One Ship Fleet

Part I: A Sea Story: A Georgia "cracker" meets the USS Boise

1. Prologue.

2. The USS Boise, 1938-1942

Part II: Through the Gates of Hercules: The Mediterranean Theater 1943

3. Operation Husky: The Invasion of Sicily

4. Operation Avalanche: The Invasion of Salerno

Part III: With MacArthur's Navy in the Southwest Pacific, 1943-45

5. Playing Leapfrog with the Japanese in New Guinea, 1943-44

6. Return to the Philippines: The Battle of Leyte Gulf

7. Kamikaze: The Divine Wind sweeps across the Philippines

8. The Invasion of Luzon: The Battle of Lingayen Gulf, January 1945

9. The Battle of Corregidor and Manila

Part IV: Wrapping it Up in the Southwest Pacific

10. Wrapping it Up: Mindanao, Borneo, and California, March-June 1945

11. Farewell to a Navy Legend

Appendices

Glossary & Acronyms

Photographs

Sources: Documents and Bibliography

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