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Close air support and the Battle for Khe Sanh / by Callahan, Shawn P.(CARDINAL)291697; Marine Corps University (U.S.).History Division.(CARDINAL)291500;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-179)Close air support doctrines -- Khe Sanh background -- The Hill Battles of 1967 -- The Siege of 1968 -- Operation Pegasus and the relief of Khe Sanh -- The Deep air battle and the B-52 -- Radar controlled tactical air support -- Close air support -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. Glossary of acronyms and terms -- Appendix B. Orders of Battle -- Appendix C. Fratricide and near fratricide aviations incidents at Khe Sanh.
Subjects: Khe Sanh, 2nd Battle of, Vietnam, 1968; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Close air support.; Operation Pegasus, 1968.; Fratricide.;

Man of war : an Eric Steele novel / by Parnell, Sean,1981-author.(CARDINAL)397897;
Eric Steele is the best of the best-an Alpha-an elite clandestine operative assigned to a US intelligence unit known simply as the "Program." A superbly trained Special Forces soldier who served several tours fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele now operates under the radar, using a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his enemies and neutralize them. But when a man from Steele's past attacks a military convoy and steals a nuclear weapon, Steele and his superiors at the White House are blindsided. Moving from Washington, DC, to the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, Steele must use his considerable skills to hunt this rogue agent, a former brother-in-arms who might have been a friend, and find the WMD before it can reach the United States-and the world is forever changed.--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Intelligence officers; Weapons of mass destruction; Nuclear terrorism;

I am Radar / by Larsen, Reif,author.(CARDINAL)495447;
Includes bibliographical references."The moment just before Radar Radmanovic is born, all of the hospital's electricity mysteriously fails. The delivery takes place in total darkness. Lights back on, the staff sees a healthy baby boy-with pitch-black skin-born to the stunned white parents. No one understands the uncanny electrical event or the unexpected skin color. "A childbirth is an explosion," the ancient physician says by way of explanation. "Some shrapnel is inevitable, isn't it?" A kaleidoscopic novel both heartbreaking and dazzling, Reif Larsen's I Am Radar begins with Radar's perplexing birth but rapidly explodes outward, carrying readers across the globe and throughout history, as well as to unknown regions where radio waves and subatomic particles dance to their own design. Spanning this extraordinary range with grace and empathy, humor and courage, I Am Radar is the vessel where a century of conflict and art unite in a mesmerizing narrative whole. Deep in arctic Norway, a cadre of Norwegian schoolteachers is imprisoned during the Second World War. Founding a radical secret society that will hover on the margins of recorded history for decades to come, these schoolteachers steal radioactive material from a hidden Nazi nuclear reactor and use it to stage a surreal art performance on a frozen coastline. This strange society appears again in the aftermath of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime, when another secret performance takes place but goes horrifically wrong. Echoes of this disaster can be heard during the Yugoslavian wars, when an avant-garde puppeteer finds himself trapped inside Belgrade, while his brother serves in the genocidal militia that attacks Srebrenica. Decades later, in the war-torn Congo, a disfigured literature professor assembles the largest library in the world even as the country around him collapses. All of these stories are linked by Radar-now a gifted radio operator living in the New Jersey Meadowlands-who struggles with love, a set of hapless parents, and a terrible medical affliction that he has only just begun to comprehend. As I Am Radar accelerates toward its unforgettable conclusion, these divergent strands slowly begin to converge, revealing that beneath our apparent differences, unseen harmonies secretly unite our lives. Drawing on the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history, and mind-bending art, Larsen's I Am Radar is a triumph of storytelling at its most primal, elegant, and epic: a breathtaking journey through humanity's darkest hours only to arrive at a place of shocking wonder and redemption"--
Subjects: War fiction.; Novels.; Quantum theory; Secret societies; History, Modern; Twentieth century; Arts, Modern;

