Download or read book New Georgia Bougainville and Cape Gloucester written by Eric M. Hammel and published by MBI Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photo history of the Marines in the Solomons, fighting to neutralize the Japanese fortress at Rabaul and paving the way to victory in the Pacific.

Download or read book Cartwheel written by John Miller and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to analyze the techniques by which the Allies employed their strength to bypass fortified positions and seize weakly defended but strategically important areas, or, in the apt baseball parlance used by General MacArthur, to "hit 'em where they ain't." It is, therefore, a study in strategy and high command as well as in tactics.

Download or read book Famed Green Dragons written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The USS Ward written by Richard P. Klobuchar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly. This effort included reconditioning and recommissioning "four stackers" from the navy's reserve fleet. Built in 1918 to fight German submarines, the USS Ward earned at Pearl Harbor the distinction of firing the first shot in America's war against Japan. In the three years that followed, it was bombed, shelled, strafed, and finally sunk (on December 7, 1944), yet none of her crew of 125 men ever lost a life in combat. Information is drawn from naval records as well as from interviews with surviving crewmen. Appendices provide Ward technical data, a chronology of major events, listings of citations earned in World War II and of amphibious landings, and a roster of personnel.

Download or read book Always Faithful written by Eric Hammel and published by Pacifica Military History. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Picture is worth a thousand words In his Always Faithful, noted military historian Eric Hammel has assembled one hundred Marine Corpsa combat photos from the Pacific Theater of operations during World War II. Together these tell the story of the Marines’ costly victory over the Japanese. Over the years, innumerable historians, novelists, film-makers, and artists have attempted in various ways to capture what it was like to fight in the Pacific. In Always Faithful, readers are invited to take in the combat slowly, as it unfolds, image by image. Arranged by theme—from dramatic images of beach assaults to heartbreaking photographs of the injured and killed-in-aetion—Always Faithful seeks to capture the essence of the War in the Pacific and the core of what it means to be a Marine. Hammel has carefully selected each image in these pages, shown with only the barest of explanation: a short caption to describe the time and place. But even with so few words, each photograph is a complete message unto itself, a picture of truth showing a moment of humanity. Together, these images reveal what it means to be alwavs faithful.

Download or read book Cape Gloucester written by Bernard C. Nalty and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports of General MacArthur Japanese operations in the Southwest Pacific area 2 pts written by Douglas MacArthur and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Reports of General MacArthur Japanese operation in the southwest Pacific area compiled from Japanese Demobilization Bureaux records written by Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Navy V 12 written by Henry C. Herge and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Navy V-12 Program during World War II. The Program provided opportunities for young men whose families had suffered during the difficult times of the Great Depression. These high school graduates were offered the golden opportunity to attend colleges and universities. At the end of the program, more than 60,000 U.S. Navy and USMC officers had entered the armed forces for the war. Many, also entered the U.S. Naval Reserve in the post-ear period, and served in Korea and Vietnam. With photos -- 80+ pages of biographies of individual members of the program. Many include photos then and now.

Download or read book United States Army in World War II Cartwheel the reduction of Rabaul by John Miller Jr written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Army in WWII the Pacific CARTWHEEL the Reduction of Rabaul written by John Miller Jr. and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 2 tables, 11 charts, 22 maps and 71 illustrations] The campaign described in the present volume was important to the Army as an experience in amphibious warfare and combined operations against a formidable and still resourceful enemy. It was also of critical importance in the evolution of American strategy in the Pacific. CARTWHEEL began as an uphill fight with means that seemed inadequate to the ends proposed, even though these were limited. But it swiftly brought our forces to a crest from which we were able to launch the two powerful drives, through the Southwest and Central Pacific, that crushed Japan before we redeployed the forces directed against Germany. The campaign put to the test the principle of unity of command, and also the capacity for co-operation between two theaters, one under Army, the other under Navy command, and both under forceful and dominant commanders. By ingenious and aggressive use of the ground, sea, and air forces at their disposal they made these suffice to achieve more than had been foreseen as possible, and opened up a new vista of strategy. They took a heavy toll of the enemy’s resources, established the technique of bypassing his strongholds, including finally Rabaul itself, and threw him on the defensive. This book will be of interest not only to professional officers, but also to a wide variety of other readers and students.

Download or read book Strategy and Command written by Louis Morton and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of organization and logistics as well as strategy and command, covering the coming of the war, Japanese policy and American strategy before Pearl Harbor, Japanese victories in the first six months of the war, first efforts in New Guinea and the Solomons to stem the Japanese tide, and the limited offensive in the summer of 1943.

Download or read book United States Army in World War II The war in the Pacific written by United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports of General MacArthur Japanese operations in the southwest Pacific area compiled from Japanese Demobilization Bureaux records 2 pts written by Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Touched with Fire written by Eric M. Bergerud and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant history of the land battles in the Pacific theater of World War II, with stirring personal accounts of the horrifying struggle between the Japanese and Allied forces. The horrors of WWII in the South Pacific extended far beyond the detonation of atomic bombs. In this revelatory portrayal of the lives of the regular infantrymen who struggled to contain the Japanese advance, Eric Bergerud has given us a compelling and chilling record of the incredible hardships endured by these soldiers, and the heroic efforts that resulted in the reversal of the course of the war. Bergerud spent hundreds of hours interviewing the last surviving veterans of this remarkable campaign, and he has placed their personal experiences at the center of his analysis of military strategy. “Aspires to do for the ground war in the South Pacific what Keegan achieved in Six Armies in Normandy.”—Los Angeles Times