Battle stations! Your Navy in action; a photographic epic of the naval operations of world war II, told by the great admirals who sailed the fleet from Norfolk to Normandy and from the Golden Gate to the Inland sea.

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Battle stations! Your Navy in action; a photographic epic of the naval operations of world war II, told by the great admirals who sailed the fleet from Norfolk to Normandy and from the Golden Gate to the Inland sea.

Entry/Object ID

2015.1.1538

Description

402 pages including color frontispiece, illustrations 26 cm Battle stations! Your Navy in action; a photographic epic of the naval operations of world war II, told by the great admirals who sailed the fleet from Norfolk to Normandy and from the Golden Gate to the Inland sea. Contents: Foreword / Ernest J. King -- A review of the history of the U.S. Navy / Dudley W. Knox -- The Navy trains for war / Louis L. Denfeld -- Pearl Harbor / William R. Furlong -- Battle of the Atlantic / Jonas H. Ingram -- Battle of the Coral Sea / Aubrey W. Fitch -- The battle of Midway / Frank J. Fletcher -- Women in the service : Navy nurses / Sue S. Dauser -- WAVES / Jean T. Palmer -- SPARS / Dorothy C. Stratton -- Marines / Ruth Cheney Streeter -- Victory at Guadalcanal / Alexander A. Vandergrift -- The invasion of North Africa / H.K. Hewitt -- The invasion of Sicily / Richard L. Conolly -- The battle for Tarawa / Julian C. Smith -- The capture of Kwajalein / Richmond K. Turner -- The invasion of Normandy / Alan G. Kirk -- The battle for the Marianas / Holland M. Smith -- The battle of the Philippine Sea / Raymond A. Spruance -- The invasion of Southern France / Calvin T. Durgin -- The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II / Russell R. Waesche -- The battle for Leyte Gulf / Thomas C. Kinkaid and Marc A. Mitscher -- U.S. naval group, China / Milton E. Miles -- The battle for Iwo Jima / Harry Schmidt -- The Okinawa campaign / Roy S. Geiger -- The last days of the Japanese fleet / Robert B. Carney -- Surrender of Japan / William F. Halsey, Jr. -- Naval awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor -- Statistics on American, Jap, German and Italian navies -- The post war Navy / Chester W. Nimitz -- Ships of the fleet.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations., World War, 1939-1945 -- United States., World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works., Military operations, Naval., United States. Navy.

Publication Details

Publisher

W.H. Wise & Co., Inc.

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

New York, NY

Call No.

D 773 .B36 1946