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Over seas : U.S. Army maritime operations 1898 through the fall of the Philippines / by Charles Dana Gibson, with E. Kay Gibson.

Title
Over seas : U.S. Army maritime operations 1898 through the fall of the Philippines / by Charles Dana Gibson, with E. Kay Gibson.
Author
Gibson, Charles Dana, 1928-
Publication
Camden, Me. : Ensign Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
Gibson, E. Kay.
Description
xvii, 474 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.
Subject
  • United States. Army > History > 20th century
  • United States. Army Transport Service > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-452) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I: The years 1898 through 1939: The war with Spain -- Initiating control and supply of the Philippines, 1898-1899 -- Managing the army fleet -- early phase, 1898-1901 -- The China expedition, 1900-1901 -- The Philippine insurgency and the later pacification campaigns, 1899-1913 -- Army shipping in the Atlantic, 1901-1916 -- World War I -- Interval between the wars: 1919-1939 -- Part II: 1940 through to the fall of the Philippines: Western hemispheric defenses and the construction of the transatlantic air routes -- Defense status in the western Pacific up to December 1941 -- Japan attacks the Philippines: early defense phase, December 1941 -- The siege begins, January-Mid February 1942 -- Attempts to supply Bataan and Corregidor from eastern Australia, December 1941-March 1942 -- Early defense of Java and the raid on Darwin, January -- February 1942 -- The Robenson mission and defeat at Java -- Fast ships and submarines -- The final weeks.
ISBN
0960899669
LCCN
^^2002102125
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library