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    44,19 €

  • Home Waters
    David Bruhn / Rob Hoole
    In WWI under a crippling naval blockade of its North Sea ports which ultimately resulted in the starvation of thousands of its citizens and as land warfare in Europe drags on, Germany endeavours to counter-blockade Britain via U-boat attacks on shipping and by mining waters round the British Isles. Hundreds of fishing vessels from every port and harbour in Britain are pressed i...
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    43,71 €

  • Ingram’s Fourth Fleet
    David Bruhn
    The story of the South Atlantic campaign in World War II, and that of the U.S. 4th Fleet and Royal Navy forces in the theater, was primarily one of ships and land-based planes hunting enemy submarines, commerce raiders, and blockade runners, while also safeguarding convoys. Admiral Ingram was the commander of a small seagoing force that grew into a fleet, charged at first with ...
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    43,17 €

  • Eyes of the Fleet
    David Bruhn
    Cloaked by jungle foliage, the unheralded seaplane tenders operated ahead of the Fleet, like the Navy's famed PT boats. As Halsey's South Pacific, MacArthur's Southwest Pacific, and Spruance's Central Pacific forces advanced toward Japan, these ships served as afloat-bases for patrol planes referred to as the 'eyes of the fleet.' The large fabric-clad PBY 'Catalinas' and later ...
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    39,95 €

  • We are Sinking, Send Help!
    David D. Bruhn / David DBruhn
    U.S. Navy rescue tugs and salvage ships were in the thick of the action during the invasion of French North Africa, the lengthy, bitter Italian Campaign, and the invasion of France in World War II. Seventeen officers and men from the salvage ship Brant and the fleet tug Cherokee received Navy Cross Medals for their heroic actions during a special operation in French Morocco. Ch...
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    41,33 €

  • MacArthur and Halsey’s 'Pacific Island Hoppers'
    David Bruhn
    At the commencement of World War II, the Navy and the Army-woefully lacking small ships able to ply shallow, reef-infested South and Southwest Pacific waters, which were necessary to support island ground combat-initially acquired whatever was available in ports, harbors, and backwaters to meet their needs. These vessels included schooners, ancient ferry boats, luggers, fishing...
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    41,94 €

  • Battle Stars for the 'Cactus Navy'
    David D. Bruhn / David DBruhn
    Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy obtained approximately 700 vessels from private owners, armed them, designated them as patrol yachts (PY) or patrol craft (YP), and sent them to sea. The vessels spanned the spectrum from yacht to waterfront work horse-fishing vessel, whaler, tug, and freighter. San Diego tuna fishermen-including those that would be aboard their bo...
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    39,95 €

  • Wooden Ships and Iron Men
    David Bruhn
    Possessing insufficient minesweepers to protect U.S. harbors and bays as the threat of war in Europe spread, in the winter of 1939-40 the Navy began purchasing fishing vessels and modifying them to combat mines. One of them, Condor (AMc-14), first sighted the Japanese Type-A midget submarine that destroyer Ward (DD-139) sank on December 7, 1941 with the first shots fired by Ame...
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    40,12 €

  • Wooden Ships and Iron Men
    David Bruhn
    From 1953 to 1976, twenty-four U.S. Navy coastal minesweepers (MSCs) swept mines, searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships and lost munitions, 'showed the flag' in the Caribbean and throughout the Far East, and played a key role in the Vietnam War. Atlantic Fleet coastal minesweepers searched for a nuclear bomb buried in the sea bed off Savannah, Georgia, as a re...
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    42,70 €

  • Glaubwürdigkeit Der Evangelischen Geschichte
    David Bruhn / Nathaniel Lardner / Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten
    Glaubwürdigkeit Der Evangelischen Geschichte explores the historical credibility of the Gospels by examining events mentioned in the New Testament. Nathaniel Lardner, along with David Bruhn, Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten, and Johann David Heilmann, corroborates these events with accounts from ancient writers who lived contemporaneously with Jesus Christ and his apostles or shortly ...
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    38,46 €

  • Wooden Ships and Iron Men
    David D. Bruhn / David DBruhn
    From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and lost munitions; 'showed the flag' throughout the world, even sailing up the Congo and Mekong Rivers, calling at dozens ...
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    41,32 €