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Book Synopsis Coral Comes High by : George P. Hunt
Download or read book Coral Comes High written by George P. Hunt and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in early 1946, George P. Hunt was a feature writer for Life Magazine before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. After the war's outbreak, he went into the Marines and got himself a commission. He had served with the 1st Marine Regiment (part of the illustrious 1st Marine Division) and went to the Pacific. He served on Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu. By the time he went to Peleliu, Hunt was by then a captain and was in charge of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines. This classic book, a memoir of the first two days of Peleliu, where Hunt's K Company was charged with assaulting and holding "the point," a slight knob of land which by coincidence, overlooked the entire 1st Marine Regiment's landing beaches. The Point was heavily fortified, and K Company lost many men in taking this vital piece of terrain. Nonetheless, Hunt's Marines took it and held on through many desperate enemy attempts to retake it.
Book Synopsis Coral Comes High by : George P. Hunt
Download or read book Coral Comes High written by George P. Hunt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral Comes High is Captain George P. Hunt's account of what happened to himself and his company during the initial stages of the Peleliu invasion by the US Marines during World War 2. The company sustains terrible casualties and is isolated in a seemingly hopeless position for a nightmare forty-eight hours. Outnumbered and outgunned by the enemy, they beat off all attacks and seize the Point with a courage which is at the same time matter-of-fact and almost superhuman.
Book Synopsis Coral Comes High by : George Pinney Hunt
Download or read book Coral Comes High written by George Pinney Hunt and published by Signet. This book was released on 1957 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coral Comes High by : George P. Hunt
Download or read book Coral Comes High written by George P. Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral Comes High is Captain George P. Hunt's account of what happened to himself and his company during the initial stages of the Peleliu invasion by the US Marines during World War 2. The company sustains terrible casualties and is isolated in a seemingly hopeless position for a nightmare forty-eight hours. Outnumbered and outgunned by the enemy, they beat off all attacks and seize the Point with a courage which is at the same time matter-of-fact and almost superhuman.
Book Synopsis Coral and Brass by : Holland M. Smith
Download or read book Coral and Brass written by Holland M. Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral and Brass is the biography of General Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, known as the "father" of modern U.S. amphibious warfare. His book is a riveting first-hand account of key battles fought in the Pacific between the U.S. Army and Canadian troops against the Japanese, including assaults on the Gilbert Islands, the Marshall Islands, the island of Saipan, Tinian in the Marianas and Iwo Jimo.
Book Synopsis Coral Comes High by : George P. Hunt
Download or read book Coral Comes High written by George P. Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coral Reefs written by Jason Chin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl gets quite a surprise when the text of a library book she is reading transforms her surroundings into those of a teeming-with-life coral reef!
Download or read book Gone Wild written by James W. Hall and published by Dell. This book was released on 1995 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vowing to save the endangered orangutan species while attempting to uncover the truth about her daughter's murder by poachers, Allison Farleigh teams up with Thorn to expose an international conspiracy
Download or read book Peleliu, 1944 written by Harry A. Gailey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stay Off The Skyline by : Laura Homan Lacey
Download or read book Stay Off The Skyline written by Laura Homan Lacey and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixth Marine Division holds a unique place in U.S. Marine Corps history, because it was retired after one great battle. The division was formed on Guadalcanal in September 1944, its ranks filled with battle-hardened veterans and untested replacement troops. The Sixth Division fought its only action on the island of Okinawa from April to June 1945 but entered the fight with more combat experience overall than any other Marine division in its initial battle. It disappointed no one. The Okinawa campaign involved eight Army and Marine divisions, but the Sixth captured most of the ground in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. Weeks later, atomic attacks on two Japanese cities in early August 1945 swiftly ended the war. Before Hiroshima there was Okinawa. Because of Okinawa, in considerable part there was Hiroshima, wrote one reporter. With the invasion of Japan canceled, the Sixth Division went to China on occupation duty and, on 1 April 1946, was reorganized out of existence. As it was created overseas, so was it disbanded. This book tells the story of these Marines in their own words. Historian Laura Lacey - a Marine family member who has lived on Okinawa -sympathetically portrays the men who in 1945 fought a tremendous battle that she contends has not received its full share of attention from historians. Lacey considers the gritty details of close quarters combat and considers the myriad physical and psychological wounds that war wreaks. With Marines now engaged in a tough fight in Iraq, Laceyas book reminds us that whether or not a war is popular, war is indeed hell."
