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Tin Can Titans - The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron (Paperback): John... Tin Can Titans - The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron (Paperback)
John Wukovits 1
R510 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 (Desron 21) to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it was the most battle-hardened US naval squadron of the war. But it was not the squadron of ships that had accumulated such an inspiring resume; it was the people serving aboard them. Sailors, not metallic superstructures and hulls, had won the battles and become the stuff of legend. Men like Commander Donald MacDonald, skipper of the USS O'Bannon, who became the most decorated naval officer of the Pacific war; Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who survived his ship's sinking and waged a one-man battle against the enemy while stranded on a Japanese-occupied island; and Doctor Dow "Doc" Ransom, the beloved physician of the USS La Vallette, who combined a mixture of humor and medical expertise to treat his patients at sea, epitomize the sacrifices made by all the men and women of World War II. Through diaries, personal interviews with survivors, and letters written to and by the crews during the war, preeminent historian of the Pacific theater John Wukovits brings to life the human story of the squadron and its men who bested the Japanese in the Pacific and helped take the war to Tokyo.

Dogfight over Tokyo - The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II (Hardcover): John... Dogfight over Tokyo - The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II (Hardcover)
John Wukovits
R763 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R49 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they had no idea they were about to carry out the final air mission of World War II. Two hours later, Yorktown received word from Admiral Nimitz that the war had ended and that all offensive operations should cease. As they were turning back, twenty Japanese planes suddenly dove from the sky above them and began a ferocious attack. Four American pilots never returned--men who had lifted off from the carrier in wartime but were shot down during peacetime. Drawing on participant letters, diaries, and interviews, newspaper and radio accounts, and previously untapped archival records, historian and prolific author of acclaimed Pacific theater books, including Tin Can Titans and Hell from the Heavens, John Wukovits tells the story of Air Group 88's pilots and crew through their eyes. Dogfight over Tokyo is written in the same riveting, edge-of-your-seat style that has made Wukovits's previous books so successful. This is a stirring, one-of-a-kind tale of naval encounters and the last dogfight of the war--a story that is both inspirational and tragic.

Dogfight over Tokyo - The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II (Paperback): John... Dogfight over Tokyo - The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II (Paperback)
John Wukovits
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they had no idea they were about to carry out the final air mission of World War II. Two hours later, Yorktown received word from Admiral Nimitz that the war had ended and that all offensive operations should cease. As they were turning back, twenty Japanese planes suddenly dove from the sky above them and began a ferocious attack. Four American pilots never returned--men who had lifted off from the carrier in wartime but were shot down during peacetime. Drawing on participant letters, diaries, and interviews, newspaper and radio accounts, and previously untapped archival records, historian and prolific author of acclaimed Pacific theater books, including Tin Can Titans and Hell from the Heavens, John Wukovits tells the story of Air Group 88's pilots and crew through their eyes. Dogfight over Tokyo is written in the same riveting, edge-of-your-seat style that has made Wukovits's previous books so successful. This is a stirring, one-of-a-kind tale of naval encounters and the last dogfight of the war--a story that is both inspirational and tragic.

Lost At Sea - Eddie Rickenbacker's Twenty-Four Days Adrift on the Pacific --A World War II Tale of Courage and Faith... Lost At Sea - Eddie Rickenbacker's Twenty-Four Days Adrift on the Pacific --A World War II Tale of Courage and Faith (Hardcover)
John Wukovits
R837 R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Save R95 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chesty Puller - A Marine Legend in WW2 (Paperback): John Wukovits Chesty Puller - A Marine Legend in WW2 (Paperback)
John Wukovits
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
For Crew and Country (Paperback): John Wukovits For Crew and Country (Paperback)
John Wukovits
R547 R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On October 25, 1944, the Samuel B. Roberts, along with the other twelve vessels comprising its unit, Taffy 3, stood between Japan's largest battleship force ever sent to sea, and General Douglas MacArthur's transports inside Leyte Gulf. Faced with the surprise appearance of more than twenty Japanese battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, including the Yamato, at seventy thousand tons the most potent battlewagon in the world, the twelve-hundred-ton Samuel B. Roberts turned immediately into action with six other ships. The ship churned straight at the enemy in a near-suicidal attempt to deflect the more potent foe and buy time for MacArthur's forces. Of 563 destroyers constructed during World War II, the Samuel B. Roberts was the only one sunk, going down with guns blazing in a duel reminiscent of the Spartans at Thermopylae or Davy Crockett's Alamo defenders. The men who survived faced a horrifying three-day nightmare in the sea, where they battled a lack of food and water, scorching sun, numbing night time cold, and nature's most feared adversary - sharks. The battle would go down as history's greatest sea clash, the Battle of Samar - the dramatic climax of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

One Square Mile of Hell - The Battle for Tarawa (Paperback): John Wukovits One Square Mile of Hell - The Battle for Tarawa (Paperback)
John Wukovits
R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the Tarawa atoll lies the tiny islet of Betio. In November of 1943, the men of the 2nd Marine Division watched as bombardments destroyed the island's Japanese defenses. But when the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their protective bunkers and began one of the most brutal encounters of the war. Drawn from sources such as participants' letters and diaries and interviews with survivors, "One Square Mile of Hell" is the riveting true account of a battle between two determined foes, neither of whom would ever look at each other in the same way again.

Hell from the Heavens - The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack (Paperback, First... Hell from the Heavens - The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
John Wukovits
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey heroically withstood twenty-two kamikaze attacks at Okinawa in what the US Navy called "one of the great sea epics of the war." Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian John Wukovits breathes life into this nearly forgotten event and makes the ordeal of the Laffey and her crew a story for the ages.

American Commando - Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission (Paperback): John... American Commando - Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission (Paperback)
John Wukovits
R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before the Green Berets...Before the Navy SEALs...Before the Army Rangers...There was the Long Patrol."
November 1942: in the hellish combat zone of Guadalcanal, one man would make history.
Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson was considered a maverick by many of his comrades-and seen as a traitor by some. He spent years observing guerrilla tactics all over the world, and knew that those tactics could be adapted effectively by the Marines.
Carlson and an elite fighting force-the 2nd Raider Battalion-embarked upon a thirty-day mission behind enemy lines where they disrupted Japanese supplies, inflicted a string of defeats on the enemy in open combat, and gathered invaluable intelligence on Japanese operations on Guadalcanal. And in the process they helped lay the foundation for Special Forces in the modern military.
Here for the first time is a riveting account of one man, one battalion, and one mission that would resonate through the annals of military history.

Tin Can Titans - The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron (MP3 format, CD): John... Tin Can Titans - The Heroic Men and Ships of World War II's Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron (MP3 format, CD)
John Wukovits; Read by Robertson Dean
R699 R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Save R140 (20%) Out of stock
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