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With Schwarzkopf is Gus Lee's remembrance of his mentor and friend H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and his firsthand account of how Schwarzkopf shaped his life. In 1966, Lee, a junior-year cadet at West Point, was bright, athletic, and popular. He was also on the verge of getting kicked out. Nearing the bottom of his class due to his penchant for playing poker and reading recreationally instead of studying engineering, he was assigned a new professor: then-Major Norman Schwarzkopf.

Zesdelige podcast over het stoomtijdperk van de Amsterdamse haven en de Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Nederland'. • Behorende tot de groep eerste bewoners van het vernieuwde Java-eiland dook Gus Maussen in het verleden van dit voormalige stukje Amsterdamse haven. Hij stuitte op een opmerkelijk verhaal. Aanleiding was het oorlogsmonument ‘Zeeman op de Uitkijk’ op de kop van het Java-eiland:•‘Ter nagedachtenis aan het personeel van de ‘N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland’ dat tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog het leven voor onze vrijheid heeft gegeven.’•Gus woonde al 5 jaar op het ...

On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a month away. All three astronauts were experienced pilots, but little did they know, nor did anyone else, that once they entered the spacecraft that cold winter day they would never leave it alive. Apollo 1 is a candid portrayal of the astronauts, the disaster that killed them, and its aftermath.