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Ship of ghosts :

by Hornfischer, James D.
Published by : Bantam Books, (New York :) Physical details: 530 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ISBN:0553803905; 9780553803907. Year: 2006
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940.542528 Mar Iwo Jima 940.542528 Ros Iwo Jima 940.54259591092 Cro Elephant Company : 940.542598 Hor Ship of ghosts : 940.5426 Abr Ghost of Bataan Speaks 940.5426 Att Attack on Pearl Harbor 940.5426 Bar Okinawa

On Asia Station -- A bloodstained sea -- The emperor's guests -- In the jungle of the Kwai -- Rendezvous with freedom -- Men of the USS Houston (CA-30) and the lost battalion killed in action or died in captivity, 1942-1945.

Describes the loss of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston during the early days of World War II in the Pacific and the fate of the warship's surviving crew, who were captured by the Japanese and forced to work as slaves on Japan's brutal Burma-Thailand Death Railway.

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