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Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World War II (Symonds - NH) veterans to action at the Railroadby Craig L. Symonds America's preeminent naval historian offers a history of the Second World War based on the experiences of the young officers fresh out of the United States Naval Academy who served on its front lines. They arrived in Annapolis as teenagers the year Hitler re occupied the Rhineland and graduated as young men the week the British Army evacuated Dunkirk. Annapolis Goes to War tells the story of their four transformative years at the