Download or read book United States Army in WWII the Pacific Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by Philip A. Crowl and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 4 tables, 3 charts, 27 maps and 90 illustrations] Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls deals with amphibious warfare as waged by American forces against the Japanese-held atolls of the Central Pacific during World War II... The atoll operations described in this volume were amphibious from beginning to end. They were not simple seaborne hit-and-run raids of the Dieppe type. The objective was to secure the atolls as steppingstones to the next advance. The islands were relatively small, permitting continual naval and air support of the ground operations. Some outstanding examples of the co-ordination of fire support by artillery, naval gunfire, and air are found in this book. The advantages of simple plans and the disadvantages of the more complicated will stand out for the careful reader. The story of the capture of these atolls of Micronesia offers some of the best examples of combined operations that are available in the annals of modern war. Ground, sea, and air components were always present, and the effectiveness with which they were combined and co-ordinated accounts in large measure for the rapid success enjoyed in these instances by American arms. From the point of view of strategy, the significance of this volume lies in the fact that it tells the story of the beginnings of the drive across the Central Pacific toward the Japanese homeland. This concept of defeating Japan by pushing directly westward from Hawaii through the island bases of the mid-Pacific was traditional in American strategic thinking, but had never been put to test and was seriously challenged in some quarters. As is shown here, the test was first made in the campaigns against the Gilberts and Marshalls, the outcome was successful, and the experience gained was of inestimable value in planning for the subsequent conduct of the war in the Pacific.
Download or read book United States Army in World War 2 War in the Pacific Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by Philip A. Crowl and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Pub 5-6. United States Army in World War 2. Covers the landings at Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein, and Roi-Namur.
Download or read book Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by Philip Axtell Crowl and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by Philip Axtell Crowl and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study in amphibious warfare that describes how the imperfections of American amphibious doctrine, first revealed at Tarawa and Makin, were corrected in the highly successful landings on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur.
Download or read book Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by Philip Axtell Crowl and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by Philip Axtell Crowl and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by Philip A. Crowl and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War in the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book US Army in World War II War in the Pacific Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls Paperback written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by Author Edmund G Love and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Includes Maps) "Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls" deals with amphibious warfare as waged by American forces against the Japanese-held atolls of the Central Pacific during World War II. The word amphibious, as here used, includes the landing and supply of troops in combat as well as the air and naval support of the operations. The atoll operations described in this volume were amphibious from beginning to end. They were not simple seaborne hit-and-run raids of the Dieppe type. The objective was to secure the atolls as steppingstones to the next advance. The islands were relatively small, permitting continual naval and air support of the ground operations. Some outstanding examples of the co-ordination of fire support by artillery, naval gunfire, and air are found in this book. The advantages of simple plans and the disadvantages of the more complicated will stand out for the careful reader. The story of the capture of these atolls of Micronesia offers some of the best examples of combined operations that are available in the annals of modern war. Ground, sea, and air components were always present, and the effectiveness with which they were combined and co-ordinated accounts in large measure for the rapid success enjoyed in these instances by American arms. Units of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps were active participants in the operations and the role they played is treated in this volume as fully as is considered appropriate in a series devoted to the history of the U.S. Army in World War II. From the point of view of strategy, the significance of this volume lies in the fact that it tells the story of the beginnings of the drive across the Central Pacific toward the Japanese homeland. This concept of defeating Japan by pushing directly westward from Hawaii through the island bases of the mid-Pacific was traditional in American strategic thinking, but had never been put to test and was seriously challenged in some quarters. As is shown here, the test was first made in the campaigns against the Gilberts and Marshalls, the outcome was successful, and the experience gained was of inestimable value in planning for the subsequent conduct of the war in the Pacific.
Download or read book United States Army in World War II The War in the Pacific Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls by Philip A Crowl and Edmund G Love Foreword by Major General Orlando Ward written by Edmund G. Love and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls written by United States Army Center of Military History and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study in amphibious warfare that describes how the imperfections of American amphibious doctrine, first revealed at Tarawa and Makin, were corrected in the highly successful landings on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur.
Download or read book United States Army in WWII the Pacific Campaign in the Marianas written by Philip A. Crowl and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 2 tables, 14 charts, 33 maps and 89 illustrations] In the capture of the southern Marianas during the summer of 1944, Army ground and air forces played an important, though subordinate, role to that of the Navy and its Marine Corps. Marine personnel constituted the bulk of the combat troops employed. The objective of this campaign was "to secure control of sea communications through the Central Pacific by isolating and neutralizing the Carolines and by the establishment of sea and air bases for operations against Japanese sea routes and long-range air attacks against the Japanese home land." Its success would provide steppingstones from which the Americans could threaten further attack westward toward the Philippines, Formosa, and Japan itself, and would gain bases from which the Army Air Forces’ new very long range bombers, the B-29’s, could strike at Japan’s heartland. Recognizing and accepting the challenge, the Japanese Navy suffered heavy and irreplaceable losses in the accompanying Battle of the Philippine Sea; and the islands after capture became the base for all the massive air attacks on Japan, beginning in Nov. 1944. In the operations described in the present volume, landings against strong opposition demonstrated the soundness of the amphibious doctrine and techniques evolved out of hard experience in preceding Pacific operations. Bitter inland fighting followed the landings, with Army and Marine Corps divisions engaged side by side. The author’s account and corresponding Marine Corps histories of these operations provide ample opportunity to study the differences in the fighting techniques of the two services. Dr. Crowl also deals frankly with one of the best-known controversies of World War II, that of Smith versus Smith, but concludes that it was the exception to generally excellent interservice co-operation.
Download or read book Eastern Mandates written by Burton Wright III and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH 72-23. Provides one in a series of 40 illustrated brochures that describe the campaigns in which U.S. Army troops participated during the war. Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. Other Related Publications: United States Army and World War 2: European, Mediterranean, Middle East Theaters of Operations (CD-ROM) is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00376-7 Tunisia: The Army Campaigns of World War II -Print Paperback Pamphlet format -is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00261-2 World War II resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-ii Other publications produced by the US Army, Center of Military History (CMH) can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1061
Download or read book US Army in World War II War in the Pacific Triumph in the Philipines Paperback written by Defense Dept., Army, Center of Military History and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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