Railroading in Eighteen Countries
Author: Carl Raymond Gray Jr.
Publisher:
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781258507848
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Publisher:
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781258507848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Maj.-Gen. Carl R. Gray
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-12-01
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1789122872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of the Military Railway Service of the United States Army from its beginning in 1862 and including a brief account of the Service in World War I. It is specifically the story of the military use of railroads in World War II and in Korea. General Gray has focused his comprehensive account on the performance of the personnel of the Service, and on outstanding individuals wherever possible. Out of more than 351,000 men and women employees of American railroads serving in all arms in World War II, 43,500 were assigned to various units of the Military Railway Service. This impressive record of their achievements covers history, organization, training and operations in Alaska, England, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, Northern France and Belgium, Southern France, Germany and Austria, Iran, India, the Philippines, New Caledonia, Australia, Japan and Korea. A notable feature of this handsome volume is the wealth of fine photographs of operations in all areas, for the most part photographs not seen before.
Author: John F. Stover
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780415921404
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Author: Steven James Hantzis
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017-05
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1612349390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a theater of war long forgotten and barely even known at the time, James Harry Hantzis and his fellow soldiers labored at a thankless task under oppressive conditions. Nonetheless, as Rails of War demonstrates, without the men of the 721st Railway Operating Battalion, the Allied forces would have been defeated in the China-Burma-India conflict in World War II. Steven James Hantzis’s father served alongside other GI railroaders in overcoming danger, disease, fire, and monsoons to move the weight of war in the China-Burma-India theater. Torn from their predictable working-class lives, the men of the 721st journeyed fifteen thousand miles to Bengal, India, to do the impossible: build, maintain, and manage seven hundred miles of track through the most inhospitable environment imaginable. From the harrowing adventures of the Flying Tigers and Merrill’s Marauders to detailed descriptions of grueling jungle operations and the Siege of Myitkyina, this is the remarkable story of the extraordinary men of the 721st, who moved an entire army to win the war. For more information about Rails of War, visit railsofwar.com.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 820
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