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Category: Featured Author (page 2)

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Ronald Kruk

Posted on: February 5, 2021 Last updated on: June 21, 2021 Written by: marknordeen@gmail.com
Hacksaw Ridge : The True Story of Desmond Doss According to Doss’s account in a documentary film titled “The Contentious Objector”, as he rescued soldiers one-by-one, he breathed into the air with each go-around, “Lord, please help me get one…
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Joseph Tachovsky with Cynthia Kraack

Posted on: January 7, 2021 Last updated on: June 21, 2021 Written by: marknordeen@gmail.com
40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII’s Bloodiest Battles Winner of The 2020 Best Book Award for Military History — American Bookfest An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky’s “40 Thieves” were chosen…
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Sterling R. Cale as narrated to his son Sterling V. Cale

Posted on: December 26, 2020 Last updated on: June 21, 2021 Written by: marknordeen@gmail.com
A True American: The Story of a Pearl Harbor Survivor, World War II, Korean and Vietnam War Veteran From a farm in Illinois to Hawaii, Guadalcanal, Korea and Vietnam, Pearl Harbor Survivor Sterling Cale’s military career has taken him around…
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Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer

Posted on: November 10, 2020 Last updated on: June 21, 2021 Written by: marknordeen@gmail.com
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor…
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Colin G. Calloway

Posted on: September 22, 2020 Last updated on: June 21, 2021 Written by: marknordeen@gmail.com
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation A biography of America’s founding father and those on whose land he based the nation’s future. George Washington dominates the narrative of…
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Richard Carlton Haney

Posted on: September 15, 2020 Last updated on: June 21, 2021 Written by: marknordeen@gmail.com
“When is Daddy coming home?”: An American Family during World War II World War II was coming to a close in Europe and Richard Haney was only four years old when the telegram arrived at his family’s home in Janesville,…
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U.S. Navy Veteran Robert “Bob” Hunt

Posted on: September 16, 2020 Last updated on: June 21, 2021 Written by: marknordeen@gmail.com
Robert Schultz and his co-writer James Shell draw upon Hunt’s diary, interviews, crew letters, photographs, captains’ reports, and historical research to view the progress of the Pacific War through the eyes of a submariner. Whether Hunt and his crewmates are…
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Captain Orville Rogers

Posted on: September 17, 2020 Last updated on: June 21, 2021 Written by: marknordeen@gmail.com
Pilot and world champion runner Orville Rogers broke two world records at his first national meet in 2008. He was 90 years old. During his 60-year career in flight, he trained WWII fighter pilots, carried out secret missions during the…
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September 11
U.S. Veterans Project Library wants to acknowledge and honor those who lost their lives at the 9/11 Attacks in 2001.  The bravery of our first responders and courage of those who had to endure that tragedy will not be forgotten.  Visit https://www.911memorial.org/911-faqs to learn more about the bravery and courage we saw on 9/11 2001.

May 15
The Women’s Army Corps was the women’s branch of the United States Army.

Last Monday in May
Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died in the performance of their military duties while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

November 10th
November 10th, 1775, the day the Continental Marines were created serves as the official Marine Corps birthday.

November 11th
Veterans Day honors all of those who have served the country in war or peace — dead or alive — although it’s largely intended to thank living veterans for their sacrifices. It was originally called Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I.

December 7th
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is observed annually to remember and honor the 2,403 United States service members and civilians who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.


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Recent Featured Authors

Robin Hutton

War Animals: The Unsung Heroes of World War II Millions rallied to the cause of freedom against Nazism and the menace of Imperial Japan. But did you know that some of those heroes had fur, or feathers? War animals guarded…
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Christy Pinheiro and Richard A. Serrano

The Attack on Pearl Harbor: A Day That Changed America On December 7, 1941, Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, propelled the United States into World War II. Now readers can step back in…
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Mike O’Connor

Ace of Aces: The Dick Bong Story Ace of aces the dick bong story was originally published in 1985 and hailed as the first accurate, comprehensive biography of this daring pilot. Major Richard Ira Bong is America’s top scoring Ace…
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Craig Grossi

Craig & Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and…
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Tim Brady

Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes The astonishing true story of three fearless female resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied…
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Pearl Harbor Eagle Sculpture With FDR Quote On Glass Panel

Pearl Harbor Eagle Sculpture With FDR Quote On Glass Panel

Sculpture remembers Pearl Harbor in a fully dimensional eagle and beveled, genuine glass panel with battle image and inscription. Golden date plaque.
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