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Pacific skies : American flyers in World War II /

From 1941 to 1945 the skies over the Pacific Ocean afforded the broadest arena for battle and the fiercest action of air combat during World War II. It was in the air above the Pacific that America's involvement in the war began. It was in these skies that air power launched from carriers becam...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klinkowitz, Jerome (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
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505 0 |a Introduction: a world away from war -- Going to war in peacetime -- An air war at sea and on land -- Tales of the South Pacific -- Endgame: kamikazes and the bombing of Japan -- Conclusion: dimensions moral and more. 
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