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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... islands in the Caroline group on the way home . Nine heavy cruisers bombarded Satawan Island on the afternoon of April 30 , and the next afternoon , seven battleships gave Ponape a going over . The escorting destroyers joined in merrily ...
... islands in the Caroline group on the way home . Nine heavy cruisers bombarded Satawan Island on the afternoon of April 30 , and the next afternoon , seven battleships gave Ponape a going over . The escorting destroyers joined in merrily ...
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... island . Intelligence estimates were shaky at best , for little was known of what the Japanese had been up to since they closed the island to foreign visitors years before Pearl Harbor . Photo- graphic reconnaissance had been skimpy ...
... island . Intelligence estimates were shaky at best , for little was known of what the Japanese had been up to since they closed the island to foreign visitors years before Pearl Harbor . Photo- graphic reconnaissance had been skimpy ...
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... island where men were still fighting and dying . Then its pilot , Lieutenant Raymond Malo , USAAF , spotted the short narrow runway . He set his plane down on the first few feet and stood on his brakes . Even so , the silvery bomber ...
... island where men were still fighting and dying . Then its pilot , Lieutenant Raymond Malo , USAAF , spotted the short narrow runway . He set his plane down on the first few feet and stood on his brakes . Even so , the silvery bomber ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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