Book Preview Nui Ba Den Republic of South Vietnam 15 October 1962 The incident referred to in paragraph 3 of the Daily Report of Incidents Involving Loss of U.S. Military Persormel for the period 000 I to 2400 14 October 1962 took place at what was officially known as Camp 7. Camp 7 was, however, … Read more
Book Preview FOR NATIONAL WIRE 828PM JULY 19, 1961 APW 31/283 SLUG: SALINGER: “NO COMMENT” RE AMERICANS CAPTURED AT BAY WASH DC July 19: Presidential Press Secretary Piere Salinger refused comment tonight on the question of American military personnel captured In Cuba during the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, and was either unable … Read more
Book Preview When available, a caparisoned stallion, with boots reversed in stirrups, to be led in the procession, Is authorized for military funerals of officers and noncommissioned officers assigned to Armor or Armored Cavalry, or for officers and noncommissioned officers formerly assigned to Cavalry. A ground crew two sergeants in fatigues and field jackets was … Read more
Book Preview The black, four-door Buick Roadmaster carried Virginia license plates. Attached to the plates was a strip of metal on which was stamped ALEXANDRIA 1954, as proof the owner had paid his 1954 Alexandria city automobile tax. The car showed none of the other decalomania, however, that many of the cars in the Washington, … Read more
Book Preview Brotherhood of War 02 At approximately 0500 Sunday, 25 June 1950, Koreans awakened Major George D. Kessler,USA , Korean Military Advisory Group advisor to the lOth Regiment at Samchok and told him a heavy North Korean attack was in progress at the 38th parallel. U.S.Army in the Korean War, Vol. I, p. 27 … Read more
Book Preview On 14 February 1943, strong German armored units sallied forth from passes in south-central Tunisia on the front of the 11 U.S. Corps, commanded by Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, in an attempt to turn the flank of the British First Army (Lt. Gen. Kenneth A. N. Anderson) and capture’ the base of … Read more
Book Preview 7522 Battersby Street, Philadelphia Wednesday, September 9, 1:55 Tony Harris returned to his bed, silently cursing himself for not having hit the john before he’d crawled under the sheets two hours earlier. Harris—a thirty-eight-year-old homicide detective in the Philadelphia Police Department who was slight of build and starting to bald—then clicked off the … Read more
Book Preview It was Sunday night, and at quarter after eleven the Roy Rogers restaurant at South Broad and Snyder Streets in South Philadelphia was just about full. Amal al Zaid, who was five feet seven inches tall and weighed 145 pounds, and who had spent sixteen of his twenty-one years as Dwayne Alexander Finston … Read more
Book Preview A nearly new, but quite dirty, antenna-festooned Buick pulled into the employee parking lot of the Philadelphia Bulletin and into a parking space bearing a sign reading RESERVED MR. O?HARA. Mr. Michael J. O?Hara, a wiry, curly haired man in his late thirties, wearing gray flannel trousers, loafers, a white shirt with the … Read more
Book Preview Officer Jerry Kellog, who was on the Five Squad of the Narcotics Unit of the Philadelphia Police Department, had heard somewhere that if something went wrong, and you found yourself looking down the barrel of a gun, the best thing to do was smile. Smiling was supposed to make the guy holding the … Read more
Book Preview Marion Claude Wheatley, who was thirty-three years of age, stood just under six feet tall, weighed 165 pounds, and was just starting to lose his hair, had no idea why God wanted to kill the Vice President of the United States, any more than he did why God had selected him to carry … Read more
Book Preview The Day After New Year’s Day Reception given by Taddeus Czernick, who was the police commissioner of the City of Philadelphia was considered by Staff Inspector Peter F. Wohl as a lousy idea whose time had unfortunately come. New Year’s Eve is not a popular festive occasion so far as the police of … Read more
Book Preview On the train from New York to Philadelphia, Charles read Time and Victor read The Post. Charles was thirty-three but could have passed for twenty-five. Victor was thirty-five, but his male pattern baldness made him look older. They were both dressed neatly in business suits, with white button-down shirts and rep-striped neckties. Both … Read more
Book Preview Mary Elizabeth Flannery first came to the attention of the Police Department of the City of Philadelphia at 9:21 p.m., June 29, 1973, when an unidentified civilian called the Police Emergency number and reported that as she and her husband had been driving through Fairmount Park, going down Bell’s Mill Road toward Chestnut … Read more
Book Preview I think I am, the long-haired, long-legged blonde thought, torn between excitement and alarm, about to have my first affair with a married man. Her name was Louise Dutton, and she pursed her lips thoughtfully and cocked her head unconsciously to one side as she considered that improbable likelihood. She was at the … Read more
Book Preview It is over. All over. The game lost, and his life with it. The soft, tiny glows of a thousand distant gaslamps rise past Langford’s gaze as he falls, despair rising bitterly to choke him. Below, the dark ribbon of the Thames; around it, London sprawling away in all directions into the fog-shrouded … Read more
Book Preview The breeze was blowing strong ashore this night, bringing wafts of the salty seacoast tang of dead things with it—and bringing the stink of the harbor to better wards of Water-deep. Both of the men in the many-shadowed upstairs room over The Laughing Lass festhall were used to the smells; they hadn’t bothered … Read more
Book Preview K:\eMule\Incoming\Shandril’s Saga 02 – Crown Of Fire – Greenwood, Ed.pdb PDB Name: Crown of Fire Creation Date: 16-8-1973 Modification Date: 16-8-1973 Last Backup Date: 1-1-1970 Modification Number: 0 Sequel to the Best-Selling Novel ‘Spellfire’ The action of this novel occurs in the Year of the Prince (1357 Dalreckoning), immediately after the novel ‘Spellfire’, … Read more