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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
�2013
Language
English
Description
"Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the "funny tanks" which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker "the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang"; and Captain "Johnny" Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a "creeping barrage."...
62) Kamikazes
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2000], c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Examines the events and personalities that were instrumental in Japan's adoption of kamikazi, or suicide, missions in the later stages of World War II.
64) No better friend: one man, one dog, and their extraordinary story of courage and survival in WWII
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Fiercely loyal, Judy had a keen sense for friend and foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. Judy risked her life to intervene when the prisoners were beaten, and her survival became a beacon of hope for all the men. World War II's only official canine POW, Judy lived the rest of her life with Frank.
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This biography details how Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa became a World War II naval hero. During the Battle of the Coral Sea, Swede flew an SBD Dauntless dive-bomber and helped sink Shoho, the first aircraft carrier lost by Japan in World War II. The next day, in that same Dauntless, he took off from USS Yorktown and out-flew and out-gunned three Japanese Zeros, making him the only dive bomber pilot to be awarded Navy Crosses for both bombing and aerial...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Unbroken": Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
"Unbroken : path to redemption" : When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, this begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini's powerful true story...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower,"--Amazon.com.
The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise...
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