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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) is a book by Neil Sheehan, a former New York Times reporter, about U.S. Army lieutenant colonel John Paul Vann (killed in action) and the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
Killed In Action (KIA) Death of military personnel due to enemy action Military language, official and informal use King of Terrors [2] Personification of death Neutral Of Biblical origin, found in Job 18:14 Also refers to death itself Kiss one's arse goodbye Prepare to die Slang Late [17] Used to refer to the recently dead [17] Euphemism [17 ...
Koskela is killed while disabling an attacking Soviet tank with a satchel charge and Hietanen is blinded in an artillery strike, while saving a young serviceman from being shot, and later dies when the ambulance evacuating him is attacked. Asumaniemi, an ambitious young private, is the last one to die during the company's last counter-attack.
Cannell's eclectic works of nonfiction run from a biography of architect I.M. Pei ("I.M. Pei: Mandarin of Modernism") to the story of American racing driver Phil Hill's 1961 world championship ...
One of them recognizes Pam and pursues them in a car chase. Kelly is gravely wounded by a shotgun blast, while Pam is recaptured and later tortured, gang-raped, and killed. In Vietnam, a U.S. target drone (specified in the book as a buffalo hunter) discovers Air Force Colonel Robin Zacharias as a prisoner of war in a secret camp administered by ...
Douglas Alexander Zembiec (April 14, 1973 – May 11, 2007), nicknamed the "Lion of Fallujah" [1] [2] and also referred to as the "Unapologetic Warrior", [3] was an officer in the United States Marine Corps and member of the CIA's Special Activities Division's Ground Branch who was killed in action while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. [4]
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden (2012) is a military memoir by a former member of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) [1] [2] who participated in the mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. The book was written by Matt Bissonnette under the pen name Mark ...
The family of a married father of three killed in the Washington, DC plane crash last month is seeking $250 million in the first legal action filed against the Federal Aviation Administration and ...