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Guarding the United States and its outposts / by Stetson Conn, Rose C. Engelman [and] Byron Fairchild.
LIBRA D769 .A533 v.12 pt.2
Available from offsite location
LIBRA D769 .A533 v.12 pt.2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Conn, Stetson.
- Series:
- United States Army in World War II. Western Hemisphere
- United States Army in World War II: The Western Hemisphere
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- United States--Defenses.
- United States.
- Defenses.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 593 pages : illustrations, folded color maps (2 in pocket) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1964.
- Contents:
- The framework of hemisphere defense
- The command of continental defense forces
- Preparations for continental defense
- The continental defense commands after Pearl Harbor
- Japanese evacuation from the West Coast
- The reinforcement of Oahu
- The Pearl Harbor attack
- The Hawaiian defenses after Pearl Harbor
- The garrisoning of Alaska, 1939-41
- Alaska in the war, 1942
- Clearing the Aleutians
- Forging the defenses of the Canal
- Out from the Canal Zone
- The new bases acquired for old destroyers
- The Caribbean in wartime
- Greenland : Arctic outpost
- Planning the Iceland operation
- Establishing the Iceland base command
- The North Atlantic bases in wartime.
- Notes:
- "Bibliographical note": pages [555]-560.
- OCLC:
- 1348044
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