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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... guns were only dummies , made out of telephone poles . The Germans had removed the real guns in order to strengthen the emplacements , and the work had not been completed . While part of his men kept the German gunners from getting out ...
... guns were only dummies , made out of telephone poles . The Germans had removed the real guns in order to strengthen the emplacements , and the work had not been completed . While part of his men kept the German gunners from getting out ...
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... guns and were either destroyed or pinned down for a long time . The swiftly rising tide had not given the ... guns could not reach . This refuge , however , proved more illusory than real , for many guns could fire along the seawall ...
... guns and were either destroyed or pinned down for a long time . The swiftly rising tide had not given the ... guns could not reach . This refuge , however , proved more illusory than real , for many guns could fire along the seawall ...
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... guns . They were slower than the Iowas , being able to make only 27 knots as opposed to 33 , but the punch they could throw was deadly . Kurita's three other battleships - the Nagato , with 16 - inch guns , and the Haruna and Kongo with ...
... guns . They were slower than the Iowas , being able to make only 27 knots as opposed to 33 , but the punch they could throw was deadly . Kurita's three other battleships - the Nagato , with 16 - inch guns , and the Haruna and Kongo with ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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