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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...

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Autor principal: Kelly, Arthur L., 1925-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1997]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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500 |a Wartime experiences of twelve Kentuckians based on interviews the author held with them. 
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