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U.S. Navy and Coast Guard Vessels, Sunk or Damaged Beyond Repair during World War II(355 total words in this text)(2552 Reads) Ball, Donald L. Fighting Amphibs: The LCS(L) in World War II. Williamsburg VA: Mill Neck Publications, 1997. Bulkley, Robert J., Jr., Captain. At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy. Washington: Naval History Division, 1962. Charles, Roland W., Naval Architect. Troopships of World War II. Washington: The Army Transportation Association, 1947. Holmes, Harry. The Last Patrol. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1994. Inoguchi, Rikihei, Captain, Commander Tadashi Nakajima, and Roger Pineau. The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II. Annapolis MD: United States Naval Institute, 1958. King, Ernest J., Fleet Admiral. U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy. Washington: Navy Department, 1946. Lambert, John, and Al Ross. Allied Coastal Forces of World War II. 2 vols. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993. O'Neill, Richard. Suicide Squads: W.W. II: Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II: their Development and their Missions. New York NY: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Parkin, Robert Sinclair. Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II. New York NY: Sarpedon Publishers, 1995. Scheina, Robert L. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982. Silverstone, Paul H. US Warships of World War II. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989. US Navy. Ship's Data: U.S. Naval Vessels. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943. US Navy. Ship's Data: U.S. Naval Vessels. 3 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1945. Veigele, William J. PC Patrol Craft of World War II: A History of the Ships and their Crews. Santa Barbara CA: Astral Publishing Company, 1998. Warner, Denis, Peggy Warner, and Sadao Seno. The Sacred Warriors: Japan's Suicide Legions. New York NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1982. Young, Donald J. The Battle for Bataan: A History of the 90 Day Siege and Eventual Surrender of 75,000 Filipino and United States Troops to the Japanese in World War II. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Company, 1992. |
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The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
1861: Residents of Baltimore, Maryland, attack a Union regiment while the group makes its way to Washington. 1861: President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. 1927: In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. 1938: General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. 1943: Waffen SS attack Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto putting down the uprising. 1951: I and IX Corps reached the Utah Line, south of the Iron Triangle. 1951: General MacArthur denounced the Truman Administration before a joint session of Congress for refusing to lift restrictions on the scope of the war. 1952: The U.N. delegation informed the communists that only 70,000 of 132,000 of the prisoners of war held by the United Nations Command were willing to return home. |