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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... Corps for the drive south to Manila , and the Japanese did all they could to make its path thorny . They blew up ... Corps had reached only as far as San Fernando . That same day the situation was eased somewhat by an unopposed landing ...
... Corps for the drive south to Manila , and the Japanese did all they could to make its path thorny . They blew up ... Corps had reached only as far as San Fernando . That same day the situation was eased somewhat by an unopposed landing ...
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... Corps , 81 , 369 , 375 Fifth Army , 120 , 121 Fifth Army Air Force , 75 Fifth Base Air Force , Japanese , 178 V Corps , U.S. , 32-33 Fifth Fleet , Japanese , 178 Fifth Fleet , U.S. , 82 , 157 , 178 , 316 , 430 Fifth Marine Division ...
... Corps , 81 , 369 , 375 Fifth Army , 120 , 121 Fifth Army Air Force , 75 Fifth Base Air Force , Japanese , 178 V Corps , U.S. , 32-33 Fifth Fleet , Japanese , 178 Fifth Fleet , U.S. , 82 , 157 , 178 , 316 , 430 Fifth Marine Division ...
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... Corps , 169 , 173 , 283 , 284 Teraoka , Vice Admiral Kimpei , 178 , 189 Terauchi , Field Marshal Count Hisa- ichi , 284 " Terminal . " See Potsdam Confer- ence Teshima , Lieutenant General Fusa- taro , 66 Texas ( battleship ) , 22 , 27 ...
... Corps , 169 , 173 , 283 , 284 Teraoka , Vice Admiral Kimpei , 178 , 189 Terauchi , Field Marshal Count Hisa- ichi , 284 " Terminal . " See Potsdam Confer- ence Teshima , Lieutenant General Fusa- taro , 66 Texas ( battleship ) , 22 , 27 ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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