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22) "Mister Roberts"
Series
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during the waning days of World War II. In the Navy Register it is listed as 'The Reluctant, ' but to its crew it is known as 'The Bucket.' The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant martinet of a captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked...
26) A tale of two subs: an untold story of World War II, two sister ships, and extraordinary heroism
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Description
"There was no way for the commander of the USS Sailfish to know that the Japanese aircraft carrier he just torpedoed actually had on board several crew members of the USS Sculpin, the sister sub to the Sailfish which had been sunk just days earlier by enemy fire. This is the extraordinary story of the events that led to this amazing twist of fate and what happened to the Sculpin survivors."--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description
"More than the story of a single, savage engagement, Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett's defining moment at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage, so prolonged, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had endured what Plunkett had. After...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First HarperCollins edition.
Description
Originally published in 1958, "Abandon Ship!" was the first book to describe how the survivors of the "U.S.S. Indianapolis" sinking watched their shipmates fall prey to shark attacks, dehydration and death, and the first to question why the captain, Charles McVay, was court martialed.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Sailors to the End tells the dramatic and until now forgotten story of the 1967 fire on board the USS Forrestal during its time at Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam. The aircraft carrier, the mightiest of the U.S. fleet, was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally fired a rocket across the flight deck and into an aircraft occupied by pilot John McCain. A huge fire ensued, and McCain barely escaped before...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"December 1944, the Pacific theater: General Douglas MacArthur has vowed to return to the Philippines. He will need the help of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey's Third Fleet. But at the height of the invasion, Halsey's 170 ships are blindsided by a typhoon of unprecedented strength and scope. Battleships are tossed like toys, fighter planes are blown off carriers, destroyers are capsized, and almost nine hundred sailors are swept into the roiling, shark-infested...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Description
A moment-by-moment account of the sinking of PT-109 shares detailed perspectives into the future president's heroic contributions, sharing insights into his leadership over a small band of survivors while awaiting rescue.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Description
By the spring of 1945, the once mighty Japanese fleet has been virtually destroyed, leaving Japan open to invasion. Japan responds by dispatching hundreds of suicide bombers against the Allied fleet surrounding Okinawa. Patrolling miles off the coast, the USS Malloy is part of a squadron of ships assigned to warn the carrier formations closer to the island of impending kamikaze attack. Executive Officer Connie Miles begins to realize that Malloy's...
Author
Series
Great sea battles of World War II volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1981
Description
An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
Author
Publisher
[For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. G.P.O.]
Pub. Date
1962
Description
Small though they were, PT boats played a key role in World War II, carrying out an astonishing variety of missions where fast, versatile, and strongly armed vessels were needed. Called "weapons of opportunity," they met the enemy at closer quarters and with greater frequency than any other type of surface craft. Among the most famous PT commanders was John F. Kennedy, whose courageous actions in the Pacific are now well known to the American public....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Description
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret and survive life at sea.
39) Return to Midway
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Provides an account of the 1942 battle of Midway and the high-tech hunt for the lost ships fifty-six years later
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