Floyd, John Lewis

Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival Floyd

Ashcraft, Tami Oldham

Summary: Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti, both excellent sailors, with a bright future ahead of them. Twenty days into their journey, they ran into a monumental hurricane, in which Richard was blown overboard. With the masts gone, the engine shot, and Richard dead, Tami overcame tremendous odds to navigate herself to safety. It took her 41 days. This is her story.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2002

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 910.9164 ASH

Summary: "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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOR

Jones, 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 JON

Fisher-Alaniz, Karen.

Summary: On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played in WWII. With painful memories now at the forefront of his thoughts, her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54867 FISHER, MURRAY WILLIAM ALA

Hill, Frederic B.

Summary: "The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in nineteenth-century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world include surviving a harrowing shipwreckin the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn, and running down Alaskan glaciers. His faithful letters to his family in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, WILL HIL

Kernan, Alvin B.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 KER

Maher, Robert A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 MAH

Reed, W. Craig.

Summary: "The world came close to annihilation during the Cold War--a sobering fact known to few besides the warriors engaged in the forty-six-year conflict. In this riveting new history, former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner W. Craig Reed provides a thrilling narrative of the tense underwater dramas and covert espionage operations that brought the United States and the former U.S.S.R. to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.93 REE

Stratton, Donald

Summary: A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRATTON, DONALD STR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B STRATTON STR

Raymer, Edward C.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RAYMER, EDWARD RAY

Sullivan, James

Summary: Documents the true story of a U.S. Navy destroyer that inspired the writings of John Ford and Herman Wouk, drawing on the journals and other writings of five shipmates who witnessed the Anzio attacks and D-Day invasion.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SUL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 SUL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War Sullivan