Battleships Arizona and Pennsylvania. Pearl Harbor Memorial and the US Navy flagship
19.99 €
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Battleships Arizona and Pennsylvania. Pearl Harbor Memorial and the US Navy flagship
19.99 €
"Arizona! I remember you!" - shouted over the airwaves as American pilots dropped bombs on Japanese ships. The loss of this battleship and 1,200 sailors pounded on the hearts of Americans throughout World War II. On December 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, an armor-piercing bomb hit the Arizona's powder cellars. Their contents burned in a matter of moments, literally shaking the heavens. The compartments and passageways became crematorium furnaces littered with a thousand charred bodies. "Arizona" burned for three days, for several more days it was impossible to climb onto its red-hot deck. As a ship that died in battle under enemy fire, the battleship was awarded the Battle Star. And today the mangled hulk of the huge battleship, turned into a memorial, rests at the bottom of Pearl Harbor, becoming a mass grave of the crew. The new book by a leading expert on the history of the American Navy for the first time in the national literature in all the details of the creation, design and service of the "Arizona", as well as its sistership battleship "Pennsylvania" - the lead ship of the series, for thirty years was the flagship of the U.S. Navy (in 1917 it was even visited by Admiral Kolchak), actively fought in the Pacific from the Aleutian Islands and Okinawa to the battles for the Philippines, in 1946 participated in atomic bomb tests as a target ship. The edition is illustrated with exclusive drawings and photographs of the famous battleships.
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