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Pacific Crucible
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Ian W. Toll |
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the… |
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Japanese destroyer captain
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Roger Pineau,Tameichi Hara,Fred Saito |
**(from back cover)** This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japane… |
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Operation Storm
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John J. Geoghegan |
Discusses the top-secret Japanese submarine project in World War II, creating submarines designed to work as underwater aircraft carriers, and the planned attack on U.S. cities that could have change… |
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Kaiten
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Michael Mair,Joy Waldron |
"In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the Kaiten--a man… |
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Battleground Atlantic
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Richard N. Billings |
In June, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes sank a Japanese submarine called the I-52 in the Atlantic, an event of enormous strategic importance. For the I-52 was to return to Japan with the lethal ingredient… |
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