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U.S. Navy Ships Sunk & Damaged Beyond Repair During World War II(355 total words in this text)(5373 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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1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |
