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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... Raid II . Suddenly a plane which had just taken off did a wingover and dived into the sea . Its pilot , Warrant Officer Akio Komatsu , had spotted one of Albacore's torpedoes swimming toward the flagship and heroically crash - dived it ...
... Raid II . Suddenly a plane which had just taken off did a wingover and dived into the sea . Its pilot , Warrant Officer Akio Komatsu , had spotted one of Albacore's torpedoes swimming toward the flagship and heroically crash - dived it ...
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... Raid II , and sixteen of them were those with engine trouble or damage from their own Van Force . Raid III was far luckier than the first two , for most of the 47 planes that made it up were vectored in the wrong direction and found ...
... Raid II , and sixteen of them were those with engine trouble or damage from their own Van Force . Raid III was far luckier than the first two , for most of the 47 planes that made it up were vectored in the wrong direction and found ...
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... raid destroyed 16 square miles of the center of Tokyo , and the dead were estimated at 130,000 , almost the same number as had died in the huge raid on Dresden on the night of February 13 , less than a month earlier . The Dresden raid ...
... raid destroyed 16 square miles of the center of Tokyo , and the dead were estimated at 130,000 , almost the same number as had died in the huge raid on Dresden on the night of February 13 , less than a month earlier . The Dresden raid ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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