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02830aam a2200445 a 4500 001 64C52DB05F1811E89A261C5797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180524010211 008 101206s2010 enkac b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010502548 020 $a 1849082715 (ebook) 020 $a 9781849082716 (ebook) 020 $a 1846039193 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781846039195 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)489636191 040 $a UKM $b eng $c UKM $d DLC $d C#P $d BWX $d QMC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d CDX $d BDX $d HDM $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat $a lccopycat 043 $a l------ $a p------ $a l------ 050 00 $a D773 $b .D49 2010 100 1 $a De Quesada, A. M. 245 10 $a US Coast Guard in World War II / $c Alejandro de Quesada ; illustrated by Stephen Walsh ; consultant editor, Martin Windrow. 246 3 $a U.S. Coast Guard in World War II 246 3 $a US Coast Guard in World War 2 246 3 $a US Coast Guard in World War Two 260 $a Oxford ; $b Osprey Pub., $c 2010. 300 $a 64 p. : $b ill. (some col.), ports. ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Elite ; $v 180 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-63) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The pre-war Coast Guard; the "rum war" and the "hooligan Navy;" the Coast Guard Reserve and Auxiliary -- The Coast Guard goes to war; Pearl Harbor; command and control; USCG Women's Reserve (SPARs); uniforms -- The home front; USCG Reserve temporary members; port security and beach patrols -- The Battle of the Atlantic; pre-war operations : Greenland; Doenitz's Operation Paukenschlag, January-July 1942; the North Atlantic : "the bloody winter," 1942/43, Escort Group A-3 : convoys SC-112, ON-166, SC-121, HX-233; antisubmarine operations from May 1943 : destroyers and frigates, hunter-killer groups, the last battles, spring 1945 -- The Mediterranean and European theaters; air attacks; USCGC Menges and U-371; the Normandy landings : Assault Group 0-1, control ships, Rescue Flotilla 1 -- The Pacific theater; the Aleutians, 1942-43 and thereafter; amphibious campaigns, southwest & central Pacific : the Solomons, the Gilberts, and Marshalls, New Guinea and the Marianas, the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; miscellaneous operations in the CBI -- Aftermath & summary. 610 10 $a United States. $b Coast Guard $x History $y World War, 1939-1945. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Naval operations, American. 650 0 $a Coastal surveillance $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Pacific Area. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Atlantic Ocean. 700 1 $a Walsh, Stephen, $d 1966- $e ill. 700 1 $a Windrow, Martin. 830 0 $a Elite series ; $v 180. 941 $a 1 952 $l E7OX522 $d 20180524023100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=64C52DB05F1811E89A261C5797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search