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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... later , Toyoda sent a message : ALL FORCES WILL DASH TO THE ATTACK , TRUSTING IN DI- VINE ASSISTANCE . The Japanese kept coming . Three hundred miles to the north of San Bernardino , Admiral Ozawa was doing his best to be discovered ...
... later , Toyoda sent a message : ALL FORCES WILL DASH TO THE ATTACK , TRUSTING IN DI- VINE ASSISTANCE . The Japanese kept coming . Three hundred miles to the north of San Bernardino , Admiral Ozawa was doing his best to be discovered ...
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... later admitted one - and the cruiser dropped out of action . But the Johnston had to pay for her success . As her senior surviving officer wrote later : At this time , about 0730 , this ship got it . Three 14 - inch shells from a ...
... later admitted one - and the cruiser dropped out of action . But the Johnston had to pay for her success . As her senior surviving officer wrote later : At this time , about 0730 , this ship got it . Three 14 - inch shells from a ...
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... later , Peiper himself having moved on , most of the prisoners were led into a field and massacred by machine gun fire . A few escaped by feigning death , but the Germans were particularly thorough . Walking among the slaughtered , they ...
... later , Peiper himself having moved on , most of the prisoners were led into a field and massacred by machine gun fire . A few escaped by feigning death , but the Germans were particularly thorough . Walking among the slaughtered , they ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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