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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... ships now enter upon the stage . He had no idea of what to expect , but he knew it could be nothing good . He had not heard from Nishimura for several hours , since a vague message that Nishimura's ships had been attacked by torpedo ...
... ships now enter upon the stage . He had no idea of what to expect , but he knew it could be nothing good . He had not heard from Nishimura for several hours , since a vague message that Nishimura's ships had been attacked by torpedo ...
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... ships had rough times , but no more were lost . The fleet entered the " safe semicircle " as the typhoon passed on ... ships . Some of them had drifted sixty - six miles in the stormy seas . A few men who had been washed overboard from ...
... ships had rough times , but no more were lost . The fleet entered the " safe semicircle " as the typhoon passed on ... ships . Some of them had drifted sixty - six miles in the stormy seas . A few men who had been washed overboard from ...
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... ships in Camranh Bay . The Japanese had had the good sense to send them on to safer waters . Frustrated , the surface unit turned around , the ships rejoining their task groups . There was plenty of merchant shipping , however , and the ...
... ships in Camranh Bay . The Japanese had had the good sense to send them on to safer waters . Frustrated , the surface unit turned around , the ships rejoining their task groups . There was plenty of merchant shipping , however , and the ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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