Admiral Halsey’s Story [Illustrated Edition]

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ISBN 13 : 1782892958
Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book Admiral Halsey’s Story [Illustrated Edition] written by Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 30 illustrations of the Author, his ships and the engagements. The term Legend is bandied about far too much these days to describe anyone who has achieved even limited prominence in their chosen field; however Legend is quite the accurate one for Fleet Admiral William “Bull” Halsey. Although a modest man who once said that “There are no great men, just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet.”; it is clear that the challenges that he met were extraordinary in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War. Bold, brash and determined Halsey led the first offensive against the Japanese Navy in command of the carrier group that launched the Doolittle raid; his aggressive thrusting style led to him spearheading nearly every major US Navy attack on the Japanese. In this age of soundbites Halsey is still continually quoted for the pithy wit that he often coined such as his slogan for the Navy -“Hit hard, hit fast, hit often”. Halsey left his imprint across the entire Pacific War and his autobiography is sure to interest any Naval or History buff.

Admiral Halsey’s Story

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359811787
Total Pages : 239 pages
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Book Synopsis Admiral Halsey’s Story by : William F. Halsey III

Download or read book Admiral Halsey’s Story written by William F. Halsey III and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleet Admiral "Bull" Halsey was an important allied naval leader in World War 2. His autobiography Admiral Halsey's Story surveys the key events of the war in which he was an active participant, from the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor to battles in the South Pacific, and to the final year of the war during which he commanded the U.S. Third Fleet.

Admiral Halsey's Story

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ISBN 13 : 9781422716441
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Admiral Halsey's Story

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Publisher : Zenger Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780892010936
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Book Synopsis Admiral Halsey's Story by : William Frederick Halsey

Download or read book Admiral Halsey's Story written by William Frederick Halsey and published by Zenger Pub. This book was released on 1947 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Admiral Halsey's Story

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ISBN 13 : 9781494093648
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Admiral Halsey's Story written by William F. Halsey and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.

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Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014003713
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Book Synopsis Admiral Halsey's Story by : William Frederick 1882-1959 Halsey

Download or read book Admiral Halsey's Story written by William Frederick 1882-1959 Halsey and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Total Pages : 310 pages
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Halsey's Typhoon

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846297
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Halsey's Typhoon written by Bob Drury and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of a disaster at sea during World War II is “a powerful and engrossing story of tragedy, survival, and heroism” (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down). In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the “Fighting Admiral” and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with protecting General MacArthur’s flank during the invasion of the Philippine island of Mindoro. But in the midst of the landings, Halsey attempts a complicated refueling maneuver—and unwittingly drives his 170 ships into the teeth of a massive typhoon. Halsey’s men find themselves battling ninety-foot waves and 150 mph winds. Amid the chaos, three ships are sunk and nearly nine hundred sailors and officers are swept into the Philippine Sea. For three days, small bands of survivors battle dehydration, exhaustion, sharks, and the elements, awaiting rescue. It will be up to courageous lieutenant commander Henry Lee Plage to defy orders and sail his tiny destroyer escort, the USS Tabberer, back into the storm to rescue drifting sailors. Revealing a little-known chapter of WWII history in absorbing detail, this is “a vivid tale of tragedy and gallantry at sea.” (Publishers Weekly).

Admiral Halsey' Story

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Born to Fight

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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Admiral Halsey Tells His Story

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Marines In World War II - Marine Aviation In The Philippines [Illustrated Edition]

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782892877
Total Pages : 479 pages
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Book Synopsis Marines In World War II - Marine Aviation In The Philippines [Illustrated Edition] by : Major Charles W. Boggs Jr. USMC

Download or read book Marines In World War II - Marine Aviation In The Philippines [Illustrated Edition] written by Major Charles W. Boggs Jr. USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 58 photos and 10 maps and charts. “The return of Allied forces to the Philippines in the fall of 1944 further throttled Japan’s already tenuous pipe line to the rich resources of Malaya and the Netherlands Indies, and with it the last vestige of her ability to meet the logistical requirements of a continuing war. The Battle for Leyte Gulf marked the end of Japan as a naval power, forcing her to adopt the desperation kamikaze tactic against the United States Fleets. The Philippine victories were primarily Army and Navy operations. Marines, comprising only a fraction of the total forces engaged, played a secondary but significant role in the overall victory. The campaign was important to the Corps in that the Marine aviators, who had battled two years for air control over the Solomons, moved into a new role, their first opportunity to test on a large scale the fundamental Marine doctrine of close air support for ground troops in conventional land operations. This test they passed with credit, and Marine flyers contributed materially to the Philippine victory. Lessons learned and techniques perfected in those campaigns form an important chapter in our present-day close air support doctrines.”-C. B. CATES, GENERAL, U.S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS

Marines In World War II - Okinawa: Victory In The Pacific [Illustrated Edition]

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ISBN 13 : 1782892893
Total Pages : 979 pages
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Download or read book Marines In World War II - Okinawa: Victory In The Pacific [Illustrated Edition] written by Major Chas. S. Nichols Jr. USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 86 photos and 42 maps and charts. The story of part played by the United States Marines in the largest amphibious assault of the entire Pacific War during World War II. The battle lasted an exhausting and bloody 82 days from early April until mid-June 1945. The legendarily tough defence of the Japanese soldiers and citizens was matched by the American troops in the last major campaign that had led all the way from Pearl Harbor to the Home Islands of Japan. “After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 mi (550 km) away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations on the planned invasion of Japanese mainland (coded Operation Downfall). Four divisions of the U.S. 10th Army (the 7th, 27th, 77th, and 96th) and two Marine Divisions (the 1st and 6th) fought on the island while the 2nd Marine Division remained as an amphibious reserve and was never brought ashore. The invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces. The battle has been referred to as the "typhoon of steel" in English, and tetsu no ame ("rain of steel") or tetsu no bōfū ("violent wind of steel") in Japanese. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders, and to the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. The battle resulted in the highest number of casualties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Japan lost over 100,000 soldiers, who were either killed, captured or committed suicide, and the Allies suffered more than 65,000 casualties of all kinds. Simultaneously, tens of thousands of local civilians were killed, wounded, or committed suicide. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to surrender less than two months after the end of the fighting at Okinawa.”-Wiki

