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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Most of Japan's highly trained pilots had been lost in the Battle of Midway ; those that remained and their reasonably well trained replace- ments had been frittered away in the Solomons and against MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific .
Most of Japan's highly trained pilots had been lost in the Battle of Midway ; those that remained and their reasonably well trained replace- ments had been frittered away in the Solomons and against MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific .
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The determined Japanese had thrown everything they could into the air to defend their ships , and the pilots paid a heavy price . Of the even 100 carrier aircraft and 27 search planes Ozawa had remaining at 1800 , the American fighters ...
The determined Japanese had thrown everything they could into the air to defend their ships , and the pilots paid a heavy price . Of the even 100 carrier aircraft and 27 search planes Ozawa had remaining at 1800 , the American fighters ...
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his pilots . He would take enormous chances to save their lives , and he took one now . Turning to his Chief of Staff , Captain Arleigh A. Burke , he said in his soft voice , " Turn on the lights . " In enemy waters , where Japanese ...
his pilots . He would take enormous chances to save their lives , and he took one now . Turning to his Chief of Staff , Captain Arleigh A. Burke , he said in his soft voice , " Turn on the lights . " In enemy waters , where Japanese ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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