How do you write a history of a WWII military unit when the official records of that unit lie at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean some three hundred miles from Fiji?The answer involves some serendipity, some luck, and the tenacity of one man to rebuild the story of his, and his comrades' war experiences. This group of men organized for a unique mission, and share a unique story. Most of their casualties occurred on the way to the Pacific War-and every member of the unit was awarded the Purple Heart. Only through the efforts of one of their own can we finally write this book in their honor and their memory.Is it a history? Is it a memoir? Yes. It is the personal memories of the men intertwined with the recorded history of a WWII Pacific Campaign. Quoted from the memorial plaque at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: "Initially torpedoes and almost destroyed, the squadron rose from disaster to top performance of its control mission in the air war of the Pacific.""Sharks tore bodies from partially submerged life rafts in their hunger for human flesh. Some of the sharks had already made off with screaming men, and the blood from the bodies of those boys attracted more sharks. There were schools of them, I don't know how many, but they were seven to ten feet long-they even pulled men off rafts."After this horrific experience, losing ten of their numbers, 357 men gathered and set out on their mission to save the lives of stricken American pilots and inflict deadly damage on the enemy. This book is a trip through history and the collective memories of the men who were their.From New Guinea to the Philippines they fought and bled on battlefields not as heralded by the films or books--but just as deadly to the men who hit those beaches and fought in those jungles after enduring the sinking of the ship that was to bring them to war.

The Saga of the 1st Fighter Control Squadron: Memories of Our History

History

GAUTHIER, TOM

Driest, Chester

Military

ToMar Associates, Publishing

Mead's Trek

Marine Corps Major Amos Mead, a lawyer by education and a Special Agent for the FBI by trade, is recruited as an agent in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in early 1943.  His latest mission: Assess the level of cooperation among the factions conducting the war against the Empire of Japan in the Asian Theater of Operations.  Known only to a few, additional orders direct Major Mead to seek out a powerful Asian leader and investigate the possibility of the Vice President of the United States being involved in secret negotiations with Vietnamese Communists for a post-war alliance.   En route to his assignment, unexpected life-threatening events befall Mead's team. The mission then takes on a new urgency—one of survival. Mead and his team are forced onto a trek in an enemy infested jungle that will test the limits of their mental toughness and physical endurance.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Patriot Media, Publishing

Major Amos Mead, USMC, an agent for the OSS based in London, is 
tasked with tracking Nazi spies. Through radio intercepts, Mead discovers Nazi Germans are trying to locate and steal a new and important breakthrough in United States radar technology. Ultimately, assigned to protect the radar device on its journey to war with the 1st Fighter Control Squadron, Mead assembles a most unlikely team of fellow spy catchers.\nUnknown to Mead and his team, Nazi leaders Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler are in direct competition with each other to capture the device for their own paranoid purposes. Nazi master spy Otto Hauptmann works for one of them. Into the mix is thrown another spy &ndash; suspected to be a United States military officer, also on the Nazi espionage mission.\nThus, Mead and company are challenged from many directions. The chase begins in Berlin and London, passes through North and South America, and ends in the South Pacific, 300 miles from Fiji.\nAlong the way, an old love interest reappears, unusual alliances are formed, highest levels of government provide clandestine support, people are lost and found, and the culmination of the race twists in unsuspected ways.

Code Name: Orion's Eye

Literary

DIE LISTE: Revenge on the Black Sun is an action/adventure novel. Amos Mead, WWII OSS agent, is building a life after the war when an old comrade-in-arms shows up and pulls him into a secret project of the CIA. Mead finds himself once again in a dangerous game of international intrigue. During the war he sought enemy agents. Now he faces a serial assassin of Nazi war criminals brought to the United States by the government in an experiment gone wrong. Mead begins an international chase, with friends who may be foes, while back home his psychologist wife, Brigit, provides insights about clues, and her growing suspicions. It ends with an explosive twist in a faraway lair of Nazi history.

Die Liste: Revenge on the Black Sun

Patriot Media, Incorporated

THE U.S. HAS A BATTLE WINNING TECHNOLOGY THAT NAZI GERMANY NEEDS TO SURVIVE1943 World War II is raging. OSS officer Major Amos Mead tracks the elusive Nazi spy, Otto Hauptmann. Nazi Germany must steal the new radar technology. Mead must prevent it. From London and Berlin the race begins, finally converging in the South Pacific on the high seas where the lives of thirteen hundred men hang in the balance.

Action & Adventure

Outskirts Pr

Outskirts Press

CHARLOTTE la Beauté et la Tragédie

Independently published

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