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USN battleship vs IJN battleship : the Pacific 1942-44

Title

USN battleship vs IJN battleship : the Pacific 1942-44 / Mark Stille, Alan Gilliland, Paul Wright.

Author

Stille, Mark

Publication

Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2017
©2017

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Description

80 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits; 25 cm.

Summary

In the build-up to World-War II both the United States and Japan believed their battleships would play a central role in combat, but after the Pacific War began in December 1941, the role of the battleship proved to be much more limited than either side expected. There would be only two battleship vs battleship actions in the Pacific in World War II, both of which are assessed in this study. At Guadalcanal in 1942, Kirishima faced two modern US battleships, Washington and South Dakota. In the Surigao Strait in 1944, two World War I-era Japanese battleships, Yamashiro and Fuso, faced six American battleships supported by four heavy cruisers in history's last ever class between battleships. Employing full-color artwork, carefully selected archive photographs, and expert analysis, Mark Stille examines the two head-to-head classes between the battleships deployed by the United States and Japan in the struggle for victory in the Pacific during World War II."--Page [4] of cover.

Series Statement

Duel

Uniform Title

Duel (Oxford, England)

Alternative Title

United States Navy battleship versus Imperial Japanese Navy battleship : Pacific 1942-1944

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 79) and index.

ISBN

9781472817198
1472817192

OCLC

on1016462066
SCSB-9002128

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library