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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... opened and the fans operated at full blast in the belief that these measures would clear the gasoline fumes from the ship . All that he succeeded in doing was to distribute the deadly vapors into every nook and cranny so that she became ...
... opened and the fans operated at full blast in the belief that these measures would clear the gasoline fumes from the ship . All that he succeeded in doing was to distribute the deadly vapors into every nook and cranny so that she became ...
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... opened a campaign against the old fortified city of Metz , a necessary preliminary to his role in the forthcoming operations when he should make his drive against the Saar . By November 18 , the city was surrounded , and four days later ...
... opened a campaign against the old fortified city of Metz , a necessary preliminary to his role in the forthcoming operations when he should make his drive against the Saar . By November 18 , the city was surrounded , and four days later ...
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... opened briefly for fighter planes on November 3 and 5 respectively , but thirty - five inches of rain in forty days were too much and the strips had to be abandoned . Nothing the Engineers could do was of any avail . A truckload of ...
... opened briefly for fighter planes on November 3 and 5 respectively , but thirty - five inches of rain in forty days were too much and the strips had to be abandoned . Nothing the Engineers could do was of any avail . A truckload of ...
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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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