Download or read book Marines in World War II Commemorative Series Illustrated 1937 Tarawa written by Jay F. Hooper and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about my father Jared J. Hooper during some of his WWII years (enlistment through Tarawa). I used three of the pamphlets in the Marines in World War II Commemorative Series to highlight these years (all of the title page information is in appendix -b- in the back of the book).If something in the text affected him directly it is highlighted in bold. Timeline markers and other events that impacted him are set off with a different font.Even though I have his complete USMC personnel record the information about his enlisted years is practically nonexistent in it, while his time as a warrant officer is quite extensive at times.I have relied on the stories that he told me as a child and a teenager (he talked about WWII only if I asked him about something). I have also found some US Marine Corps muster rolls to fill in some of the storyline of who, what, where, and when. The one confusing battle timeline is the Guadalcanal and Tulagi operation as he was originally discharged from the service on July 31, 1942 on board ship just about a week before the operation started (his enlistment was up). He re-upped of course but he was temporarily attached and detached several times in the confusion of the landings, the Navy leaving Guadalcanal after an intense naval engagement, the ensuing battles, and his utilization by various outfits due to his scout sniper training.In this book I have started with his time as a ranch hand in Wyoming in 1937. He did heed Horace Greeley who said, "Go west, young man." My father then told me tongue in cheek that "I walked down the wrong side of a street in Denver one day in 1938 and I ended up joining the Marine Corps." His enlistment date is Aug. 1, 1938.Then there was time spent at both the recruitment center near San Diego and at Mare Island in the San Francisco area. He was assigned pretty good duty starting June 1939 in Pearl Harbor but he was sent back to the states to be with the 2nd Division in September of 1941 before the December 7th attack. His scout sniper training was used at Tulagi, Guadalcanal, and at Tarawa for which he received a silver star.
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Download or read book Across the Reef the Marine Assault of Tarawa written by Col Joseph H Alexander Usmc-R and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication, one in a series devoted to U.S. Marines in the World War II era, is published for the education and training of Marines by the History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., as a part of the U.S. Department of Defense observance of the 50th anniversary of victory in that war."
Download or read book A Magnificent Fight Marines in the Battle for Wake Island written by Robert Cressman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion are starting another day of the backbreaking war preparations that have gone on for weeks. Out in the triangular lagoon formed by the islets of Peale, Wake, and Wilkes, the huge silver Pan American Airways Philippine Clipper flying boat roars off the water bound for Guam. The trans-Pacific flight will not be completed. Word of war comes around 0700. Captain Henry S. Wilson, Army Signal Corps, on the island to support the flight ferry of B-17 Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to the Philippines, half runs, half walks toward the tent of Major James P. S. Devereux, commander of the battalion's Wake Detachment. Captain Wilson reports that Hickam Field in Hawaii has been raided. Devereux immediately orders a "Call to Arms." He quickly assembles his officers, tells them that war has come, that the Japanese have attacked Oahu, and that Wake "could expect the same thing in a very short time."
Download or read book Marines In World War II The Recapture Of Guam Illustrated Edition written by Major O.R. Lodge, USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Marianas group of islands is the American possession of Guam, U.S. territory since 1898; it was the captured by the Japanese soon after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor and served as a symbol of the Japanese expansion. The American Forces sailed into view of Guam in 1944 determined to recapture the island for strategic and political purposes, but knew that the Japanese defenders take a heavy toll of them from their prepared positions. The story of the capture of the island is an epic of courage, bloodshed, fierce resistance by the Japanese and the indomitable will to conquer of the U.S. Marines. Contains 99 photos and 32 maps and charts. “I have always had a feeling of deep satisfaction in having been the commander of one of the assault elements that returned the American flag to Guam. The island once more stands ready to fulfill its destiny as an American fortress in the Pacific. The conquest of Guam was a decisive triumph of combined arms over a formidable Japanese defensive force which took full advantage of the island’s rugged terrain. The heroic action of the veteran Marines who seized Orote Peninsula and Apra Harbor gave the Navy a much-needed advance base for further operations in the Pacific. Once marine and Army units captured northern Guam, engineers moved in and out from the jungle the airfields from which the Twentieth Air Force launched B-29 raids, bringing the full realization of war to the Japanese homeland.”-LEMUEL C. SHEPHERD, JR., GENERAL, U. S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS
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Download or read book U S Marines in WWII written by Eric Hammel and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 20, 1943, the 2d Marine Division hit the beach on tiny Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, expecting that its defenses had been "pounded into coral dust" by naval and air bombardment. They found instead that the Japanese had survived and held largely intact defenses. Three days of intense fighting secured the island at the cost of one thousand dead Marines and more than two thousand wounded. By early 1944 the Americans' westward drive across the Pacific required airfields in the Marshall Islands at Kwajalein and Eniwetok atolls. In late January, the 4th Marine Division and U.S. Army troops wrenched control of Kwajalein Atoll in three days of fighting. Then, beginning on February 18, the 22d Marine Regiment landed on three islands in Eniwetok Atoll. The newly rebuilt airfields would support future operations in the Mariana Islands as the Marines continued their island-hopping campaign to victory in the Pacific. Military historian Eric Hammel has delved deeply into the government photo archives and discovered a treasure-trove of rare, many never-before-published combat photos taken during these campaigns, unearthing hundreds of images.
Download or read book Marines in World War Two written by Christopher J. Anderson and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated history of the role of the Marines during World War II.
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Download or read book Tarawa 1943 written by Derrick Wright and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese commander had boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years." In a daring amphibious invasion, the U.S. Marines set out to prove him wrong, triggering a three-day battle of unprecedented savagery.
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