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Anchor of resolve : a history of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Fifth Fleet / by Schneller, Robert John,1957-(CARDINAL)209951; Naval Historical Center (U.S.)(CARDINAL)161170;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Growing American interests -- Establishment of the Middle East Force -- Creation of Central Command and NAVCENT -- The tanker war -- Desert Shield and Desert Storm -- Enforcing the peace -- Establishment of Fifth Fleet and evolution of NSA Bahrain -- Humanitarian operations -- Engaging America's allies -- Containing Iraq -- Maritime interception operations -- A new threat emerges -- Operation Enduring Freedom -- Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Global war on terrorism: Continuing the Commitment -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Further Reading -- Acronym glossary --Index.

Subjects: United States. Naval Forces Central Command; United States. Navy. Fleet, 5th; Sea-power; Sea-power;

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The fleet at flood tide [sound recording] : America at total war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / by Hornfischer, James D.,author(CARDINAL)357379; Larkin, Pete,narrator.(CARDINAL)484481; Random House Audio Publishing.(CARDINAL)344792;

Read by Pete Larkin.Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, an unprecedented account of the monumental Pacific War campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its power and supremacy and established the foundation for America as the dominant global superpower. Filled with memorable action set pieces and closely observed portraits of the most compelling warriors and commanders of the day, this is the broadly encompassing story of the most consequential campaign of World War 2.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; United States. Navy. Fleet, 5th; Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969.; Turner, Richmond Kelly, 1885-1961.; Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

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The fleet at flood tide : America at total war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / by Hornfischer, James D.,author.(CARDINAL)357379;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-568) and index.Part One: Sea. Engine of siege ; On the western warpath ; In Turner's train ; A charge for Ozawa ; The outer colony ; A rumor of fleets ; OBB and UDT ; Heavy weather -- Part Two: Land. Heavier, higher, faster ; D Day ; Trail, attack, report ; Tank attack ; The view from the mountain ; First contact ; War of the wind machines ; Fast carriers down ; To build a better airfield ; Beyond darkness ; Smith versus Smith ; Satan's breath ; The dying game ; Sniper ship on a cave shoot ; Beyond all boundaries ; Atop suicide cliffs ; Regime change ; Steel like snowflakes ; The will to lose hard -- Part Three: Air. Secrets of New Mexico ; Going critical ; Everybody's business ; Divine winds ; Methods of death on the wing ; Opportunity and madness ; Prompt and utter destruction ; Clear-cut results -- Part Four: Earth. Eight bells for an empire ; The war wearies.Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, here is an unprecedented account of the extraordinary World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower.

Subjects: Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969.; Turner, Richmond Kelly, 1885-1961.; Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007.; United States. Navy. Fleet, 5th; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

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The fleet at flood tide : America at total war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / by Hornfischer, James D.,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-568) and index.The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower One of Americas preeminent military historians, James D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive and ambitious book to date. Drawing on new primary sources and personal accounts by Americans and Japanese alike, here is a thrilling narrative of the climactic end stage of the Pacific War, focusing on the U.S. invasion of the Mariana Islands in June 1944 and the momentous events that it triggered. With its thunderous assault into Japans inner defensive perimeter, America crossed the threshold of total war. From the seaborne invasion of Saipan to the stunning aerial battles of the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, to the largest banzai attack of the war and the strategic bombing effort that led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Marianas became the fulcrum of the drive to compel Tokyo to surrenderwith consequences that forever changed modern war. These unprecedented operations saw the first large-scale use of Navy Underwater Demolition Teams; a revolution in the fleets ability to sustain cross-hemispheric expeditionary warfare; the struggle of American troops facing not only a suicidal enemy garrison but desperate Japanese civilians; and the rise of the U.S. Navy as the greatest of grand fleets. From the Marianas, B-29 Superfortresses would finally unleash nuclear fire on an enemy resolved to fight to the end. Hornfischer casts this clash of nations and cultures with cinematic scope and penetrating insight, focusing closely on the people who rose to the challenge under fire: Raymond Spruance, the brilliant, coolly calculating commander of the Fifth Fleet; Kelly Turner, whose amphibious forces delivered Marine General Holland Howlin Mad Smiths troops to the beaches of Saipan and Tinian; Draper Kauffman, founder of the Navy unit that predated todays SEALs; Paul Tibbets, who created historys first atomic striking force and flew the Enola Gay to Hiroshima; and Japanese warriors and civilians who saw the specter of defeat as the ultimate test of the spirit. From the seas of the Central Pacific to the shores of Japan itself, The Fleet at Flood Tide is a stirring and deeply humane account of World War IIs world-changing finale. Advance praise for The Fleet at Flood Tide This is a masterful account of the barbaric last year of the Pacific War, combining original scholarship, engaging prose, excellent historical judgment, and empathy for the soldier, to explain why defeating the Japanese proved so costlyand how American military forces performed so effectively and, in the end, humanely. The Fleet at Flood Tide is, quite simply, popular and scholarly military history at its best.Victor Davis Hanson, author of Carnage and Culture, senior fell

Subjects: Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969.; Turner, Richmond Kelly, 1885-1961.; Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007.; United States. Navy. Fleet, 5th; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

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The Ships and aircraft of the United States fleet. by Fahey, James C.(James Charles),1903-1974.(CARDINAL)184710;

Vols for 1941-45 have specific ed. names (i.e. Two-ocean ed., War ed., etc.) but constitute 2d-5th ed.

Subjects: United States. Navy; Airplanes, Military.; Warships.;

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The airmen and the headhunters : a true story of lost soldiers, heroic tribesmen and the unlikeliest rescue of World War II / by Heimann, Judith M.(CARDINAL)657120;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-279) and index.November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves facing a Japanese fleet--and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across the island's mountainous interior. Then a group of loincloth-wearing natives silently materialized out of the jungle. Would these Dayak tribesmen turn the starving airmen over to the Japanese occupiers? Or would the Dayaks risk vicious reprisals to get the airmen safely home? The tribal leaders' unprecedented decision led to a desperate game of hide-and-seek, and, ultimately, the return of a long-renounced ritual: head-hunting. This survival story features a bamboo airstrip built on a rice paddy, a mad British major, and a blowpipe-wielding army that helped destroy one of the last Japanese strongholds.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Biographies.; United States. Army Air Forces. Bomb Group, 5th Squadron, 23rd; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Airmen; Dayak (Bornean people);

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