Years to Victory"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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Ozawa had four , as Halsey knew . Land - based air had accounted for the Princeton that day , but there had been no significant attacks since . The same evidence for enemy weakness in the air that had led Halsey to recommend moving up ...
Ozawa had four , as Halsey knew . Land - based air had accounted for the Princeton that day , but there had been no significant attacks since . The same evidence for enemy weakness in the air that had led Halsey to recommend moving up ...
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up and urge him to recommend to Halsey that Task Force 34 be detached to return to the Strait . " Does Admiral Halsey have that report ? " asked Mitscher . " Yes , sir . " " If he wants my advice , he'll ask for it , " replied Mitscher ...
up and urge him to recommend to Halsey that Task Force 34 be detached to return to the Strait . " Does Admiral Halsey have that report ? " asked Mitscher . " Yes , sir . " " If he wants my advice , he'll ask for it , " replied Mitscher ...
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The two senior commanders , Admirals Kinkaid and Halsey , had miscalcu- lated , and each was trying to do something about it . Kinkaid , secure in the belief that Halsey had left Task Force 34 to guard San Bernardino , had concentrated ...
The two senior commanders , Admirals Kinkaid and Halsey , had miscalcu- lated , and each was trying to do something about it . Kinkaid , secure in the belief that Halsey had left Task Force 34 to guard San Bernardino , had concentrated ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
Urheberrecht | |
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| Titel | Years to Victory |
| Autor/in | Henry Hitch Adams |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | McKay, 1973 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Nov. 2006 |
| ISBN | 0679140077, 9780679140078 |
| Länge | 507 Seiten |
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