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Battlefire! : combat stories from World War II /
"" Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941: High on the bridge of the USS West Virginia Sfc. Lee Ebner was looking forward to the end of his watch and a relaxed Sunday morning breakfast. But the two low-flying planes painted with rising sun insignia and bearing down on the ship had other plans for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1997]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pearl Harbor, Leyte Gulf, and Okinawa : signalman 1st class Lee Ebner, U.S. Navy
- The Bataan Death March and Camp Cabanatuan : corporal Field Reed Jr., tanker, U.S. Army
- Kamikaze attacks in the Pacific : lieutenant John Barrows, aircraft carrier pilot, U.S. Navy
- Monte Pantano, Monte Cassino, and beyond : lieutenant colonel Benjamin Butler, infantryman, U.S. Army
- The air war over Germany and Stalag 17 : sergeant Bernell S. Heaton, B-17 bomber gunner, U.S. Army Air Force
- Normandy, Holland, Bastogne, and Stalag 4B : captain Willis P. McKee, airborne surgeon, U.S. Army
- New Guinea and the Philippines : technician fourth class Thomas W. Murphy, combat medic, U.S. Army
- Normandy and Lorraine : staff sergeant Paul Mudd, infantryman, U.S. Army
- Depth-charge attacks in the Pacific : torpedoman first class Hanly Davis, submariner, U.S. Navy
- Bastogne and Germany : technician third class Robert Haney, radio operator, U.S. Army
- Iwo Jima : Paul and Joe Simms, U.S. Marine Corps, and hometown friends.