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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A few minutes later , Nelson corrected the report , which placed the Japanese in position 14 ° 30 ' North , 134 ° 30 ′ East . This was about 275 miles from TF 58 , some 75 miles farther than the range at which American carrier planes ...
A few minutes later , Nelson corrected the report , which placed the Japanese in position 14 ° 30 ' North , 134 ° 30 ′ East . This was about 275 miles from TF 58 , some 75 miles farther than the range at which American carrier planes ...
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A few minutes later , individ- ual ships could be picked out on the radar screens . Nishimura was just changing into battle formation , a single column headed by his four destroyers , then the two battleships , and last the Mogami .
A few minutes later , individ- ual ships could be picked out on the radar screens . Nishimura was just changing into battle formation , a single column headed by his four destroyers , then the two battleships , and last the Mogami .
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Thomas Sprague's Taffy 1 was too far away to help immedi- ately , but within a minute Stump of Taffy 2 had asked and received ... threw the Japanese gunners off for a blessed fifteen minutes , and their shooting fell far from the mark .
Thomas Sprague's Taffy 1 was too far away to help immedi- ately , but within a minute Stump of Taffy 2 had asked and received ... threw the Japanese gunners off for a blessed fifteen minutes , and their shooting fell far from the mark .
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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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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