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In harm's way : JFK, World War II, and the heroic rescue of PT 109

Description:	1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 34 min.)) : digital.
Publisher:	[United States] : Scholastic, 2018.
Edition:	Unabridged.
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▸A thrilling true survival story that follows one of America's most beloved presidents, John F. ... Kennedy, as he fought to save his crew after a deadly shipwreck in the Pacific during World War II. In September 1941, young Jack Kennedy was appointed an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve. After completing training and eager to serve, he volunteered for combat duty in the Pacific and was appointed commander of PT 109. On August 2, 1943, Kennedy's PT 109 and two others were on a night mission to ambush an enemy supply convoy when they were surprised by a massive Japanese destroyer. The unsuspecting Americans had only seconds to react as the Japanese captain turned his ship to ram directly into Kennedy's. PT 109 was cut in half by the collision, killing two of Kennedy's 12 crewmen and wounding several others in the explosion. In Harm's Way tells the gripping story of what happened next as JFK fought to save his surviving crew members who found themselves adrift in enemy waters. Read More

Guadalcanal Diary.

Description:	1 online resource
Publisher:	[United States] : Open Road Media, 2016.
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▸#1 New York Times Bestseller: The definitive eyewitness account of one of the bloodiest and most ... pivotal battles of World War II. On August 7, 1942, eleven thousand US Marines landed on Tulagi and Guadalcanal Islands in the South Pacific. It was the first major Allied offensive against Japanese forces; the first time in history that a combined air, land, and sea assault had ever been attempted; and, after six months of vicious fighting, a crushing defeat for the Empire of Japan and a major turning point in the Pacific War. Volunteer combat correspondent Richard Tregaskis was one of only two journalists on hand to witness the invasion of Guadalcanal. He risked life and limb to give American readers a soldier's experience of the war in the Pacific, from the suffocating heat and humidity to the unique terror of fighting in tall, razor-sharp grass and in crocodile-infested jungle streams against a concealed enemy. In understated yet graceful prose, Tregaskis details the first two months of the campaign and describes the courage and camaraderie of young marines who prepared for battle knowing that one in four of them wouldn't make it home. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1943 and the basis for a popular film of the same name, Guadalcanal Diary set the standard for World War II reportage. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the literary events of its time," it is a masterpiece of war journalism whose influence can be found in classic works such as John Hersey's Hiroshima, Michael Herr's Dispatches, and Dexter Filkins's The Forever War. Read More

Operation vengeance : the astonishing aerial ambush that changed World War II

Description:	1 online resource
Publisher:	New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
ISBN:	9780062938114 (electronic bk.)
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▸"... [a] narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese ... commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor."-- Read More
▸1943. Naval Intelligence intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the ... Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated America's entry into the war. On April 18th he would travel to Rabaul in the South Pacific to visit Japanese troops, then fly to the Japanese airfield at Balalale, 400 miles to the southeast. Operation Vengeance was born. To avoid detection, U.S. pilots had to embark on a circuitous, 1,000-mile odyssey that would test not only their skills but the physical integrity of their planes. The slightest miscalculation, even by a few minutes, meant the entire plan would collapse. Hampton focuses on the mission's pilots and recreates the moment-by-moment drama they experienced in the air. -- Read More

Operation Vengeance : the astonishing aerial ambush that changed World War II

Description:	xvii, 533 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher:	New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
ISBN:	9780063000209 (paperback : large print)
Edition:	First Harper Large Print edition.
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▸"...[a] narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese ... commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor."-- Read More

The mosquito bowl : a game of life and death in World War II

Description:	xv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher:	New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishing, [2022]
ISBN:	9780062879929 (hardcover)
Edition:	First edition.
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▸"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As ... the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war--the invasion of Okinawa--their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL. When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito Bowl." Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl" would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence. Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America's campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa -- Read More