Robert J Cressman - Böcker

Recounts how the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll.

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This title presents a pictorial record of the Spanish-American War, the war that brought the United States onto the world's stage and into the 20th century. It combines rare photographs with an authoritative text. It covers the conflict on both la...

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Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese land-based bombers pounded Wake Island, the American advanced base that was key to the U.S. Navy's strategy in the Pacific. Throughout the next two weeks, the Wake Island garrison survived nearly dai...

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No One Avoided Danger is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Partly because of Kaneohe's location - 15 air miles over a mountain ra...

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"e;No One Avoided Danger"e; is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Partly because of Kaneohe's location-15 air miles over a mountain ...

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Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.S. Navy published a chronology of its operations in the war. Long out of print, the work focused on what were then defined as critical and decisive events. It ignored a multitude of combat actions a...

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This Is No Drill is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on NAS Pearl Harbor--then one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Since the station served as a base for long-range patrol aircraft, the Japa...

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They're Killing my Boys is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on Hickam Field then one of two major US Army airfields on the island of O'ahu. Since the field served as a base for long-range bombers, the J...

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A Pitiful, Unholy Messis a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks onO'ahu'sWheeler, Bellows, and Haleiwa Fields. Since these bases comprisedO'ahu'sfighter defenses, the Japanese needed to neutralize t...

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It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion are starting another day of the backbreaking war preparations that have gone on for weeks. Out in ...

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This book is about the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m., on...

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