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The Powder MacKenna Wars

 

          The Beast In The Woods

                        Follow the life of  young  Powder MacKenna  as  he  sheds  the  shackles of  dirt

           farming in Tennessee and joins the Marine Corps as the United  States becomes involved

           in the Great War to End All Wars.    Powder’s war parallels that of Allison Wesley Drake

           Williamson, who rejects his life of privilege in  Philadelphia,  falsifies his  age and name,

           joins the  Marine  Corps  and  finds  himself embroiled in the carnage and horrors of war.

                       The European war concluded, MacKenna requests a transfer to the China Marines

           but must get there via Siberia where he  finds  himself  embroiled  in a Russian Civil War

           and crossing  Siberia on  a  train commanded  by  the  Czechoslovakian Legion and filled

           with the Tsar's fortune of gold.    As a China  Marine he finds himself  involved with both

           the Army  and  Navy Intelligence  departments  butting heads with Warlords and criminal

           tongs throughout China.

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           Texas Hot

                            MacKenna has fought with the American Army against the bolsheviks in Sibera,

           then with the Marines again in  China and South America  before  deciding  to find a more

           peaceful life  in  the  oil  fields of Texas.  He joins  up with an ex-Texas Ranger, ex-Marine

           Captain and Allison Williamson, now permanently calling himself "Beau" Beaudytch.  Be-

           tween them they take on the trails of the oil fields, a Mexican white slaver, and the biggest

           oil claim jumper in Texas.           

 

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Unto The Breach

                Unto The Breach picks up MacKenna and  Beau's  life some eight years after  their exploits

         in Texas as they find themselves shanghaied back into  the Marine Corps just prior to the Japan-

         ese attack on Pearl Harbor.  Powder and Beau track down  a Japanese spy for Naval Intelligence

         then the OSS assigns Powder the job of revealing Japanese submarine activities in Mexico.  Not

         content with these adventures the duo find themselves storming beaches in the Pacific. Post-war

         finds MacKenna investigating war crimes in Japan and China. 

 

          

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A collection of 76 digital paintings by J.S. Morelock

ArtSerene Art books

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Naval Aviation Pilot

     This is a retrospective of the Naval Aviation Pilot program that began in 1918. Dialed back at the conclusion of WWI. the program was re-instituted in 1936 with the thought in mind that the country might soon be involved in a second World War. Young enlisted men of the United States Navy were trained exactly as the officer aviation cadre was being trained, and then designated as Naval Aviation Pilots rather than as Naval Aviators. The aircraft they flew, the training they received, and the war they eventually fought was exactly the same, as was their bravery, and competence, and record.

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