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Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver.

Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver.

$21.00 $3.98
Item #: D20030
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2019
Publisher: Osprey
ISBN: 9781472825490
The United States Navy won such overwhelming victories in 1944 that, had it faced a different enemy, the war would have been over at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Instead, the desperate Japanese forces began a wave of kamikaze attacks—something Americans were totally unprepared for—a violation of every belief about the conduct of wa... More
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The United States Navy won such overwhelming victories in 1944 that, had it faced a different enemy, the war would have been over at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Instead, the desperate Japanese forces began a wave of kamikaze attacks—something Americans were totally unprepared for—a violation of every belief about the conduct of warfare held in the West. Based on first-person accounts, this is the story of the naval campaigns in the Pacific from the triumph at Leyte Gulf to the end of the war, a new and more brutal phase in which the US Navy would fight harder for survival than ever before.


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