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Military campaigns Navajo code talkers Pacific Ocean Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 United States. Navy History World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American 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, JapaneseHopkinson, 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 HOPSummary: An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished prespective of the war's pivotal events. Penetrating interviews with eyewitness participants - from Hitler's secretary to Alger Hiss to ordinary citizens who stood outside the battle lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORMcClain, S. (Sally)
Summary: Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Nuevo Publishers 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Exposes the fatal errors, startling miscues, and bungled opportunities which turned the tide of the war and forever changed the course of history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORMcCullough, 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 MCCThomas, 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 THOJones, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 JONJones, Brent E.
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 JONSummary: Theatrical newsreels, rare color footage, and propaganda films are all incorporated in this in-depth overview of the War in the Pacific. From Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's response, to the battles that turned the tide. Maps out the battles leading to the surrender of the Japanese forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar, Inc. 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WORHynes, Samuel Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F.C. Beil 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 HYNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.5426 HYNStille, 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 STISummary: This documentary film about the death of five brothers who symbolized America's commitment to winning the war was one of the most painful, personal tragedies of WWII.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TRUPrange, Gordon W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's (US) 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 PRASummary: The history of the War in the Pacific comes vividly to life in the words of those who witnessed it first hand. The editors create for the reader, as the veterans themselves recall it, what that war was like-how it looked, felt, smelled, and sounded.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 PACHastings, Max.
Contents: Dilemmas and decisions -- Japan: defying gravity -- The British in Burma -- Titans at sea -- America's return to the Philippines -- "Flowers of death" : Leyte Gulf -- Ashore: battle for the mountains -- China: dragon by the tail -- MacArthur on Luzon -- Bloody miniature: Iwo Jima -- Blockade: war underwater -- Burning a nation: Lemay -- The road past Mandalay -- Australians: "Bludging" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 HASSpector, Ronald H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SPESears, David
Summary: Offers an account of the U.S. airmen's roles in the air battles that took place over the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Mrazek, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MRAWhitlock, Flint.
Contents: Black Sunday -- The fruits of war -- A tough row to hoe -- Hell on earth -- Damn these torpedoes! -- School days -- The end of the beginning -- Ready for war -- At home in the caboose -- Abortive attack -- Just stay loose -- Feather merchant third class -- The road to Tokyo -- The finest submarine commander -- The fate of the empire -- The death of innocents -- Return to the Philippines --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WHISheftall, M. G. (Mordecai G.)
Summary: A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan's kamikaze--the suicide pilots of World War II--as told through the eyes of the survivors. In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one's life to defend the homeland. Now, with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Caliber 2023