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Curt Krüger was born the same year Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Along with all boys in his country, he was trained with the Hitler Youth, and at 10 years of age was drafted to travel with the Nazi Army to the Russian Front. During the peak of World War II, he was captured by Russian soldiers in Poland. He escaped and walked all the way to Hamburg, only to find his hometown still in the throes of war. This is a story of faith, survival, and the strength of a family in crisis.

The amazing life and legends of the First Black American Military Aviator. He left home, alone, at the age of 8 on a journey to France for Equality. The book, uniquely written as conversations with Eugene Jacques Bulllard. The author never met his hero. The book goes back to the summer before Bullard's death in 1961...and from there Bullard takes you back into his reality and his incredible adventures that include his trip to Norflok where he stowed away on a German ship . Aboard he learned some of the language and was put ashore in Scotland at the age of 12. He had various jobs, became a boxer, a dancer and finally made it to France at the age of 18 and joined the French Foreign Legion ...

On October 14, 1944, Joe Ostrander, 1st Lt. United States Army Air Corp, dropped his eggs in the early morning breakfast line at his Air Force base in southern Italy. He thought, "oh well, I'll just get some more tomorrow". His next eggs would be seven months away, as that morning his B-24 Liberator was shot down while bombing oil refineries over Ploesti, Romania. Join Joe as he takes us on his harrowing journey behind enemy lines. It's the stuff Hollywood movies are made of - except it's all TRUE.

The Sea and Me is my story describing my interest in the sea, enlistment in the U.S. Navy, attending a Merchant Marine engineering school, support of Navy Salvage ships and Mine Countermeasures ships while employed by a civilian contractor and finally federal service supporting all classes of U.S. submarines. The memoirs are a comical look at life as an enlisted seaman on submarines and as a non-management employee with the Department of Defense. Readers are advised that this book contains profanity. This book also contains some stories that might be considered gross to some readers.

"The View from the Stern" puts you onto the decks of the Attack Transport USS Heywood for an adventure of a lifetime. Jerry Spoon joined the U.S. Navy right after Pearl Harbor and spent the entire war on this ship. You will be an eyewitness to America's first assault against the Japanese Empire at Guadalcanal, and follow Jerry's war from Tarawa through the Philippines culminating in a walk through the fire-bombed remains of Tokyo. Jerry Spoon will put you into the Pacific War not as an admiral of a fleet or the captain of a ship or even an executive officer privy to the plan of battle, but as a boy-sailor charged with doing his duty the best he could.