| Entry Text: | O'HARA, Vincent P. The US Navy Against the Axis: Surface Combat 1941-1945. xvi, 364p., bibliog., illus., index. Annapolis: NIP, 2007. ISBN: 159114650X.
Suggests that the fleet's role in America's ultimate victory was far more crucial than commonly credited. The only single volume to treat every surface naval action involving major American warships, both famous and obscure. It places each action in its larger context and refutes the widely held notion that the attack on Pearl Harbor rendered surface warfare obsolete. |
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