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200,000 miles aboard the destoyer Cotten /
In mid-June 1943, Snelling Robinson, a 20-year-old Harvard graduate and newly commissioned ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve, joined the pre-commissioning crew of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Cotten. The new crew trained for the remainder of the summer and t hen sailed to Pearl Harbor in time to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kent, Ohio :
Kent State University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""1. Fitting Out""; ""2. Shakedown Cruise""; ""3. To Pearl Harbor and the Pacific Fleet""; ""4. Tarawa: Operation Galvanic""; ""5. Independent Duties in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands""; ""6. Operation Flintlock""; ""7. To Espiritu Santo""; ""8. Fifth Fleet Operations in the Southwest Pacific""; ""9. Majuro""; ""10. Personnel Changes""; ""11. Operation Forager and the Battle of the Philippine Sea""; ""12. Task Force 58 Returns to Saipan""; ""13. The Cotten and Destroyer Squadron 50 Screen the Battle Line""
- ""14. Command Changes""""15. Admiral Halsey Trains the Battle Line""; ""16. Third Fleet Operations Prior to the Battle of Leyte Gulf""; ""17. The Battle of Leyte Gulf""; ""18. Action off Cape Engafio""; ""19. Kamikazes Enter the Pacific War""; ""20. Kamikazes: Midget Subs and More Planes""; ""21. The Great Pacific Typhoon, December 1944""; ""22. In the South China Sea""; ""23. Air Strikes against Tokyo: Iwo lima D Day""; ""24. A Second Strike against the Tokyo Area""; ""25. Iwo Jima: March 5-13, 1945""; ""26. Encounter with Japanese Patrol Vessels""; ""27. Iwo Jima Secured""
- ""28. Shore Leave""""29. Hunters Point""; ""30. Stateside Duty Comes to an End""; ""31. The War Ends""; ""32. Transition""; ""33. The Tokyo Bay Occupation Force""; ""34. Tokyo""; ""35. The Cotten Acquires a Kamikaze Speedboat""; ""36. The Tokyo Bay Roadstead""; ""37. Atami""; ""38. The House of the Golden Wave""; ""39. Squadron 50 Leaves the Occupation Force""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix A""; ""Appendix B""; ""Appendix C""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""