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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... reported the information , and the German Fifteenth Army in the Pas de Calais area was placed on the alert . When the word was reported to Berlin , no action was taken because it was assumed that von Rundstedt had ordered an alert . Von ...
... reported the information , and the German Fifteenth Army in the Pas de Calais area was placed on the alert . When the word was reported to Berlin , no action was taken because it was assumed that von Rundstedt had ordered an alert . Von ...
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... reported an unidentified radar surface contact , and a radioman heard some " Japs gabbling . " Ensign Hans L. Jensen , flying antisubmarine patrol , reported 4 Japa- nese battleships , 8 cruisers and several destroyers only twenty miles ...
... reported an unidentified radar surface contact , and a radioman heard some " Japs gabbling . " Ensign Hans L. Jensen , flying antisubmarine patrol , reported 4 Japa- nese battleships , 8 cruisers and several destroyers only twenty miles ...
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... reported north of him and spent the better part of the afternoon looking for it . When McCain's planes began to arrive , further irresolution came over him , and at 1727 he sent word to Toyoda that he would head for San Bernardino ...
... reported north of him and spent the better part of the afternoon looking for it . When McCain's planes began to arrive , further irresolution came over him , and at 1727 he sent word to Toyoda that he would head for San Bernardino ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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