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Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April ...
Gene Salecker... (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-61251-773-5 (eBook) The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Salecker, Gene Eric, 1957- Disaster on the Mississippi: the Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865/Gene Eric Salecker p. cm.
Rolling Thunder Against the Rising Sun: The Combat History ...
Gene Eric SaleckerCopyright © 2008 by Gene Eric Salecker Published by STACKPOLE BOOKS 5067 Ritter Road Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 www.stackpolebooks.com All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form or ...
The Second Pearl Harbor: The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944
Gene SaleckerThe West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944 Gene Salecker. THE SECOND PEARL HARBOR The West Loch Disaster,May 21,1944 GENE ERIC SALECKER UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NORMAN Also by Gene Eric Salecker Disaster on ...
Rolling Thunder Against the Rising Sun: The Combat History ...
Gene Eric SaleckerWrote historian DaleAndradé, “The 11th AirborneDivision hadreached the main Japanese defenses south of the capital and could go no further.”1 To the north, General MacArthur wasbecoming more and more exasperatedwith the XIVCorps ...
Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.S. and Japanese ...
Gene Eric SaleckerComplete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater Firsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers Detailed maps illustrate battles From the attack on Pearl Harbor through Japan's surrender, the Americans and ...
Leyte, 1944: The Soldiers' Battle
Nathan N. PreferQuoted in Gene Eric Salecker, Rolling ThunderAgainst the Rising Sun. The Combat History ofU.S. Army Tank Battalions in the Pacific in World War II. ( Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2008). P. 235. 7.The 8th Cavalry ...
The Infantry's Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank ...
Harry YeideReaders interested in a day-by-day account of the eighteen “land tank” battalions that fought in the Pacific—albeit with no coverage of the armored amphibians— should consult Gene Eric Salecker's Rolling Thunder against the Rising Sun.
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
Lee SandlinThe Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865, by Gene Eric Salecker (Naval Institute Press, 1996). I also consulted Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster, by William O. Bryant (University of Alabama Press, 1990); and Andersonville: The Last ...
Indiana and the Sultana Disaster:
Robert R. SmithIndianapolis Daily Journal, May 1, 1865 Page 1 & The Lincoln Funeral Train Memorial Plaque, Indianapolis. 195. Newsletter of the Association of Sultana Descendants Author: Gene Eric Salecker Vol. 5 No.12 Winter 1995 Page 2. Disaster on ...
Journeyman: Eric Clapton -- A Photographic Narrative
Gene ShawFor over five decades, Eric Clapton has ranked among rock's premiere guitarists—and since the early 1980s, famed music photographer Gene Shaw has been capturing great moments from Slowhand's electrifying career.
Fortress Against The Sun: The B-17 Flying Fortress In The ...
Gene E. SaleckerMost often remembered for its role in the air war against Germany, no book has ever before been devoted to the B-17's Pacific operations.
The American Neptune
More editionsGene Salecker has spent many years collecting data on this event, and his book examines every aspect from the original loading to the subsequent history of the survivors. Disaster on the Mississippi must now stand as the definitive work on a ...
Blue & Gray Magazine
More editionsRobert C. Holzborn Miami, FL Erroneous Titanic Comparison I was impressed with Gene Salecker's article "The Crippling of the Sultana: The Real Picture," in the August issue. I did notice one minor error, though, in the comparative drawing of ...
Sailing on Friday: The Perilous Voyage of America's Merchant ...
John A. ButlerGene Salecker's Disaster on the Mississippi reveals new details of the Sultana tragedy. Alan Villiers, editor of Men, Ships, and the Sea (hereafter Villiers), tells the colorful story of the Natchez and the Robt. F. Lee. Braynard and Tute discuss ...
The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction: ...
David MaddenArlene Reynolds, an actress, discovered the manuscript of Mrs. Custer's memoir of the war years, and the Civil War Center secured its publication. Gene Salecker, a campus policeman at Northwestern University and an independent scholar, ...
SULTANA TRAGEDY, THE: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster
Jerry O. PotterLicense issued to Sultana, March20, 1865, National Archives, Washington, D.C., courtesy of Gene Salecker, Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat, April 29,1865, p.4; and Testimonyof Capt. L. C. Mitchell, Dana Commission, ...
What Have You Done Now, Eugene?
Gene MingoPerhaps due to finding success too quickly, Gene developed a tendency to fall in with a bad crowd. His poor choices led to near tragedy, but he always found a home on the football field. Gene Mingo's story isn't simple.
IBM System Blue Gene Solution Blue Gene/Q Application ...
Megan GilgeIt describes the requirements to develop applications on this high-performance supercomputer. This book explains the unique Blue Gene/Q programming environment.
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Richard DawkinsIn The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate.
Gene Marshall: Girl Star
Mel OdomA fictional biography of Gene Marshall, the popular fashion doll, captures the glamour of the Golden Age of Hollywood as it chronicles Gene's humble beginnings, her discovery by a famed Hollywood director, and her meteoric rise of fame, all ...
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Peter WrightThis new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Eric Donald HirschProvides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
The Selfish Gene
Richard DawkinsAn ethologist shows man to be a gene machine whose world is one of savage competition and deceit
Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss
Lacey KohlmoosSources and Additional Reading Sources Bolton Street Synagogue, NPR commentator Eric Weiner sponsored by breathbooks Eric Weiner Books, Bio Book Reporter, Biography: Eric Weiner The Globalist, Eric Weiner World Database of ...
Arranging the Score: Portraits of the Great Arrangers
Gene LeesThese thirteen original essays draw together Gene Lee's observations on the craft of the arranger.
The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin
Ellen Ruppel ShellThe Hungry Gene takes an unflinching look at the spread of obesity, the most vexing scientific mysteries of our time.Acclaimed science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell reveals the existence of a gene that causes obesity and meets the ...
Gene Cloning
Julia LodgeApplications of gene cloning in medicine, both for diagnosis and treatment, and in the pharmaceutical industry and agriculture, are also covered in the book.
American Indians and Popular Culture
Elizabeth DeLaney HoffmanBreaking Seals by Eric Gansworth. (Courtesy of Eric Gansworth) Plastic Fred by Eric Gansworth. (Courtesy of Eric Gansworth). 158 Literature, Arts, and Resistance.
Proteomics of Spermatogenesis
G. S. GuptaBut observations suggest that the gene regulation by histone acetylation may operate in both methylation dependent and independent manners (Kundo and Rao 1999; Struhl, 1998) (Fig. 14.4). Role of acetylases and deacetylases in testis germ cells and their isoform are yet to be investigated. 14.6.2. ESET Histone Methyltransferase Covalent modifications of histone tails play important roles in gene transcription and silencing. An ERG (ets - related gene)-associated protein with a SET ...
Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry
Holly George-WarrenThe Life and Times of Gene Autry Holly George-Warren. as well as being featured in the movies, including Gene's 1946 picture, Sioux City Sue. 12. Philip K. Scheuer, “Town Called Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4, 1940. 13.
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