In this supplementary volume to his splendid history, Samuel Eliot Morison chronicles the postwar operations of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific: the surrender of outlying Japanese garrisons, the occupation of Japan, minesweeping approaches to Japanese ports, and Operation Magic Carpet for the return of armed forces to the United States. This volume features a descriptive list of all named ships of the U.S. Navy during World War II, all types of landing, beaching, and other "lettered" craft, and types of aircraft used by the navy during the war. It also includes a list of errata and a general index to volumes 1-14.
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This review is from: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 15: SUPPLEMENT AND GENERAL INDEX (Paperback)
This is part of a seminal history of the Navy in World War II. Anyone who is a historian should take some time and read this series. Sometimes dry, sometimes very well written, it gives the grand panorama to a naval war that rewrote the book on how the Navy would operate. A book that has been rewritten since.
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This review is from: Supplement and General Index (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, 15) (v. 15) (Hardcover)
When Morison's History was first published I purchased all volumes except the supplement. Purchasing the supplement now filled out the full set.
I have used Morison's history to jog my memory of certain events that I experienced in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Most recently what is now called Halsey's Typhoon in 1944. 790 men drowned and hardly anyone knows about their sacrifice. No medals, No battle stars, no monuments, no body seems to give a damn. 790 sailors. Close your eyes Navy Department. Maybe they will go away.
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AS already noted in Volume XIV, a few surrenders of Japanese-held islands took place before the formal act of 2 September 1945, on board battleship Missouri. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Name Comm, New York, Maritime Commission, United States, Coast Guard, Newport News, Mare Island Navy Yard, Name Conv, Portsmouth Navy Yard, Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral, Great Britain, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Boston Navy Yard, Page Line, Electric Boat, Landing Ships, Puget Sound Navy Yard, San Francisco, Charleston Navy Yard, War Shipping Administration, Chichi Jima, Consolidated Steel, Infantry Division, Name Reclass New!
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AS already noted in Volume XIV, a few surrenders of Japanese-held islands took place before the formal act of 2 September 1945, on board battleship Missouri. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flexible machine guns, gasolene engines, miscellaneous auxiliary, fixed machine guns, torpedo tubes, seaplane tenders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Name Comm, New York, Maritime Commission, United States, Coast Guard, Newport News, Mare Island Navy Yard, Name Conv, Portsmouth Navy Yard, Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral, Great Britain, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Boston Navy Yard, Page Line, Electric Boat, Landing Ships, Puget Sound Navy Yard, San Francisco, Charleston Navy Yard, War Shipping Administration, Chichi Jima, Consolidated Steel, Infantry Division, Name Reclass New!
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- The Inland Sea: A Selection from the Poetry of Jenny Joseph by Jenny Joseph on page 11
- Puget Sound: 15 Stories by C. C. Long on page 49
- Aircraft Carriers by Antony Preston on page 101
- The Maritime History Of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 (Northeastern classics edition) by Samuel Eliot Morison in Front Matter
- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides in Front Matter
- The Amphibians Are Coming! Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and its Revolutionary Landing Craft, Vol. 1 (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WWII series) by William L. McGee in Back Matter
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22, July 1942-1 May, 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 6) by Samuel Eliot Morison in Front Matter
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