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“greg h williams”

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  • The U.S. Navy at Normandy

    Fleet Organization and Operations in the D-Day Invasion

    by Greg H. Williams ...
    In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supported the attack, are often given scant attention. Film clips of landing craft unloading men into the surf and battleships firing on enemy emplacements are familiar yet comparatively little is known about the contributions of the marine services and what they ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Liberty Ships of World War II

    A Record of the 2,710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators and Namesakes, with a History of the Jeremiah O'Brien

    by Greg H. Williams ...
    This book details the Liberty ships and the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. For the first time, comprehensive information is provided about the builders, the namesakes, and the operators under one cover. Included is a list of all 2,710 Liberty ships delivered by U.S. shipyards, giving each ship's namesake and detailed descriptions of the companies that built the ships and the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Last Days of the United States Asiatic Fleet

    The Fates of the Ships and Those Aboard, December 8, 1941-February 5, 1942

    by Greg H. Williams ...
    After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7), American sailors of the Asiatic Fleet (where it was December 8) were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct a war on their own, isolated from the rest of the U.S. naval forces. Their fate in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies was often grim--many died aboard burning ships, were executed upon capture or spent years as prisoners of war.Many ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The United States Merchant Marine in World War I

    Ships, Crews, Shipbuilders and Operators

    by Greg H. Williams ...
    During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty. Sailors on cargo ships faced the daily threat of enemy submarines, along with the usual hazards of life at sea, and help was rarely close enough for swift rescues.Pre-war shipping in America depended mainly on foreign vessels, but with the outbreak of war these were no longer available. Construction began quickly on new ships, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    by Walter Lord ...
    Lord’s classic, bestselling account of the bombing of Pearl HarborThe Day of Infamy began as a quiet morning on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. But as Japan’s deadly torpedoes suddenly rained down on the Pacific fleet, soldiers, generals, and civilians alike felt shock, then fear, then rage. From the chaos, a thousand personal stories of courage emerged. Drawn from hundreds of interviews, ... Read more

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  • Tarawa

    The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles

    by Robert Sherrod ...
    In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist ... Read more

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  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Gauntlet to Victory

    by Ted Barris ...
    The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada’s longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navyThe years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic. It also ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Sunday in Hell

    Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute

    by Bill McWilliams ...
    The author of A Return to Glory constructs a compellingly detailed and panoramic history of the fateful day that ushered the United States into WWII.Using long-established historical records and contemporary journals, as well as recently released wartime documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day That Will Live in Infamy. Told from the points of view ... Read more

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  • Rangers in Korea

    The War the World Didn't Want to Remember, Fought by the Men the World Will Never Forget

    by Robert W. Black ...
    A generation before Vietnam, the war for Korea raged. It was as rough and dirty a war as has ever been fought—a war small in history, but very large to the men who waged it. . . .In the Korean War, one group above all others distinguished itself, a small elite band who volunteered for action behind enemy lines. They were the men of the U. S. Army’s legendary Rangers. They succeeded in making the ... Read more

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  • US Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers

    The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korean War, 1950–1951

    by Edward L. Posey ...
    Finalist, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award: An account of this elite unit serving in the last days of a segregated military: "Riveting." — The Journal of African American HistoryThe 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. The company's life span covered ten months, from selection and training ... Read more

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  • The Ship That Never Was

    by B.J. BRYAN ...
    "The United States Merchant Marine provided the greatest sealift in history between the production army at home and the fighting forces scattered around the globe in World War II. The prewar total of 55,000 experienced mariners was increased to over 215,000 through U. S. Maritime Service training programs.Merchant ships faced danger from submarines, mines, armed raiders, and destroyers, aircraft ... Read more

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  • Fatal Dive

    Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion

    by Peter F. Stevens ...
    Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers—whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it—one question remained: what sank the USS Grunion? Was it a round from a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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