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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- A WORD TO THE READER.... -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- ILLUSTRATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1-ATLANTIC SURFACE OPERATIONS -- The War Begins at Sea -- The Battle of the River Plate, December 13, 1939 -- Other Operations at Sea -- The Altmark Affair -- The Invasion of Norway -- Narvik -- Trondheim -- The Allied Evacuation From Norway -- The Fall of France -- German Plans for the Invasion of England: Operation Sea Lion -- Dakar -- German Surface Raiders in 1940 -- The Bismarck Breaks Out -- The Bismarck Disappears -- Bismarckdämmerung -- The Channel Dash -- St. Nazaire -- Dieppe -- Reorganization of the German Navy -- The Scharnhorst's Last Cruise -- The End of the Tirpitz -- 2-THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN -- Italy Enters the War -- Britain Against Italy in the Mediterranean -- The Italian Offensive in Libya -- Italy Invades Greece -- The Carrier Raid on Taranto -- Germany to the Rescue -- The Battle of Cape Matapan, March 28-29, 1941 -- The Loss of Greece and Crete -- Rommel Takes the Offensive -- The Battle of Supplies -- The Axis Plan to Seize Malta -- The Turn of the Tide -- 3-THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC -- Phase I: U-Boat Operations Until the Fall of France -- Phase II: The Mid-Atlantic Offensive Based on French Ports -- Phase III: "All Aid to Britain Short of War" -- Phase IV: The U-Boat Offensive in American Waters -- Phase V: Return to the Mid-Atlantic -- Phase VI: The Central Atlantic and Biscay Offensives -- Phase VII: The Final Struggle for the North Atlantic -- Phase VIII: The Final Campaign -- 4-THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE AGAINST NORTH AFRICA -- Strategic and Political Plans and Preparations -- Tactical Plans and Preparations -- Morocco: The Approach -- Morocco: The Main Assault -- Morocco: The Southern Assault -- Morocco: The Northern Assault -- Morocco Secured -- Algeria: Algiers -- Algeria: Oran -- Tunisia.
The Casablanca Conference -- 5-OPERATIONS AGAINST SICILY AND ITALY -- Sicily: Planning and Preparations -- Sicily: Assault and Follow-Up -- Sicily: The Axis Evacuation -- Sicily: Conclusions -- Italy: Planning and Preparations -- Salerno: Assault and Follow-Up -- Stalemate at Anzio -- 6-THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY -- German Defense Plans -- Selecting D-Day and H-Hour -- The Naval Plan -- Bombing the Railroads -- On the Brink -- The Normandy Landings -- The Battle of Normandy -- Operation Dragoon-The Invasion of Southern France -- The German Collapse -- 7-THE PERIOD OF JAPANESE EXPANSION -- Oil and Appeasement -- Planning for War -- United States Preparations -- Final Negotiations -- The Attack on Pearl Harbor -- Guam and Wake -- Command and Strategy -- Beginning the Allied Retreat -- The Japanese Advance into the Netherlands East Indies -- The Battle of the Java Sea -- The Retreat from Java -- Holding the Line in the Pacific -- Japanese Strategic Decisions -- The Battle of the Coral Sea -- The Battle of May 8 -- Results -- 8-MIDWAY AND THE ALEUTIANS -- Japanese Plans -- United States Preparations -- The Attack on the Aleutians -- Midway Area-First Contacts, June 3 -- The Attack on Midway, June 4 -- Midway Strikes Back, June 4 -- The United States Carriers Intervene -- Attacks on the Yorktown, June 4 -- Elimination of the Hiryu -- Midway, Night of June 4 -- Yamamoto Tries to Retrieve the Battle -- Pursuit on June 5 -- Last Contacts, June 6 -- End of the Yorktown, June 7 -- Conclusion -- 9-GUADALCANAL -- Planning "Operation Shoestring" -- The Allied Invasion -- The Battle of Savo Island -- The Lull -- The August Attack -- The September Attack -- The October Attack -- The November Attack -- The Battle of Tassafaronga -- Guadalcanal Secured -- Papua Secured -- Conclusion -- 10-THE LIMITED OFFENSIVE -- The Reconquest of Attu and Kiska.
Preliminaries to the Dual Advance on Rabaul -- The Central Solomons Campaign -- The Bougainville Campaign -- The New Guinea Campaign -- Neutralizing Rabaul -- Conclusion -- 11-BEGINNING THE CENTRAL PACIFIC DRIVE -- Power for the New Drive -- Plans and Preliminary Operations -- Reconquest of the Gilbert Islands -- Invasion of the Marshall Islands -- 12-THE DUAL ADVANCE TO THE PHILIPPINES -- Task Force 58 Supports MacArthur -- Hollandia and Westward -- Across the Center -- The Assault on Saipan -- Spruance Covers the Beachhead -- The Advance of the Mobile Fleet -- The Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19-20, 1944 -- Conquest of the Southern Marianas -- Preliminaries to the Invasion of the Philippines -- The Invasion of Leyte -- Conclusion -- 13-THE BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF -- Activating Sho-Go -- First Blood -- Disposition of the Allied Forces -- The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea -- Attacks on Sherman's Task Group -- Halsey Uncovers the Beachhead -- The Battle of Surigao Strait -- The Battle off Cape Engaño -- The Battle off Samar -- The Kamikazes Strike -- Kurita's Retirement -- Conclusion -- 14-SUBMARINES IN THE PACIFIC -- The Japanese Drive into the Southern Resources Area -- The Makin Raid -- The Solomons Campaign -- Torpedo Troubles -- The Gilberts and Marshalls -- The Marianas -- The Palaus and the Philippines -- Other Operations Against the Japanese Navy -- The Lifeguard League -- Further Japanese Submarine Operations -- The Assault on Japanese Merchant Shipping -- Operation Barney-The Sea of Japan -- Conclusion -- 15-THE DEFEAT OF JAPAN -- The Navy Finds New Objectives -- The Leyte Campaign -- The Return to Luzon -- The Liberation of the Philippines -- The Royal Navy -- The Borneo Campaign -- The Capture of Iwo Jima -- The Okinawa Campaign -- The Japanese Surrender.
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The Great Sea War
