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by C. Vann Woodward. 246 pgs.

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Contributors:

   C. Vann Woodward

Publisher:

   The Macmillan company

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1947
Subjects:   World War, 1939-1945--Philippines, World War, 1939-1945--Naval Operations, American
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Foreword vii
Introduction 1
I. Sortie of the Imperial Fleet 7
II. The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea 43
III. The Battle of Surigao Strait 89
IV. The Battle off Cape Engaño 129
V. The Battle off Samar 163
VI. The End of the Naval War 217
Appendix: Table of Symbols 236
Index 237
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Book by Gordon L. Rottman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: United States--Marine Corps--Aviation, United States--Marine Corps--History--World War, 1939-1945, United States--Marine Corps--Organization, United States--Marine Corps--Registers, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean
...Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939-1945, represents a deep, searching, massive research effort by...delineating the many changes that occurred in the course of the war. As I found when preparing the T/O appendixes for several...volumes in the History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II series, aviation units were difficult to track...wide- spread interests stretching around the globe. The Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico were now American possessions. American...
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A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939-1945
Book by Martin Kitchen; Longman, 1990
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Asia, World War, 1939-1945--Europe
...the British, French and Americans. An army of 84,000 men was...France to continue the war against Germany since Germany...in Moscow on 12 October 1939, but it soon became apparent...military experts throughout the world, that the poor performance...mistake. German plans for operations in Scandinavia were stepped...Narvik. By this time the naval deployment for the German...number of daring special operations failed miserably. Although...Rundstedt claimed after the war that Hitler deliberately...intention to divide up the world with the British. All the...they could maintain their naval supremacy and their Empire...contact with the pro-German American ambassador in London, Joseph...Czechoslovakia made in October 1939 were accepted, and would...Hurricane squadrons for night operations for which they were unsuited...tenacity in adversity to the Americans. Hitler had at last suffered...Big Wing, but subsequent war games designed to show the...and Suez were the keys to naval Supremacy in the Mediterranean...
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Illusion and Necessity: The Diplomacy of Global War, 1939-1945
Book by John L. Snell; Houghton and Mifflin Company, 1963
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic History
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The Philippines in World War II, 1941-1945: A Chronology and Select Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in English
Book by Walter F. Bell; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Philippines--History--Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945--Bibliography, World War, 1939-1945--Philippines--Bibliography
...Philippines--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945-- Bibliography. 2. World War, 1939-1945--Philippines Bibliography. I. Title. II. Title: Philippines in World War Two. 1941-1945. III. Title: Philippines in World War 2, 1941-1945. IV...
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Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II
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Subjects: Cruisers (Warships)--Germany, World War, 1939-1945--Naval Operations, German
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Private Memory, Public Records, and Contested Terrain: Weighing Oral Testimony in the Deportation of Germans from Latin America during World War II
Journal article by Max Paul Friedman; The Oral History Review, Vol. 27, 2000
Subjects: Deportation--History, Germans in the United States--History, Germans--Foreign relations, Germany--Foreign relations, Oral history--Analysis, United States--Foreign relations, World War, 1939-1945--Refugees
...aliens" were interned from China to Egypt, from Poland to the Philippines.(5) What made the deportation of Germans from Latin America...and interviewed fifteen deportees who returned after the war to their homes in Latin America. The selection process was...blacklisting German companies and individuals, as they had done in World War I, but far more extensively and more successfully.(19...30 January 1946, in folder "Statistics," Subject Files 1939-1954, Box 70, Special War Problems (hereafter SWP), Department...of 600 Alien Enemy Control Section internee reports from 1945-1947 in Name Files of Interned Enemy Aliens from Latin America...
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World War II Economic Warfare: The United States, Britain, and Portuguese Wolfram
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Subjects: Japanese occupation--History, Military missions--Evaluation, United States (World War II), Vietnamese history, World War II, 1939-1945
...to the Japanese, thereby enabling twenty-nine American fliers to escape to safety in China. But the...pretext to overthrow his government on March 9, 1945, an act that changed forever the history of that...Craven and James Lea Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 4, The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan...500503. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 13, The Liberation of the...History of the Martin PBM Marnier (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004), 49-51, 212-213. Robert Sherrod, History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II (Washington: Combat Forces Press, 1952): 338-339...2000, 13-14. Accounts of the execution of other American fliers in Vietnam are found in: R.E. Peppy Blount...States Navy B-24 Liberator and PB4Y-2 Privateer Operations in the Pacific October 1944-August 1945 (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2001...
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Any Place, Any Time, Any Where: The 1st Air Commando Group in World War Ii
Journal article by William T. Y'Blood; Air Power History, Vol. 48, 2001
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...which joined the 1st in Burma in late 1944, and the 3d, which operated in the Philippines beginning in January 1945. But that was all. When the war ended, the three groups were swiftly inactivated, to the delight of some skeptics who had never conceived the enormous...military mind, is to get an old one out." 14 Yet, the new idea of unconventional units organized to carry out special operations that was lit by the World War II Air Commandos did not die. Its flames flickered and ebbed over the years, but they kept burning. Others took...War II Air Commando groups. NOTES This article is based on a talk the author gave on October 5, 2000, to the American Branch of the Burma Star Association. The talk was based on the authors research in the Air Force Historical Research...
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War against Subhumans: Comparisons between the German War against the Soviet Union and the American War against Japan, 1941-1945
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Victory at Sea: Recent Movies ... Have Vididly Depicted the Face of Land Battle in the Second World War, but the Story of the American War Is Incomplete without the Sweep and Strategic Stakes of the War at Sea
Magazine article by David M. Kennedy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, March 1999
Subjects: Air warfare, Japan--History, Japanese history, Naval warfare, World War II, 1939-1945