Marines In World War II - Marines In The Central Solomons [Illustrated Edition]

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ISBN 13 : 1782892796
Total Pages : 527 pages
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Book Synopsis Marines In World War II - Marines In The Central Solomons [Illustrated Edition] by : Major John N. Rentz USMCR

Download or read book Marines In World War II - Marines In The Central Solomons [Illustrated Edition] written by Major John N. Rentz USMCR and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 90 photos and 18 maps and charts. “In the grand strategy of the Pacific War, the Central Solomons operation constituted only a short step in the overall advance on Japan. But in the neutralization of Rabaul, Japan’s key holding in her "Southeastern Area," this campaign played a vital role. By early 1943 the Central Solomons area might be described as an amphibious no man’s land lying between Rabaul and the new Allied citadel of Guadalcanal, across which the two antagonists exchanged air and naval blows. The Japanese, by increasing the strength of their garrisons in New Georgia, had already begun their effort to control this strategic area. The Allied campaign that followed was designed to drive them out and establish a forward base from which Rabaul could be brought under constant assault. It is a source of extreme pride to me that those Marines who participated in the Central Solomons operations acquitted themselves with such distinction. Despite the most adverse weather, terrain and climate, the enemy was driven out and the mission finally accomplished. Growing out of this campaign was an extremely significant sense of mutual admiration between the Army, Navy and Marine troops involved.-LEMUEL C. SHEPHERD, JR. GENERAL, U. S. MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS”

Marines In World War II - The Assault On Peleliu [Illustrated Edition]

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ISBN 13 : 1782892850
Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book Marines In World War II - The Assault On Peleliu [Illustrated Edition] written by Major F. O. Hough USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Marines ran into the shore of the coral reefed island of Peleliu in their landing craft the Japanese artillery that wreathed the landing beach of Peleliu gave them little confidence in the words of their commander General Rupertus that the operation would be hard but short with minimal casualties; what lay ahead would be what was known as “the bitterest battle of the war for the Marines”. Contains 70 photos and 23 maps and charts. “Many factors combined to make the assault on Peleliu one of the least understood operations of World War II. Yet it was one of the most vicious and stubbornly contested, and nowhere was the fighting efficiency of the U.S. Marine more convincingly demonstrated. At Peleliu the enemy proved that he had profited from his bitter experiences of earlier operations. He applied intelligently the lessons we had taught him in the Solomons, Gilberts, Marshalls, and Marianas. At Peleliu the enemy made no suicidal banzai charges to hasten the decision; he carefully concealed his plans and dispositions. He nursed from his inferior strength the last ounce of resistance and delay, to extract the maximum cost from his conquerers. In these respects Peleliu differed significantly from previous campaigns and set the pattern for things to come: Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Because the operation protracted itself over a period of nearly two and a half months, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the strategic objective was accomplished within the first week: neutralization of the entire Palaus group, and with this, securing of the Philippines approaches.”-C. B. CATES, GENERAL, U.S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS.

Marines In World War II - Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic [Illustrated Edition]

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ISBN 13 : 1782892842
Total Pages : 725 pages
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Book Synopsis Marines In World War II - Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic [Illustrated Edition] by : Lt. Col. Whitman S. Bartley USMC

Download or read book Marines In World War II - Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic [Illustrated Edition] written by Lt. Col. Whitman S. Bartley USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 19th Feb. 1945, the first Marines landed on Iwo Jima, the first enemy troops to invade Japanese home territory; many of those brave soldiers would never leave the black volcanic sands again as they fought and died in the U.S. Marine Corps toughest ever battle. Contains 100 photos and 26 maps and charts. “The assault on Iwo Jima came as a smashing climax to the 16-month drive that carried the amphibious forces of the U.S. across the Central Pacific to within 660 miles of Tokyo. Striking first at Tarawa in November 1943, American forces had swept rapidly westward, seizing only those islands essential for support of future operations. Many powerful enemy strongholds were bypassed and neutralized. By the fall of 1944 the small but heavily fortified island of Iwo Jima, lying midway between the Marianas and the heart of the Japanese Empire, had assumed such strategic importance that its rapid seizure became imperative. Neutralization would not suffice; Iwo must become an operational U.S. base. “At Iwo Jima the amphibious doctrines, techniques, weapons, and equipment which had proven so effective during the three previous years of World War II received the supreme test. On that island more than 20,000 well-disposed and deeply entrenched Japanese troops conducted an intelligent and dogged defense. There, more than anywhere else in the Central Pacific, terrain and enemy defense preparations combined to limit the effectiveness of American supporting arms, placing a premium on the skill and aggressive fighting spirit of the individual Marine. There can be no more fitting tribute than the well-known words of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, "Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island uncommon valor was a common virtue."-Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., General, U.S.M.C.

United States Army in WWII - the Pacific - CARTWHEEL: the Reduction of Rabaul

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ISBN 13 : 1782894012
Total Pages : 709 pages
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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.