Book Synopsis Corals of the World by : John Edward Norwood Veron
Download or read book Corals of the World written by John Edward Norwood Veron and published by Sea Challengers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coral Comes High by : George P. Hunt
Download or read book Coral Comes High written by George P. Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The brutal and heroic story of Marines in action" The New York Times 08:32, September 15, 1944. The 1st Marines stormed the Pacific island of Peleliu. Captain Hunt and his company of two hundred and thirty-five men were among some of the first to land; forty-eight hours later, only seventy-eight of them were alive. Outnumbered and outgunned by the enemy, they beat off all attacks with a courage which is at the same time matter-of-fact and superhuman individual, yet collective and drawn from the real comradeship of men who cannot let each other down. Here are dramatic accounts of wounded men miraculously still fighting, of two men seen in silhouette at night against the flashes of guns in a death struggle atop a cliff, of the flame-scarred bodies of Japanese in caves and pillboxes, of a nervous and badly scared youngster shooting one of his own comrades. When, at last, relief came and Captain Hunt and his handful of men staggered back to the beach, they had withstood three terrible counterattacks and killed more than five hundred enemy soldiers. "Coral Comes High is an unpretentious, stark, blow-by-blow story of a terrible action, well told in the fewest possible words" Time Magazine "This is a story of fighting men told by a fighting man." General Alexander Vandegrift, United States Marine Corps. Captain Hunt served in the 1st Regiment of the 1st Marine Division in the South Pacific and was decorated with the Silver Star medal and the Navy Cross. He received the Navy Cross for his part in the action described in this book. The citation for this decoration relates how Captain Hunt's company of riflemen was reduced to thirty-four men; how these survivors defended an isolated position "against three counterattacks killing four hundred and twenty-two Japanese." After the war he worked as a writer and editor for Fortune and Life magazines. Coral Comes High was first published in 1946 and Hunt passed away in 1991.
Book Synopsis The Beautiful Math of Coral by : E. Ozie
Download or read book The Beautiful Math of Coral written by E. Ozie and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral, Fernando, and coral reefs have something in common-they are lost in the space in which they reside. Fresh to college and feeling like life has always been against her, Coral leaves her Nigerian parents hoping to escape the thing she hates most . . . art. As she stumbles deeper into the world of STEM, she meets Fernando who brings her into a whirlwind of unfamiliar experiences. Embracing a newfound place, they learn that STEM has always been with them through life's intangibles. Together, they wrestle with their pasts as Coral struggles to be seen and belong. Ultimately, Coral and Fernando discover they are just like the beautiful creatures in the sea-coral reefs. Written through the experiences of an author with insight into science, mathematics, engineering, and art, E. Ozie's The Beautiful Math of Coral is a luminous coming-of-age novel moving through the love, heartbreak, and humorous banter of finding one's place in the world.
Download or read book Grunts written by John C. McManus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A superb book—an American equivalent to John Keegan’s The Face of Battle. I sincerely believe that Grunts is destined to be a classic.”—Dave Grossman, Author of On Killing and On Combat From the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die comes a sweeping narrative of six decades of combat, and an eye-opening account of the evolution of the American infantry. From the beaches of Normandy and the South Pacific Islands to the deserts of the Middle East, the American soldier has been the most indispensable—and most overlooked—factor in wartime victory. In Grunts, renowned historian John C. McManus examines ten critical battles—from Hitler’s massive assault on U.S. soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge to counterinsurgency combat in Iraq—where the skills and courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Based on years of research and interviews with veterans, this powerful history reveals the ugly face of war in a way few books have, and demonstrates the fundamental, and too often forgotten, importance of the human element in serving and protecting the nation.
Book Synopsis Brotherhood of Heroes by : Bill Sloan
Download or read book Brotherhood of Heroes written by Bill Sloan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Band of Brothers for the Pacific is the gut-wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious—yet largely forgotten—battle of World War II. Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than 6,500 casualties fighting on a hellish little coral island in the Pacific. Peleliu was the setting for one of the most savage struggles of modern times, a true killing ground that has been all but forgotten—until now. Drawing on interviews with Peleliu veterans, Bill Sloan's gripping narrative seamlessly weaves together the experiences of the men who were there, producing a vivid and unflinching tableau of the twenty-four-hour-a-day nightmare of Peleliu. Emotionally moving and gripping in its depictions of combat, Brotherhood of Heroes rescues the Corps's bloodiest battle from obscurity and does honor to the Marines who fought it.
Download or read book Infantry Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle Over Peleliu by : Stephen C. Murray
Download or read book The Battle Over Peleliu written by Stephen C. Murray and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palauan and colonial landscapes -- History, memory, and island landscapes -- Colonial masters and island society -- Peace, war, and a new empire -- Smiling sky, gathering clouds -- War -- Exile, fear, and hunger: Ngaraard, Babeldaob, 1944-1945 -- An island desolated, a trust betrayed, 1946-1994 -- Pursuing memory -- Retrieving the dead -- Remembering a painful victory -- Parallel histories: three peoples' memories of war and loss -- Conclusion: the roots of the plant
