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The Frogmen of World War II: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams
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Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage (A True Story of a WWII Spy)
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Admiral King “listened with utmost enthusiasm,” wrote Captain James Doyle, Turner’s operations officer, when describing the UDT efforts at Flintlock. “Excellent,” King interrupted in the middle of Doyle’s briefing, “that business of the hydrographic survey at the first possible moment is a pet hobby of mine.” For Turner, however, a unit capable of
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John Piedmont’s Det One: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, 2003–2006
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Guardians of Churchill's Secret Army: Men of the Intelligence Corps in the Special Operations Executive
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In November 1943, Rear Admiral John Hall took command of the 11th Amphibious Force and assumed the responsibility for depositing the Army’s Fifth Corps on the landing site designated as Omaha Beach—nothing less than the most important operation in American history.
Benjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
Clarke could charm senior officers brilliantly, but he also got things done. His intelligence was allied to an ingenious imagination and a photographic memory. He did his best work at night, and in public places always sat with his back to a wall. You would not notice him in a crowd and he was never famous, yet Field Marshal Harold Alexander believ
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