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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... seemed to him , was based too far from the potential combat zone . " No matter how strong the bow , " he argued , recalling an ancient Chinese proverb , " an arrow in flight cannot tear the sheerest cloth . " The Mobile Fleet , now at ...
... seemed to him , was based too far from the potential combat zone . " No matter how strong the bow , " he argued , recalling an ancient Chinese proverb , " an arrow in flight cannot tear the sheerest cloth . " The Mobile Fleet , now at ...
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... seemed like a gift from Heaven , but it was too late to save Yamashiro , as we have seen . She went down off Bugho Point on the east coast of Leyte , taking with her Admiral Nishimura and most of her crew . Blazing from stem to stern ...
... seemed like a gift from Heaven , but it was too late to save Yamashiro , as we have seen . She went down off Bugho Point on the east coast of Leyte , taking with her Admiral Nishimura and most of her crew . Blazing from stem to stern ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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