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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... move to break their defense perimeter , and they were much more worried about such a move than they were about the actual capture of Torokina on Bougainville and of Makin and Tarawa . They rushed reinforcements into the entire island ...
... move to break their defense perimeter , and they were much more worried about such a move than they were about the actual capture of Torokina on Bougainville and of Makin and Tarawa . They rushed reinforcements into the entire island ...
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... move against Palawan and Borneo , but move he did . The directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for the liberation of Leyte and Luzon . Mindoro was undertaken as a necessary preliminary to Luzon , but no reading of JCS ...
... move against Palawan and Borneo , but move he did . The directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for the liberation of Leyte and Luzon . Mindoro was undertaken as a necessary preliminary to Luzon , but no reading of JCS ...
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... move east along the Erfurt - Leipzig axis to the Elbe and there await a link - up with the Russians . The U.S. Third , the U.S. Seventh , and the First French Armies would move into the Alpine region to prevent the formation of the ...
... move east along the Erfurt - Leipzig axis to the Elbe and there await a link - up with the Russians . The U.S. Third , the U.S. Seventh , and the First French Armies would move into the Alpine region to prevent the formation of the ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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