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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about MH-53E Sea Dragons. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way-a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four...
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"Author and naval historian Joseph A. Williams has delved into never-revealed archival sources to tell the compelling narrative of the S-4 disaster, the first attempt to rescue survivors stranded aboard a modern submarine. As navy deep sea divers struggled to save the imprisoned men, a winter storm raged at the surface, creating some of the worst diving conditions in American history. Circumstances were so terrible that one diver, Fred Michels, became...
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English
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Chronicles the U.S. Navy's rescue of forty Americans stranded on a wartorn Philippine island--a mission resulting in the capture of documents that thwarted Japanese efforts to anhilate the Pacific Fleet and ensured American victory in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
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English
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Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the center of the Philippine Sea when she is struck by two Japanese torpedoes. The ship is instantly transformed into a fiery cauldron and sinks within minutes. Some 300 men go down with the ship. Nearly 900 make it into...
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Contributions to naval history volume no. 7
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English
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Dedicated to the Sailors and Marines who lost their lives on the final voyage of USS Indianapolis and to
those who survived the torment at sea following its sinking. plus the crews that risked their lives in rescue ships.
The USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a decorated World War II warship that is primarily remembered for her worst 15 minutes.
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This ship earned ten (10) battle stars for her service in World War II and was credited
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