Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...links" in the strategic defense of the whole Pacific area, intends to keep control of them "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East." Under a defense system that accents air power and mobility, the Ryukyus and Bonins will be strong U.S. air and naval outposts in a defensive line that stretches along the China coast from Japan to the Philippines...
...DESTROYER OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II (581 pp.)-Theodore Roscoe-U.S. Naval Institute...
...miles was plowed into moving, triangular furrows as the great U.S. amphibious force bore toward Okinawa. In the center of the mighty array were 1,213 vessels carrying 182,000 assault troops and their gear of war. Supporting the transport and LSTs was the largest fleet concentration in naval history-nearly 1,500 war vessels, more than 40 aircraft carriers, 18 battleships, scores of cruisers. On the outer ring of the armada, far beyond the men on the bridges of the lordly carriers, rode the destroyers, the "small boys" of the fleet, charged with forming a bristling picket fence around...
Russian Assignment, by Leslie C. Stevens. An enlightening account of two years in Russia, by a U.S. naval attache who found the Russian people friendly (TIME...
...Tragedy, which carried events from the Normandy beaches to final victory, and ended with Churchill's defeat in 1945 at the hands of Labor. With New Guinea and the Marianas, Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison completed the eighth volume (six more to come) of his U.S. naval history of the war, a job second in scope and flair only to Churchill's own. And from the U.S. Army came Louis Morton's The Fall of the Philippines, Volume 19 of its projected 87-volume official history, and one of the best so far. From the enemy...