Years to VictoryMcKay, 1973 - 507 Seiten "Beginning with 'the loneliest man in the world,' General Dwight D. Eisenhower, making his decision to proceed with Operation Overlord, Years to Victory recounts the last years of World War II from the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, to the utter defeat and unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. As the dignitaries assembled on the deck of the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on the morning of September 2, 1945, the Axis had been totally destroyed."--Book Jacket. |
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... American soldier and by the team - work of the Allies . . . American officers felt that Monty was claiming too much for himself , and his words to the press did little to enhance the Field Marshal's popularity in American circles ...
... American soldier and by the team - work of the Allies . . . American officers felt that Monty was claiming too much for himself , and his words to the press did little to enhance the Field Marshal's popularity in American circles ...
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... Americans landed on Iwo Jima , and Okinawa was nearly two months off . In another week or ten days American carrier planes would smash Tokyo , and American B - 29s were conducting fire raids on Japanese cities . At sea , Japanese ...
... Americans landed on Iwo Jima , and Okinawa was nearly two months off . In another week or ten days American carrier planes would smash Tokyo , and American B - 29s were conducting fire raids on Japanese cities . At sea , Japanese ...
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... Americans , he found a shambles . Not a plane was fit to fly . Hangars had been destroyed by American bombing and by the recent battle between the Japanese themselves . Runways were pitted with bomb holes which would need to be repaired ...
... Americans , he found a shambles . Not a plane was fit to fly . Hangars had been destroyed by American bombing and by the recent battle between the Japanese themselves . Runways were pitted with bomb holes which would need to be repaired ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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