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Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Beginning as a young boy, Jules takes you through the unique
process of becoming a Naval Aviator, engages you into his
experiences as a brand new pilot in a combat squadron and, finally
becoming a flying warrior. Having survived two combat cruises
aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk from 1966-1968,
compiling 332 career carrier take offs and landings, being shot at
daily by enemy fire while completing 200 combat missions over
Vietnam, he clearly shares the views of the aviators who flew along
with him on these missions while fighting this unpopular war. Jules
was awarded the Nation's Distinguished Flying Cross, 21 Air Medals,
and many other accolades. After reading this book the reader will
have a new understanding and appreciation about the Warriors who
protect not only their comrades in arms, but the defense of the
nation as well.
Beginning as a young boy, Jules takes you through the unique
process of becoming a Naval Aviator, engages you into his
experiences as a brand new pilot in a combat squadron and, finally
becoming a flying warrior. Having survived two combat cruises
aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk from 1966-1968,
compiling 332 career carrier take offs and landings, being shot at
daily by enemy fire while completing 200 combat missions over
Vietnam, he clearly shares the views of the aviators who flew along
with him on these missions while fighting this unpopular war. Jules
was awarded the Nation's Distinguished Flying Cross, 21 Air Medals,
and many other accolades. After reading this book the reader will
have a new understanding and appreciation about the Warriors who
protect not only their comrades in arms, but the defense of the
nation as well.
Most of us never get to test ourselves in combat. As a UH-1
Helicopter pilot flying in the jungle highlands of South Vietnam,
Warrant Officer Jim Crigler and the men he flew with were tested
daily. Coming of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s was
challenging for most young men of that era. Throw in drugs, free
love, draft notices, the Vietnam War and a country deeply divided,
and you have one of the most important books of this genre. This
true story is a raw, bold, introspective autobiography where the
author openly wrestles with his personal moral dilemma to find
meaning and purpose in his life. He calls it his "Mission of
Honor."
"On previous flight ops, when a launch was delayed, we usually
passed the time telling jokes or exchanging the latest scuttlebutt.
Tonight was different. Each of us sat silently with our own
thoughts. All of us, I'm sure, made impossible promises to God, and
I was one of them. My gut was wound so tight, it was hard to
breathe, no less talk. For the umpteenth time, I tightened the
harness of my chute. I remember praying, 'Whatever else happens,
don't make me bail out of this thing '"
With little to no recognition from the general public, navy
enlisted aircrewmen performed heroically in the Korean War. Manning
radios and radar, they were indispensable to the success of
missions. Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class Jack Sauter
was one such aircrewman. Assigned to the USS "Midway" and the USS
"Lake Champlain," he flew twenty-one early warning and
antisubmarine missions from the backseat of a Douglas Skyraider
with Task Force 77 off Korea in support of our troops.
From the excitement and thrill of being catapulted from the deck of
an aircraft carrier to the tedium of service at sea, the author
describes in detail his service in the Korean air war.
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In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an
impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young
Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their
fates are connected, a chance encounter that will shape both of
their lives for over half a century. Meanwhile, in the north of
Korea, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss
Silver's courtesan school in the glamorous city of Pyongyang. When
she befriends an orphan boy named JungHo, they form a deep
friendship. But before long, JungHo will be swept up in the
revolutionary fight for independence, while Jade becomes a
celebrated performer pursued by a wealthy romantic prospect. From
the perfumed chambers of a courtesan school in Pyongyang to the
glamorous cafes of a modernizing Seoul and the boreal forests of
Manchuria, Juhea Kim's unforgettable characters forge their own
destinies as they shape the future of their nation. Immersive and
elegant, Beasts of a Little Land unveils a world where friends
become enemies, enemies become saviours, and beasts take many
shapes.
Having just turned eighteen and graduated from high school, and
living in small-town Nebraska with nothing much to do, young Dick
Schaefer joined the Navy on impulse, hoping that by choosing his
branch of the military he would have some measure of control over
his future. Not fully aware of the increasing military action in
Vietnam, Schaefer found himself on a train bound for boot camp in
San Diego in late summer, 1962. Schaefer's account of his time at
boot camp is wry and rollicking. Upon graduation, he requested and
received orders to report to the U.S. Naval Hospital Corps School
in San Diego-and found that his choice of study suited him very
well. Aftercompleting his studies, again on impulse Schaefer
requested assignment to Hawai'i, assuming there must be a large
naval hospital at Pearl Harbor. In fact, there was no such
hospital-and Schaefer was assigned to the Fleet Marine Force. And
thus this young naval medical corpsman became assigned to a Marine
Corps unit for three years. "Marines and sailors didn't like each
other very much. My new tattoo would go over well!" In Spring of
1965 Schaefer's unit boarded a large troop transport ship bound for
a six-week stay in Okinawa. Then it was on to South Vietnam as part
of the fi rst contingent of American combat forces. Schaefer
recounts the terror of that fi rst beach landing, the hollow ache
of homesickness, his professionalism in handling injuries both
minor and devastating, the tragedy of friendly fi re, and his
involvement in Operation Starlite. He also offers his refl ections
on American involvement in the war, the reception of the troops as
they returned stateside, and his own reintegration into civilian
life.
In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers
and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work
through the U.S. military. Recently liberated from colonial rule,
these workers were drawn to the opportunities the military offered
and became active participants of the U.S. empire, most centrally
during the U.S. war in Vietnam. Simeon Man uncovers the
little-known histories of Filipinos, South Koreans, and Asian
Americans who fought in Vietnam, revealing how U.S. empire was
sustained through overlapping projects of colonialism and race
making. Through their military deployments, Man argues, these
soldiers took part in the making of a new Pacific world-a
decolonizing Pacific-in which the imperatives of U.S. empire
collided with insurgent calls for decolonization, producing often
surprising political alliances, imperial tactics of suppression,
and new visions of radical democracy.
This concluding volume of The Vietnam War and International Law
focuses on the last stages of America's combat role in Indochina.
The articles in the first section deal with general aspects of the
relationship of international law to the Indochina War. Sections II
and III are concerned with the adequacy of the laws of war under
modern conditions of combat, and with related questions of
individual responsibility for the violation of such laws. Section
IV deals with some of the procedural issues related to the
negotiated settlement of the war. The materials in Section V seek
to reappraise the relationship between the constitutional structure
of the United States and the way in which the war was conducted,
while the final section presents the major documents pertaining to
the end of American combat involvement in Indochina. A supplement
takes account of the surrender of South Vietnam in spring 1975.
Contributors to the volume--lawyers, scholars, and government
officials--include Dean Rusk, Eugene V. Rostow, Richard A. Falk,
John Norton Moore, and Richard Wasserstrom. Originally published in
1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Professor Havens analyzes the efforts of Japanese antiwar
organizations to portray the war as much more than a fire across
the sea" and to create new forms of activism in a country where
individuals have traditionally left public issues to the
authorities. This path-breaking study examines not only the methods
of the protesters but the tightrope dance performed by Japanese
officials forced to balance outspoken antiwar sentiment with treaty
obligations to the U.S. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
This searching analysis of what has been called America's longest
war" was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
to achieve an improved understanding of American participation in
the conflict. Part I begins with Truman's decision at the end of
World War II to accept French reoccupation of Indochina, rather
than to seek the international trusteeship favored earlier by
Roosevelt. It then discusses U.S. support of the French role and
U.S. determination to curtail Communist expansion in Asia.
Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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