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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... fighting was going on to the north . The Twenty - Seventh Division redeemed itself and straightened out the line . On June 27 , the Second Marine Division , after fierce fighting , won control of Mount Tapotchau , and from then on the ...
... fighting was going on to the north . The Twenty - Seventh Division redeemed itself and straightened out the line . On June 27 , the Second Marine Division , after fierce fighting , won control of Mount Tapotchau , and from then on the ...
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... fighting for their lives , " Tommy " Sprague's Taffy 1 , some 130 miles to the southward was doing its best to help out . This meant that planes had to be recalled from morning strikes in support of troops fighting ashore and refueled ...
... fighting for their lives , " Tommy " Sprague's Taffy 1 , some 130 miles to the southward was doing its best to help out . This meant that planes had to be recalled from morning strikes in support of troops fighting ashore and refueled ...
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... fighting on Okinawa . It was all so far away it was another war . The guys on the other side of the world had lucked out . Here on Okinawa there was another job to do . Nature contributed a new worry to the Americans fighting on Okinawa ...
... fighting on Okinawa . It was all so far away it was another war . The guys on the other side of the world had lucked out . Here on Okinawa there was another job to do . Nature contributed a new worry to the Americans fighting on Okinawa ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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