A Tale of the Grenada Raiders: Memories in the Idioms of DreamsMagic Kingdom Dispatch, 24 ต.ค. 2017 - 377 หน้า An airborne Ranger's memoir of the Grenada invasion, Operation Urgent Fury. On October 25, 1983, Rangers from the 1st and 2d Ranger Battalions parachuted into the teeth of the Cuban defenses on revolutionary Grenada. This account of the combat jump, the battles to seize the airfield at Point Salines, the evacuation of American students at Grand Anse, and a raid against the Cuban barracks at Point Calivigny is told for the first time by a participant. Richly illustrated. Corrected edition. |
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หน้า 25
... weapons and rucksack, I grip my static line, hanging on to it with the stench of vomit in my nostrils. I look out a porthole on the side of the aircraft to relieve my nausea, and I see endless ocean waves, grey in the haze of the rising ...
... weapons and rucksack, I grip my static line, hanging on to it with the stench of vomit in my nostrils. I look out a porthole on the side of the aircraft to relieve my nausea, and I see endless ocean waves, grey in the haze of the rising ...
หน้า 42
... weapons jump case with two M72 LAW antitank rockets from his parachute harness on his left side, and he straps his XM177E2 assault rifle exposed on his parachute harness on his right side. We are jumping our rifles exposed on our ...
... weapons jump case with two M72 LAW antitank rockets from his parachute harness on his left side, and he straps his XM177E2 assault rifle exposed on his parachute harness on his right side. We are jumping our rifles exposed on our ...
หน้า 56
... runway, control tower white amidst brown hills, orange flames, black smoke. The sky is full of parachutes, and a jettisoned rucksack streaks past, bouncing off the asphalt. I swing left pulling hard on my risers, automatic weapons. 56.
... runway, control tower white amidst brown hills, orange flames, black smoke. The sky is full of parachutes, and a jettisoned rucksack streaks past, bouncing off the asphalt. I swing left pulling hard on my risers, automatic weapons. 56.
หน้า 57
... weapons fire hammering in the hills to the north, and I release my own ruck from its harness between my knees. I am working quickly. I swing right hearing the crump of mortar rounds on the runway, chunks of asphalt fly, palm trees on ...
... weapons fire hammering in the hills to the north, and I release my own ruck from its harness between my knees. I am working quickly. I swing right hearing the crump of mortar rounds on the runway, chunks of asphalt fly, palm trees on ...
หน้า 59
... weapon. The barrel is clear. In the rucksack, I carry a Claymore mine, a machete, a bandolier of bullets, a 100-round belt of machine-gun ammunition, an extra smoke grenade and a thermite grenade. I strapped an M72 LAW antitank rocket ...
... weapon. The barrel is clear. In the rucksack, I carry a Claymore mine, a machete, a bandolier of bullets, a 100-round belt of machine-gun ammunition, an extra smoke grenade and a thermite grenade. I strapped an M72 LAW antitank rocket ...
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A Tale of the Grenada Raiders: Memories in the Idioms of Dreams Stephen Trujillo ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2017 |
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1st Battalion 1st Ranger Battalion 25 October 2d Ranger Battalion Airborne airfield Andy Paulin Army Bad Muthers Battalion Rangers Big Ed Big Ed Saundry Big Ranger Bill Sears bird Blackhawks bullets burning chopper Combat Talon commander Company courtesy of Ranger Cuban Dale Killinger dead DJ Foley DOD photo dream Duenas enemy eyes fire Fort Lewis Grand Anse Grenada Grenadian gun jeeps gunner hear helicopter Hunter Army Airfield Jerry Shorma Joe Muccia Kearney Kevin Lannon kill Lannon liberated Point Salines Lieutenant look machine-gun medic Mike Cameron Mike Farmer Muccia Operation Urgent Fury parachute Photo courtesy photo was taken pilot platoon radio Ranger Big Ranger Eskridge Ranger Holt Ranger School Ranger SGT Ranger Shorma Ranger Slater Ranger SP4 Ranger SSG remember rifle Robert Jordan Rosetta Stone rucksack runway Saint George’s says SeaCobra Sean Bray Sergeant side Slushy Peaches smoke tell True Blue weapon Yamane yells