Dark nights, deadly waters American PT boats at Guadalcanal
Solomon's gold -- The mosquito fleet -- Nobody gives a damn -- A helluva way to win a war -- In harm's way -- Dangerous little ships -- Bitch patrol -- Friday the thirteenth -- Starvation island -- The Hooligan Navy -- 20,000 souls -- Cartwheel and Jack Kennedy
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Essex, Connecticut
Lyons Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Solomon's gold -- The mosquito fleet -- Nobody gives a damn -- A helluva way to win a war -- In harm's way -- Dangerous little ships -- Bitch patrol -- Friday the thirteenth -- Starvation island -- The Hooligan Navy -- 20,000 souls -- Cartwheel and Jack Kennedy "The US Navy's Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats were used in every theater of WWII, but they are most famous for their daring exploits in the South Pacific, where they were the US Navy's first line of defense against the "Tokyo Express," the nightly attacks of Japanese destroyers against American forces on Guadalcanal. Dark Nights, Deadly Waters tells the story of the first PT boats deployed to the fetid and malarial island of Tulagi, in the desperate early days of America's "island hopping" campaign across the Pacific"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | XIX, 259 Seiten, 12 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen, Karte 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781493072064 978-1-4930-7206-4 |