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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... torpedo from the Melvin slammed into battleship Fuso ; she slowed down and sheered out of column to starboard . A few minutes later , as Commander Richard H. Phillips's section was boring in for the attack , shells began dropping ...
... torpedo from the Melvin slammed into battleship Fuso ; she slowed down and sheered out of column to starboard . A few minutes later , as Commander Richard H. Phillips's section was boring in for the attack , shells began dropping ...
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... torpedoes , finishing off Michishio . In the midst of all the excitement , Fuso blew apart , whether from a torpedo hit or from internal explosions no one knows . The drifting halves floated for some time , causing confusion on radar ...
... torpedoes , finishing off Michishio . In the midst of all the excitement , Fuso blew apart , whether from a torpedo hit or from internal explosions no one knows . The drifting halves floated for some time , causing confusion on radar ...
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... torpedoes at the Haruna . He thought he obtained a hit , but it is doubtful . Heermann escaped unharmed by chasing shell splashes . Kurita's flagship Yamato now found herself boxed in between two torpedo spreads which paralleled her ...
... torpedoes at the Haruna . He thought he obtained a hit , but it is doubtful . Heermann escaped unharmed by chasing shell splashes . Kurita's flagship Yamato now found herself boxed in between two torpedo spreads which paralleled her ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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