Ocean Ablaze

preview-18
  • Ocean Ablaze Book Detail

  • Author : Carlton Harrell
  • Release Date : 2013-11-29
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 179
  • ISBN 13 : 1491817860
  • File Size : 83,83 MB

Ocean Ablaze by Carlton Harrell PDF Summary

Book Description: Two yellowing envelopes in a long-untouched file, unmistakably of U.S. Army origin but addressed to a North Carolina housewife, caught the attention of her son as he sorted her papers after her death. The postmarks, Virginia Beach, VA., and dated in 1942, were puzzling, as was the official return address: 111th Infantry C.T., Mobile Defense Force. While the 111th regimental combat team could be deciphered, the Mobile Defense Force was not a recognizable term. The letters inside instructed her on the duties of a coast watcher, and evoked memories stored since childhood: The sickening thump of torpedoes striking U.S. ships just off the Currituck Outer Banks and the flare of flames, particularly when a tanker was hit, that were clear even to a youngster on his front porch 8 miles inland. Each boom and pillar of fire revealed that more men were dying in the freezing waters off North Carolina's barrier islands that winter. How did the United States get into such straits that its life was threatened as the Axis juggernauts rolled across Western Europe and Asia? What transpired during the crucial years when the outcome of the war could go against the United States as Axis aggression flooded the Atlantic with U-boats striving to cut the stream of ships laden with weapons, troops, and food flowing to the beleaguered British Isles - the last Allied outpost near the Continent? How did the Allies achieve victory first against the U-boats, then the war, for as Napoleon observed: "It is only a step from victory to disaster. "

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Ocean Ablaze books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Ocean Ablaze

Ocean Ablaze

File Size : 22,22 MB
Total View : 9800 Views
DOWNLOAD

Two yellowing envelopes in a long-untouched file, unmistakably of U.S. Army origin but addressed to a North Carolina housewife, caught the attention of her son

The Ocean on Fire

The Ocean on Fire

File Size : 71,71 MB
Total View : 2713 Views
DOWNLOAD

Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate

Ocean Ablaze

Ocean Ablaze

File Size : 11,11 MB
Total View : 1588 Views
DOWNLOAD

Two yellowing envelopes in a long-untouched file, unmistakably of U.S. Army origin but addressed to a North Carolina housewife, caught the attention of her son

Oceans on Fire

Oceans on Fire

File Size : 2,2 MB
Total View : 3841 Views
DOWNLOAD

When Nathalie Thompson's cameraman doesn't show at the airport alarm bells start to ring. But, with a TV commission on the table and a job to do, she sets off a