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020    $a 1452607370
020    $a 9781452607375
035    $a (OCoLC)809043240
040    $a GPI $c GPI $d SILO
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082 04 $a 940.545308996073079463
100 1  $a Campbell, James. $4 aut
245 14 $a The color of war $h [sound recording] : $b how one battle broke Japan and another changed America / $c James Campbell.
250    $a Unabridged.
260    $a [Old Saybrook, Ct.] : $b Tantor Media, Inc., $c c2012.
300    $a 11 sound discs (13.00 hrs.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in.
500    $a Unabridged.
500    $a Compact discs.
511 0  $a Narrator: Stephen Hoye.
521    $a General adult.
520    $a "In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Yet historian Donald Miller calls it 'as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany.' For the Americans, defeating the Japanese came at a high price. In the words of a Time magazine correspondent, Saipan was 'war at its grimmest.' On the night of July 17, 1944, as Admirals Ernest King and Chester Nimitz were celebrating the battle's end, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just thirty-five miles northeast of San Francisco, exploded with a force nearly that of an atomic bomb. The men who died in the blast were predominantly black sailors. They toiled in obscurity loading munitions ships with ordnance essential to the U.S. victory in Saipan. Yet instead of honoring the sacrifice these men made for their country, the Navy blamed them for the accident, and when they refused to handle ammunition again, launched the largest mutiny trial in U.S. naval history" -- from publisher's web site.
610 10 $a United States. $b Navy $x History $x History $y 20th century.
650  0 $a Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944.
650  0 $a Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944.
650  0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Participation, African American.
650  0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z New Guinea.
650  0 $a Audio books.
700 1  $a Hoye, Stephen. $4 nrt
710 2  $a Tantor Media, Inc.
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956    $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=381AA5400AF111E39305B8A1DAD10320

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