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Hell Is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific: Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#328286-XE15
Titel	Hell Is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific: Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944
Auteur	Brooks, Victor
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Da Capo Press
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0306815494
ISBN13	9780306815492
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This is the story of the other D-Day invasion, this one in the Pacific Ocean, which would turn the tide of the war against Japan in the summer of 1944. On June 14 1944, little more than a week after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, another mighty fleet steamed towards its own D-Day landing. The target of this mighty US armada was the Marianas Island group, which included Saipan, home to an important Japanese base, and Guam, the first American territory captured in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. When the brutal fighting ended eight weeks later, 60,000 Japanese ground troops and most of the carrier air power of the Japanese Imperial Navy were annihilated. Hell is Upon Us skilfully describes the entire Marianas campaign - World War II's most ambitious combined service operation and the large... (Lees verder)st carrier battle in history - and provides riveting first-hand accounts of the soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen who fought through the hell of Japan's Pacific defence.
Pagina's	354
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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