200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten

200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten
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Publisher : Kent State University Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0873386981
ISBN-13 : 9780873386982
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Book Synopsis 200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten by : Charles Snelling Robinson

Download or read book 200,000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten written by Charles Snelling Robinson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Fitting Out -- 2. Shakedown Cruise -- 3. To Pearl Harbor and the Pacific Fleet -- 4. Tarawa: Operation Galvanic -- 5. Independent Duties in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands -- 6. Operation Flintlock -- 7. To Espiritu Santo -- 8. Fifth Fleet Operations in the Southwest Pacific -- 9. Majuro -- 10. Personnel Changes -- 11. Operation Forager and the Battle of the Philippine Sea -- 12. Task Force 58 Returns to Saipan -- 13. The Cotten and Destroyer Squadron 50 Screen the Battle Line -- 14. Command Changes -- 15. Admiral Halsey Trains the Battle Line -- 16. Third Fleet Operations Prior to the Battle of Leyte Gulf -- 17. The Battle of Leyte Gulf -- 18. Action off Cape Engafio -- 19. Kamikazes Enter the Pacific War -- 20. Kamikazes: Midget Subs and More Planes -- 21. The Great Pacific Typhoon, December 1944 -- 22. In the South China Sea -- 23. Air Strikes against Tokyo: Iwo lima D Day -- 24. A Second Strike against the Tokyo Area -- 25. Iwo Jima: March 5-13, 1945 -- 26. Encounter with Japanese Patrol Vessels -- 27. Iwo Jima Secured -- 28. Shore Leave -- 29. Hunters Point -- 30. Stateside Duty Comes to an End -- 31. The War Ends -- 32. Transition -- 33. The Tokyo Bay Occupation Force -- 34. Tokyo -- 35. The Cotten Acquires a Kamikaze Speedboat -- 36. The Tokyo Bay Roadstead -- 37. Atami -- 38. The House of the Golden Wave -- 39. Squadron 50 Leaves the Occupation Force -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.


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