Mark Stille - The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

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Mark Stille has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work.

In the compilation of this volume we relied on the following previously published Osprey titles: NVG 114: US Navy Aircraft Carriers 192245, NVG 118: US Submarines 193945, NVG 130: US Navy Aircraft Carriers 194245, NVG 162: US Destroyers 193445, NVG 165: US Destroyers 194245, NVG 169: US Fast Battleships 193647, NVG 172: US Fast Battleships 19389, NVG 208: US Navy Dreadnoughts 191445, NVG 210: US Heavy Cruisers 194145, NVG 214: US Heavy Cruisers 194375, NVG 220: US Standard-type Battleships 194145 (1), NVG 229: US Standard-type Battleships 194145 (2), NVG 236: US Navy Light Cruisers 194145, NVG 251: US Navy Escort Carriers 194245, and NVG 259: US Flush-Deck Destroyers 191645.

Artwork previously published in NVG 114 ( .

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Front cover images: (top) USS Missouri in port during her shakedown cruise, c. August 1944. (NARA); (bottom) The aircraft carrier Enterprise was the most famous USN ship of the war, and the most decorated, with 20 Battle Stars. (Naval History and Heritage Command)

: Bon Homme Richard, the last Essex-class carrier completed in time to see wartime service. (Naval History and Heritage Command)

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CONTENTS

Even before the first Japanese bomb fell on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy (USN) was at war. On September 4, 1939, President Roosevelt instituted a security zone in the western Atlantic and ordered the USN to conduct the so-called Neutrality Patrol within it.