Download or read book With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific written by Francis B. Catanzaro and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[W]e began our advance toward the Mokmer Airstrip.... The road climbed a ridge 15 or 20 feet high and we found ourselves on a flat coral plateau sparsely covered by small trees and scrub growth.... As we moved westward along the road, two of our destroyers were sailing abreast of the lead elements of the advancing column. The first indication of trouble was the roar of heavy artillery shells sailing over our heads... aimed at our destroyers.... Shortly after that our forward movement stopped, and we heard heavy firing from the head of the column.... As we waited, we began to hear heavy fire from the rear.... We were cut off and surrounded!" In the enormous literature of the Second World War, there are surprisingly few accounts of fighting in the southwest Pacific, fewer still by common infantrymen. This memoir, written with a simple and direct honesty that is rare indeed, follows a foot soldier's career from basic training to mustering out. It takes the reader into the jungles and caves of New Guinea and the Philippines during the long campaign to win the war against Japan. From basic training at Camp Roberts through combat, occupation, and the long journey home, Francis Catanzaro's account tells of the excitement, misery, cruelty, and terror of combat, and of the uneasy boredom of jungle camp life. A member of the famed 41st Infantry Brigade, the "Jungleers," Catanzaro saw combat at Hollandia, Biak, Zamboanga, and Mindanao. He was a part of the Japanese occupation force and writes with feeling about living among his former enemies and of the decision to drop the atom bomb. With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific is a powerful, gritty, and moving narrative of the life of a soldier during some of the most difficult fighting of World War II.
Download or read book World War II Memoirs written by Frank J. Konrath and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2003 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of a GI's overseas experiences of 38 months in WWII in the southwest Pacific islands with the 41st Division Infantry.
Download or read book The Jungleers written by William F. McCartney and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book gives the history of your unprecedented accomplishments over a period of four years of combat in World War II. They were, for many of you, painful years through which you fought your way valiantly, step by step, from Australia to the distant final objective, Japan. The magnificent manner in which our Division relentlessly met, defeated, and pursued the enemy shall forever be an inspiration to all military men who believe in Democracy and Freedom. “Herein are transcribed names and events which will help those who were not there to understand; and will be for those of us who stood together a permanent record of some of the experiences we shared. It is not possible to set down the full story in writing. Only a hint of the real hardships, sufferings and anxieties which we experienced; of the courage, determination, and heroism demonstrated in alt units, can be given. The full story can only be known by those who participated.”
Download or read book The Sunset War written by Paul C. Wilson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Army in WWII the Pacific the Approach to the Philippines written by Robert Ross Smith and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 2 tables, 33 maps and 56 illustrations] Jungle warfare in the Southwest Pacific provided a unique experience for an army only lately thrust into global war; but as The Approach to the Philippines graphically demonstrates, the rules of war, the problems of leadership, and the opportunities for military success pertain in the steaming hills of New Guinea as well as on the broad plains of Normandy. This volume describes the operations of Allied forces in the Pacific theaters during the approach to the Philippines, April through October 1944. While this is essentially the story of U.S. Army ground combat operations during the approach, the activities of all ground, air, and naval forces are covered where necessary for the understanding of the Army ground narrative. Eight major and separate operations, all susceptible of subdivision into distinct phases, are described. Seven of these operations took place in the Southwest Pacific Area, while one--the Palau Islands operation--occurred in the Central Pacific Area. This series of actions is exceptional in that the operations were executed in such rapid succession that while one was being planned the height of combat was being reached in another and still others had entered the mopping-up stage. Because of the nature of the combat, the level of treatment in this volume is generally that of the regimental combat team--the infantry regiment with its supporting artillery, engineer, tank, medical, and other units. The majority of the actions described involved a series of separate operations by infantry regiments or regimental combat teams, since divisions seldom fought as integral units during the approach to the Philippines. Division headquarters, often assuming the role of a ground task force headquarters, co-ordinated and administered the oft-times widely separated actions of the division’s component parts.
Download or read book Caves of Biak written by Harold Riegelman and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific 1941 1945 written by United States. Army. Forces, Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 528 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:
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:
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 The Approach to the Philippines written by Robert Ross Smith and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operations of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific from April through October 1944 told generally at the level of the regimental combat team2the infantry regiment with its supporting artillery, engineer, tank, medical, and other units.
Download or read book Tropical Warfare in the Asia Pacific Region 1941 45 written by Kaushik Roy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the land war during the Second World War in South-East Asia and the South and South-West Pacific. The extensive existing literature focuses on particular armies – Japanese, British, American, Australian or Indian – and/or on particular theatres – the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaya or Burma. This book, on the contrary, argues that warfare in all the theatres was very similar, especially the difficulties of the undeveloped terrain, and that there was considerable interchange of ideas between the allied armies which enabled the spread of best practice among them. The book considers tactics, training, technology and logistics, assesses the changing state of the combat effectiveness of the different armies, and traces the course of the war from the Japanese Blitzkrieg of 1941, through the later stalemate, and the hard fought Allied fightback. Although the book concentrates on ground forces, due attention is also given to air forces and amphibious operations. One important argument put forward by the author is that the defeat of the Japanese was not inevitable and that it was brought about by chance and considerable tactical ingenuity on the part of US and British imperial forces.
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific 1941 1945 written by United States. Army. Forces, Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific 1941 45 written by United States. Army. Forces, Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 41st Infantry Division Fighting Jungleers II written by Hargis Westerfield and published by Turner. This book was released on 1992 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the legacy of the FIGHTING JUNGLEERS in World War II Pacific theater. Detailed battle accounts from beach landings at New Guinea to the Philippines. Vivid photos.
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific 1941 45 written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific 1941 1945 Amphibian engineer operations written by Hugh John Casey and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
