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The United States Navy in World War II: the one-volume history, from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, by men who fought in the Atlantic and the Pacific and by distinguished naval experts, authors and newspapermen
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Part I: Pearl Harbor to the end in the Malay Barrier
Pearl Harbor attack / John Toland
" ... and pass the ammunition" / Howell M. Forgy
"I can't keep throwing things at them" / Walter Lord
Wake Island surrenders / Scott Cunningham with Lydel Sims
The Philippine expendables / W.L. White
Scratch One! / L.A. Abercrombie and Fletcher Pratt
First blood: a war correspondent tells of the Marshalls raid / Robert J. Casey
Macassar merry-go-round / William P. Mack
The galloping ghost / Walter G. Winslow
Retreat / Douglas MacArthur
All gone, now / Ira Wolfret
Part II: the war in the Atlantic
Attack / Griffth Baily Coale
Atlantic slaughter / Felix Riesenberg, jr
"Wipe the oil out of my eyes!" / John J. Forsdal
Murmansk / Walter Karig, Earl Burton and Stephen L. Freeland
P.Q.17 / Winston S. Churchill
Cominch takes a hard look at the u-boat situation / Ernest J. King
The naval battle of Casablanca / Samuel Eliot Morison
Summit conference / Ernest J. King and Walter Muir Whitehill
U.S.S. Borie's last battle / John Hersey
Enlistment days / James J. Fahey
The capture of U-505 / D.V. Gallery
Part III: Doolittle's raid to the battle of Midway
Launch planes! / Carroll V. Glines
How shall we win? / Ernest M. Eller
Coral Sea preliminaries / Chester W. Nimitz and E.B. Potter
Abandon ship! / Frederick C. Sherman
Taking aboard Lexington's survivors / Howell M. Forgy
The gallant lady succumbs / Stanley Johnston
Midway preliminaries / Samual Eliot Morison
Slaughter of torpedo 8 / Sidney L. James
"The target was utterly satisfying" / Clarence E. Dickinson and Boyden Sparkes
Turning of the tide / Thaddeus V. Tuleja
The Battle analyzed / Ernest M. Eller
Part IV: Guadalcanal and the northward drive: the offensive begins
The invasion is mounted / Chester W. Nimitz and E.B. Potter
The landings / Richard Tregaskis
Astoria's ordeal / Joe James Custer
Death boards Vincennes and Astoria / Richard F. Newcomb
"Pick out the biggest!" / Frank D. Morris
Action off Santa Cruz / Edward P. Stafford
The naval battle off Guadalcanal / Walter Karig and Eric Purdon
Mush the magnificent / George Grider and Lydel Sims
"Fire torpedoes when you're on, Whitey!" / J.H. Clagett
Dive-bombing attack / Foster Hailey
Mend and mud / William Bradford Huie
Kula Gulf / C.G. Morris and Hugh B. Cave
PT 109 / Robert J. Donovan
Empress Augusta Bay / Theodo0re Roscoe
"They can forget that island from now on" / James J. Fahey
DesRon 23 doctrine / Arleigh A. Burke
Part V: the Mediterranean and France, victory in Europe
Invasion prelude / Ernie Pyle
Underway / H. Kent Hewitt
Battle stations / John Mason Brown
"Shoot out that Goddamn light!" / Jack Belden
End of a campaign / Theodore Roscoe
PTs at Palermo / Robert J. Buckley, jr
She's a lucky ship
you hope! / Quentin Reynolds
"The panzers were waiting for us" / W.J. Burke and William Bradford Huie
"Thank God for the Navy!" / Theodore Roscoe
Maelstrom of ships / Robert J. Casey
Naval guns at Normandy / Morton L. Devo
The flag hung limp for a moment / Cornelius Ryan
"The morning was rather misty" / David Howarth
Voyage to victory / Ernest Hemingway
The longest hour in history / Martin Sommers
Enter Mulberry / Edward Ellsberg
Ordeal on the beaches / Len Guttridge
Texas duels Nazi shore batteries / Martin Sommers
The big stuff / Harold Clements
Part VI: Ateutians to the Marianas
Action off Komandorski / John Bishop
Life in a Japanese P.O.W. camp / John A. Fitzgerald
Lieutenant Commander Lyndon B. Johnson under fire / Martin Caidin and Edward Hymoff
Attack by night / Basil Heatter
"We better get air support pretty soon!" / Edward I. Farley
First day on Tarawa / Robert Sherrod
"I got the pipe you sent me" / Dee Hardin
Thunder Mug at Apamama / Norman Miller and Hugh B. Cave
Invasion of the Marshalls / Anthony Kimmins
Marshalls mop-up / Walter Karig, Russell L. Harris and Frank A. Manson
Men at work / Charles A. Lockwood and Hans Christian Adamson
Marianas completed / Walter Karig, Russell L. Harris and Frank A. Manson
Hellcat at the turkey shoot / Stanley Vraciu with Edward H. Sims
Philippine Sea: action and conclusion / Samuel Eliot Morison
"He looks like a white man" / George R. Tweed with Blake Clark
First strike on Iwo / Norman Miller and Hugh B. Cave
Part VII: Leyte Gulf to Okinawa: end of an empire
Foray to the Philippines / Edward P. Stafford
Leyte preliminaries / Handson W. Baldwin
Leyte landing / Steward W. Hallman
Return / Douglas MacArthur
Darter and Dace / R.C. Benitez
I turn North / William F. Halsey
"They has us on the ropes" / C.A.F. Sprague and Philip H. Gustafson
"Small boys
intercept!" / Amos T. Hathaway
High honor to all / Chester W. Nimitz and E.B. Potter
"Down periscope" / Edward L. Beach
Typhoon / Hanson W. Baldwin
First strike on Tokyo / J. Bryan, III
Iwo Jima before h-hour / John P. Marquand
Okinawa
triple exposure / Edward T. Higgins
The end of the Japanese fleet / Theodore Taylor
Second dog watch / Alnold Lott
Surrender diary / James Forrestal with Walter Millis
"It came over the radio ..." / James J. Fahey
Unconditional surrender / William F. Halsey and J. Bryan, III.