Buffalo soldiers [videorecording] / by Grupe, Rainer.; Moody, Ariane.; Jordan, Gregor.; Weiss, Eric Axel.; Maccoby, Nora.; Phoenix, Joaquin.; Harris, Ed,1950-(CARDINAL)318703; Glenn, Scott,1942-; Paquin, Anna.(CARDINAL)533029; Mann, Gabriel.; Leon(Leon Robinson); Mahmud-Bey, Shiek.; Stockwell, Dean,1938-(CARDINAL)340927; McGovern, Elizabeth,1961-(CARDINAL)809090; Stapleton, Oliver.(CARDINAL)843385; Smith, Lee.(CARDINAL)376878; Holmes, David,1969-; O'Connor, Robert.Buffalo soldiers.; FilmFour (Firm)(CARDINAL)346669; Good Machine International.; Gorilla Entertainment (Firm); Grosvenor Park (Firm); Miramax Films.(CARDINAL)436238; Odeon Pictures (Firm);
Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Lee Smith ; original music, David Holmes ; costume designer, Odile Dicks Mireaux ; production designer, Steven Jones-Evans.Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Gabriel Mann, Leon Robinson, Sheik Mahmud-Bey, Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth McGovern.Crooked U.S. soldiers are stationed on an American Army base in West Germany during the waning days of the cold war. Special Fourth Class Elwood guards against the Soviets while on duty, and rips off the U.S. military while off duty. Elwood runs a profitable black-market business that operates just below the official radar. One day, he and his gang uncover some loot that will land them some real money - high-tech military weaponry. As they try to quietly offload the stuff, the new sergeant catches on to the nefarious deeds and sets out to put him out of business.MPAA rating: R; for violence, drug content, strong language and some sexuality.DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Black marketeers; Cold War; United States. Army;

Dangerous missions [videorecording]. : pathfinders. by Arts and Entertainment Network.(CARDINAL)225081; History Channel (Television network)(CARDINAL)330875;
Tells of the Pathfinders, who were the first groups of parachute troops to be dropped behind enemy lines during nighttime Allied aerial assaults in World War II. Their mission was to secretly set up radar and lights to guide transport planes carrying the main forces to the right drop zones and then continue to fight the war on the ground. Tells of the Pathfinders' role during the D-Day invasion of Europe and later in southern France. Includes film footage, reenactments, and interviews.DVD.
Subjects: Operation Overlord.; Parachute troops; World War, 1939-1945;

Dogfights [videorecording] : night fighters
Hellcats in the night -- P-61 Black Widow -- F3D Skyknight vs. MiG-15 -- Operation Allied Force -- A night patrol.At the beginning of World War II, no planes were designed for night fighting. The first part of the documentary recounts the story of Fred "Buck" Dungan, a Navy Hellcat fighter pilot who intercepted a Japanese formation over Guam after a bombing mission. Radar meant to be used at night was developed during World War II. Also during World War II, planes were specifically created for night fighting. Now all military planes are capable of night fighting.Not rated.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Dungan, Fred "Buck".; Airplanes; Radar; World War, 1939-1945.;

Automated speed enforcement pilot project for the Capital Beltway : feasibility of photo-radar / by Lynn, Cheryl.(CARDINAL)311173; Virginia Transportation Research Council.(CARDINAL)195142;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-82).Final report.Because of increasing difficulties in enforcing posted speed limits on the Capital Beltway around Washington, D.C., local officials proposed that experiments be conducted with photo-radar to determine if that method of automated speed enforcement (widely used in Europe for about 30 years and very recently employed in the western United States) could help reduce average speed and speed variance. A project task force led by the Virginia Department of State Police, with assistance from the Maryland Department of State Police and the Virginia and Maryland Departments of Transportation and with technical assistance from the Virginia Transportation Research Council, conducted site visits to cities in Europe and the United States where photo-radar is being used. The task force also invited six manufacturers of photo-radar equipment to staff and demonstrate their equipment. Five of the manufacturers conducted a 2-week series of tests on sections of interstate highways with varying volumes of traffic and different traffic characteristics. The tests, which were conducted from June through September 1990, were designed to provide the evaluators with data on the accuracy, reliability; and efficiency of each unit (in terms of the number of speeding cases that could potentially be generated by the use of photo-radar on the Beltway) and help the study team determine i photo-radar could be successfully deployed on the Capital Beltway as an enforcement tool. In addition, the project included an analysis of legal and constitutional issues associated with photo-radar use as well as an evaluation of public sentiment concerning the use of photo-radar on the Capital Beltway. The evaluators concluded that photo-radar use was feasible on high-speed, high-volume roads such as the Capital Beltway and, therefore, recommended efforts to pass state enabling statutes and test further the efficacy of photo-radar in actual traffic enforcement conditions. Although the results of the study indicate that it is feasible to use photo-radar on high-speed multilane roadways, further study is required to determine its effect on travel speed and safety. There are also important operational issues that must be considered when using this device. Some items of consideration are identification and selection of operational sites and times to deal with identified traffic safety and enforcement problems; provision of equipment-specific training programs for police officers to ensure the equipment is properly operated; provision for the availability of properly trained technical support personnel to ensure the continuing accuracy of the equipment; setting of speed thresholds that are realistically determined and target the excessive speeder; number of lanes on the roadway; visual obstructions on the roadway; and customizing of photo-radar applications to fit the highway safety problem area.Sponsored by Virginia Department of Transportation, University of Virginia, [and] Virginia Dept. of State Police, under a grant awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, contract no.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Radar in speed limit enforcement; Radar in speed limit enforcement; Speed limits; Speed limits;

