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xiv, 304 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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"In Lethal Tides, Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy's success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the new science of oceanography. When World War II began, the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan. Anticipating tides, planning for coral reefs,...
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366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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The true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time. In February 1945, as the U.S. victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Baños prison camp in the Philippines -- most of them American men, women and children -- would not survive much longer. Deeply concerned about the half-starved...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Though most people associate D-Day with the massive invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, few are aware that 'D-Day' is actually military code for any amphibious operation. Take a look at dozens of the more than one hundred D-Days waged in the Pacific. The ultimate guide to the epic campaign orchestrated by American forces in the Pacific, this two volume set includes seven documentary features.
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xxvi, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the "funny tanks" which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker "the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang"; and Captain "Johnny" Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a "creeping barrage"....
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xxvii, 602 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower"--Amazon.com.
The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise...
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