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Author: William Bruce Johnson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113400382X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished documents this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific.
Author: Frank O. Hough Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781481969253 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 462
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This book, “Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal: History of U. S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II, Volume I,” covers Marine Corps participation through the first precarious year of World War II, when disaster piled on disaster and there seemed no way to check Japanese aggression. Advanced bases and garrisons were isolated and destroyed; Guam, Wake, and the Philippines. The sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, “day that will live in infamy,” seriously crippled the U. S. Pacific Fleet; yet that cripple rose to turn the tide of the entire war at Midway. Shortly thereafter, the U. S. Marines launched on Guadalcanal an offensive which was destined to end only on the home islands of the Empire. The country in general, and the Marine Corps in particular, entered World War II in a better state of preparedness than had been the case in any other previous conflict. But that is a comparative term and does not merit mention in the same sentence with the degree of Japanese preparedness. What the Marine Corps did bring into the way, however, was the priceless ingredient developed during the years of pence: the amphibious doctrines and techniques that made possible the trans-Pacific advance – and, for that matter, the invasion of North Africa and the European continent. By publishing this operations history in a durable form, it is hoped to make the Marine Corps record permanently available for the study of military personnel, the edification of the general public, and the contemplation of serious scholars of military history.
Author: Frank O. Hough Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781482337747 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 462
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This book is the first of a projected five-volume series covering completely, and we hope definitively the history of Marine operations in World War II. This book covers Marine Corps participation through the first precarious year of World War II, when disaster piled on disaster and there seemed no way to check Japanese aggression. By publishing this operational history in a durable form, it is hoped to make the Marine Corps record permanently available for the study of military personnel, the edification of the general public, and the contemplation of serious scholars of military history.
Author: William H. Bartsch Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1623491843 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 362
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Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to retake the airfield, resulting in some of the most vicious fighting of the Pacific War. During the initial battle on the night of August 20–21, 1942, Marines wiped out Ichiki’s men, who—imbued with “victory fever”—had expected a quick and easy victory. William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records, including those translated from Japanese sources, to offer an intensely human narrative of the failed attempt to recapture Guadalcanal’s vital airfield.
Author: Larry A. Drew Publisher: Kittenbritches ISBN: 9780998192703 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Invitation to a War is the eye-witness account of Larry Drew's experience of the war in the Pacific, first at Pearl Harbor and then on Guadalcanal. While a student at Ohio State University, he spent time in the ROTC program, learning the theory and methods of field artillery. Taking a year off to earn money to continue his education, he was literally invited on an "all-expense paid" cruise to Hawaii by the Navy Labor Board. It must have seemed like fate, for within a week of his arrival, Pearl Harbor was savagely attacked, right before his eyes. The story details the horror of the attack and its aftermath, and the courage and dedication of the survivors working to recover and rebuild, through the eyes of a young shipyard worker. After months of round-the-clock work and thinking the Japanese would attack again soon, Larry used the occasion of his first day off to join the US Army. He wanted to be carrying a rifle when they landed. The Japanese invasion of Hawaii didn't happen, largely due to the courage and resources of the US Navy and Army Air Corps at the battle of Midway. Larry, as part of the US Army's 25th Division, was called to relieve elements of the 1st and 2nd Marine Corp. Divisions in the offensive to take Guadalcanal from the Japanese. As a forward artillery spotter, he spent weeks behind enemy lines, calling in artillery strikes. His stories mix violent combat and tense missions with the camp activities between assignment and attacks. These events celebrate the character, courage, and at times even the indomitable humor of American fighting men of World War II.