What Are You Reading?

In Bravely Into Battle, Galloway uses the term FUP. What is FUP?

edit: correction
edit II: Forming Up Point (learned that from WW2 Talk)

 

Now onto Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City by Peter Harmsen.

 

Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of World War II Louis Brown

 

Storme Galloway's With the Irish Against Rommel.

 

Just got a copy of Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark. Covers from about 1935 to 1970 and is written with a good sense of humor injected into what could otherwise be a dull topic.

 

Finished Al Nofi (ed) Fred Grant at Vicksburg. Twelve year old Fred Grant is permitted by his father to accompany him on his campaigns. Unfortunately Fred falls ill at several points and had no observations to share during.

Reading Fest's Not I.

 

Finished:
Wayne Blickenstaff's Ace in a Day. Blickenstaff was already an ace with his fifth kill a Me-262. He went on to shoot down five planes in one day.
Brian Brinkworth's Secret Interrogation of a German PoW. Interesting how they turned Hauptmann Hermann Cleff to work for the British. Cleff was predisposed of disliking the Nazis and was never in the Hitler Youth.
John Diamonds's Guadalcanal.

 

Finished The Pan Am Clippers. Was told by my uncle who was an airplane mechanic that he would be inside the wing and tune it while the aircraft was flying. One image in the book shows big access hatches on the nacelle and another pipe like tunnels in the wings.

Finished In The Skies Over Europe. I learned how to hunt moose in Finland:

 

The RAF Regiment At War, 1942-1945.

 

Facing the Red Army in Festung Posen.

The first part is a German Odyessey of a German officer and his comrades who escaped Festung Posen to return West. They were still e/r when Germany surrendered. The second part is an account of a sturmgeschutz crewman who was captured in Posen.

 

Taking Nazi Technology by Douglas M. O'Reagan. Pretty much puts the kibosh on the Germans being advanced or superior in technology in just about anything. A great academic add from Johns Hopkins press.

 

So Iron Sky is not a historical documentary?

 

Off topic with post American Civil War Martha Summerhayes' Vanished Arizona. First hand account by a wife of an army officer and life on the Arizona frontier. Her husband belonged to the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment (AKA The Harvard Regiment - their storming up Farquhar Street in Fredericksburg was inaccurately protrayed in the movie, Gods and Generals) during the American Civil War. He began as a sgt maj. and rose to first lieutenant. Post-War he enlisted in the 8th U. S. Infantry Regiment (regulars) as a 2nd lieutenant, gradually rising to 1st Lt. and then Captain (Quartermaster Corps) and retired (mandatory age) as a major.

Chapter 32 Texas recounts her meeting with Frederic Remington, the famed American artist, sculptor (and lessor known playwright) whom she befriended.

Here's an audio book version I just found to save you eyes:

 

Just finished Horst Reibenstahl's The 1st Panzer Division 1935-1945.

 

Peter Hart's Burning Steel about the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.

 

Fortress Cholm by Oskars Bero.

 

Klau Heck's Before You Cast the Second Stone.

 

Lou - does it mention the soldiers who were taught scuba? Death and Life in the Big Red One was my introduction into GI frogmen.

Finished Francis Catazaro's With the 41st Division in the SouthWest Pacific.

 

Scuba was invented after World War II.