Bøger af Gene Eric Salecker

World War II was over and the U.S. was still using the captured Japanese island of Okinawa as a major naval base. Hundreds of vessels dotted the numerous bays and inlets, and thousands of military personnel occupied the island. In October 1945, Typhoon Louise tore into Okinawa, slamming ships together and tossing them onto reefs and beaches. Terrible winds tore up tent cities and disintegrated corrugated tin Quonset huts. One hundred people died and 383 ships of all sizes were sunk or damaged. This book tells the full story of the typhoon historian Samuel Eliot Morison called "the most furious and lethal storm ever encountered by the United States Navy."

In May 1944, with American forces closing in on the Japanese mainland, the US navy assembled a fleet of landing ship tanks in Pearl Harbor. On May 21, an explosion tore through the calm afternoon sky, spreading fire and chaos. The Second Pearl Harbor is the first book to tell the full story of what happened on that fateful day.