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Title Battle stations! : Your Navy in action / a photographic epic of the naval oerations of world war II, told by the great admirals who sailed the fleet from Norfolk to Normandy and from the Golden Gate to the Inland sea.

Publication Info. New York : W.H. Wise & Co., 1946.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  REF 940.545 BAT    In-Library Use Only
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  940.545 B    Check Shelf
Description 402 pages : including color frontispiece, illustrations (part color, including portraits, maps)
Contents Foreword / Ernest J. King -- A review of the history of the U.S. Navy / Dudley W. Knox -- The Navy trains for war / Louis L. Denfeld -- Pearl Harbor / William R. Furlong -- Battle of the Atlantic / Jonas H. Ingram -- Battle of the Coral Sea / Aubrey W. Fitch -- The battle of Midway / Frank J. Fletcher -- Women in the service : Navy nurses / Sue S. Dauser -- WAVES / Jean T. Palmer -- SPARS / Dorothy C. Stratton -- Marines / Ruth Cheney Streeter -- Victory at Guadalcanal / Alexander A. Vandergrift -- The invasion of North Africa / H.K. Hewitt -- The invasion of Sicily / Richard L. Conolly -- The battle for Tarawa / Julian C. Smith -- The capture of Kwajalein / Richmond K. Turner -- The invasion of Normandy / Alan G. Kirk -- The battle for the Marianas / Holland M. Smith -- The battle of the Philippine Sea / Raymond A. Spruance -- The invasion of Southern France / Calvin T. Durgin -- The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II / Russell R. Waesche -- The battle for Leyte Gulf / Thomas C. Kinkaid and Marc A. Mitscher -- U.S. naval group, China / Milton E. Miles -- The battle for Iwo Jima / Harry Schmidt -- The Okinawa campaign / Roy S. Geiger -- The last days of the Japanese fleet / Robert B. Carney -- Surrender of Japan / William F. Halsey, Jr. -- Naval awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor -- Statistics on American, Jap, German and Italian navies -- The post war Navy / Chester W. Nimitz -- Ships of the fleet.
Subject United States. Navy.
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