...told the story, the world learned of the cruel...000 prisoners of war in the Philippines sometime in the...so right down to 1945. In the two interwar...against Germany since 1939, was a contest for...flaring of the Pacific war consumed virtually...handful of First World War-vintage picket...the first half of 1945, battles that consumed...Eight days later the war was over. The...ending the Second World War even as it was...
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Can History Ever Be True
Magazine article by Robin Bruce Lockhart; History Today, Vol. 43, August 1993
Subjects: History--Philosophy, World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British
...had had virtually no seafaring experience since the First World War and essentially a staff man -- was hoping Layton would back...indian Ocean or to Australia or even to the Americans in the Philippines and await the arrival in Singapore of an aircraft carrier...
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Anniversary of Battle of Midway
Magazine article by Eli Lehrer; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, May 3, 1999
Subjects: Midway, Battle of, 1942--History, Naval battles--History, World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations
...luck was on Americas side in the most pivotal battle of the war with Japan in the Pacific. Midway easily could have been...role that good luck played in the decisive Pacific battle of World War II. Now, Robert Ballards discovery of the sunken aircraft...Pacific fleet. The Japanese had taken Guam and much of the Philippines. The first large naval engagement of the war, the battle...and the author of Freedom From Fear: The United States 1929-1945, says that a separate peace with Japan might have been a...
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Neglected American Heroes Sink Foes of Veteran Status
Magazine article by Gayle M.B. Hanson; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, May 5, 1997
Subjects: Merchant marine--Laws, regulations, etc., Veterans--Political activity, World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations
...Coughlin about his service in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II is to hear his voice crack into an abyss that seems to...MacArthur, the general of the Army who, upon liberation of the Philippines, had this to say about Merchant Marine service in the Pacific...Merchant Marine service to be considered active must be Aug. 15, 1945--despite that President Truman declared the of official end...
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For the Good of the Navy
Magazine article by Timothy W. Maier; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, June 5, 2000
Subjects: McVay, Charles, III--Conduct of life, Military offenses--Cases, Ship captains--Cases, World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations
...sunk by a Japanese sub at the end of World War II, are trying to clear the name of their...the terrors of that hot summer day in 1945 when only 317 members of a 1,296-man...mission, McVay turned his ship toward the Philippines under assurances that the Indianapolis...the Navys "worst moral disaster." The naval leaders court-martialed McVay before...
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Hearing Offers Way to Restore Benefits for Filipino Veterans
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 3, 2002
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945
...important legislative hearing on health care for Filipino World War II veterans. The hearing is by the House Veterans Affairs...subject of this hearing were soldiers living at that time in the Philippines, a territory of the United States. They were drafted into...
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World War Ii
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 21, 2004
...Line face German forces on the Siegfried Line from late 1939 through March of 1940 without open fighting. 1940 March...government sues for peace with the Soviets. April: The Phony War ends as Nazi sea and air forces attack Norway and Denmark...railroad car at Compiegne, the site of Germanys surrender in World War I, French delegates accept German terms for peace. A...naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japan also attacks the Philippines and British forces in Malaya and Hong Kong. The United States...By years end, Americans recapture the Philippines. 1945 Jan. 12: Despite stubborn German resistance, the Russians...
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US Solon Assures Vetsbill Approval
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 22, 2001
Subjects: Filner, Bob, World War II, 1939-1945
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Subjects: Prime ministers, Roosevelt, Franklin D.
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Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 17, 2009
Subjects: German occupation--Military aspects, Historians--Military aspects, Military art and science--Military aspects, Military history--Military aspects, Military science--Military aspects, Prime ministers--Military aspects
...Starting Today, in a Major Two-Week Series, Britains Greatest War Historian Tells the Definitive Story of the Rogue Elephant...Hastings NEXT MONTH is the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in 1939. It was a conflict that Britain could not have won without...Nazi Germany. And at the end, as a new world order emerged in 1945 out of the global bloodbath, it was his determination and personality...
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World War II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WORLD WAR II 1939 45, worldwide conflict involving every major power in the...when Japan without warning attacked Pearl Harbor , the Philippines, and Malaya. War was declared (Dec. 8) on Japan by the United...Balkan Peninsula, the Germans resisted in Hungary until Feb., 1945, but Germany itself was pressed. The Russians entered East...
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Japan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in military expansion. Trade and industry, stimulated by World War I, continued to expand, though interrupted by the earthquake...Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 (see Comintern ). In 1938 and 1939 armed clashes took place on the Manchurian border. Japan...reached Japan itself with intensive bombing; and finally in 1945, following the explosion of atomic bombs by the United States...territories, including a large part of China, SE Asia, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. With defeat, Japan was reduced...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...European war in Sept., 1939, the United States...Russians. The threat of war had already caused...inherent threat to the Philippines, the U.S. government...naval events, see World War II .) The country...sudden death in Apr., 1945, Harry S. Truman...Afghanistan. In the Philippines, U.S. troops provided...forces as part of the war on terrorism. During...country and the world accelerated in mid-September...
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Air Forces
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...forces in Italy in 1859 and by Union forces in the U.S. Civil War. Balloons thereafter proved useful as a means of observation, but air forces in the modern sense date from World War I, when the offensive capabilities of the airplane were...History of Strategic Bombing (1982); R. J. Overy, The Air War, 1939 1945 (1984); M. Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power (1987...
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Antarctica
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Technological Advances in Exploration In the period following World War I, scientific and technological advances were applied to further...Discovery Committee of the British Colonial Office from 1925 to 1939. Their major achievement was the discovery of the Antarctic...Macquarie islands, and France founded one on the Adelie Coast. From 1945 to 1957 the U.S. navy conducted Operation Highjump, an expedition...
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