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January 16, 2024

Hard Aground The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy [Audiobook]

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Free Download Andrew C. A. Jampoler, Chris Monteiro (Narrator), "Hard Aground: The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy"
English | ASIN: B0CQD8G2X1 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:42:00 | 275 MB
Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy’s strategic and materiel evolution from the end of Civil War through the First World War.
The first story focuses on the reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War. Jampoler argues that the federal government discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by Congress, was the wrong fleet.

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December 29, 2023

Sailors to the End The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It

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Free Download Gregory A. Freeman, "Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It"
English | 2004 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0060936908, 0066212677 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally fired a rocket into an aircraft occupied by pilot John McCain. A huge fire ensued, and McCain barely escaped before a 1,000-pound bomb on his plane exploded, causing a chain reaction with other bombs on surrounding planes. The crew struggled for days to extinguish the fires, but, in the end, the tragedy took the lives of 134 men. For thirty-five years, the terrible loss of life has been blamed on the sailors themselves, but this meticulously documented history shows that they were truly the victims and heroes.

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