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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Inscribed by author to owner, small mark on front end page otherwise an very nice clean copy.”
- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780786442560
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-10
0786442565
ISBN-13
9780786442560
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71158267
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
United States Coast Guard in World War II : a History of Domestic and Overseas Actions
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Military / World War II, Military / United States, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
12.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-014100
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"provides a thorough, comprehensive account of the Coast Guard's wartime service"- Seapower ; "extensively researched and well-written history"- Baird Maritime ; "Ostrom gives us most enlightening lessons on the 'Guardian of the Heartland' that had previously been adequately recognized in U.S. combat history...World War II and Coast Guard history buffs alike will be pleased with Thomas Ostrom's latest book. I can't recommend this book highly enough"- Proceedings., "provides a thorough, comprehensive account of the Coast Guard's wartime service"-- Seapower ; "extensively researched and well-written history"-- Baird Maritime ; "Ostrom gives us most enlightening lessons on the 'Guardian of the Heartland' that had previously been adequately recognized in U.S. combat history...World War II and Coast Guard history buffs alike will be pleased with Thomas Ostrom's latest book. I can't recommend this book highly enough"-- Proceedings., "provides a thorough, comprehensive account of the Coast Guard's wartime service"-- Seapower "extensively researched and well-written history"-- Baird Maritime "Ostrom gives us most enlightening lessons on the 'Guardian of the Heartland' that had previously been adequately recognized in U.S. combat history...World War II and Coast Guard history buffs alike will be pleased with Thomas Ostrom's latest book. I can't recommend this book highly enough"-- Proceedings.
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
940.54/5973
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by John Galluzzo Preface Introduction 1: Prelude to Pearl Harbor 2: The Day of Infamy: Pearl Harbor 3: U.S. Coast Guard Organization 4: Port Security, Navigation, and Aviation 5: Coast Guard Crews and Navy Ships 6: Defense from the Great Lakes to the Oceans 7: Admiral Russell R. Waesche: Wartime Commandant 8: Coast Guard Air and Sea Warfare 9: The Greenland Patrol 10: The Atlantic War 11: Guarding the Convoys 12: The Mediterranean: North Africa, Sicily, Italy 13: D-Day at Normandy 14: The Aleutians and the Bering Sea 15: The Pacific Campaign 16: Pacific Reminiscences 17: Return to the Philippines and Victory Epilogue World War II Era Coast Guard Chronology Documents A Letter Home from LCI-91 (29 December 1943), by Robert Morris A Letter to His Minister (13 January 1944), by Robert Morris Operation Neptune, LCI(L)-91 (10 June 1944) Letter to the Secretary of the Navy: Loss of Ship (19 June 1944) Coast Guard Unit Commendation for D-Day (6 June 1944) A Letter to Parents on the Death of Their Son Douglas Munro Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II, providing service that has been too little recognized in histories of the war. Teaming up with other international forces, the Coast Guard provided crewmembers for Navy and Army vessels as well as its own, carried troops, food, and military supplies overseas, and landed Marine and Army units on distant and dangerous shores. This thorough history details those and other important missions, which included combat engagement with submarines and kamikaze planes, and typhoons. On the home front, port security missions involving search and rescue, fire fighting, explosives, espionage and sabotage presented their own unique dangers and challenges., At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II. This book details various missions, including combat at Pearl Harbor, the Alaskan Aleutian Islands, and the Pacific island campaigns against Axis forces, kamikaze attacks, and typhoons.
LC Classification Number
D773.O88 2009
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