Women of the Third Reich : from camp guards to combatants / by Heath, Tim,1965-author.(CARDINAL)675965;
Includes bibliographical references.Dismembering innocence -- Administrating evil -- From the beggar's paw -- The little Aryan -- My infatuation -- Salon Kitty -- A French adventure -- Keeper of beasts -- The devil's daughter -- When our city burned -- Rotes Kreuz -- There be monsters -- Surviving our youth -- Shoot straight -- Maidens of iron -- Say hell to God -- Victory, war is over -- Erich -- In the absence of menThe women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did? We hear from women who issued typewritten dictates from above through to those who operated telephones, radar systems, fought fires as the cities burned around them, drove concentration camp inmates to their deaths like cattle, fired Anti-Aircraft guns at Allied aircraft and entered the militias when faced with the impending destruction of what should have been a one thousand-year Reich. Every testimony is unique, each person a victim of circumstance entwined within the thorns of an ideological obligation. In an interview with Traudl Junge, Hitler's private secretary, she remembers: There was so much hatred within it's hard to understand how the state functioned I am convinced all this infighting and competition from the males in Hitler's circle was highly detrimental to its downfall'. Women of the Third Reich provides an intriguing, humorous, brutal, shocking and unrelenting narrative journey into the half lights of the hell of human consciousness - sometimes at its worst
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Women Nazis; Women; National socialism and women; Fascism and women; Women.; Womyn.;

Nimitz class aircraft carriers / by Elward, Brad A.,1964-(CARDINAL)435524;
Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.Origins of the supercarrier -- Design and development of the Nimitz class -- The Nimitz carrier structure -- The flight deck -- Aircraft launch and recovery operations -- LSOs and the lens -- The hangar bay -- The island and significant inner structures -- Defensive systems -- Electronic systems and radars -- Integrated air defense -- The Carrier Wing (CVW) -- Propulsion and powerplant -- Operational history -- The carriers -- Nimitz-class follow-on : the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) class.
Subjects: Nimitz Class (Aircraft carriers); Nuclear aircraft carriers;

Man Of War : An Eric Steele Novel / by Parnell, Sean,1981-author.(CARDINAL)397897;
"The first in a new military thriller series from the NYT bestselling author of Outlaw Platoon." --The New York Times bestselling author of Outlaw Platoon makes his fiction debut with this electrifying military thriller, a gripping tale of action, suspense, and international intrigue that introduces a compelling new hero, Eric Steele. Eric Steele is the best of the best, an Alpha, an elite clandestine operative assigned to a US intelligence unit known simply as the "Program." A superbly trained Special Forces soldier who served several tours fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele now operates under the radar, using a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his enemies and neutralize them. But when a man from Steele's past attacks a military convoy and steals a nuclear weapon, Steele and his superiors at the White House are blindsided. Moving from Washington, DC, to the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, Steele must use his considerable skills to hunt this rogue agent, a former brother-in-arms who might have been a friend, and find the WMD before it can reach the United States, and the world is forever changed.The description based on the print version of the record and on CIP data provided by the publisher; the resource has not been viewed.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Fiction.;

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