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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the events during WWII when the commander of the USS Sailfish torpedoed a Japanese aircraft carrier, which had on board several crew members of the USS Sculpin, the sister sub to the Sailfish which had been sunk just days earlier by enemy fire.
Author
Series
The Pacific War trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island. This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far--flung island empire like a "conquering tide," concluding with Japan's irreversible...
4) Bismarck!
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Describes the campaign in World War II to sink the Bismarck and the efforts to salvage its remains.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Edition
1st Owl Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the "USS Indianapolis," a battle cruiser torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine shortly after delivering parts of the atom bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima; and discusses the struggles of sailors who survived the blast to stay alive in the sea for nearly five days before help arrived.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. At the same time, the Barb did far more than merely sink ships-she changed forever the way submarines stalk...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents,...
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but onlyif they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the...
15) Mister Roberts
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1955
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
16) Every storm
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
New from Lori Wick, this stand-alonestory shows how unexpected changes can set the perfect course for love.
1945, WWII—When Lieutenant Donovan Riggs experiences trouble with his PT boat, the sailors of Every Storm make an unscheduled stop...and a surprising discovery.
Lorraine Archer is an American teacher living and working in Australia. While on a flight with her sister, her daydreams are disrupted by the sounds
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Lethal Tides, Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy's success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the new science of oceanography. When World War II began, the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan. Anticipating tides, planning for coral reefs,...
18) Sink or swim
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In January 1942, twelve-year-old Colton is on his family's fishing boat in the Atlantic with his older brother Danny when the boat is capsized by a Nazi U-boat, and Danny is severely injured; realizing how close the enemy is, Colton takes his brother's enlistment papers and joins the Navy, determined to do his part to defeat Germany--if only he can keep his age a secret and survive life at sea.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.
20) The carrier war
Author
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
Presents photographic records of the Pacific War in World War II as seen from both sides.
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