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Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 Sailfish (Submarine) Sculpin (Submarine) United States. Navy History World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Ocean World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, British World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, Japanese World War, 1939-1945 Pacific OceanHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: The story of America's little known war-within-a war -- that of the "silent service" -- U.S. submarine warfare during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 950.54 HOPBruning, John R.
Summary: "On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The Japanese were turning the remote, jungle-covered mountain in the south Solomon Islands into an air base from which they could attack the supply lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BRUMoore, Stephen L.
Summary: In 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accidentally sinks to the bottom of the sea during a training exercise, killing half her crew. Coming to the rescue is the USS Sculpin, in many ways the Squalus’s twin. As their oxygen supply dwindles, the remaining crew aboard the Squalus are saved in a time-consuming, white-knuckle operation. Eventually the sunken submarine is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MOOMcCullough, Jonathan J.
Summary: "There was no way for the commander of the USS Sailfish to know that the Japanese aircraft carrier he just torpedoed actually had on board several crew members of the USS Sculpin, the sister sub to the Sailfish which had been sunk just days earlier by enemy fire. This is the extraordinary story of the events that led to this amazing twist of fate and what happened to the Sculpin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MCCWilliams, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.542 WILAndrade, Allan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tern Book Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 ANDThomas, Evan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.5426 THOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 THOMoses, Sam
Summary: Describes how two American Merchant Marines manned the guns of their crippled tanker to fight off Axis dive-bombers for two days as the sinking tanker was towed by destroyers to the island of Malta to prevent Rommel's North Africa advance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MOSSummary: "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WORStille, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 STIHoyt, Edwin Palmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paragon House 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 HOYKershaw, Alex.
Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5451 KERBorneman, Walter R.
Summary: Evaluates the pivotal contributions of history's only five-star admirals and how their triumphs in World War II rendered the United States the world's dominant sea power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 BORStanton, Doug
Summary: A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way--a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 STAJones, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2005
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Summary: "An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named after her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 JONWheeler, Keith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1979
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORLundstrom, John B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5449 LUNLockwood, Charles A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 LOCDubbins, Andrew
Summary: Dubbins chronicles the story of the pioneering Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) and George Morgan, one of its last surviving members, as they cleared a path for Allied invasion forces and helped win World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War DubbinsMoore, Stephen L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atriad Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MOOToll, Ian W.
Summary: Draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources to describe the first months of World War II in the Pacific, after the U.S. Navy suffered the worst defeat in its history at Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 TOLHammel, Eric M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 HAMGugliotta, Bobette.
Summary: Constructed in 1923, the American submarine S39 was practically an antique when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor. With defective torpedoes, a semi-trained crew, and a primitive ventilation system (hence the nickname), she nevertheless sank two enemy vessels and eluded pursuit to fight again in the Solomons. This is the little-known story of how an unprepared navy fought with what it had until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1984