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| Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Sout |
| For most of World War II, the mention of Japans island stronghold sent shudders through thousands of Allied airmen. Some called it "Fortress Rabaul," an apt name for the headquarters of the Imperial ... |
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| Islands of Hell: The U.S. Marines in the |
| By the summer of 1944 the tide had turned in the Pacific War against the Japanese. The war was not nearly over, however, and the U.S. Marines had their heaviest combat in front of them. Here for the ... |
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| Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle: United S |
| Iwo Jima is perhaps the hardest won and most famous battle in the Pacific theater during World War II. The award-winning, iconic photo of Marines raising the American flag during the battle is known ... |
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| Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle: United S |
| Iwo Jima is perhaps the hardest won and most famous battle in the Pacific theater during World War II. The award-winning, iconic photo of Marines raising the American flag during the battle is rememb... |
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| Tarawa and the Marshalls: A Pictorial Tr |
| Some of the biggest battles fought by the Marines during World War II took place on tiny islands scattered throughout the western Pacific. Among these, the battles for Tarawa and the Marshalls were ... |
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| The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, |
| Once the stories have been told of battles won and lost, most of what happens in a war remains a mystery. So it has been with accounts of World War II in the Pacific, a conflict whose nature is only... |
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| America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the |
| American naval actions of World War II comprise the most widespread, complex, and dramatic battles in the history of sea warfare. The fighting took place over vast distances in the Atlantic and Pacif... |
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| Guadalcanal: The U.S. Marines in World W |
| On August 7, 1942, a scant nine months after Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps struck back against Japan on a small island half a world away: Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands. The stakes were high. T... |
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| Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggl |
| Known throughout the fleet as "Big Ben," the USS Franklin was christened for the legacy of the four prior U.S. Navy ships named after Benjamin Franklin. The Franklin was a creation of World War II, o... |
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| Last Man Standing: The 1st Marine Regime |
| One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, Operation Stalemate, as Peleliu was called, was overshadowed by the Normandy landings. It was also, in time, judged by most historians to have b... |
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| New Georgia, Bougainville, and Cape Glou |
| Between late 1942 and early 1944, the Marines took part in a series of major campaigns in and around the Solomons--including New Georgia, Bougainville, and Cape Gloucester--all part of the effort to ... |
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| Pacific Warriors |
| A powerfully written history . . . Eric Hammel has demonstrated again his genius for bringing the past to life in language that is both understandable and digestible. He accompanies his magnificent ... |
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| Pacific Warriors: The U.S. Marines in Wo |
| From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, and more recently from the jungles of Vietnam to the killing fields of Iraq, America’s "soldiers of the sea" have fought their c |
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| A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mys |
| On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsall--under orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Java--split off from the USS Whipple an... |
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| A Leader Born: The Life of Admiral John |
| John S. Slew McCain was an old-school sailor. Wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of Popeye. He was also a pioneer in the hard-hitting naval tactics that bro... |
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| Aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy: |
| Japan was isolated from foreign influence for thousand years, with hardly any influence from the outside world, during which it developed a very particular culture different form the West. It became ... |
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| Allies in the Pacific: EI#2 |
| The second in an exciting series of full color profile books designed, written and illustrated by Thomas A. Tullis. Finally a series providing the reader with a comprehensive collection of some of the most famous aircraft in aviation history. ... |
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| Battleship Arizona's Marines at War: Mak |
| On the morning of December 7, 1941, within the first minute of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a torpedo slammed into the port bow of the USS Arizona. Major Alan Shapley, the senior Marine offic... |
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| Carrier Strike:The Battle of the Santa C |
| Eric Hammel. It was a Japanese victory-but it spelled the end for Japan in the war at sea. In Carrier Strike, critically acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel gives a blow-by-blow, edge-of-your-se... |
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| Iwo Jima Recon: The U.S. Navy at War, Fe |
| Iwo Jima, February 17, 1945: The mission: to scout the beaches for underwater obstacles and mines and determine whether the soil would support vehicles. Four Navy Underwater Demolition Teams (predece... |
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