02877cim a2200493 4500 283117100 TxAuBib 20160827120000.0 160827s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781452607375 $15.00 1452607370 $15.00 GPI GPI OCLCF OCLCO OCL XZM TxAuBib Campbell, James. The Color Of War [audiobook] : How One Battle Broke Japan And Another Changed America / James Campbell. Unabridged. [Old Saybrook, Ct. : Tantor Media, Inc., 2012. 13 hrs : Audio; (11) sound discs; digital ; 4 3/4 in. Unabridged. Read by Stephen Hoye. Compact discs. Narrator: Stephen Hoye. "In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Yet historian Donald Miller calls it 'as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany.' For the Americans, defeating the Japanese came at a high price. In the words of a Time magazine correspondent, Saipan was 'war at its grimmest.' On the night of July 17, 1944, as Admirals Ernest King and Chester Nimitz were celebrating the battle's end, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just thirty-five miles northeast of San Francisco, exploded with a force nearly that of an atomic bomb. The men who died in the blast were predominantly black sailors. They toiled in obscurity loading munitions ships with ordnance essential to the U.S. victory in Saipan. Yet instead of honoring the sacrifice these men made for their country, the Navy blamed them for the accident, and when they refused to handle ammunition again, launched the largest mutiny trial in U.S. naval history" -- from publisher's web site. General adult. 20160827. United States Navy African Americans History 20th century. United States Navy. Port Chicago Mutiny (California : 1944.) Port Chicago Mutiny Trial (San Francisco, California : 1944.) World War (1939-1945.) 1900-1999. Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif 1944. Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif 1944. World War Participation, African American 1939-1945. World War Campaigns New Guinea 1939-1945. Audiobooks. Armed Forces African Americans. Military campaigns. Audio Books. Military participation African American. California Port Chicago. California San Francisco. History. New Guinea. Tantor Media, Inc.