US Coast Guard in World War II
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford
Osprey Publ.
2010
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. in Great Britain |
| Schriftenreihe: | Elite
180 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: The pre-war Coast Guard ; the "Rum War" and the "hooligan Navy" ; The Coast Guard Reserve and Auxiliary ; The Coast Guard goes to war: Pearl Harbor ; Command and control ; USCG Women's Reserve (SPARs) ; Uniforms -- The Home Front : USCG Reserve temporary members ; Port security and beach patrols -- The Battle of the Atlantic: Pre-war operations: Greenland ; Doenitz's Operation Paukenschlag, January-July 1945 ; The North Atlantic: "the Bloody Winter", 1972/43 ; Escort Group A-3: Convoys SC-112, ON-166, SC-121, HX-233 ; Antisubmarine operations from May 1943: destroyers and frigates ; hunter-killer groups ; the last battles, spring 1945 -- The Mediterranean and European Theaters: Air attacks ; USCGC Menges and U-371 ; The Normandy landings: Assault Group 0-1 control ships - Rescue Flotilla 1 -- The Pacific Theater: The Aleutians, 1942-43 and thereafter ; Amphibious campaigns, Southwest & Central Pacific: The Solomons, the Gilberts and Marshalls, New Guinea and the Marianas, the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Miscellaneous operations in the CBI -- Aftermath & Summary |
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| Beschreibung: | 64 p. Ill. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781846039195 978-1-84603-919-5 |