Ingekomen brieven van zijn broer Otto Gunning en diens echtgenote Margot Coops. Otto Gunning was directeur van de Machine- en Motorenfabriek v.h. Thomassen & Co in Arnhem.

It is the soldier's personal weapon, rifle, carbine, pistol, machine-gun, which ultimately decides the outcome of battle. Never before the Second World War had the infantryman been required to handle so large or sophisticated an armory. But never before had he been expected to shoot down an aeroplane or knowck out a tank. Includes bibliographical references (page 160). 159, [1] pages illustrations ...

From the tragic Marine Corps landing at Tarawa in 1943 that spawned the UDT "frogmen," to the beaches of Normandy, Kwajalein, Okinawa, and Korea, to the formation in the 1960s of the U.S. Navy SEALs, Fane takes the reader along as the men swim alone through mines and anti-invasion obstacles, treacherous reefs, and enemy machine-gun fire, scouting beaches and clearing invasion approaches before an assault. ...