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Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943 Pacific Ocean Prisoners of war Japan Prisoners of war United States United States. Navy History World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Submarine World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, German World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, JapaneseKershaw, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.545 Kershaw 2008Kershaw, 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 KERKershaw, Alex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 KERMoore, Stephen L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2009
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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 MCCBruning, 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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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 HOPMoses, 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 MOSMorison, Samuel Eliot
Contents: Appendix I. Losses of merchant shipping -- Appendix II. Monthly sinkings of German and Italian submarines -- Appendix III. Arming of merchant vessels -- Appendix IV. Mine fields laid by U-boats in Western Atlantic, 1942 -- Appendix V. The support force Atlantic Fleet -- Appendix VI. The Atlantic Fleet of the United States Navy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1947
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 MORSummary: "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 WORHornfischer, James D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 HorBorneman, 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 BORDuffy, James P.
Summary: "It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to abandon his American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula and slip away to Australia to organize the Allied resistance. FromAustralia, he had famously vowed to return to liberate the Philippines. And the people had believed his vow, their faith in him almost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DUFThomas, 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 THOVincent, Lynn
Summary: "Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 VINVincent, Lynn
Summary: Based on new primary sources and interviews with 108 survivors, Vincent and Vladic reveal the untold stories of the crew left adrift for five days in the Philippine Sea as they battled dehydration, sharks, insanity, and each other; the Army spy who shepherded the bomb aboard Indianapolis; the hidden history of the Top Secret ULTRA program that could have saved the ship; and the survivors'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.54 VINWilliams, 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 WILGordon, John
Summary: "As the only single-volume work to offer a full account of Navy and Marine Corps actions in the Philippines during World War II, this book provides a unique source of information on the early part of the war. It is filled with never-before-published details about the fighting, based on a rich collection of American and newly discovered Japanese sources, and includes a revealing discussion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GORHammel, Eric M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1988
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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 LUNSyrett, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 SYRDrury, Bob.
Summary: In December 1944, America's most popular and colorful naval hero, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, unwittingly sailed his undefeated Pacific Fleet into the teeth of a powerful typhoon. Three destroyers were capsized, sending hundreds of sailors and officers into the raging, shark-infested waters. Over the next sixty hours, small bands of survivors fought seventy-foot waves, exhaustion, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 DRUFluckey, Eugene B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 FLUAndrade, Allan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tern Book Co. 1997