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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John F Wukovits |
ISBN: | 9780306824302 0306824302 9780306921902 0306921901 |
OCLC Number: | 952369729 |
Description: | xiii, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Origins of a squadron -- Prologue -- The destroyers go to war -- Initiation at Guadalcanal -- Naval slugfest off Guadalcanal -- Desron 21 holds the line in the South Pacific -- Blunting the Tokyo Express -- Birth of a squadron -- Struggle for the slot -- Kula Gulf confrontations -- Desron 21 sweeps to victory -- Climbing the New Guinea ladder -- The Philippine whirlwind -- Kamikaze carnage -- Eyewitnesses to victory -- Epilogue -- Chronology -- Appendix I: Battle stars awarded -- Appendix II: Location of ships at war's end. |
Other Titles: | Heroic men and ships of World War II's most decorated Navy destroyer squadron |
Responsibility: | John F. Wukovits. |
Abstract:
An epic narrative of World War II naval action that brings to life the exploits of the destroyer squadron that put up the most impressive record of any naval squadron during the war
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