Annapolis Goes to War : The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World War II

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Annapolis Goes to War : The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World War II

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 376 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780197752678
  • DDC分類 940.54597309

Full Description

America's preeminent naval historian offers a history of the Second World War based on the experiences of the young officers--fresh out of the United States Naval Academy--who served on its front lines.

They arrived in Annapolis as teenagers the year Hitler re-occupied the Rhineland and graduated as young men the week the British Army evacuated Dunkirk. Annapolis Goes to War tells the story of their four transformative years at the Naval Academy, and then four more annealing years in the cauldron of war. More than a hundred of them were on duty in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Ten of them died that day-seven remain entombed in the USS Arizona still. Over the next four years, these former Midshipmen participated in virtually every significant engagement in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, from North Africa to Normandy. They were at the front edge of the war in battleships, carriers, destroyers, submarines, and airplanes, and led Marine Corps units ashore. Some experienced the war as prisoners of the Japanese. Fifty-six of them died in the Second World War, the greatest wartime loss any service academy ever experienced.

Taking readers into and through the lives of these young men in wartime, Craig Symonds offers a poignant and powerful story of adjustment, growth, pain, loss, and eventually triumph. Using their diaries, memoirs, and letters, he evokes unforgettably their trials and bonds, their loss of innocence and their discovery of the meaning of sacrifice. Annapolis Goes to War is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the experience of fighting the bloodiest war in human history.

Contents

Prologue: Reef Points

PART I: MIDSHIPMEN
Chapter 1. Appointment
Chapter 2. Plebe Year
Chapter 3. Youngster Cruise
Chapter 4. Youngsters
Chapter 5. Beat Army
Chapter 6. Firsties

PART II: JUNIOR OFFICERS
Chapter 7. The Real Navy
Chapter 8. The Cusp of War
Chapter 9: Infamy
Chapter 10. Retribution
Chapter 11. U-Boats, Convoys, and Matrimony
Chapter 12: The Turning Point: The Coral Sea and Midway

PART III: ON THE OFFENSIVE
Chapter 13. Savo Island
Chapter 14. Ironbottom Sound
Chapter 15. Flight Training
Chapter 16. The Med
Chapter 17. Submarine Warfare
Chapter 18: "Moored as Before"

PART IV: VALEDICTION
Chapter 19. Semper Fidelis
Chapter 19. Command
Chapter 20. Decisive Battles
Chapter 21. Iwo Jima & Okinawa
Chapter 22. Victory

Epilogue

Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography

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