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By
J. T. O'Brien
A Marine Rifle Company fights through the last six months of the First Korean
War. Fighting against over whelming odds, the Commander, the lieutenants, the sergeants and the men battle valiantly for survival knowing as they do that the peace can arrive at any time.
Perhaps the ultimate futility for any soldier is to die moments before the shooting stops.
As the diplomats dither over their seating arrangements at the peace conference, Marines were being maimed and killed to hold an imaginary 38th Parallel. Politically the line is vital, militarily it is untenable, to their eternal glory the Marines held that line despite the odds and marched into history as they did so. The events mentioned were real, the characters are fictional.
Printed May 2002, ISBN 0-9714185-1-9 266 pages $16.00 Equidata Publishing Company
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Readers Comments:
I found it hard to put down and was anxious to get back to it. Oohrah! I don't think there is a Marine anywhere that wouldn't enjoy this book. Marty Lachow CWO-4 Marine Gunner, USMC (Ret)
The memories come flooding back of a bad war in a bad place.
Put some time aside to read this book, it is hard to put down.
About the Author:
J. T. O'Brien served as enlisted (Chief Scout of the First Regiment of Korea) and as an Officer (Naval Flight Officer in Vietnam), twenty seven years of experience in the Corps lends a credence to his work that is almost palpable. As the popular cliché states, he has been there and done that, and that experience is reflected in his work.
"I enjoy writing about the Corps and it doesn't matter whether the story was set during WWI or Desert Storm I, Marines are Marines and their behavior is incredibly consistent. Not all Marines are heroes, not all of the Officers are gentlemen, but good, or bad they are all Marines and that is to their credit."
Mercilessly Unforgiving
By
J. T. O'Brien
January 1944 an entire Squadron of Marine Corsairs goes down in the South
Pacific, not due to enemy action, but because of adverse weather and poor planning. A Marine Investigator encounters threats of his personal political destruction as he tries to unravel the
causes for this disaster.
Individuals perform with courage and skill as their leader takes them into harms way. Shrouded in secrecy this event goes unreported in the press, but heads will roll when the investigation comes to an end. Inspired by an actual event, the book is historical fiction.
To be released in ?, 205 pages $##.## Equidata Publishing Company ISBN 0-9714185-2-7
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Giretsu
By
J. T. O'Brien
During the final days of the Okinawa Campaign a Japanese Commando force landed on an American
airfield.
On the night of the raid a very senior American General had visited the command. Had the Japanese known that the General was there, or was this coincidence? If they had known, how had they known? Had the American Naval Code been compromised?
J.T. O'Brien has written a great fictional adventure story around this actual event. The combat is described from the viewpoint of the Japanese Commander and that of an American Marine. It is a riveting account.
The Japanese Army had seldom met defeat until they encountered the United States Marines on Guadalcanal.
The primary mistake, from the perspective of the Imperial Staff, was the insertion of replacements in a piece-meal fashion. It was a fatal mistake, but one that would save Australia.
Colonel Mitsuro Sato was trained to be "the" soldier, but his candid remarks concerning the conduct of the war led to his being assigned to a backwater command doomed to training civilians for the anticipated invasion of Japan.
Then came the chance to lead the Commando. This was one last opportunity for the Colonel to die as a soldier should.
Giretsu, $12.95, Equidata Publishing Company ISBN 0-9714185-4-3
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Non Fiction
Special First Edition
"Top Secret"
An Informal History of Sixty Years of Marine Corps Aviation Reconnaissance.
By
J. T. O'Brien
This is a unique history of the Evolution of Aerial Reconnaissance told as the
aircrewman and mechs would tell it. Told in ready room and flight line jargon, this book relates the story of years of determination and deprivation. It is a understatement to describe our congress
as being frugal when it comes to paying for military preparedness. Traditionally, it is only after the bombs explode that our legislators find that it is time to "beef up" the armed forces. The
Marine Corps having always been at the bottom of the fiscal ladder, has to improvise and make do to be ready for any exigency. When the Corps found that we needed a particular type of aircraft we had
to darn near design it ourselves. We had to filch discarded models from the junkyard and almost literally piece them together with bailing wire to build the finest Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance
Program that the country has ever had. Marine Corps Aviation has been described as a "Pocket Air Force," complete unto itself. It possesses all of the capabilities and potential of the other
services, but on a reduced scale. One reason for this self sufficiency was that at Guadalcanal, during WWII, the Corps learned the value of being able to defend itself as the Navy sailed away to
battle the Japanese. From 1940 to 2000 the aviators and ground crewmen of the Marine Corps Recon Squadrons toiled to make the Corps the finest in the business and they succeeded. This book is a
classic on how to do with out and still accomplish the job. It should be required reading for all Program managers and military historians. As we move into an era of Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft
we look back and have reason to believe that we have had the good fortune to have participated in the most exciting and personally rewarding era of military flight.
Top Secret, $16.00 + Postage and handling is 17.15, Equidata Publishing Company ISBN 0-9714185-3-5
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Administration of Justice
Non Fiction
Collision Forensics
By
J. T. O'Brien & Warren Clark, Ph.D.
This work details the proper equations and correct use of those equations and
procedures to resolve the inevitable questions related to every collision. This is a book that no self respecting collision investigator or defense attorney should be without. Use it as a
text or as a desk reference.
Do you want to know at what temperature glass will melt? Perhaps the construction technique used in bumper construction may be of interest. How long does it take a body to fall? Can we determine pre impact vehicle speeds from the distance of pedestrian has been thrown? How accurate are the formula? What do we need to know to determine the speed at which a truck will roll over? Would you like to explain momentum to a jury? How about detailing the reconstruction of a series of collisions? It is all in this book and there is a lot more. If your adversary has a reputation for using creative physics in the court room, you might want to read up on the predictable accuracy of such equations.
First printed as Equidata in September 2000, expanded and reissued as Collision Forensics in January 2003. 228 pages $26.35 Equidata Publishing Company ISBN 0-8714185-0-0
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Equidata Profile:
This Company was formed in August 2000 to publish a Desk Reference for Collision Reconstruction. It is our intent to publish the best fiction and fact available and to present it to the reader in a readily understood fashion.
We have gone from there to publish fiction and aviation history.
At this time we do not accept submissions.
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