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Carrier War: Task Force 58 and the Pacific Sea Battles

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Carrier War: Task Force 58 and the Pacific Sea Battles
 
by Lt. Oliver Jensen, USNR
 

The story of the Task Force 58 with its big carriers from its inception through the battles in the Philippines.

 

This work recounts in detail some of the prodigious miracles they accomplished in spearheading the seizure of new holdings deep in former Japanese waters.

 

The book is profusely illustrated with photos and maps, many of them official Navy photographs and about half of them the work of Commander Edward J. Steichen's special photographic unit.

 

Originally published in 1945.
  • Foreword

     

  • Acknowledgment

  • The New Yorktown Goes to Hollandia

  • Citadel at Sea

  • The Rebirth of American Sea Power

  • Reveille for Marcus

  • Ordeal in the Gilberts

  • The Near-Perfect Conquest of Kwajalein

  • Truk, End of a Bogey

  • "Indian Country": Saipan and Palau

  • The Carriers Come Back to Truk

  • The Battles of the Philippine Sea

  • 182 pages

  • 182 B&W photos

  • 13 color photos

  • 11 maps

  • 1 illustration

  • 1 organizational chart

 


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