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Bryan Mark Rigg

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1) Flamethrower: Iwo Jima Medal of Honor recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and his controversial award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War

Author

Rigg, Bryan Mark

Publisher

Fidelis Historia, LLC

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

Description

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"Imagine strapping on a highly flammable 70-pound pack and entering combat as a surefire walking target - and you'd only begin to understand the job, and the horror, of [a] Marine Corps flamethrower man. That's precisely what Hershel "Woody" Williams did in World War II, most importantly in February 1945 on Iwo Jima, one of the Pacific War's toughest battles. A few days into the battle, Marines were fighting hard for an airfield, and his captain asked...

2) Conquering learning disabilities at any age: how an ADHD/LD kid graduated from Yale and Cambridge, and became a Marine officer, military historian, financial advisor and caring father