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Publisher / Publication Date: Crestline 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.5442 BRUBruning, John R.
Summary: "On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 BRUBruning, John R.
Summary: The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BRUGolembesky, Michael
Summary: The author follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to break the Taliban's grip on the Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 GOLWorkman, Jeremiah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 WORCoughlin, Jack
Summary: Retired Marine sniper Jack Coughlin offers a narrative of how snipers have changed the course of America's war on al Qaida in the Middle East and Africa during the War on Terror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: A U.S. military interrogator describes his work in Iraq and his innovative approach that replaces torture with empathy, a procedure that he used to gain the intelligence information required to bring down Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 ALEParnell, Sean
Summary: A lieutenant's gripping, personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan--a vivid, action-packed, and highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery .
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 PARRedman, Jason
Summary: "A Navy SEAL's highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous recovery from wounds that might have killed him--if it were not for his grit and the devotion of his wife and family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013