Author: United States. Marine CorpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Guadalcanal Campaign
Author: United States. Marine CorpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Battle of Guadalcanal, 11-15 November 1942
Author: Colin G. JamesonPublisher: Naval Historical Center
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Guadalcanal Report
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789810759247
Category : Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Final Report on Guadalcanal Operation
Author: United States. Marine Corps. Division, 1stPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Guadalcanal
Author: Charles R. AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Guadalcanal
Author: Richard B. FrankPublisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140165616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
“Brilliant...an enormous work based on the most meticulous research.”—LA Times Book Review The battle at Guadalcanal—which began eight months to the day after Pearl Harbor—marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal six-month campaign that cost the lives of some 7,000 Americans and over 30,000 Japanese. This volume, ten years in the writing, recounts the full story of the critical campaign for Guadalcanal and is based on first-time translations of official Japanese Defense Agency accounts and recently declassified U.S. radio intelligence, Guadalcanal recreates the battle—on land, at sea, and in the air—as never before: it examines the feelings of both American and Japanese soldiers, the strategies and conflicts of their commanders, and the strengths and weaknesses of various fighting units.
Bloody Ridge
Author: Michael S. SmithPublisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0307824616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Japanese called it the centipede. The northern part of Lunga Ridge, a narrow grass-covered rise that looked like an insect from the air, overlooked a coastal plain. In the center of that plain was Henderson Field, the vital home of the Cactus Air Force and the prize of the Guadalcanal campaign. Whoever commanded the ridge commanded the airstrip. In September 1942, the ridge was the scene of a bloody, three-day battle for control of Henderson Field. In Bloody Ridge, the first book written exclusively on this battle, historian Michael S. Smith has utilized a treasure trove of primary and secondary sources on both sides of the Pacific. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
Hell’s Islands
Author: Stanley Coleman JerseyPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1585446165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
From August 1942 until February 1943, two armies faced each other amid the malarial jungles and blistering heat of Guadalcanal Island. The Imperial Japanese forces needed to protect and maintain the air base that gave them the ability to interdict enemy supply routes. The Allies were desperate to halt the advance of a foe that so far had inflicted crippling losses on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, then seized the Philippines, Wake Island, the Dutch East Indies, Guam, and other Allied territory. After months of relentless battle, the U.S. troops forced back the determined Japanese, providing what many historians believe was the decisive turning point in the Pacific theater of operations. Stanley Coleman Jersey, a medical air evacuation specialist in the South Pacific during World War II, has spent countless hours combing Australian, Japanese, and U.S. documents and interviewing more than 200 veterans of the Guadalcanal campaign, both Allied and Japanese. Beginning with the events that preceded the battle for Guadalcanal during the Australian defense of the southern Solomon Islands in late 1941, Jersey details the military preparations made in response to intelligence describing the creation of an enemy air base within striking distance of American supply lines and recounts the civilian evacuation that followed the Japanese arrival in New Guinea. With the stage set, he turns to the campaign itself, with particular emphasis on the combat during the critical period of August to December 1942. While Guadalcanal is his primary focus, Jersey also covers the roles played by forces occupying the other Solomon Islands, including the plight of construction laborers, air crews, and ground units. This book, chock-full of gripping battlefield accounts and harrowing first-person narratives, draws together for the first time Allied and Japanese perspectives on the bloody contest. It is certain to become an indispensable asset to historians of World War II.
First Offensive
Author: Henry I. Shaw, Jr.Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788135252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Guadalcanal
Author: John MillerPublisher: BDD Promotional Books Company
ISBN: 9780792458579
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A detailed account of the Americans' first ground offensive against the Japanese in World War II, which occurred in August 1942 on the island of Guadalcanal.